An edition of charters 51 to 151 from Abingdon Abbey, most of which are diplomas of Anglo-Saxon kings granting estates to lay beneficiaries and so provide an invaluable record of Anglo-Saxon royal government during the 10th and 11th centuries. The charters are in Old English and Latin and are accompanied by detailed commentaries. Appendices include indices of personal and place names and a Latin glossary. The pagination continues from Part 1 which is also available.
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[this] edition and its accompanying research tools will provide an enormous stimulus to the study of the Anglo-Saxon world and serve as a monumental contribution to the study of the Early Middle Ages. Adam J. Kosto, Columbia University 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
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978-0-19-726221-4 (9780197262214)
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