a truly interdisciplinary project ... Semple is able to paint a much more complex and detailed picture of her topic than would be possible based on the archaeological evidence alone ... this important and informative volume clears the way for subsequent work to be even more specific and definitive within the broad parameters established here. In so doing, it lays the crucial groundwork for a better, more thorough, and more interdisciplinary understanding of how the
Anglo-Saxons apprehended and appropriated the past of the lands they settled.
Sarah Semple is Professor of Archaeology at Durham University.