Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming

readers new to this subject area will especially appreciate the clear and fluently written prose that in less accomplished hands could easily have been encumbered by dense description and technical jargon ... the authors should be congratulated for a highly successful scholarly collaboration that has yielded what will no doubt come to be regarded as an essential text on Anglo-Saxon farming for many years to come. Gabor Thomas, Antiquity worthwhile, and will guide researchers to useful sources. Christopher Dyer, English Historical Review The authors must be congratulated on a book which will be useful to a wide range of scholars. They assimilate and present material from a variety of disciplines and pack an enormous amount of detail into its pages, yet it is uniformly interesting and enlightening ... this is a fine work, well written and illustrated, and likely to remain the standard textbook for a long time - for both those who know about Anglo-Saxon England and those who know about farming. Paul Cavill, Medieval Settlement Research Noting there was no textbook and little secondary literature on the practicalities of Anglo-Saxon farming, Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith set out to fill that gap. They have succeeded brilliantly. Their wide-ranging book offers a detailed account of early medieval agriculture that will provide a point of reference for decades to come. Susan Oosthuizen, Medieval Archaeology There has long been a need for a book that focuses specifically on Anglo-Saxon farming ... There is a wealth of useful and interesting information in both parts of this volume, and I will assign this book when I teach medieval archaeology in the future. Pam Crabtree, American Historical Review