Medievalists.net » Edgar II the Atheling http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The speaking cross, the persecuted princess and the murdered earl: the early history of Romsey Abbey http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/05/the-speaking-cross-the-persecuted-princess-and-the-murdered-earl-the-early-history-of-romsey-abbey/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/05/the-speaking-cross-the-persecuted-princess-and-the-murdered-earl-the-early-history-of-romsey-abbey/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:27:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39093 The Old-English note may have begun life as an endorsement, either to the grant of privileges or (what is perhaps more likely) to the agreement about the woodland belonging to Romsey, a notice of which has become attached to it; it was not uncommon when diplomas were collected into cartularies for such endorsements to be used as ‘headings’ for the text.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/05/the-speaking-cross-the-persecuted-princess-and-the-murdered-earl-the-early-history-of-romsey-abbey/feed/ 0 Anglo-Saxon law and numismatics: A reassessment in the light of Patrick Wormald’s the Making of English Law http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/anglo-saxon-law-and-numismatics-a-reassessment-in-the-light-of-patrick-wormalds-the-making-of-english-law/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/anglo-saxon-law-and-numismatics-a-reassessment-in-the-light-of-patrick-wormalds-the-making-of-english-law/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:32:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36630 In this article, I wish to return to the references to coinage in the Anglo-Saxon laws in the light of Patrick Wormald's important research on the laws, especially his The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, which has made this difficult evidence much more penetrable to the non-specialist.

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