Charters of Abingdon Abbey, Part 1

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Kelly has left an enduring legacy and provided an invaluable resource for the next generation of scholars ... from her unparalleled understanding of this material, Kelly also has an important contribution to make to current historiographical debates. Journal of Ecclesiastical History Few have shown such enthusiasm for this arcane area as Susan Kelly ... Kelly's addition provides ample justification for the policy of editing pre-Conquest diplomas by archive; this collection of documents sheds important light on the abbey's estate strategies in the later tenth and eleventh centuries and reveals much about local charter practices in a region of considerable strategic significance. Journal of Ecclesiastical History The British Academy's Anglo-Saxon Charters series is further enhanced by the two volumes of S.E. Kelly (ed.), Charters of Abingdon Abbey, a meticulous edition and very full introduction well up to the editor's exacting standards. Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature Brilliantly done ... One of the treasures of this edition is the inclusion of solutions of the many vernacular charter bounds carefully preserved at the abbey into the thirteenth century ... how lucky to have dedicated and insightful scholars such as Dr Kelly, who has done so much for the British Academy's charter editions. English Historical Review Susan Kelly has put the Anglo-Saxonist in her debt by her magisterial two-volume edition of the charters of Abingdon Abbey ... a superb investigation of the unique problems associated with the charters ... all in all, a study which no student of pre-Conquest history can afford to do without. Medium Avum