Charters of Chertsey Abbey

This is the first complete modern edition of the early medieval charters of Chertsey Abbey in Surrey, which includes the earliest surviving Anglo-Saxon diploma (datable to c. AD 670). Other texts contain evidence about the early history of London. All are fully edited and annotated, with commentaries and a comprehensive introduction.

List of contents

• INTRODUCTION


• 1: The History of Chertsey Abbey


• 2: The History of the Archive


• 3: The Manuscripts


• 4: The Authenticity of the Charters


• 5: The Estates of Chertsey Abbey


• 6: Gazetteer of Chertsey Estates mentioned in the Charters and in Domesday Book


• 7: The Abbots of Chertsey


• LIST OF CHARTERS


• CONCORDANCE


• SIGLA


• NOTE ON THE METHOD OF EDITING


• THE CHARTERS


• APPENDIXES

About the author

Dr Kelly is a former Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. She has studied and taught in Cambridge and Oxford, and was a visiting fellow at All Soul's College in 2008. Her career has been dedicated to working on the British Academy/Royal Historical Society Anglo-Saxon Charters Project, of which she was Co-ordinating Editor 2001-12.

Summary

This is the first complete modern edition of the early medieval charters of Chertsey Abbey in Surrey, which includes the earliest surviving Anglo-Saxon diploma (datable to c. AD 670). Other texts contain evidence about the early history of London. All are fully edited and annotated, with commentaries and a comprehensive introduction.

Additional text

Kelly proposes a cautious but plausible reconstruction of Chertsey's early history, bearing in mind the minster's frontier position between the Mercian and West Saxon polities as well as the shifting political situation of the eighth and ninth centuries. The editor must therefore be congratulated for making available to scholars and students a particularly difficult section of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters.

Product details

• Authors: Susan E. (Independent Scholar Kelly
• Assisted by: Susan E. (Independent Scholar Kelly (Editor), Susan J Kelly (Editor), Kelly Susan E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9780197265567
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726556-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Anglo-Saxon Charters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Surrey, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, British & Irish history, Property & real estate, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Church history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Property and real estate