Bibliography

List of Abbreviations

  • Abing: Charters of Abingdon Abbey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 7–8, 2 vols (Oxford, 2000–1)
  • ASChart: Anglo-Saxon Charters, ed. A. J. Robertson, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1956)
  • Bascombe: K. Bascombe, ‘Two Charters of King Suebred of Essex’, in An Essex Tribute: Essays presented to Frederick G. Emmison, ed. K. Neale (London, 1987), pp. 85–96
  • Bates: Two Cartularies of the Benedictine Abbeys of Muchelney and Athelney in the County of Somerset, ed. E. H. Bates, Somerset Record Society 14 (1899)
  • Bath: Charters of Bath and Wells, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 13 (Oxford, 2007)
  • BCS: W. de G. Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, 3 vols (London, 1885–93)
  • Burt: Charters of Burton Abbey, ed. P. H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters 2 (Oxford, 1979)
  • CantCC: Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury, ed. N. Brooks and S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 17–18, 2 vols (Oxford, 2013)
  • CantStA: Charters of St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 4 (Oxford, 1995)
  • Chert: Charters of Chertsey Abbey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 19 (Oxford, 2015)
  • Finberg: ECW  H. P. R. Finberg, The Early Charters of Wessex (Leicester, 1964)
  • Glast: Charters of Glastonbury Abbey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 15 (Oxford, 2012)
  • KCD: J. M. Kemble, Codex Diplomaticus Ævi Saxonici, 6 vols (London, 1839–48)
  • LondStP: Charters of St Paul’s, London, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 10 (Oxford, 2004)
  • Malm: Charters of Malmesbury Abbey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 11 (Oxford, 2005)
  • North: Charters of Northern Houses, ed. D. A. Woodman, Anglo-Saxon Charters 16 (Oxford, 2012)
  • Pet: Charters of Peterborough, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 14 (Oxford, 2009)
  • Roch: Charters of Rochester, ed. A. Campbell, Anglo-Saxon Charters 1 (London, 1973)
  • SEHD: Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, ed. F. E. Harmer (Cambridge, 1914)
  • Sel: Charters of Selsey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 6 (Oxford, 1998)
  • Shaft: Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 5 (Oxford, 1995)
  • Sherb: Charters of Sherborne, ed. M. A. O’Donovan, Anglo-Saxon Charters 3 (Oxford, 1988)
  • StAlb: Charters of St Albans Abbey, ed. J. Crick, Anglo-Saxon Charters 12 (Oxford, 2007)
  • Wells: Charters of Bath and Wells, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 13 (Oxford, 2007)
  • Wills: Anglo-Saxon Wills, ed. Dorothy Whitelock (Cambridge, 1930)
  • WinchNM: Charters of the New Minster, Winchester, ed. S. Miller, Anglo-Saxon Charters 9 (Oxford, 2001)
  • Writs: Anglo-Saxon Writs, ed. F. E. Harmer (Manchester, 1952), reprinted with an addition (Stamford, 1989)

Suggested Further Reading

  • W. Brown, M. Costambeys, M. Innes, and A. Kosto (eds), Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2013)
  • C. Cubitt, ‘“As the Lawbook Teaches”: Reeves, Lawbooks and Urban Life in the Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers’, English Historical Review 124 (2009), 1021–49
  • R. Gallagher, ‘The Vernacular in Anglo-Saxon Charters: Expansion and Innovation in Ninth-Century England’, Historical Research (forthcoming)
  • R. Gallagher, E. Roberts and F. Tinti (eds), The Languages of Early Medieval Charters: Latin, Germanic Vernaculars and the Written Word (Leiden, forthcoming)
  • M. Garrison, A. P. Orbán and M. Mostert (eds), with the assistance of S. Van Egmond, Spoken and Written Language: Relations between Latin and the Vernacular Languages in the Earlier Middle Ages, Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 24 (Turnhout, 2013)
  • H. Gittos, ‘The Audience for Old English Texts: Ælfric, Rhetoric and “the Edification of the Simple”’, Anglo-Saxon England 43 (2014), 231–66
  • M. Innes, ‘Memory, Orality and Literacy in an Early Medieval Society’, Past & Present 158 (1998), 3–36.
  • S. Keynes, ‘Church Councils, Royal Assemblies, and Anglo-Saxon Royal Diplomas’, in Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. G. R. Owen-Crocker and B. W. Schneider (Woodbridge, 2013), pp. 17¬–182
  • K. A. Lowe, ‘The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Boundary Clause’, Nomina 21 (1998), 63–100.
  • K. A. Lowe, ‘The Nature and Effect of the Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Will’, The Journal of Legal History 19 (1998), 23–61
  • K. A. Lowe, ‘Lay Literacy in Anglo-Saxon England and the Development of the Chirograph’, in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage, ed. P. Pulsiano and E.M. Treharne (Aldershot, 1998), 161–204
  • R. McKitterick (ed.), The Uses of Literacy in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 1990)
  • L. Oliver, ‘Legal Documentation and the Practice of English Law’, in The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature, ed. C. A. Lees (Cambridge, 2013), pp. 499–529
  • H. Schendl, ‘Beyond boundaries: code-switching in the leases of Oswald of Worcester’, in Code-switching in Early English, ed. H. Schendl and L. Wright (Berlin, 2011), 47–94
  • R. Stephenson, The Politics of Language: Byrhtferth, Ælfric and the Multilingual Identity of the Benedictine Reform (Toronto, 2015)
  • F. Tinti, ‘Writing Latin and Old English in Tenth-Century England: Patterns, Formulae and Language Choice in the Leases of Oswald of Worcester’ in Writing Kingship and Power: Studies in Honour of Simon Keynes, ed. R. Naismith and D. Woodman (Cambridge, forthcoming)
  • L. Tollerton, Wills and Will-Making in Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge, 2011)