Charters and episcopal scriptoria in the Anglo-Saxon South-West
Charles Insley
This article assesses the evidence provided by Anglo-Saxon charters from Exeter, and contribution they make to important question of how royal may have been produced in England. The Exeter are unusual that most them survive as originals, rather than copies, allowing us add a palaeographical dimension their study. Using diplomatic analysis, this establishes many surviving South-West belong distinctive regional tradition, removed mainstream. Finally, agency which these century before Norman conquest is identified episcopal scriptorium at Crediton, later Exeter.
Early Medieval Europe