Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 37

Anglo-Saxon England 37

Her mon mæg giet gesion hiora swæ«

ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND 37 Edited by MALCOLM GODDEN University of Oxford

M A R K B L AC K BU R N University of Cambridge

ROBERT BJORK Arizona State University

R I C H A R D DA N C E University of Cambridge

RICHARD GAMESON Durham University

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SIMON KEYNES University of Cambridge

JOHN BLAIR University of Oxford

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R O S A L I N D L OV E University of Cambridge

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Contents

List of illustrations Record of the thirteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, 30 July to 4 August 2007 mary swan University of Leeds The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus matthew s. kempshall University of Oxford

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King Edgar’s charter for Pershore (972) peter a. stokes University of Cambridge

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Lost voices from Anglo-Saxon Lichfield gifford charles-edwards† University of Wales, Bangor and helen mckee Englefield Green, Surrey

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The Old English Promissio regis mary clayton University College, Dublin

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Viking invasions and marginal annotations in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162 kathryn powell University of Manchester Re-evaluating base-metal artifacts: an inscribed lead strap-end from Crewkerne, Somerset ga bor thomas University of Reading, naomi payne Somerset County Museums Service and elisabeth okasha University College Cork

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Contents Anglo-Saxon and related entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) helen foxhall forbes University of Cambridge mathhias ammon, elizabeth boyle, c ona n t. d oyle, peter d. evan, rosa maria fera, paul ga zzoli , helen imhoff, anna matheson, sophie rixon and levi roach University of Cambridge Bibliography for 2007 paul g. remley, University of Washington, Seattle martha bayless, University of Oregon carole p. biggam, University of Glasgow mark blac kburn, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge felicity h. clark, University of Oxford fiona edmonds, University of Cambridge carole hough, University of Glasgow simon keynes, University of Cambridge rebec ca rushforth, University of Cambridge Abbreviations listed before the bibliography (pages 234–6) are used throughout the volume without further explanation. The editorial assistance of Clare Orchard and Debby Banham is gratefully acknowledged.

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Lichfield, Cathedral Library, Lich. 1, p. 141 Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162, p. 198 (detail) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162, p. 174 (detail) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162, p. 107 (detail) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162, p. 423 (detail) Inscribed strap-end from Crewkerne Inscribed strap-end from Crewkerne. Illustrated by Jane Read figures

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acknowled gement s By permission of the trustees of the British Museum the design on the cover is taken from the obverse of a silver penny issued at London in the early 880s, reflecting Alfred’s assumption of political control over the city. Permission to publish photographs has been granted by the Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral (pl. I); the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (pls. II–V); Somerset County Council (pls. VI–VII).

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c ontributions for future editions are invited Material should be submitted to the editor most convenient regionally, with these exceptions: an article should be sent to John Blair if concerned with archaeology, to Mark Blackburn if concerned with numismatics, to Richard Gameson if concerned with art history, to Simon Keynes if concerned with history or onomastics, and to Michael Lapidge if concerned with Anglo-Latin or palaeography. Whenever a contribution is sent from abroad it should be accompanied by international coupons to cover the cost of return postage. A potential contributor is asked to get in touch with the editor concerned as early as possible to obtain a copy of the style sheet and to have any necessary discussion. Articles must be in English. The editors’ addresses are: Dr M. A. S. Blackburn, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge CB2 1RB (England) Professor W. J. Blair, The Queen’s College, Oxford OX1 4AW (England) Professor R. E. Bjork, Lattie F. Coor Building 4438, 975 S. Myrtle Avenue, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 85287-4402 (USA) Professor M. Clayton, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 (Ireland) R. Dance, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge CB2 1RL (England) Professor R. Frank, Department of English, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 (USA) Professor R. Gameson, Department of History, Durham University, 43 North Bailey, Durham DH1 3EX (England) Professor H. Gneuss, Institut für Englische Philologie, Universität München, Schellingstrasse 3, D-80799 München (Germany) Professor M. R. Godden, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UQ (England) Professor M. Gretsch, Seminar für Englische Philologie, Universität Göttingen, KäteHamburger-Weg 3, D-37073 Göttingen (Germany) Professor S. D. Keynes, Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ (England) Professor M. Lapidge, Clare College, Cambridge CB2 1TL (England) Professor P. Lendinara, Dipartimento DANAE, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Viale delle Scienze (edificio 15) 90128 Palermo (Italy) Dr R. Love, Robinson College, Cambridge CB3 9AN (England) Professor K. O’Brien O’Keeffe, Department of English, 322 Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1030 (USA) Professor A. Orchard, Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1H8, (Canada) Professor P. G. Remley, Department of English, Box 354330, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195–4330 (USA)

