Travelascommunication
A consideration of overland journeys in Anglo-Saxon England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4753968 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Reynolds (0000-0002-3529-8682, University College London), Alexander Langlands (0000-0002-0565-0235, University of Winchester) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 410-427 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.2011.615158 |
| OpenAlex | W1967135557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper considers the relationship between the act of travel and perceptions of landscape drawing upon case studies from Anglo-Saxon England. Two perspectives are offered. First, we address the issue of large-scale mental mapping of journeys and the degree to which moving from one place to another can be reconstructed using the landscape as a document. Second, we examine how local territories, regions and their boundary markers reveal a folkloric or 'story-telling' mythologizing of landscape as an early medieval practice, and the impact that this may have had on the experience of travel. We argue that a distinction can be drawn between what we term 'direct' and 'associative' experience of landscape and that local experience inspired emotive reactions to unfamiliar landscapes. We promote the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach and our case studies draw upon archaeological, written and toponymic evidence. Keywords: Anglo-Saxonmemorymythtravelcommunication Acknowledgements We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their useful comments
Archaeology · Boundary (topology · Cartography · Emotive · Environmental resource management · Epistemology · Folklore · Geography · Landscape archaeology · Landscape design · Landscape history · Perception · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Toponymy · Anthropology · Categorization, perception, and language · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History
Reflections
Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs
The Church in Anglo–Saxon Society
The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe
Roads and tracks of Britain
The Magical Universe
The Oxford English Dictionary and Its Philosophy
Early medieval art and archaeology in the Northern world
Wulfstan's Voyage
Defining the OE hearg
The King's Four Highways
The Icknield Way
The tradition of penitentials in Anglo-Saxon England
Cultural assimilation in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies
Illustrations of damnation in late Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
Language and History in Early Britain
Arctic Homeland
Æfric and Idolatry
Ibn Faḍlān and the Rūsiyyah
Transport, geography and the ‘new’ mobilities
Notes and Comments
A fear of the past
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |