Charters and Charter Scholarship in Britain and Ireland [electronic resource] /
Flanagan, M.editor.
Green, J.editor.
This book draws together a collection of essays looking at the ways in which charters and charter scholarship in different areas of Britain and Ireland, highlighting comparisons and contrasts in charter production and use. The book shows the crucial importance of charters as sources for understanding the history of royal administration and, more broadly, the perceptions and portrayals of kingly power, as well as developments in written culture.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Charters and Historians of Britain and Ireland: Problems and Possibilities; 2 Athelstan, Charters and the English in Cornwall; 3 Address and Delivery in Anglo-Norman Royal Charters; 4 'A Lasting Memorial': The Charter of Liberties of Henry I; 5 Regional Variations in the Charters of King Henry II; 6 Before Charters? Property Records in Pre-Anglo-Norman Ireland; 7 Irish Royal Charters and the Cistercian Order; 8 Laudabiliter: Text and Context; 9 The Adoption of Brieves in Scotland
10 Culture, Power and the Charters of Welsh RulersWorks Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-221) and index.
This book draws together a collection of essays looking at the ways in which charters and charter scholarship in different areas of Britain and Ireland, highlighting comparisons and contrasts in charter production and use. The book shows the crucial importance of charters as sources for understanding the history of royal administration and, more broadly, the perceptions and portrayals of kingly power, as well as developments in written culture.
Great Britain—History.
History of Britain and Ireland.