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Contributions for future editions are invited Professor F. C. Robinson, Department of English, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 (USA) Professor D. G. Scragg, Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL (England) Professor P. E. Szarmach, The Medieval Academy of America, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 5th Floor, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (USA)

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Record of the thirteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, 30 July–4 August 2007 I The general theme of the conference was ‘Anglo-Saxon Traces: Her mon mæg giet gesion hiora swæe ’. The conference was attended by 196 people. The following papers were delivered: Anton Scharer, ‘Objects of Royal Representation (in England and on the Continent)’ Jennifer O’Reilly ‘The Topography of Islands in Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica’ Diarmuid Scully, ‘Among the Ruins: Bede and his Sources on the Geography and Built Environment of Roman Britain’ Joshua Westgard, ‘Traces of Bede?: the Moore Continuations and the Transmission of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica’ Richard North, ‘Revenue and Real Estate: Archbishop Wulfred and the Strange Case of Cynehelm’ Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre and Mª Dolores Perez Raja, ‘Language, Landscape and Social History in Medieval Lincolnshire: traces of the Anglo-Saxon past in ME dialectology’ Lesley Abrams, ‘People of the Danelaw’ Hafed Walda and Martyn Jessop, ‘Gaining a Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England’ Joy Jenkyns ‘Walking the Trail: the Westminster Surveys’ Peter A. Stokes, ‘A Previously Unnoticed Version of the Pershore Orthodoxorum Charter (S 786)’ Carol Farr, ‘Irish Pocket Gospels in Anglo-Saxon England’ Catherine Karkov, ‘Tracing the Anglo-Saxons in the Epistles of Paul: the Case of Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M. p. th. f. 69’ Peter Dendle, ‘Exorcisms in A-S Liturgical Manuscripts: Problems of Context and Application’ Scott Smith, ‘Latin Diplomas and the Turn to Verse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’ Patrick W. Conner, ‘Five Anglo-Saxon Guilds and How They Grew’ Lisa Weston, ‘Enclosing the Space of Miracle’ 1

Record of the thirteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Vicky Bristow, ‘Elene, the Anonymous Homily on the Invention of the Cross and the Acta Cyriaci: their Dramatic Structure and Style’ Samantha Zacher, ‘Locating Andreas: its Place in the Book, and the Book in its Place’ Andy Orchard, ‘How Anglo-Saxon is Andreas?’ Orietta Da Rold, ‘Making the Book’ Elaine Treharne, ‘Writing the Book’ Mary Swan, ‘Using the Book’ Frederick M. Biggs, ‘The Demise of Joint Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England’ Christina Lee, ‘Body Talks: Disability in Anglo-Saxon England’ Josh Davies, ‘The Reverse Chronology of St Alfege’s Church: a Suitable Monument for Anglo-Saxon England?’ Jacqueline Stodnick, ‘Her Again: Deictic Syntax in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’ Margaret Scott, ‘Scottish Place-Names and Anglo-Saxon England’ Antonette diPaolo Healey, ‘Searching for Words: DOEonline: A to G’ Debby Banham, ‘ “ Here You Can See Their Tracks”: Ridge and Furrow, Open Fields and Anglo-Saxon Farming’ Sue Hirst, ‘Mucking-East Tilbury: Meeting Place and Mart in the Early and Middle Saxon Periods?’ Bruce Watson, ‘The Southwark Domesday Entries: an Enigma Reconsidered’ Gabor Thomas, ‘Excavations at Bishopstone 2003–5: a Late Anglo-Saxon Manorial Settlement in its Regional and National Context’ Richard Mortimer, ‘Excavations at West Fen Road, Ely, Cambridgeshire 1999: Exploring Conceptions of “Rural” and “Urban” Space in the Anglo-Saxon Settlement Record’ Michael Drout, ‘The Invention of Cynewulf: Albert S. Cook, Philology, Romanticism and English Studies in America’ Julia Crick, ‘Script and the Sense of the Past in Pre-Conquest England’ Robin Norris, ‘A Three-Dimensional View of Anglo-Saxon Saints’ Lives’ Juliet Hewish, ‘From Alcuin to Ælfric: Tracing the Dissemination of the Life of St Martin in late Anglo-Saxon England’ Erika Corradini, ‘The Use of Ælfric’s Homilies in Secular Cathedrals: Exeter, 1050–1072’ Malcolm Godden, ‘Reading the Consolation of Philosophy in Anglo-Saxon England’ Nicole Guenther Discenza, ‘Following in the Tracks of Bede: Science and Cosmology in the Benedictine Reform’ Daniel Anlezark, ‘Learning about the Jews in BL MS Harley 3271’ Emily V. Thornbury, ‘Building with the Rubble of the Past: Three Case Studies in Anglo-Saxons’ Use of Flawed Texts’ 2

