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Book SynopsisThe Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, second volume of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, continues to introduce students of Anglo-Saxon culture to aspects of the realities of the built environment that surrounded Anglo-Saxon peoples through reference to archaeological and textual sources. It considers what structures intruded on the natural landscape the Anglo-Saxons inhabited – roads and tracks, ancient barrows and Roman buildings, the villages and towns, churches, beacons, boundary ditches and walls, grave-markers and standing sculptures – and explores the interrelationships between them and their part in Anglo-Saxon life.
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Medieval Settlement Research Group‘This achieves its aim in opening up new areas of research in aspects of early medieval English life that are often neglected.’
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Speculum: A Journal of Medieval StudiesTable of Contents
- Introduction , Gale R. Owen- Crocker
- Chapter 1: Enta geweorc: The Ruin and its Contexts Reconsidered, Christopher Grocock
- Chapter 2: Roads and Tracks in Anglo-Saxon England , Paul Hindle
- Chapter 3: Domestic Dwellings, Workshops and Working Buildings, Kevin Leahy and Michael Lewis
- Chapter 4: Place and Power: Meetings between Kings in Early Anglo-Saxon England, Damian Tyler
- Chapter 5: The Cuckoo and the Magpie: The Building Culture of the Anglo-Saxon Church, Michael Shapland
- Chapter 6: Landmarks of Faith: Crosses and other Free-Standing Stones, Elizabeth Coatsworth
- Chapter 7: Landmarks of the Dead: Exploring Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Geographies, Sarah Semple and Howard Williams
- Chapter 8: Boundaries and Walls, Margaret Worthington Hill and Erik Grigg
- Chapter 9: The Landscape of Late Saxon Burghs and the Politics of Urban Foundation, Jeremy Haslam
- Chapter 10: Signalling Intent: Beacons, Lookouts and Military Communications, John Baker and Stuart Brookes
