by Nick Corcos

 Cole, A, 1994, "The Anglo-Saxon Traveller", Nomina 17, 7-18; Gelling, M, and Cole, A, 2000, The Landscape of Place-Names, Stamford: Shaun Tyas, esp xii-xxiv. While neither of these works could in any sense be said to adopt a consciously phenomenological approach, there are nonetheless, in both, elements of that concept, as it relates to landscape, which would be recognised by a modern theoretical prehistorian as phenomenological in all but name. By contrast, an explicitly phenomenological perspective within the context of a modern study of medieval landscape, is adopted by Karin Altenberg in her comparative examination of Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, and Scania in southern Sweden: 2003, Experiencing Landscapes, Lund Studies in Medieval Archaeology, 31, Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell. Matthew Johnson has recently critically reviewed where ‘traditional' landscape study currently stands in relation to modern theoretical perspectives originating with prehistorians, and his Chapter Five is especially enlightening in the context of this article: 2007, Ideas of Landscape, Oxford: Blackwell.

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