# Lester-Makin, *Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World*, 2019 > [!cite] > Lester-Makin, Alexandra. *The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery*. Ancient Textiles Series 35. Oxbow Books, 2019. --- ‘As the medieval archaeologist John Moreland notes, it is not always helpful to compartmentalise eras. Preoccupation with the beginning and end dates of a culture can result in a distorted reading of the evidence, “objects, institutions, concepts are treated either as precedent or relic — not as active in the construction of people and society in their own times.”’ [[Lester-Makin, Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World, 2019|(Lester-Makin 2019, chap. 1)]] ^9e0109