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

Author:   Maren Clegg Hyer (Department of English, Valdosta State University (United States)) ,  Gale R. Owen-Crocker (English, American and Creative Writing, University of Manchester (United Kingdom))
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
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9780859898805


Pages:   398
Publication Date:   26 April 2013
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Maren Clegg Hyer (Department of English, Valdosta State University (United States)) ,  Gale R. Owen-Crocker (English, American and Creative Writing, University of Manchester (United Kingdom))
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   University of Exeter Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9780859898805


ISBN 10:   0859898806
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   26 April 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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This volume provides a helpful, clear, and practical overview of the key sites and objects in the Anglo-Saxon repertoire. It will be a valuable introductory textbook to the ways in which a knowledge of the physical evidence can enhance literary and historical readings of the period. The Medieval Review, 12.10.34 2012


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Maren Clegg Hyer is Assistant Professor of English, Snow College. Her many publications include Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World (co-editor with Gale Owen-Crocker, Liverpool University Press 2020) and Old English Lexicology and Lexicography (co-editor with Haruko Momma and Samantha Zacher, Boydell, 2020). Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester; she was formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. She was co-founder and for 15 years co-editor of the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles. Her recent books include Clothing the Past: Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe (with Elizabeth Coatsworth, Brill, 2018), Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World (co-editor with Maren Clegg Hyer, Liverpool University Press, 2020) and Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic (co-editor with Alexandra Lester-Makin, Boydell & Brewer, 2024).

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