Worcestershire Anglo-Saxon charter bounds
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Worcestershire Anglo-Saxon charter bounds
（Studies in Anglo-Saxon history, 2）
Boydell Press, 1990
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"Should be used in conjunction with Professor Sawyer's Anglo-Saxon charters ... published in 1968 by the Royal Historical Society"--Introd
Bibliography: p. 423-427
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The county of Worcestershire, finally formed before the Conquest around the burh of Worcester, is exceptionally rich in charter material. The charters contain an unusual amount of valuable topographical detail -in descriptions of location, in comments on the appurtenances of an estate and especially within the boundary clauses which accompany many of the grants or leases. From this very full body of texts, Dr Hooke has been able to identify featureswhich have enabled her to reconstruct the landscape of Anglo-Saxon Worcestershire to a remarkable degree. Della Hooke is widely known for her pioneer work on Anglo-Saxon charters, through which she has been able to reconstruct the Worcestershire landscape as it was almost a thousand years ago. The county -part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce -responds particularly well to her techniques. It is exceptionally rich in Anglo-Saxon charters and the physical features of the county, which has remained largely agricultural, are relatively easy to identify. Careful study of the charter evidence throws light on the history of settlement and land use, and shows that many features of the medieval county, for instance the rich arable lands of the Vale of Evesham and the wooded landscapes of Malvern and Wyre, were already present in Anglo-Saxon Worcestershire.
The book presents all the topographicaldetail in the charters, together with all the estate boundaries; each charter is individually mapped and the charter's landmarks located. The result is the first such study for any county, providing valuable and readily availabledata for historians and students of land use. DELLA HOOKEis Research Fellow in the School of Geography, University of Birmingham. She is a council member of the Council for Name Studies in Great Britain and Ireland and ofthe English Place-Name Society, and editor of Landscape History, the journal of the Society for Landscape Studies. Her published work relates to her long-standing interest in the use of Anglo-Saxon charters to trace the evolution of regional landscape.@RIGHT ALIGN = published price 45
Table of Contents
- A church of Worcester lease, key to the Worcesteshire charter bounds, the charters of Worcestershire, chief manuscripts, secondary printed sources, additional abbreviations, key to the charter maps
- 7th-century charters and related documents withour boundary clauses
- 8th-century charters and related documents without boundary clauses - 8th-century lease without boundary clause, 8th-century charter without boundary clause unidentified location
- 8th-century charters and related documents with boundary clauses
- 9th-century charters and related documents without boundary clauses - 9th-century leases without bounds
- 9th-century charters and related documents with boundary clauses
- 9th-century lease with boundary clause
- 10th-century charters and related documents without boundary clauses - 10th century leases without bounds
- 10th-century charters and related documents with boundary clauses - 10th-century leases with boundary clauses
- 11th-century charters and related documents without boundary clauses - 11th-century leases without boundary clauses
- 11th-century charters and related documents with boundary clauses - 11th-century leases with boundary clauses
- unattached boundary clauses.
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