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ANGLO-SAXON CHARTERS
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v.9 |
| By: |
Sean Miller (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£50.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0197262236 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780197262238 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 April, 2001 |
| Series: |
Anglo-Saxon Charters |
| Pages: |
244 |
| Description: |
The archive of the New Minster at Winchester contains 34 charters, offering insight into royalty, politics and general life in late Anglo-Saxon England. For example, the wills of King Alfred and King Aedred, the only two surviving wills of pre-Conquest kings, are preserved only in this archive. |
| Synopsis: |
The archive of the New Minster at Winchester contains thirty-four charters, among them four of the most important texts for our understanding of the last century and a half of Anglo-Saxon England. The two surviving wills of pre-Conquest kings are preserved only in this archive. King Alfred's will gives us further insight into the mindset of this most famous of English kings, while the likelihood that King Eadred's will was overturned by his successor gives us a window into the political turbulence of the mid-tenth century. The sumptuous gold-lettered New Minster refoundation charter of 966 is both a beautiful object and a powerful piece of monastic propaganda; and another charter in the archive contains the famous vernacular account of the crimes of Wulfbald in King Aethelreds reign. With other texts illuminating the reigns and politics of other rulers, the archive offers a microcosm of late Anglo-Saxon history. |
| Illustrations: |
6 halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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