The Anglo-Saxon Landscape: The Kingdom of the Hwicce

by Della Hooke

The landscape of pre-Conquest England can often be reconstructed in minute detail. Yet this is one of the first attempts at such a project. Here the evidence is examined for the West Midlands - the counties of Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire, much of which formed the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce.

Della Hooke reveals the intimate local landscape through the medium of place names, contemporary documents and archaeological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719080681
• ISBN13: 9780719080685
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"