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The material culture of daily living in the Anglo-Saxon world
Title
The material culture of daily living in the Anglo-Saxon world / edited by Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker.
ISBN
9780859898430
0859898431
Published
Exeter, UK : University of Exeter Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xii, 386 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 29, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-371) and index.
Contents
Introduction : material culture and the study of Anglo-Saxon England / Maren Clegg Hyer
Prelude : agriculture through the year / David Hill
The true staff of life : the multiple roles of plants / C.P. Biggam
Steep vessel, high horn-ship : water transport / Katrin Thier
'To eat, to wear, to work' : the place of sheep and cattle in the economy / Christopher Grocock
Devils' crafts and dragon skins? Sheaths, shoes and other leatherwork / Esther Cameron and Quita Mould
Chanting upon a dunghill : working skeletal materials / Ian Riddler and Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski
Earth's treasure : food and drink / Christina Lee
Woven works : making and using textiles / Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Weland's work : metals and metalsmiths / David A. Hinton
'Seldom ... does the deadly spear rest for long' : weapons and armour / Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Things of this world : portable antiquities and their potential / Michael Lewis, Andrew Richardson and David Williams
Sight, insight and hand : some reflections on the design and manufacture of the Fuller brooch / Elizabeth Coatsworth and Michael Pinder
The bright cup : early medieval vessel glass / Win Stephens
Body and soul : disease and impairment / Christina Lee.
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