Record of the thirteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Karen Jolly, ‘Scribal Tracks: Aldred’s Bilingual Colophons’ Chris Fern, ‘The Importance of Horse Symbolism and Equestrianism in Early Anglo-Saxon Society’ The following Project Reports were given: ‘The Old English Newsletter Online: Present State and Future Plans’ ‘The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain c. 700–1450: Origins, Identification, Contexts and Change’ ‘The Alfredian Boethius Project’ ‘Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England’ ‘Leornungcræft: Manuscripts and Texts Used for Instruction in Anglo-Saxon England’ ‘Early English Laws’ II General Business Meeting held in Senate House on 4 August 2007, at 12.00 noon, President Jane Roberts presiding. A The President reported on behalf of the Executive Committee: 1 The fourteenth conference of the Society is to be held at the Memorial University, Newfoundland, 27 July–1 August 2009, hosted by William Schipper. Its theme will be ‘The Maritime World of the Anglo-Saxons’. 2 The fifteenth conference of the Society will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, hosted by John D. Niles. 3 Gratitude was expressed to all those who had assisted in making the conference such a success. B The Executive Director reported on behalf of the Executive Committee: 1 Membership dues and related interest have generated revenues of $11,204.09. The total assets as at 31 June 2007 were $59,881.58. Of this amount, $32,224.39 is retained in mutual funds. 2 Officers of the Society. In accordance with the Society’s constitution, Jane Roberts completes her term as President on 31 December 2007, after which William Schipper will assume the post of President. John D. Niles will assume the post of First Vice-President. David Johnson completes his term as Executive Director on 31 December 2007, after which Stacy Klein will assume the post of Executive Director. 3 Membership of the Advisory Board. The term of office expires on 31 December 2007 for the following members: Mary Blockley, Rolf Bremmer, Jr, Thomas N. Hall, John Hines, Éamonn Ó Carragain and Joanna Story. 4 Honorary Membership of the Society. The Honorary Membership consists of George Hardin Brown, †Peter Clemoes, Rosemary Cramp, André Crépin, René Derolez, Helmut Gneuss, †Edward B. Irving Jr, 3

Record of the thirteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Matti Kilpiö, Tadao Kubouchi, †Henry Loyn, Bruce Mitchell, Sigeru Ono, †John Pope, Barbara Raw, Matti Rissanen, Jane Roberts, Fred. C. Robinson, Ute Schwab, Donald G. Scragg, Nicholas Brooks, Joyce Hill, Kevin Kiernan, and Joseph B. Trahern. Margaret Clunies-Ross, Alger N. Doane, Michael Lapidge, Richard Pfaff and Leslie Webster were accorded honorary membership. 5 The Advisory Board has established procedures for the publication of themed volumes arising substantially from ISAS conferences. The first, edited by Matti Kilpiö, will be based on the 2001 Conference at the University of Helsinki; the second, edited by †Nicholas Howe and Catherine Karkov and published in 2006, is based on the 2003 Conference at Arizona State University. The third, to be edited by Hans Sauer and Joanna Story, is based on the 2005 conference at Munich. The fourth, to be edited by Jane Roberts and Leslie Webster, is to be based on the 2007 conference. The Executive Committee will oversee and monitor the production of the volumes. The membership package includes the ISAS publication based on, and emerging substantially from, the Conferences, with the exception of the first volume. 6 ISAS Publication Prizes, 2007. The panel, consisting of Thomas N. Hall, Elaine Treharne and Barbara Yorke, and chaired by Elaine Treharne, announced the winners of this cycle’s awards. Best First Book: shared by Daniel Anlezark, Water and Fire: the Myth of the Flood in Anglo-Saxon England (Manchester UP, 2006) and Martin Foys, Virtually Anglo-Saxon (University Press of Florida, 2007). Best Edition/ Translation: Scott DeGregorio, translation, Bede In Ezram (Liverpool UP, 2005). Best Article: Joyce Hill, ‘Authority and Intertextuality in the Works of Ælfric’, Proceedings of the British Academy 131 (2005), 157–81 (The Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture for 2004). C The Executive Director reported on behalf of the Executive Committee: 1 The thanks of all participants for a very successful conference. III The conference included receptions hosted by the IES and the Institute for Historical Research and the British Library. At Lambeth Palace, participants enjoyed a reception and an exhibition of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts curated by Professor Roberts, Michelle Brown and David Ganz. The conference dinner was held at King’s College London, with a reception sponsored by the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies and the Departments of English and History, King’s College London. A mid-week excursion to Sutton Hoo, guided by Lesley Webster, James Graham-Campbell and Angela Evans, allowed participants to see some of the most powerful Anglo-Saxon traces. A 4

