Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey

Author(s)

• Kelly, S. E. (Susan E.)

Bibliographic Information

Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey

edited by S.E. Kelly

（Anglo-Saxon charters, 5）

Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, c1996

Note

Texts of charters in Latin; introd. and text in English

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The latest volume of Anglo-Saxon charters covers the pre-Conquest archive of Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset, founded by King Alfred and destined to be of great importance in the medieval period. The majority of the thirty surviving documents date form the tenth century, with the last a charter of Cnut from 1019. The present edition addresses the extensive corruption introduced into the surviving texts by repeated earlier copying, particularly in the vernacular boundary clauses. This is a very important collection providing almost the only evidence for the history of Shaftesbury in the Anglo-Saxon period.

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Details

• NCID: BA28318462
• ISBN:
  • 9780197261514
• LCCN: 96156738
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: englat
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxxviii, 151 p., [3] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DA690.S494
  • DC20 : 942.3/32
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Shaftesbury Abbey (Shaftesbury, England) -- Charters, grants, privileges
  • LCSH : Monasticism and religious orders -- England -- Shaftesbury -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources
  • LCSH : Anglo-Saxons -- England -- Shaftesbury -- Sources
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00891720