{"product_id":"trees-in-anglo-saxon-england-literature-lore-and-landscape-9781843838296","title":"Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape","description":"A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrees 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Della Hooke is Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHooke, Della:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Della Hooke is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences, University of Birmingham (FSA: Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London).","brand":"Boydell Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50433266057490,"sku":"9781843838296","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0bb48488-77a6-4f31-be2e-db394f60b331.jpg?v=1729565224","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/trees-in-anglo-saxon-england-literature-lore-and-landscape-9781843838296","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}