Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici (Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History) (Latin Edition) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108035876 ISBN 13: 9781108035873

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Published in six volumes between 1839 and 1848, this was the first collected edition of the surviving corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters, comprising royal diplomas in Latin, as well as a variety of documents (wills, writs, etc.) in the vernacular (Old English). John Mitchell Kemble (1807-57) collected his material from many different places (the British Museum, the official records then in the Tower of London, cathedral archives, college libraries, and various private collections), and arranged it as best he could in chronological order. He believed passionately that he was laying foundations for a new history of the English people, and his work formed the basis for his study The Saxons in England (1849), also reissued in this series. Volume 3 of the Codex (1845) contains texts from the mid-tenth to the early eleventh century, and includes Kemble's pioneering discussion of vernacular boundary-clauses.

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Book Description:

Published in six volumes between 1839 and 1848, this was the first collected edition of the surviving corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters. Volume 3 of the Codex (1845) contains Latin and Old English texts from the mid-tenth to the early eleventh century, and includes Kemble's pioneering discussion of vernacular boundary-clauses.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1108035876
• ISBN 13: 9781108035873
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 530
• Editor: Kemble John Mitchell