Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World

Michael Bintley is Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London.Michael Shapland works for the UCL Field Archaeology Unit, Archaeology South-East, where he specialises in historic buildings.

• List of illustrations 1: Michael D. J. Bintley and Michael G. Shapland: An Introduction to Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World Timber in Anglo-Saxon building practice 2: Michael G. Shapland: Meanings of Timber and Stone in Anglo-Saxon Building Practice 3: Mark Gardiner: The Sophistication of Late Anglo-Saxon Timber Buildings 4: John Baker: References to Timber Building Materials in Old English Place-Names Perceptions of Wood and Wooden Objects 5: Martin G. Comey: The Wooden Drinking Vessels in the Sutton Hoo Assemblage: Materials, Morphology and Usage 6: Jennifer Neville: The Exeter Book Riddles ' Precarious Insights into Wooden Artefacts 7: Michael D. J. Bintley: Brungen of Bearwe : Ploughing Common Furrows in Exeter Book Riddle 21, The Dream of the Rood , and the Æcerbot Charm 8: Pirkko Koppinen: Breaking the Mould: Solving the Old English Riddle 12 as Wudu 'Wood' Trees and Woodland in Anglo-Saxon Belief 9: Clive Tolley: What is a 'World Tree', and Should We Expect to Find One Growing in Anglo-Saxon England? 10: John Blair: Holy Beams: Anglo-Saxon Cult Sites and the Place-Name Element Beam 11: Michael D. J. Bintley: Recasting the Role of Sacred Trees in Anglo-Saxon Spiritual History: the South Sandbach Cross 'Ancestors of Christ' Panel in its Cultural Contexts 12: Della Hooke: Christianity and the 'Sacred Tree'

a fascinating collection, and the editors are to be congratulated on bringing together such an interdisciplinary group of scholars, and maintaining such a tight focus throughout