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This volume, first published in 1939 (2nd ed., 1956), contains the original Old English texts, with translations and commentaries, of over 130 documents dating from the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries. It includes royal and 'private' (nonroyal) charters, some episcopal leases, a few wills, and several records generated by processes of litigation; it also includes a number of miscellaneous texts, such as inventories and estate surveys. The reissue of Dr Robertson's book is complemented by reissues of Florence Harmer's Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (1914), and of Dorothy Whitelock's Anglo-Saxon Wills (1930). Between them, the three volumes represent the surviving corpus of Anglo-Saxon documents in the vernacular, to set beside the corpus of royal diplomas (in Latin) and writs (in English), and the corpus of Anglo-Saxon legislation, and to serve at the same time as evidence of the uses of written English in the Anglo-Saxon period.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139780521178327
eBay Product ID (ePID)96769084
Product Key Features
Number of Pages594 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAnglo-Saxon Charters
Publication Year2009
SubjectLaw, History
TypeTextbook
AuthorA. J. Robertson
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight750 g
Item Width140 mm
VolumeVolume 1
Additional Product Features
EditorA. J. Robertson
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Series TitleAnglo-Saxon Charters in the Vernacular 3 Volume Set