Charters of northern houses
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Charters of northern houses
(Anglo-Saxon charters, 16)
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012
1st ed
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Northern houses
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [xvii]-xli
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Anglo-Saxon Northumbria is renowned for producing scholars of the eminence of Bede and Alcuin and saints of the stature of Cuthbert and Oswald. But despite its enormous cultural and political impact on the course of early English history, only a relatively small amount of documentary material has survived, scattered through five different archives. This book constitutes the first edition of all Anglo-Saxon charters surviving in archives north of the River Humber, a
body of material previously neglected. It provides edited texts, together with detailed analysis and commentary, for twenty-one documents which have been preserved in the ecclesiastical archives of York, Beverley, Ripon and Durham, and also a unique survival from Lowther Castle. These commentaries
also provide translations and elucidations of each Old English boundary clause and assessments regarding each document's authenticity. The charters themselves are preceded by comprehensive historical introductions which not only provide up-to-date historical accounts of each religious house, but also give an overview of the evolution of each ecclesiastical archive (Lowther Castle is treated slightly differently). In bringing all of this material together for the first time, this book encourages
comparisons between the types of charter used in different parts of Northumbria, which in turn allows a better understanding of the complex political and ecclesiastical situation throughout the kingdom.
Table of Contents
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- LIST OF NORTHERN CHARTERS
- CONCORDANCE
- YORK
- SIGLA
- NOTE ON THE METHOD OF EDITING
- THE CHARTERS OF YORK
- BEVERLEY
- INTRODUCTION
- SIGLA
- NOTE ON THE METHOD OF EDITING
- THE CHARTERS OF RIPON
- DURHAM
- INTRODUCTION
- SIGLA
- NOTE ON THE METHOD OF EDITING
- THE CHARTERS OF DURHAM
- LOWTHER CASTER
- INTRODUCTION
- SIGLA
- NOTE ON THE METHOD OF EDITING
- CHARTER OF LOWTHER CASTLE
- APPENDICIES
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