Charters of Northern Houses

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-726529-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 824 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval History, ecclesiastical history, medieval Latin and Old English; place-name scholars

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woodman, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- GENERAL INTRODUCTION

- 1: The survival of Charters from Anglo-Saxon Northumbria

- 2: The Evidence for Oral Transactions in Northumbria

- 3: Northumbrian Diplomatic

- 4: The Authenticity of the Northern Charters

- LIST OF NORTHERN CHARTERS

- York

- Beverley

- Ripon

- Durham

- Lowther Castle

- CONCORDANCE

- YORK

- 1: The History and Endowment of York Minster

- 2: The History of the York Archive

- 3: The Manuscripts

- SIGLA

- NOTE ON THE METHOD OF EDITING

- THE CHARTERS OF YORK

- BEVERLEY

- INTRODUCTION

- 1: The History and Endowment of Ripon Minster

- 2: The History of the Ripon Archive

- 3: The Manuscripts

- SIGLA

- NOTE ON THE METHOD OF EDITING

- THE CHARTERS OF RIPON

- DURHAM

- INTRODUCTION

- 1: The History and Endowment of St Cuthbert's Community

- 2: The History of the Archive

- 3: The Manuscripts

- SIGLA

- NOTE ON THE METHOD OF EDITING

- THE CHARTERS OF DURHAM

- LOWTHER CASTER

- INTRODUCTION

- 1: General Introduction

- 2: The History of the Archive

- SIGLA

- NOTE ON THE METHOD OF EDITING

- CHARTER OF LOWTHER CASTLE

- APPENDICIES

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by David Woodman, Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge