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Book Trees in Anglo Saxon England

Download or read book Trees in Anglo Saxon England written by Della Hooke and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber and as a wood-pasture resource, with hunting gaining a growing cultural role. But they are also powerful icons in many pre-Christian religions, with a degree of tree symbolism found in Christian scripture too. This wide-ranging book explores both the "real", historical and archaeological evidence of trees and woodland, and as they are depicted in Anglo-Saxon literature and legend. Place-name and charter references cast light upon the distribution of particular tree species (mapped here in detail for the first time) and also reflect upon regional character in a period that was fundamental for the evolution of the present landscape. Della Hooke is Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham.

Book Fish Farming Technology

Download or read book Fish Farming Technology written by H. Reinersten and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few years, it has become more and more obvious that fish farming will become increasingly important in the future. As fish farming moves into its industrial phase, technology will be an important factor in determining its successful development. It is therefore important for scientists & representatives from the aquaculture industry to meet to define state of the art and explore future development of fish farming technology for different fish species. 81 papers and abstracts were presented at the conference. The proceedings reflect the different sections of the conference: the plenum sessions and three parallel sessions: Juvenile marine fish, open production plants, closed production plants and poster sessions.

Book The Peterborough Chronicle  1070 1154

Download or read book The Peterborough Chronicle 1070 1154 written by Cecily Clark and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Klaeber s Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg

Download or read book Klaeber s Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg written by R. D. Fulk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features an introduction and a commentary that incorporates the scholarship on "Beowulf" that has appeared since 1950. This work includes detailed bibliographic guidance to discussion of textual cruces, as well as to modern and contemporary critical concerns. It also addresses aids to pronunciation and advances in the study of the poem's language.

Book Castles and Landscapes

Download or read book Castles and Landscapes written by O. H. Creighton and published by Equinox Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paperback edition of a book first published in hardback in 2002 is a fascinating and provocative study which looks at castles in a new light, using the theories and methods of landscape studies.

Book The Transformation of Coastal Wetlands

Download or read book The Transformation of Coastal Wetlands written by Stephen Rippon and published by British Academy Postdoctoral F. This book was released on 2000 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploitation and management of marshland landscapes in North West Europe during the Roman and medieval periods, draws on archaeological and documentary evidence, and reveals a range of socio-economic issues.

Book Molecular Biology Frontiers

Download or read book Molecular Biology Frontiers written by Peter W. Hochachka and published by . This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in the series covers such topics as DNA fingerprinting of fishes, the cytochromes P450 in fish, the molecular biology of bacterial fish diseases, and new insights into the origins of the diversity and distribution of fish antifreeze proteins. The book will be of great value to fisheries scientists, animal biochemists, physiologists and endocrinologists, and aquaculturists. It will provide researchers and students alike with a pertinent information source from theoretical and experimental angles.

Book The Forest of Medieval Romance

Download or read book The Forest of Medieval Romance written by Corinne J. Saunders and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corinne J. Saunders's exploration of the topos of the forest, a familiar and ubiquitous motif in the literature of the middle ages, is a broad study embracing a range of medieval and Elizabethan exts from the twelft to the sixteenth centuries: the roman d'antiquite, Breton lay and courtly romance, the hagiographical tradition of the Vita Merlini and the Queste del Saint Graal, Spenser and Shakespeare. Saunders identifies the forest as a primary romance landscape, as a place of adventure, love, and spiritual vision... offers a pleasurable overview of the narrative function of the forest as a literary landscape. Based on a close comparative and theoretically non-partisan] reading of a broad range of literary texts drawn from the Europeqan canon, Saunders's study explores the continuity and transformation of an important motif in the corpus of medieval literature. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEWDr CORINNE SAUNDERSteaches in the Department of English at the University of Durham. BLURBEXTRACTED FROM TLS REVIEW] ...An immense tract, not only of medieval literature but of human experience is] engagingly introduced and presented here...Corinne Saunders considers first forests in reality (a reality which keeps breaking through in romance...). She looks also at the classical and biblical models including Virgil, Statius and Nebuchadnezzar...only then does she turn to the non-real and non-Classical, i.e. the medieval and romantic. Here she follows a clear chronological plan from twelfth to fifteenth centuries also covering] the allegorized landscape of Spenser and the lovers' woods of Arden or Athens in Shakespeare. Her text-by-text layout does justice to the variety of possibilities taken up by different authors; the forest as a place where men run mad and turn into animals, a place of voluntary suffering, a focus of significance in the Grail-quests, a lovers' bower; above all and centrally, the place where the knight is tested and defined, even (as with Perceval) created.

