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St Paul's was the principal church of London from its foundation in AD 604. This volume is an edition of all the surviving documentary material from St Paul's from the seventh century to 1066, with analysis and commentary on the history of the bishops and the cathedral community within the city and diocese.
This first edition of the Anglo-Saxon archive of the Benedictine monastery at Peterborough includes royal diplomas, an Old English will and a series of spectacular post-Conquest forgeries. The earlier documents overturn our understanding of an earlier house known as Medeshamstede, and shed light on the fate of the East Midlands under Danish rule.
This edition collects all the surviving records and title-deeds from the archbishopric and cathedral church of Canterbury from its foundation in 597 to 1066. They are a vital source for English political, ecclesiastical and socio-economic history and for the development of the landscape and the English language in that same period.
This latest volume of thirty Anglo-Saxon charters covers the pre-Conquest archive of Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset, founded by King Alfred. It is an extremely important collection as it provides almost the only evidence for the history of Shaftesbury in this period.
This critical edition publishes an important collection of charters, some of them from the seventh and eighth centuries, providing crucial evidence about the history of the Anglo-Saxon church in Kent and the development of the documentary process.
This volume offers a reassessment of the history of St Albans in the early Middle Ages and analyses the workings of the monastery, its economy, and its relationship with its locality. It presents new editions of all the charters, including texts and translations of eight newly discovered vernacular charters.
Comprises editions of thirty-five charters and also a small group of separate boundary surveys, with commentaries on their historical and topographical importance. This book provides a background to William of Malmesbury's De gestis pontificorum Anglorum, and includes material for the study of William's use of historical documents.
This volume contains 17 documents concerning the bishopric and monastery at Sherborne, and 5 charters from the Abbey of Horton. Their dates range from A.D. 671 to A.D. 1061, and all (with one exception) have been preserved in the impressive Sherborne Cartulary, BL Add. MS 46487, dated c.1150.
This is the first scholarly edition of the surviving Anglo-Saxon charters of Glastonbury Abbey, with a study of the records of lost charters, and a comprehensive introduction synthesising the evidence for the history of this important monastery from the seventh century to the Norman Conquest.
This edition collects all the surviving records and title-deeds from the archbishopric and cathedral church of Canterbury from its foundation in 597 to 1066. They are a vital source for English political, ecclesiastical and socio-economic history and for the development of the landscape and the English language in that same period.
This is the first complete edition of all existing Anglo-Saxon charters from archives north of the Humber. The charters of York, Ripon, Beverley, Durham, and Lowther Castle are presented with notes and historical introductions.
This is the first complete modern edition of the early medieval charters of Chertsey Abbey in Surrey, which includes the earliest surviving Anglo-Saxon diploma (datable to c. AD 670). Other texts contain evidence about the early history of London. All are fully edited and annotated, with commentaries and a comprehensive introduction.
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