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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2013
Print publication year:
2012
First published in:
1893
Online ISBN:
9781139177337
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139177337
Subjects:
Literature, British History 1066-1450, History, Regional History Before 1500, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, British History Before 1066
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History
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Book description

Walter de Gray Birch (1842–1924) worked in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Museum from 1864 to 1902 and published extensively in Anglo-Saxon studies. He is best known for this collection of over 1300 charters, in Latin and Old English, originally published in thirty-two parts between 1883 and 1893 and now reissued in three volumes. The funding for Birch's project eventually ran out, and the work ends at 975 CE. However, for the period covered, Birch's edition, which drew extensively on recent Victorian scholarship, superseded John Mitchell Kemble's 1839–48 Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici (also reissued in this series), which had been the first attempt to publish all the surviving Anglo-Saxon charter texts. Like Kemble, Birch organised his collection chronologically. Volume 3 focuses mainly on the tenth century. Together with grants of lands and privileges, it records several manumissions, and the regulations for the repair of a bridge.

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