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The material culture of daily living in the Anglo-Saxon world / edited by Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker ; with contributions by C.P. Biggam [and others].

Published
Exeter, UK : University of Exeter Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Additional Creators
Hyer, Maren Clegg, Owen-Crocker, Gale R., and Biggam, C. P. (Carole Patricia), 1946-

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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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ISBN
9780859898430
0859898431
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [368]-371) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Schuylkill copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2011.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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