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Anglo-Saxon farming made England so wealthy by the eleventh century that it attracted two full-scale invasions. In 
Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith explore how Anglo-Saxon farmers produced the food and other crops and animal products that sustained England's 
economy, society, and culture before the Norman Conquest.\nThe volume is made up of two complementary sections: the first examines written and pictorial sources, archaeological evidence, place-names, and the history of the English language to discover what kind of crops and livestock people raised, and what tools and techniques they used in producing them. 
The second part assembles a series of local landscape studies to explore how these techniques were combined into working agricultural regimes in different environments. These perspectives allow the authors to take new approaches to the chronology and development of open-field farming, to the 
changing relationship between livestock husbandry and arable cultivation, and to the values and social relationships which under-pinned rural life. The elite are not ignored, but peasant famers are represented as agents, making decisions about the way they managed their resources and working lives.\nA picture emerges of an agriculture that changed from an essentially prehistoric state in the sub-Roman period to what was, by the time of the Conquest, recognizably the beginning of a tradition that only ended in the modern period. Anglo-Saxon farming was not only sustainable, but infinitely 
adaptable to different soils and geology, and to a climate changing as unpredictably as it is today.\nAbout the Author 
Debby Banham, 
Affiliated Lecturer, Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge,Rosamond Faith, 
Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford\nDebby Banham is a medieval historian who teaches in the Universities of Cambridge and London. During the 1970s she worked as an agricultural labourer, and when she arrived in Cambridge as a mature student, discovered that farming was the only thing she knew more about than the people who taught her. 
She has published 
Monasterialies indicia: the Old English monastic sign language, and 
Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon England, as well as articles on Anglo-Saxon farming, diet and medicine, and monastic sign language.\nRosamond Faith has taught medieval history at the universities of London, Cambridge, and Oxford, and is the author of 
The English Peasantry and the Growth of Lordship and many articles on English and French peasants, the rural economy, and the English landscape.

Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming (Medieval History and Archaeology)

Business & Money

Banham, Debby

Faith, Rosamond

Industries

Oxford University Press

Farming was the basis of the wealth that made England worth invading, twice, in the eleventh century, while trade and manufacturing were insignificant by modern standards. In Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, the authors employ a wide range of evidence to investigate how Anglo-Saxon farmers produced the food and other agricultural products that sustained English economy, society, and culture before the Norman Conquest. The first part of the volume draws on written and pictorial sources, archaeology, place-names, and the history of the English language to discover what crops and livestock people raised, and what tools and techniques were used to produce them. In part two, using a series of landscape studies - place-names, maps, and the landscape itself, the authors explore how these techniques might have been combined into working agricultural regimes in different parts of the country. A picture emerges of an agriculture that changed from an essentially prehistoric state in the sub-Roman period to what was recognisably the beginning of a tradition that only ended with the Second World War. Anglo-Saxon farming was not only sustainable, but infinitely adaptable to different soils and geology, and to a climate changing as unpredictably as it is today.

Food in Anglo-Saxon England tells the story of what people ate and drank in England before the changes that have made our diet so sophisticated, varied, and paradoxically, homogeneous. Only very high-value goods such as spices and wine were imported into England at this time, so people were dependent upon native foods. This extensively illustrated book paints a vivid picture of the Anglo-Saxon diet, and includes recipes and a reconstruction of a typical Anglo-Saxon meal.

Food in Anglo-Saxon England (Revealing History )

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

Tempus Publishing Ltd.

This is one of the very few texts which let us see how life was really lived in monasteries in the early Middle Ages. Written in Old English and preserved in a manuscript of the mid-eleventh century, it consists of 127 signs used by Anglo-Saxon monks during times when the Benedictine Rule forbade them to speak. These indicate the food the monks ate, the clothes they wore, and the books they used in church and chapter, as well as the tools they used in their daily life, and persons they might meet both in the monastery and outside. The text is printed here with a parallel translation. The introduction gives a summary of the background, both historical and textual, as well as a brief look at the later evidence for monastic sign language in England. Extensive notes provide details of textual relationships, explore problems of interpretation, and set out the historical implications of the text.

Monasteriales Indicia: The Anglo-Saxon Sign Language

Religion & Spirituality

Anglo-Saxon Books

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Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming (Medieval History and Archaeology)

Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming (Medieval History and Archaeology)

Food in Anglo-Saxon England (Revealing History )

Monasteriales Indicia: The Anglo-Saxon Sign Language