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Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey

Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey

Hardcover

Series: Anglo-Saxon Charters, Book 5

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLinguistics

ISBN10: 0197261515
ISBN13: 9780197261514
Publisher: British Academy
Published: Apr 18 1996
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The latest volume of Anglo-Saxon charters covers the pre-Conquest archive of Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset, founded by King Alfred and destined to be of great importance in the medieval period. The majority of the thirty surviving documents date form the tenth century, with the last a charter of Cnut from 1019. The present edition addresses the extensive corruption introduced into the surviving texts by repeated earlier copying, particularly in the vernacular boundary clauses.

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