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Charters of Malmesbury Abbey (Hardcover, New)
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Charters of Malmesbury Abbey (Hardcover, New)
Series: Anglo-Saxon Charters, XI
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Malmesbury Abbey was one of the few English minsters which had a
continuous existence from the seventh to the sixteenth century, and
the Malmesbury archive is a particularly important witness to the
history of Wessex and the West Saxon church in the pre-Viking
period. More than half of the surviving charters purport to date
from the seventh and eighth centuries, many of them directly
associated with Malmesbury's most celebrated abbot, the scholar and
poet Aldhelm. This volume is the first scholarly edition of
Malmesbury's pre-Conquest charters.
The Malmesbury archive poses a particularly difficult editorial
challenge, since the manuscripts are generally late and the abbey's
scribes were prone to forgery and the 'improvement' of their
muniments. Although the abbey had its own celebrated post-Conquest
historian in William of Malmesbury, regrettably little detailed
information has survived about the early history of the monastery.
Nevertheless, analysis of the charters has made it possible to
build up a fairly coherent picture of Malmesbury's development in
the first four centuries of its existence. This volume provides an
important background to William of Malmesbury's De gestis
pontificorum Anglorum, and includes significant new material for
the study of William's use of historical documents.
Charters of Malmesbury Abbey is comprised of editions of
thirty-five charters and also a small group of separate boundary
surveys, with expert detailed commentaries on their historical and
topographical importance. The charters are prefaced by a lengthy
introduction which presents a new synthesis of the history of the
abbey and an extensive bibliography.
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