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Cartularium Saxonicum is a three-volume collection of Anglo-Saxon charters published from 1885 to 1893 [2] by Walter de Gray Birch (1842–1924), then working in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Library. The most recent edition was released on May 24, 2012, by Cambridge University Press. [3]
In the Anglo-Saxon calendar, Blōtmōnaþ (modern English: blót month) was the month roughly corresponding to November. [1]The month was recorded by the English scholar Bede in his treatise De temporum ratione (The Reckoning of Time), saying "Blod-monath is month of immolations, for it was in this month that the cattle which were to be slaughtered were dedicated to the gods.” [2]
Our picture is skewed towards those that regard land, particularly in the earlier period. Land charters can further be subdivided into royal charters, or diplomas, and private charters (donations by figures other than the king). Over a thousand Anglo-Saxon charters are extant today, as a result of being maintained in the archives of religious ...
Cartularium Saxonicum: A Collection of Charters Relating to Anglo-Saxon History. Vol. (3 vols). Walter de Gray Birch (1902). A History of Neath Abbey. Walter de Gray Birch. History of the Scottish Seals. Vol. (2 vols). Walter de Gray Birch. Domesday Book: A popular account of the Exchequer Manuscript so called. Vol. (2 vols).
The first section, traditionally titled the Liber Wigorniensis, is a collection of Anglo-Saxon charters and other land records, most of which are organized geographically. The second section, Hemming's Cartulary proper, combines charters and other land records with a narrative of deprivation of property owned by the church of Worcester.
She was a Pfeiffer Research Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge and a lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies between 1932 and 1935. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She was later a reader in English language at the University of Aberdeen , which gives the Agnes Jane Robertson Memorial Lecture in her honour.
Studies suggest a pattern of typically peaceful co-existence, with the structure of the Romano-British landscape being maintained, and with the Saxon settlers believed to have been in the minority. [11] The kingdom of Essex grew by the absorption of smaller subkingdoms [12] or Saxon tribal groups. There are a number of suggestions for the ...
Bookland (Old English: bōcland) was a type of land tenure under Anglo-Saxon law and referred to land that was vested by a charter. Land held without a charter was known as folkland (Old English: folcland). [1] The distinction in meaning between these terms is a consequence of Anglo-Saxon land law. The concept of bookland arose in the seventh ...