• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Place-names, language and the Anglo-Saxon landscape
  • Contributor: Higham, N. J. [Hrsg.]
  • imprint: Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011
  • Published in: Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies: Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies ; 10
    EBL-Schweitzer
  • Issue: Online-Ausg.
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (260 p.))
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781846159343
  • RVK notation: HE 525 : Geographischer Name
  • Keywords: Altenglisch > Ortsname
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  • Footnote: Description based upon print version of record
  • Description: Frontcover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Place-Names, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: An Introduction; 2 The Landscape of Place-Name Studies; 3 Place-Names as Travellers' Landmarks; 4 Light thrown by Scandinavian Place-Names on the Anglo-Saxon Landscape; 5 Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: Towards an Archaeological Interpretation of Place-Names in Wiltshire; 6 Hunting the Vikings in South Cumbria from Ambleside to Haverbrack; 7 Viking-Age Amounderness: A Reconsideration

    8 The Woodland Landscape of Early Medieval England9 The Pre-Conquest Lands and Parish of Crediton Minster, Devon; 10 Rewriting the Bounds: Pershore's Powick and Leigh; 11 That 'Dreary Old Question': The Hide in Early Anglo-Saxon England; 12 Boroughs and Socio-Political Reconstruction in Late Anglo-Saxon England; INDEX; Backcover

    An exploration of the landscape of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly through the prism of place-names and what they can reveal