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The Dating of Medieval English Private Charters of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Gervers, Michael A Distinct Voice: Medieval Studies in Honor of Leonard E. Boyle (University of Notre Dame, 2006) Abstract In 1922, F.M. Stenton published one of the most informative and concise introductions to English private charters of the post Conquest period that has ever been […]
Peoples and languages in eleventh- and twelfth-century Britain and Ireland: reading the charter evidence By Richard Sharpe The reality behind charter diplomatic in Anglo-Norman Britain, edited by Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow, 2010) Introduction: As King William’s men set about taking over England in the first months of 1067, they must have encountered problems over […]
Saints, Monks and Bishops; cult and authority in the diocese of Wells (England) before the Norman Conquest Costen, Michael (University of Bristol, UK) Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, Volume 3, No. 2 (2011) Abstract This paper is founded upon a database, assembled by the writer, of some 3300 instances of dedications to saints […]
Framing ‘Piracy’: restitution at sea in the later Middle Ages Dick, Bryan D. PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, January (2010) Abstract The focus of the thesis is the diplomatic and legal implications of the capture of ships at sea in the later Middle Ages. It challenges key assumptions in much secondary literature concerning the definition […]
Currency Change in Pre-millennial Catalonia: Coinage, Counts and Economics Jarrett, Jonathan Numismatic Chronicle, No.169 (2009) Abstract Barcelona in the late tenth century was on the verge of becoming a commercial as well as a political capital. The wealth of the four counties that its ruler, Count-Marquis Borrell II (945–93), controlled had been growing throughout his reign. […]
The Mersea Charter of Edward the Confessor By Cyril Hart Essex Archaeology and History, Vol. 12 (1981) Introduction: In 1768 Philip Morant published the text of a very unusual charter he had found at Colchester. Carrying the date 1046, it purported to record the gift by King Edward the Confessor to the abbey of St. […]
Community in Voice? A Reconsideration of the Social Context Danish Royal Charters Functioned in the 11th Century By Minoru Ozawa HERSETEC : journal of hermeneutic study and education of textual configuration, Vol.3:1 (2009) Introduction: This article aims at analyzing the social context in which a Danish royal charter dated 21 May 1085 functioned, in terms […]
The Civil Administration of Byzantine Iberia According to the Seals By Werner Seibt Istoriani. Festschrift Roin Metreveli. (Tbilisi, 2009) Introduction: It would be a quite hopeless task to search for new historical texts, but there is a large bulk of source material till now more or less neglected by many Byzantine and other historians of […]
This thesis is a study of four early twelfth-century forgeries, comprising a house-history, two charters and a papal bull and how they were used by the monks of Peterborough to reconstruct their monastery’s pre-Conquest past.
William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux By Nicholas Vincent Archives: The Journal of the British Record Association, Vol.25:102 (2000) Introduction: Chance plays a large part in the survival of medieval charters. Written on parchment, and in many cases discarded as expendable ephemera within a few weeks, let alone years, of their writing, […]
The plans of medieval Polish towns By Marke Koter and Mariusz Kulesza Urban Morphology, Vol. 3:2 (1999) Abstract: The origins of Polish towns can be traced to the beginning of the Polish state. Most of them were founded before charters existed, in the period between the end of the tenth centruy and the beginning of […]
The sigillography of the Ragman Roll McAndrew, Bruce A. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 129(1999), 663-752 ABSTRACT The seals, originally attached to the deeds recording the fealties of the Scottish nobility to Edward I of England in 1296, and described in Volume II, Appendix HI of Bain’s Calendar of Documents relating to […]
A charter of William the Conqueror and two of his sons By David Bates Tabularia, No.5 (2005) Abstract: I omitted a document from my edition of the charters of William the Conqueror on the grounds of arguments which had suggested that it was a charter of William Rufus. The signa are not all consistent with the document’s date of […]
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