Anglo-Saxon Charters

CHARTERS OF ST ALBANS C

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Hardcover | 13 December 2007

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Seat of the oldest saint's cult in Britain, St Albans has a remarkable claim to continuity of cult from Romano-British times. The recent discovery of previously unknown charters, most of them in the vernacular, has provided significant new information about the history of this important medieval monastery and its region.
These texts are presented here, mostly for the first time, together with new editions of all other known charters relating to the house, including three single-sheet originals, with full historical commentaries and translations of vernacular charters. An extended introduction offers a reassessment of the history of St Albans and its region in the early Middle Ages and, in particular, an analysis of the workings of the monastery, its economy, and its relationship with its locality in the century before the Norman Conquest. Particular attention is devoted to the management of the assets of the house, both material (an assessment of their estates and their management) and symbolic (involvement with forgery and enhancement of their documentary record).

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Superbly edited... will serve as an indispensable tool for historians of this highly influential monastic house. * Bryan Carella, English Studies *
These invaluable volumes will continue to offer the definitive version of these documents for a considerable time. * Society for Landscape Studies *

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List of Illustrations
Introduction	p. 1
The Origins of St Albans	p. 3
The History of the Abbey	p. 8
The Archive and its History	p. 37
The Manuscripts	p. 45
The Claims of the Community before and after the Norman Conquest	p. 56
The Estates of St Albans Abbey	p. 74
The Will of AEthelgifu	p. 91
List of Charters	p. 101
Concordance	p. 103
Sigla	p. 104
Note on the Method of Editing	p. 105
The Charters	p. 107
The Pre-Conquest Benefactions Confirmed by Eugenius III	p. 227
List of Pre-Conquest Estates Retained and Lost	p. 229
Lists of Income-Generating Estates from the Mid-Twelfth and Mid-Thirteenth Centuries	p. 233
Lost Charters and Other Benefactions Mentioned in Later Medieval Lists	p. 237
Extracts from the Miracula S. Albani	p. 241
The Tractatus de inuencione siue translacione beati Albani [Anglorum prothomartyris]	p. 245
Indexes
Index of Personal Names	p. 249
Index of Place-Names	p. 255
Words and Personal Names Used in Boundary Marks	p. 258
Latin Glossary	p. 262
Diplomatic Index	p. 264
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