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"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."--Publisher's description.

Trees --- Trees in literature --- Arbres --- Arbres dans la littérature --- History --- Symbolic aspects --- Folklore --- Histoire --- Aspect symbolique --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Trees in literature. --- History. --- Folk-lore of trees --- Dendrology --- Nursery stock --- Woody plants --- Arboriculture --- Forests and forestry --- Timber --- Anglo-Saxon England. --- Christian scripture. --- charter references. --- hunting. --- landscape evolution. --- place-name. --- pre-Christian religions. --- rural economy. --- trees. --- wood-pasture resource.