Trees in Anglo-Saxon England

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Della Hooke's book is the first large-scale treatment of its subject, and could hardly be surpassed in its patient and thorough accumulation of data. Lovers of trees and students of early England have equal reason to be grateful to her. -- Ronald Hutton * TIME AND MIND * Offers much useful information for medievalists in general and especially for those in the relatively new field of medieval environmental history. . An excellent synthesis. * SPECULUM * [This] remarkable study of trees in literature, lore and landscape is most welcome. * WORCESTERSHIRE RECORDER * An enjoyable read and [...] a useful addition to our understanding of pre-Medieval landscapes. * SCOTTISH FORESTY * Well documented and clearly written, with illustrative figures, wide ranging examples, and illuminating quotations. * WESTERN FOLKLORE * The book restates the significance of the woodland resource by considering aspects which are not usually discussed and so deepens our understanding of the Anglo-Saxon landscape. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW * [W]ill have long-tern value as a guide and quarry for those who seek to investigate their own local woodland history, or to integrate the subjects dealt with here into a wider study of how woodland was used a thousand to fifteen hundred years ago. * MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT RESEARCH * To look at any tree after reading [the] book is to have a clearer grasp of what someone might have made of it (literally and metaphorically) a thousand years ago. * SALON * An enormously detailed and authoritative study [which] has much to offer Anglo-Saxon scholarship. [...] An excellent volume. * LANDSCAPE HISTORY * [ A] well-written and thoughtfully constructed book. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY * [A] deeply researched and engagingly written book. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *