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Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World. Medieval History and Archaeology

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. In addition to co-editing this volume and co-authoring its introduction, Michael Bintley also wrote two of its chapters; one on the relationship between two Old English poems, and an Anglo-Saxon ritual charm; and one on aspects of Anglo-Saxon religious history revealed by poetry, manuscript images, stone sculpture, and historical texts.