{"product_id":"anglo-saxon-farms-and-farming-9780199207947","title":"Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Debby Banham | Rosamond Faith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFarming 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 \u003cem\u003eAnglo-Saxon Farms and Farming\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890594889879,"sku":"9780199207947","price":22125.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199207947.webp?v=1781180624","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/anglo-saxon-farms-and-farming-9780199207947","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}