Title: Trees in Anglo-Saxon England
Description: "Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber and as a wood-pasture resource, with hunting gaining a growing cultural role. But they are also powerful icons in many pre-Christian religions, with a degree of tree symbolism found in Christian scripture too. This wide-ranging book explores both the 'real', historical and archaeological evidence of trees and woodland, and as they are depicted in Anglo-Saxon literature and legend. Place-name and charter references cast light upon the distribution of particular tree species (mapped here in detail for the first time) and also reflect upon regional character in a period that was fundamental for the evolution of the present landscape."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Trees in literature, Trees, Folklore, History, Trees, great britain, Trees, folklore, Great britain, history, anglo-saxon period, 449-1066
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066