Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England

Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century (Windgather Press, 2018)

Anglo-Saxon farming has traditionally been seen as the wellspring of English agriculture, setting the pattern for 1000 years to come – but it was more important than that…

A rich harvest of archaeological data is now revealing the untold story of agricultural innovation, the beginnings of a revolution, in the age of Bede. How old were sheep left to grow, and what pathologies did cattle sustain? What does wheat chaff have to do with lordship and the market economy? What connects ovens in Roman Germany with barley maltings in early medieval Northamptonshire? And just how interested were Saxon nuns in cultivating the opium poppy? Armed with a powerful new dataset, Farming Transformed sets out to explore these fundamental questions about the minutiae of early medieval farming.

Available to buy in paperback and as an ebook.

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This book marks a step forward in our knowledge of farming in England in the Anglo­Saxon period.

Dr Della Hooke, Landscape History

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…a well-written and extremely useful book… with some quite tolerable jokes along the way…

Dr Rosamond Faith, Medieval Settlement Research

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…this is an important study that sheds fuller light on farming in Anglo-Saxon southern England…

Prof. Stephen Rippon, Medieval Archaeology

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… the book is well and engagingly written… It is also mercifully concise…

Dr Paul Stamper, Agricultural History Review

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This book is extremely welcome… a credit to all concerned.

Dr Debby Banham, Journal of the English Place-Name Society