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Charters of Peterborough Abbey (Hardcover)
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Charters of Peterborough Abbey (Hardcover)
Series: Anglo-Saxon Charters, 14
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This is the first critical edition of the Anglo-Saxon archive of
the Benedictine monastery at Peterborough, established by Bishop
AEthelwold around AD 970 on the site of an earlier house known as
Medeshamstede. The archive comprises 31 documents ranging in date
from the 7th to the 11th centuries.
Alongside genuine royal diplomas, leases and an Old English will,
are a series of spectacular forgeries that were created after the
Norman Conquest as the monastic community strove to enhance its
status and protect its endowment. A collection of hugely important
memoranda, "the Medeshamstede memoranda," preserve intriguing
details of transactions that took place in the later 7th century,
and a series of brief records illuminate the processes by which
AEthelwold built up the endowment of the refounded abbey in the
970s and 980s.
This volume contains authoritative editions of these 31 texts,
plus a further 4 related documents. There is a full commentary on
every text, with translation of all Old English documents and
passages, and detailed discussion of boundary clauses. The
Introduction provides a detailed elucidation of the history of the
monastery in its two incarnations. This includes a ground-breaking
new evaluation of the sources for the history of Medeshamstede,
which overturns the conventional understanding of the status of
this house and its supposed early 'colonies', and also much new
material on the fate of this area of the East Midlands during the
period in the 9th and early 10th centuries when it came under
Danish rule.
This volume will be of great value to those studying Anglo-Saxon
and ecclesiastical history, to local historians and to specialists
in other fields, such as medieval Latin, Old English and place-name
studies.
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