{"product_id":"water-and-the-environment-in-the-anglo-saxon-world-9781786940285","title":"Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimilar in theme and method to the first and second volumes, \u003ci\u003eWater and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, \u003c\/i\u003ethird volume of the series \u003ci\u003eDaily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There are comprehensive references throughout, as notes and selected texts to spur further investigation.'\u003cbr\u003eSue Harrington, \u003ci\u003eArchaeological Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[The] chapters are very accessible, wide in scope, and will be useful to students and specialists alike... [It] is... a clear and well co-ordinated book.'\u003cbr\u003e  Caroline Goodson, \u003ci\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘This volume brings a central, but sometimes technical and obscure, aspect of Anglo-Saxon life to a wider pubic, and should be the first point of reference for many years to come. It sets high standards for continuing the series.’ \u003cbr\u003e John Blair\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations Introduction – Della Hooke and Maren Clegg Hyer 1. From Whale’s Road to Water under the Earth: Water in Anglo-Saxon Poetry – Jill Frederick 2. Water in the Landscape: Charters, Laws and Place-Names – Della Hooke 3. Fens and Frontiers – Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley 4. Marshlands and Other Wetlands – Stephen Rippon 5. Rivers, Wells and Springs in Anglo-Saxon England: Water in Sacred and Mystical Contexts – Della Hooke 6. Food from the Water: Fishing – Rebecca Reynolds 7. Inland Waterways and Coastal Transport: Landing Places, Canals and Bridges – Mark Gardiner 8. Watermills and Waterwheels – Martin Watts 9. Water, wics and burhs – Hal Dalwood† Notes  Index","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360121880919,"sku":"9781786940285","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786940285.jpg?v=1754126732","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/water-and-the-environment-in-the-anglo-saxon-world-9781786940285","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}