The Material Culture Of Daily Living In The Anglo Saxon World

Author : Carole Patricia Biggam
Publisher : Exeter Studies in Medieval Eur
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0859898431

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The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World by Carole Patricia Biggam Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1023482197

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The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maren Clegg Hyer,Della Hooke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786940285

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Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World by Maren Clegg Hyer,Della Hooke Pdf

"Similar in theme and method to the first and second volume, Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, third volume of the series Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, 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... The 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 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 Anglo-Saxons."--Back cover.

Author : D. G. Scragg
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0859917738

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Textual and Material Culture in Anglo-Saxon England by D. G. Scragg Pdf

Significant Anglo-Saxon papers, with postscripts, illustrate advances in knowledge of life and culture of pre-Conquest England. Thomas Northcote Toller, of the Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, is one of the most influential but least known Anglo-Saxon scholars of the early twentieth century. The Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies at Manchester, where Toller was the first professor of English Language, has an annual Toller lecture, delivered by an expert in the field of Anglo-Saxon Studies; this volume offers a selection from these lectures, brought together for the firsttime, and with supplementary material added by the authors to bring them up to date. They are complemented by the 2002 Toller Lecture, Peter Baker's study of Toller, commissioned specially for this book; and by new examinations ofToller's life and work, and his influence on the development of Old English lexicography. The volume is therefore both an epitome of the best scholarship in Anglo-Saxon studies of the last decade and a half, and a guide for the modern reader through the major advances in our knowledge of the life and culture of pre-Conquest England. , Contributors: RICHARD BAILEY, PETER BAKER, DABNEY ANDERSON BANKERT, JANET BATELY, GEORGE BROWN, ROBERTA FRANK, HELMUT GNEUSS, JOYCE HILL, DAVID A. HINTON, MICHAEL LAPIDGE, AUDREY MEANEY, KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE, JOANA PROUD, ALEXANDER RUMBLE.

Author : Sally Crawford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216070900

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Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England by Sally Crawford Pdf

Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England examines and recreates many of the details of ordinary lives in early medieval England between the 5th and 11th centuries, exploring what we know as well as the surprising gaps in our knowledge. Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England covers daily life in England from the 5th through the 11th centuries. These six centuries saw significant social, cultural, religious, and ethnic upheavals, including the introduction of Christianity, the creation of towns, the Viking invasions, the invention of "Englishness," and the Norman Conquest. In the last 10 years, there have been significant new archaeological discoveries, major advances in scientific archaeology, and new ways of thinking about the past, meaning it is now possible to say much more about everyday life during this time period than ever before. Drawing on a combination of archaeological and textual evidence, including the latest scientific findings from DNA and stable isotope analysis, this book looks at the life course of the early medieval English from the cradle to the grave, as well as how daily lives changed over these centuries. Topics covered include maintenance activities, education, play, commerce, trade, manufacturing, fashion, travel, migration, warfare, health, and medicine.

Author : Michael D. J. Bintley,Michael G. Shapland
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191502170

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Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World by Michael D. J. Bintley,Michael G. Shapland Pdf

Trees were of fundamental importance in Anglo-Saxon society. Anglo-Saxons dwelt in timber houses, relied on woodland as an economic resource, and created a material culture of wood which was at least as meaningfully-imbued, and vastly more prevalent, than the sculpture and metalwork with which we associate them today. Trees held a central place in Anglo-Saxon belief systems, which carried into the Christian period, not least in the figure of the cross itself. Despite this, the transience of trees and timber in comparison to metal and stone has meant that the subject has received comparatively little attention from scholars. Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World constitutes the very first collection of essays written about the role of trees in early medieval England, bringing together established specialists and new voices to present an interdisciplinary insight into the complex relationship between the early English and their woodlands. The woodlands of England were not only deeply rooted in every aspect of Anglo-Saxon material culture, as a source of heat and light, food and drink, wood and timber for the construction of tools, weapons, and materials, but also in their spiritual life, symbolic vocabulary, and sense of connection to their beliefs and heritage. These essays do not merely focus on practicalities, such as carpentry techniques and the extent of woodland coverage, but rather explore the place of trees and timber in the intellectual lives of the early medieval inhabitants of England, using evidence from archaeology, place-names, landscapes, and written sources.

Author : Gale R. Owen-Crocker,Maren Clegg Hyer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781783274741

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Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress by Gale R. Owen-Crocker,Maren Clegg Hyer Pdf

Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and beyond.

