Anglo-Saxon Wills
Cambridge University Press
Published on 24. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
302 pages
978-1-107-40221-8 (ISBN)
Description
This 1930 volume contains the original texts, with translations and commentaries, of the great majority of surviving Anglo-Saxon wills drawn up in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The documents are of special interest for the light they cast on the families and connections of those who made the wills, and on the ways in which the testators managed the disposition of their lands and other possessions. The reissue of Professor Whitelock's book is complemented by reissues of Florence Harmer's Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (1914), and of Agnes Jane Robertson's Anglo-Saxon Charters (1939, 2nd edition 1956). Between them, the three volumes represent the surviving corpus of Anglo-Saxon documents in the vernacular, to set beside the corpus of royal diplomas (in Latin), and the corpus of Anglo-Saxon legislation, and to serve at the same time as evidence of the uses of written English in the Anglo-Saxon period.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
429 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-40221-8 (9781107402218)
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Content
General preface H. D. Hazeltine; Preface; List of abbreviations; Addenda; 1. The will of Bishop Theodred; 2. The will of AElfgar; 3. The will of Wynaflaed; 4. The will of Bishop AElfsige; 5. The bequest of Ordnoth and his wife to Winchester Cathedral; 6. AEthelgeard's bequest to the New Minster, Winchester; 7. Brihtric Grim's bequest to Winchester Cathedral; 8. The will of AElfgifu; 9. The will of the Ealdorman AElfheah; 10. The will of the Ealdorman AEthelmaer; 11. The will of Brihtric and AEfswith; 12. The will of AEthelwold; 13. The will of AElfhelm; 14. The will of AEthelflaed; 15. The will of AElfflaed; 16i. The will of AEthelric; 16ii. King Ethelred's confirmation of AEthelric's will; 17. The will of Wulfric; 18. The will of Archbishop AElfric; 19. The will of wulfgeat; 20. The will of the AEtheling AEthelstan; 21. The will of Wulfwaru; 22. AEthelflaed's bequest to St Paul's; 23. The will of Mantat the Anchorite; 24. The will of the Thurketel of Palgrave; 25. The will of Thurketel Heyng; 26. The will of Bishop AElfric; 27. The will of Wulfsige; 28. The will of AElfric Modercope; 29. The will of Leofgifu; 30. Thurstan's bequest to Christchurch; 31. The will of Thurstan; 32. The will of wulfgyth; 33. The will of Edwin; 34. The will of Ketel; 35. Bishop AEthelmaer's bequest to Bury; 36. The bequest of Thurkil and AEthelglyth to Bury; 37. The will of Siflaed; 38. Another will of Siflaed; 39. The will of Ulf and Madselin; Notes; Index nominum; Index locorum; Index rerum.