Record of the thirteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists post-conference excursion took members on a tour of Anglo-Saxon sites that included Brixworth, Breedon-on-the-Hill, Lichfield Cathedral and Repton. IV Registration forms for the ISAS conference to be organized by and held at Memorial University, Newfoundland, will be mailed to all paid-up members of the Society. The conference theme will be ‘The Maritime World of the AngloSaxons’. Membership dues payments may be made by cheque or postal money order for $50.00 or £30.00 sterling (regular members) or for $35.00 or £20.00 (student and retired members) and should be sent to Professor Stacy S. Klein, Executive Director, ISAS, Dept. of English, Rutgers University, 510 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1167, USA. E-mail [email protected]. Payment may be made to the Executive Director by Visa or MasterCard or by personal cheque. For members outside the US transfers in sterling may be sent to the ISAS account, HSBC Bank plc, City Office Cambridge Branch, Cambridge, CB2 3HZ; sorting code 40–16–08, account no. 21241605. Members may arrange to pay dues for more than the two-year cycle. Payment forms are available from the Executive Director.

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The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus matthew s. kempshall abstract Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus has traditionally posed problems of interpretation in terms of both form (its apparently bipartite structure) and content (as a digest of the rules of rhetoric combined with an exposition of the four cardinal virtues). However, a close reading of the sources from which Alcuin was drawing his argument (Cicero, Julius Victor, Fortunatianus, Marius Victorinus, Cassiodorus and, above all, Augustine and Quintilian) suggests why he should have chosen to emphasize the connection between rhetoric and the virtues in this particular way.

Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica invites an attractively simple line of interpretation. Written in the form of a dialogue between Alcuin and Charlemagne, it opens by declaring its intent to set down the precepts of the discipline of rhetoric (rhetoricae rationis praecepta), suggesting that it will thereby act as a natural corollary to the teaching which Alcuin had already communicated on the subjects of dialectic, arithmetic and astronomy.1 What follows might therefore reasonably be regarded, on this basis, merely as one more example of an Alcuinian compilatio, an assembly of authoritative texts – in this case as a digest of Cicero’s De inuentione and Julius Victor’s Ars rhetorica (itself a fourth-century distillation of Cicero’s De oratore and Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria which enabled Alcuin to turn Cicero’s treatise on invention into a general treatise on rhetoric by providing a summary of its other four elements, namely arrangement, style, memory and delivery).2 In and of itself, such a characterization goes at least some way towards explaining both the nature and purpose of Alcuin’s text. The Disputatio de rhetorica does indeed appear to be a basic primer designed to serve alongside similar introductions to dialectic and grammar as a tool for the study of the liberal arts, themselves propaedeutic to the study of Scripture. Such a characterization would also seem to be confirmed by the manner, and extent, of its subsequent circulation – the Disputatio de rhetorica survives in at least eighteen 1

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Matthew S. Kempshall ninth-century manuscripts and is often bound together with Alcuin’s De dialectica. Likewise by its shelf-life and waning influence, once complete versions of the original texts of Cicero and Quintilian on which it was based began to be sought out, and copied, in their own right.3 However, the Disputatio de rhetorica is neither as basic nor as straightforward a ‘textbook’ as such a summary would imply. While Alcuin’s work can be credited with an important role in the history of the transmission of the techniques of classical rhetoric, and while individual precepts which are contained within the treatise can be mined, and mined successfully, for what they recommend about, say, imitatio as a source of auctoritas, or about the relationship between grammar as the ars recte loquendi and rhetoric as the ars bene loquendi,4 difficulties arise as soon as the text is studied as a whole, as a work which might have been designed to do more than just provide a scissors-and-paste synthesis of the rules of classical rhetoric. Two aspects in particular have proved problematic. First, there is the apparent concentration of the purpose and value of studying rhetoric in an explicitly ‘political’ sphere. The very first line of Alcuin’s versepreface states that the person who reads its precepts is the person who wants to learn about ciuiles mores.5 Indeed, in the opening statement in prose, the entire scope (tota uis) of rhetoric is said to revolve around what are called ciuiles quaestiones, a phrase which is subsequently repeated two times at the beginning of the treatise and twice more at the end.6 Second, there is the set-piece discussion of the four cardinal virtues with which the treatise closes – an analysis of how prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance serve as the roots (radices) of all the other virtues, followed by an exposition of their relationship to the specifically Christian life of love of God and love of neighbour.7 What has so perplexed modern commentators about both of these features is that in neither case do Alcuin’s definitions and discussion find much of a warrant in 3

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Clavis scriptorum Latinorum medii aevi: Auctores Galliae II, ed. M.-H. Jullien and F. Perelman (CCCM, Turnhout, 1999), pp. 160–1. Alcuin, Disputatio de rhetorica, p. 132, lines 994–1010. cf. P. Godman, Poets and Emperors: Frankish Politics and Carolingian Poetry (Oxford, 1987), pp. 59–60; M. Irvine, The Making of Textual Culture: ‘Grammatica’ and Literary Theory 350–1100 (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 309 and 325–6; J. J. Murphy, Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: a History of Rhetorical Theory from Augustine to the Renaissance (Berkeley, 1974), pp. 80–2. Alcuin, Disputatio de rhetorica, p. 66, line 1: ‘qui rogo civiles cupiat cognoscere mores, haec praecepta legat quae liber iste tenet’. Alcuin, Disputatio de rhetorica, p. 66, line 13: ‘totam eius artis uim in ciuilibus uersari quaestionibus’; p. 68, line 57: ‘in ciuilibus . . . quaestionibus’; p. 70, lines 84–5: ‘in causis et quaestionibus ciuilibus’; p. 142, line 1150: ‘causis ciuilibus et negotiis saecularibus’; p. 154, lines 1357–8: ‘ciuilium quaestionum’. For definitions of causa and negotium, together with their relation to a quaestio, see Quintilian, Institutionis oratoriae libri duodecim [henceforth Institutio oratoria], ed. M. Winterbottom (Oxford, 1970), III.5.17–8, p. 142. Alcuin, Disputatio de rhetorica, pp. 142–54, lines 1159–356.

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The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus the texts of Cicero and Julius Victor which Alcuin had followed so closely in the remainder (some four-fifths, in fact) of his treatise. Indeed, the net effect of these two idiosyncracies has been that few modern commentators seem to know quite what to make of Alcuin’s text. Much the boldest interpretation of the Disputatio de rhetorica was proffered by Liutpold Wallach, for whom Alcuin’s combination of ‘political’ subject-matter, prescription of the cardinal virtues and formal dialogue with Charlemagne made it nothing less than a treatise on kingship, a speculum principis. ‘The De Rhetorica’, he wrote, ‘is made up of rhetorical doctrine, not because Alcuin wanted to write a rhetorical textbook, but because he wished to describe the mores of Charlemagne as those that ought to serve as examples to his subjects’.8 Wallach’s interpretation has proved (and, in some cases, continues to prove) influential, even though a more systematic study of Carolingian Fürstenspiegel would suggest that Alcuin’s treatise does not, in fact, fulfil the criteria necessary for it to be categorized in this genre.9 But if this littera exhortatoria is not a speculum principis, what is it? Michael Wallace-Hadrill was prompted to confess bafflement: ‘whether we really have from him the earliest example of a Carolingian speculum principis is doubtful: it depends on what one thinks was the purpose of his rhetorical exercise known as the Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus’.10 Indeed it does. Even if Wallach’s interpretation is no longer as persuasive as it once was, the problems it was originally created to solve still remain. Why does Alcuin define the entire scope of rhetoric as ciuiles quaestiones? Why does he then conclude his treatment with an analysis of the cardinal virtues? Neither one of these features would seem, at first sight, to sit particularly comfortably with the view that Alcuin simply wanted to produce a digest of the rules of Ciceronian rhetoric. Yet, if it is precisely those aspects of a text which seem to a modern reader to be either alien, difficult or incongruous that often reveal most about why that text was written and what it was trying to say, then such departures clearly need explaining. Generally speaking, when Alcuin does choose to deviate from the authoritative model he is otherwise imitating and emulating, then it is through these differences that his interpretative originality is often revealed. To have tied the 8