Author : Alexandra Lester-Makin
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789251470

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The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World by Alexandra Lester-Makin Pdf

This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embroideries and their context within the British Isles. The book brings together and analyses for the first time all 43 embroideries believed to have been made in the British Isles and Ireland in the early medieval period. New research carried out on those embroideries that are accessible today, involving the collection of technical data, stitch analysis, observations of condition and wear-marks and microscopic photography supplements a survey of existing published and archival sources. The research has been used to write, for the first time, the ‘story’ of embroidery, including what we can learn of its producers, their techniques, and the material functions and metaphorical meanings of embroidery within early medieval Anglo-Saxon society. The author presents embroideries as evidence for the evolution of embroidery production in Anglo-Saxon society, from a community-based activity based on the extended family, to organized workshops in urban settings employing standardized skill levels and as evidence of changing material use: from small amounts of fibers produced locally for specific projects to large batches brought in from a distance and stored until needed. She demonstrate that embroideries were not simply used decoratively but to incorporate and enact different meanings within different parts of society: for example, the newly arrived Germanic settlers of the fifth century used embroidery to maintain links with their homelands and to create tribal ties and obligations. As such, the results inform discussion of embroidery contexts, use and deposition, and the significance of this form of material culture within society as well as an evaluation of the status of embroiderers within early medieval society. The results contribute significantly to our understanding of production systems in Anglo-Saxon England and Ireland.

Author : Maren Clegg Hyer,Haruko Momma,Samantha Zacher
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843845614

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Old English Lexicology and Lexicography by Maren Clegg Hyer,Haruko Momma,Samantha Zacher Pdf

Essays demonstrating how the careful study of individual words can shed immense light on texts more broadly.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004467514

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Art and Worship in the Insular World by Anonim Pdf

The book examines the lived experience of worship in early medieval England and Ireland, ranging from public experience of church and stone sculptures, to monastic life, to personal contemplation of, and meditation on, manuscript illuminations and other devotional objects.

Author : Hana Videen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691232751

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The Wordhord by Hana Videen Pdf

An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English—and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven’t changed (like word), others that are unrecognizable (such as neorxnawang, or paradise), and some that are mystifying even in translation (gafol-fisc, or tax-fish). In this delightful book, Hana Videen gathers a glorious trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers. We discover a world where choking on a bit of bread might prove your guilt, where fiend-ship was as likely as friendship, and where you might grow up to be a laughter-smith. The Wordhord takes readers on a journey through Old English words and customs related to practical daily activities (eating, drinking, learning, working); relationships and entertainment; health and the body, mind, and soul; the natural world (animals, plants, and weather); locations and travel (the source of some of the most evocative words in Old English); mortality, religion, and fate; and the imagination and storytelling. Each chapter ends with its own “wordhord”—a list of its Old English terms, with definitions and pronunciations. Entertaining and enlightening, The Wordhord reveals the magical roots of the language you’re reading right now: you’ll never look at—or speak—English in the same way again.

Author : Julie Lund,Sarah Semple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350226630

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age by Julie Lund,Sarah Semple Pdf

A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The power and agency of objects significantly evolved over this time. Exploring objects and artefacts within art, technology, and everyday life, the volume challenges our understanding of both life worlds and object worlds in medieval society. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Julie Lund is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. Sarah Semple is Professor at Durham University, UK. Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

Author : Jessica Cerezo-Román,Anna Wessman,Howard Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198798118

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Cremation and the Archaeology of Death by Jessica Cerezo-Román,Anna Wessman,Howard Williams Pdf

The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how little this disposal method is understood by archaeologists and students of cognate disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In this regard, the archaeological study of cremation has much to offer. Cremation is a fascinating and widespread theme and entry-point in the exploration of the variability of mortuary practices among past societies. Seeking to challenge simplistic narratives of cremation in the past and present, the studies in this volume seek to confront and explore the challenges of interpreting the variability of cremation by contending with complex networks of modern allusions and imaginings of cremations past and present and ongoing debates regarding how we identify and interpret cremation in the archaeological record. Using a series of original case studies, the book investigates the archaeological traces of cremation in a varied selection of prehistoric and historic contexts from the Mesolithic to the present in order to explore cremation from a practice-oriented and historically situated perspective.

Author : Katherine Weikert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275120

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Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200 by Katherine Weikert Pdf

SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. A ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest.

Author : Helena Hamerow
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803275598

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Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 23 by Helena Hamerow Pdf

Volume 23 of Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History (ASSAH), a series concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period (circa AD 400-1100).