Description:
'Each chapter presents a broad thematic essay, many of which compare different types of source materials and different regions. The whole is a complementary multi-faceted exploration of the roles of water in the life and landscape of the Anglo-Saxon period. [...] These chapters are very accessible, wide in scope, and will be useful to students and specialists alike [in] a clear and well co-ordinated book. [...] Water and waterways are not taken here simply as the subjects of an environmental history, but rather as factors which determined human interaction with land and wildlife, and with each other. Waterways delimited properties as well as the possibilities for commerce, and they shaped understandings of the underworld and the world to come.'
Caroline Goodson, The English Historical ReviewBrief description:
Maren Clegg Hyer is Assistant Professor of English, Snow College. Her many publications include Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World (co-editor with Gale Owen-Crocker, Liverpool University Press 2020) and Old English Lexicology and Lexicography (co-editor with Haruko Momma and Samantha Zacher, Boydell, 2020).
Review Quotes:
'This volume brings a central, but sometimes technical and obscure, aspect of Anglo-Saxon life to a wider pubic, and should be the first point of reference for many years to come. It sets high standards for continuing the series.'
John Blair