The landscapes that surrounded early medieval man, and how he saw and described them, are the subject of this book. The Anglo-Saxon period was one of considerable change in settlement and land-use patterns, but the landscape regions that emerge, documented for the first time in history are still familiar to us today. This volume examines the Anglo-Saxon's view of his natural surroundings and how he utilized the resources available - the cropland, woodland and marginal land of pasture and fen - and how this is reflected in administrative patterns, how it influenced settlement, communications and trade, and moreover influenced the landscape patterns of the following centuries.
- ISBN10 071851727X
- ISBN13 9780718517274
- Publish Date 1 May 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Leicester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English