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L. Wallach, Alcuin and Charlemagne: Studies in Carolingian History and Literature (Ithaca, 1959), p. 71. For the equation of the personal virtue of a ruler with the prosperity of his kingdom, see, for example, Alcuin, Epistolae, ed. E. Dümmler (MGH Epistolae IV, Berlin, 1895), 18, p. 51. H. H. Anton, Fürstenspiegel und Herrscherethos in der Karolingerzeit (Bonn, 1968), pp. 87–8. J. M. Wallace–Hadrill, Early Germanic Kingship in England and on the Continent (Oxford, 1971), p. 101; compare Wallace–Hadrill, ‘The Via regia of the Carolingian Age’, Trends in Medieval Political Thought, ed. B. Smalley (Oxford, 1965), pp. 22–41 at p. 30; idem, Early Medieval History (Oxford, 1975), pp. 181–200, at p. 189: ‘. . . the one composition of . . . Alcuin that can fairly be termed a consistent statement of political theory, the Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus’.

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Matthew S. Kempshall subject-matter of rhetoric so firmly to ciuiles mores and ciuiles quaestiones suggests, therefore, that Alcuin was intent on making a particular point from the outset. Was it a case of simply wanting to fashion rhetoric into ‘an instrument of civil and political knowledge’, to make it ‘the art of dealing with questions of government as moral issues’, ‘the [legal] settlement of civil disputes’, or even ‘civic affairs’ and the ‘customs of the State’?11 Or did the term ciuilis carry a particular significance for Alcuin which was at once more precise and more inclusive than a modern understanding of ‘political’ might imply? Likewise, to have displaced and expanded what Cicero had said about virtue in De inuentione so that this material could serve as a conclusion to his own work would also seem to reveal something about Alcuin’s intentions. The fact that he drew attention to this editorial choice by giving his treatise the title Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus seems to point in the same direction. Alcuin’s twentiethcentury editor and translator was of the opinion that the dislocation of Cicero’s discussion of virtue as if it were something separate from the nature of inuentio simply marked Alcuin’s lack of understanding, a ‘weakness’ in his abridgement which stemmed from his failure to grasp ‘the full connection between the subject of rhetoric and that of the virtues’.12 It is this judgment which has led to the prevailing view of the Disputatio de rhetorica as a treatise in two parts. However, once Alcuin’s careful and deliberate adaptation of Cicero’s scheme is set within the context of a developed theory of moral philosophy, a rather different picture begins to emerge.13 This picture becomes clearer still when fuller appreciation is given to the connection between Alcuin’s concluding emphasis on virtue and his opening concentration on questions which relate to ‘civil’ conduct. To explain why Alcuin himself might have thought that what he wrote about virtue would be just as integral to a proper comprehension of the discipline (ratio) of rhetoric as the actual rules (praecepta) of speaking and writing well is to explain why the Disputatio de rhetorica should be placed at the heart of Alcuin’s own understanding of the role of language and learning within a Christian society. 11

