Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvMaren Clegg Hyer,Della Hooke,Valdosta State University (United States)) Clegg Hyer, Maren (Department of English

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Similar in theme and method to the first and second volumes, Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, third volume of the series Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, illuminates how an understanding of the impact of water features on the daily lives of the people and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world can inform reading and scholarship of the period in significant ways. In discussing fishing, for example, we learn in what ways fish and fishing might have impacted the life of the average person who lived near fishing waters in early medieval England: how fishing affected that person’s diet, livelihood, and religious obligations, as well as how fish and fishing waters influenced social and cultural structures. Similar lines of enquiry in the volume’s chapters shed insight on water imagery in Old English poetry, on place names that delineate types of watery bodies across the early medieval landscape, and on human interactions (poetic and otherwise) with fens and other wetlands, sacred wells and springs, landing spaces, bridges, canals, watermills, and river settlements, as well as a variety of other waterscapes.The volume’s examination of the impact of water features on the daily lives of the people and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world fosters an understanding, in the end, not only of the archaeological and material circumstances of water and its uses, but also the imaginative waterscapes found in the textual records of the peoples of early medieval England.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-07-04
Mått189 x 246 x 28 mm
Vikt626 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieExeter Studies in Medieval Europe
Antal sidor280
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781786940285

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Maren Clegg Hyer is Assistant Professor of English, Snow College. Her many publications include Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World (co-editor with Gale Owen-Crocker, Liverpool University Press 2020) and Old English Lexicology and Lexicography (co-editor with Haruko Momma and Samantha Zacher, Boydell, 2020). Dr Della Hooke is an Associate Member of the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences in the University of Birmingham, editor of 'Landscape History' (the journal of the Society for Landscape Studies) and editor of the 'Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Transactions'. She specializes in studies of the development of the historical landscape in England and Wales, especially in the early medieval period. Her recent publications include 'England’s Landscape: The West Midlands' (English Heritage/HarperCollins 2006) and 'Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape' (Boydell 2010).

List of illustrationsIntroduction – Della Hooke and Maren Clegg Hyer1. From Whale’s Road to Water under the Earth: Water in Anglo-Saxon Poetry – Jill Frederick2. Water in the Landscape: Charters, Laws and Place-Names – Della Hooke3. Fens and Frontiers – Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley4. Marshlands and Other Wetlands – Stephen Rippon5. Rivers, Wells and Springs in Anglo-Saxon England: Water in Sacred and Mystical Contexts – Della Hooke6. Food from the Water: Fishing – Rebecca Reynolds7. Inland Waterways and Coastal Transport: Landing Places, Canals and Bridges – Mark Gardiner8. Watermills and Waterwheels – Martin Watts9. Water, wics and burhs – Hal Dalwood†Notes Index

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