From Earth to Art: The Many Aspects of the Plant-World in Anglo-Saxon England
Subtitle: Proceedings of the First ASPNS Symposium, University of Glasgow, 5-7 April 2000 (Costerus NS 148) (Costerus NS)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: October 2003
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9789042008076
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Language & Linguistics; British Isles; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE
First sentence: Trees in pre-Conquest charters and early place-names evoke familiar objects which, nonetheless, carry us back to the landscape of one thousand years ago: they are comforting and small-scale features which we can readily visualise in the landscape.