Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming

Debby Banham is a medieval historian who teaches in the Universities of Cambridge and London. During the 1970s she worked as an agricultural labourer, and when she arrived in Cambridge as a mature student, discovered that farming was the only thing she knew more about than the people who taught her. She has published Monasterialies indicia: the Old English monastic sign language, and Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon England, as well as articles on Anglo-Saxon farming, diet and medicine, and monastic sign language.Rosamond Faith has taught medieval history at the universities of London, Cambridge, and Oxford, and is the author of The English Peasantry and the Growth of Lordship and many articles on English and French peasants, the rural economy, and the English landscape.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Arable Farming in Anglo-Saxon England: The Crops ; 3. Arable Farming in Anglo-Saxon England: Tools and Techniques ; 4. Animal Husbandry in Anglo-Saxon England: The Livestock ; 5. Animal Husbandry in Anglo-Saxon England: How and Why Livestock was Kept ; 6. Farms in their Landscapes ; 7. Coasts and Riversides ; 8. Woodland ; 9. Downland ; 10. Moorland ; 11. Wolds ; 12. Continuities and Changes in Arable Husbandry ; 13. Conclusions

readers new to this subject area will especially appreciate the clear and fluently written prose that in less accomplished hands could easily have been encumbered by dense description and technical jargon ... the authors should be congratulated for a highly successful scholarly collaboration that has yielded what will no doubt come to be regarded as an essential text on Anglo-Saxon farming for many years to come.