The material culture of daily living in the Anglo-Saxon world
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The material culture of daily living in the Anglo-Saxon world
University of Exeter Press, 2011
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Bibliography: p. [368]-371
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This illustrated book introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to selected aspects of the realities of Anglo-Saxon life through reference to artefacts and textual sources. Everyday practices and processes are investigated, such as the exploitation of animals for clothing, meat, cheese and parchment; ships for travel, trade and transport; manufacturing processes of metalwork; textiles for dress and furnishing and the practicalities of living with illness or disability. Articles collected in this volume illuminate how an understanding of the material culture of the daily Anglo-Saxon world can inform reading and scholarship in Anglo-Saxon studies. Scholarly and practical material presented inform one another, making the book accessible to any reader seriously interested in England in the early Middle Ages.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
1. Introduction: Material Culture and the Study of Anglo-Saxon England
Maren Glegg Hyer
2. Prelude: Agriculture Through the Year
David Hill
3. The True Staff of Life: The Multiple Roles of Plants
C.P.Bigga,
4. Steep Vessel, High Horn-ship: Water Transport
Katin Thier
5. 'To eat, to wear, to work': The Place of Sheep and Cattle in the Economy
Christopher Grocock
6. Devil's Crafts and Dragon's Skins? Sheaths, Shoes and Other Leatherwork
Esther Cameron and Quita Mould
7. Chanting upon a Dunghill: Working Skeletal Materials
Ian Riddler and Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski
8. Eath's Treasures: Food and Drink
Christina Lee
9. Woven Works: Making and Using Textiles
Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Cocker
10. Weland's Work: Metals and Metalsmiths
David A. Hinton
11. 'Seldom ... does the deadly spear rest for long': Weapons and Armour
Gale R.Owen-Cocker
12. Things of This World: Portable Antiquities and Their Potential
Michael Lewis, Andrew Richardson and David Williams
13. Sight, Insight and Hand: Some Reflections on the Design and Manufacture of the Fuller Brooch
Elizabeth Coatsworth and Michael Pinder
14. The Bright Cup: Early Medieval Vessel Glass
Win Stephens
15. Body and Soul: Disease and Impairment
Christina Lee
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Index
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