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C. Leonardi, ‘Alcuino e la retorica’, Dialektik und Rhetorik im frühen und hohen Mittelalter: Rezeption, Überlieferung und gesellschaftliche Wirkung antiker Gelehrsamkeit vornehmlich im 9. und 12. Jahrhundert, ed. J. Fried (Munich, 1997), pp. 171–4, at p. 171 (‘scienza civile’) and p. 173 (‘uno strumento di consapevolezza civile e politica’); Wallach, Alcuin and Charlemagne, p. 70; D. E. Luscombe, ‘Dialectic and Rhetoric in the Ninth and Twelfth Centuries: Continuity and Change’, Dialektik und Rhetorik, ed. Fried, pp. 1–20, at p. 3; Howell, Rhetoric of Alcuin and Charlemagne, p. 67. Howell, Rhetoric of Alcuin and Charlemagne, pp. 31–2 and pp. 63–4. I have been unable to consult H. L. Zimmermann, ‘A Critical Text: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de virtutibus sapientissimi regis Karoli et Albini magistri’ (unpublished dissertation, St. Louis, 1968). S. Mähl, Quadriga virtutum: die Kardinaltugenden in der Geistegeschichte der Karolingerzeit (Cologne, 1969), pp. 83–125, esp. pp. 109–16.

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The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus So what are we to make, first of all, of the statement that rhetoric is entirely concerned with ciuiles quaestiones? Alcuin takes the precise formulation of this definition, not from Cicero or from Julius Victor, but from Cassiodorus’s Institutiones, the sixth-century educational handbook which had provided the basic, but essential, framework for the integration of classical learning into monastic schooling. The art of rhetoric, according to Cassiodorus, is the science of speaking well on civil issues, in ciuilibus quaestionibus, where ciuiles quaestiones are understood to refer to those questions which everyone can comprehend when they concern equity and goodness, de aequo et bono.14 Alcuin’s own gloss on this definition is that these ciuiles quaestiones are docti quaestiones – that is, they are issues ‘open to instruction’ because they are capable of being grasped by everyone through the natural capacity of their minds.15 Right from the start, in other words, it is clear that the so-called ‘political’ dimension to Alcuin’s definition of rhetoric is, in fact, shorthand for the breadth and accessibility which rhetoric gives to the operation of virtue within human society. On this basis, rhetoric is concerned, first and foremost, with two fundamental moral qualities, namely equity and goodness. This supplementary definition depends, in its turn, on Alcuin’s understanding of how rhetoric had originally brought humankind out of a state of nature and into ‘civilization’. This notion is, of course, originally a Ciceronian argument, versions of which appear in De inuentione and De oratore, as well as in Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria.16 Alcuin provides his own potted version right at the start of the Disputatio de rhetorica. It was, he argues, only by combining ratio with oratio, reason with rhetoric, that a great and wise man (magnus uir et sapiens) was able to persuade his fellow humans to abandon their lives as solitary, scattered and predatory beasts ruled by cupidity and physical strength. Gathering these people together into one place, this individual led them towards everything advantageous and morally virtuous (utile atque honestam) and thereby inculcated different principles of life, namely 14

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Matthew S. Kempshall divine observance and a sense of duty towards their fellow human beings.17 This is what Alcuin wanted to underline when he echoed Cassiodorus’s concentration on ciuiles quaestiones. Rhetoric is necessarily involved in everything which distinguishes humankind’s existence in communities, in everything which differentiates it from a purely animal existence. Rhetoric is based on the union of sapientia with eloquentia and, in each of its three branches, it comprises anything which involves equity and goodness – judicial rhetoric seeks what is equitable, demonstrative rhetoric what is morally virtuous, and deliberative rhetoric what is both morally virtuous and advantageous.18 This compass can be called ‘political’, in short, but only if the term is construed in the broadest possible sense, as everything which concerns life in a distinctively human society, and not if the term is restricted simply to those who exercise authority within that society. Alcuin found the same argument, with slightly different phraseology, in Julius Victor, for whom the duty of the orator was to concern himself with ciuilia negotia, where ‘civil affairs’ comprise those matters on which everyone with any intellectual capacity can speak and judge. They cover general opinion, laws or conduct (mores) – anything, in fact, which can be the subject of accusation, defence, or simply debate over its equity and utility (de aequo et utili).19 For Julius Victor, the foundation of eloquence, as indeed of everything else, is therefore sapientia.20 As such, rhetoric can be applied to people, events or texts, and can range all the way from universal abstract propositions to specific cases. True to the breadth of this definition, Julius Victor had run through all the component parts of ‘speaking well’ and exhorted his readers to put these rules into practice by immediate and constant exercise. He had then concluded his treatise by showing how rhetoric should be applied to the writing of letters, or rather to the writing of epistolae negotiales, that is, letters on public as opposed to personal issues. The gravity of this particular epistolary genre, he states, requires the deployment of all the precepts of rhetoric.21 17

