Anglo-Saxon charters: the work of the last twenty years
Nicholas Brooks
1973 is an auspicious year for the study of charters pre-Conquest period. At time writing, publication Professor A. Campbell's Anglo-Saxon Charters I, The Rochester imminent. This first volume in a series which entire corpus to be edited with full critical apparatus, detailed analysis their diplomatic, palaeographical, topographical and linguistic features extensive glossaries indices. part collaborative enterprise organized by committee British Academy Royal Historical Society. When complete, historians will no longer need reiterate W. H. Stevenson's famous dictum, ‘It cannot said that Old English have yet been edited.’ One significant feature scheme deserves noted here; each cover archive was existence towards end Thus there one Rochester, another Christ Church, Canterbury, Exeter, Burton Abbey, so on. Small archives grouped together others from same region or diocese form suitable volumes. In this way organization edition itself reveal local character marked throughout history. It also bring light work forgers individual churches developing claims particular lands rights means apparently widely differing dates.
Anglo-Saxon England