Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- I.3 The Earliest Charters
- I.4 Theodore of Canterbury
- I.5 Descriptions of the Holy Land
- I.6 Aldhelm
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- Eleventh Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
I.3 - The Earliest Charters
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- I.3 The Earliest Charters
- I.4 Theodore of Canterbury
- I.5 Descriptions of the Holy Land
- I.6 Aldhelm
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- Eleventh Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
These two charters are the oldest extant charters in Britain, dating from the 670s and recording the donation of land by sub-kings to abbots in Surrey and Kent. These documents already display many of the formulaic phrases to be found in Anglo-Saxon charters, which were usually in Latin, though the information about land boundaries was usually in Old English.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 57 - 67Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024