Book Wells  Meres  and Pools

Download or read book Wells Meres and Pools written by Mattias Jacobsson and published by Ubsaliensis S. Academiae. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "About hydronymic terms denoting lentic systems, and springs and wells found in Old English. The term "lentic" is borrowed from hydrology where it is used about inland bodies of water where the exchange of water is relatively slow (lakes and pools) in contrast to lotic systems (rivers and streams). ... [It] is intended to fill a gap in the field of English onomastics" --p.11.

Book The Draining of the Fens

    Book Details:
  • Author : H. C. Darby
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-08-18
  • ISBN : 1107402980
  • Pages : 363 pages

Download or read book The Draining of the Fens written by H. C. Darby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer, and covers a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from geology to socio-economic analysis. Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also provided.

Book The Origins of Beowulf

Download or read book The Origins of Beowulf written by Sam Newton and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and passionate argument suggesting that Beowulf originated in the pre-Viking kingdom of 8th-century East Anglia. Where did Beowulf, unique and thrilling example of an Old English epic poem come from? In whose hall did the poem's maker first tell the tale? The poem exists now in just one manuscript, but careful study of the literary and historical associations reveals striking details which lead Dr Newton to claim, as he pieces together the various clues, a specific origin for the poem. Dr Newton suggests that references in Beowulf to the heroes whose names are listed in Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies indicate that such Northern dynastic concerns are most likely to have been fostered in the kingdom of East Anglia. He supports his thesis with evidence drawn from East Anglianarchaeology, hagiography and folklore. His argument, detailed and passionate, offers the exciting possibility that he has discovered the lost origins of the poem in the pre-Viking kingdom of 8th-century East Anglia. SAMNEWTON was awarded his Ph.D. for work on Beowulf.

Book Felix s Life of Saint Guthlac

Download or read book Felix s Life of Saint Guthlac written by Felix and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-09-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been reissued in a format for students and teachers of history, literature, theology and Anglo-Saxon studies.

Book Writing for an Endangered World

Download or read book Writing for an Endangered World written by Lawrence Buell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes powerfully clear in his new book that aims to reshape the field of literature and environmental studies. Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, his book thus provides the theoretical underpinnings for an ecocriticism now reaching full power, and does so in remarkably clear and concrete ways. Writing for an Endangered World offers a conception of the physical environment--whether built or natural--as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, his book reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape.

Book Early Epic Scenery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Theodore Murdock Andersson
  • Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Early Epic Scenery written by Theodore Murdock Andersson and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Christianity Came to Britain and Ireland

Download or read book How Christianity Came to Britain and Ireland written by Michelle P. Brown and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of how Christianity came to the British Isles

Book Phylogenetic and Biochemical Perspectives

Download or read book Phylogenetic and Biochemical Perspectives written by Peter W. Hochachka and published by . This book was released on 1991-09-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new series on the biochemistry and molecular biology of fishes has grown out of the demand for state-of-the-art review articles in a rapidly expanding field of research. The goal is to provide researchers and students with an appropriate balance between experimental results and theoretical concepts.

Book The Packet Radio Handbook

Download or read book The Packet Radio Handbook written by Jonathan L. Mayo and published by Tab Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manual for amateur radio enthusiasts discusses the history of packet radio, hardware systems, networking, setting up an amateur packet radio station, and equipment and accessories