The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Sa... - 9781781382653

The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon WorldAuthor(s): Maren Clegg Hyer, Gale R. Owen-Crocker\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781781382653, 978-1781382653\nSynopsis\nThe Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, second volume of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, continues to introduce students of Anglo-Saxon culture to aspects of the realities of the built environment that surrounded Anglo-Saxon peoples through reference to archaeological and textual sources. It considers what structures intruded on the natural landscape the Anglo-Saxons inhabited roads and tracks, ancient barrows and Roman buildings, the villages and towns, churches, beacons, boundary ditches and walls, grave-markers and standing sculptures and explores the interrelationships between them and their part in Anglo-Saxon life.