Description
Book SynopsisAnglo-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 p
Trade Reviewextensive and well-researched. * Christiane Kroebel, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal *
a welcome addition * Northern History *
Table of ContentsGENERAL 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