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The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus Familiarity with both Cassiodorus and Julius Victor may be enough, in itself, to account for Alcuin’s emphasis on ciuiles quaestiones right at the start of the Disputatio de rhetorica. However, Alcuin also seems to have been drawing directly on the fourth-century sources from which Cassiodorus had himself taken this argument, namely Fortunatianus’s Ars rhetorica and the commentary on Cicero’s De inuentione by Marius Victorinus.22 Alcuin was certainly familiar with the treatise by Fortunatianus.23 Indeed, coupled with the explicit personal endorsement of Fortunatianus’s authority which had been provided by Cassiodorus’s Institutiones, as well as by the fact that the treatise had subsequently circulated in conjunction with the pseudo-Augustinian De rhetorica,24 it may well have been the precedent provided by the unusual form of Fortunatianus’s treatise which prompted Alcuin to couch his own work as a dialogue of question and answer.25 ‘What is rhetoric?’ Fortunatianus had asked. ‘The knowledge of speaking well’ was the reply. ‘What is an orator?’ he continued. ‘The good man skilled in speaking. What is the function of the orator? To speak well on civil questions. To what end? In order to be persuasive, in so far as circumstances and audience allow, in civil questions. What are civil questions? Those which can fall into the common capacity of the mind, that is, those which every person can understand as an inquiry into what is equitable and good. How many kind of civil question are there? Three. What are they? Demonstrative, deliberative and judicial.’26 Alcuin’s conversance with Marius Victorinus is slightly harder to pin down than in the case of Fortunatianus but the circumstantial evidence remains considerable. Marius Victorinus’s commentary on Cicero’s De inuentione is extant in at least one late-eighth-century manuscript (Cologne, Dombibliothek, 166, a manuscript which appears to have been written ‘under insular influence’ and which also includes Fortunatianus and the pseudo-Augustinian De rhetorica),27 and the author is named in person alongside Boethius in the library described 22

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The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus through eloquence that the human soul is liberated from enslavement to the body in a life which would otherwise be solitary, brutish and short. This is the achievement of the ‘great and wise man’ (uir magnus et sapiens) who uses eloquence to gather his fellow humans into a community, persuading them to exchange the life of beasts for a life which is truly human. At the core of this uita ciuilis (and, for Marius Victorinus, ciuilis always means living according to law),31 is therefore the instilling into human beings of what is morally good and advantageous. For Marius Victorinus, this is the central function of eloquence. Human nature may be perfected by precepts discovered through wisdom but this can only be realized when eloquence is used to persuade the human will. Eloquence combined with wisdom, in short, establishes human communities by persuading people of what is good and advantageous and by teaching them what is just. Conversely, when eloquence is deployed without wisdom, society is destroyed by those who operate by force of words alone; wisdom then becomes the preserve of philosophers who retire from public affairs and simply write about sapientia rather than translate it into action. It is to forestall this fate that Marius Victorinus underlines Cicero’s exhortation to study rhetoric and wisdom together, since it is this conjunction alone which will enable public and private affairs to be administered and life to be made safe, good and beneficial, both to oneself and to one’s friends.32 If Cicero’s De inuentione convinced Alcuin of the central role of rhetoric in the transition of humankind from a bestial state of nature, then Cassiodorus and Julius Victor, but also Fortunatianus and Marius Victorinus, left him in no doubt as to its role in maintaining the fabric of that society once it had been established and, by extension, the comprehensive range of subjects on which it should be brought to bear. This role and this scope, in short, are what Alcuin was indicating in the definitions with which he opened the Disputatio de rhetorica by highlighting the phrases ciuiles mores and ciuiles quaestiones. Rhetoric is comprehensible to everyone because it covers everything which is open to question in a human society living under law. It is therefore concerned with everything which carries any consideration of moral goodness, advantage and equity. No more and, certainly, no less. Where, then, does this analysis leave the second of the two issues which have so frequently troubled modern commentators, namely the connection between a treatise on rhetoric and a concluding disquisition on virtue? Is this conclusion simply, as some have argued (and indeed as Charlemagne himself is made to say), an exercise in speaking (exercitatio sermocinationis), a practical 31

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The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus sapientia, however, in pairing Cicero with Augustine, Alcuin is also aiming to demonstrate just how intimately these two themes are connected. If Alcuin’s transcription of Cicero’s classification of the cardinal virtues from De inuentione is best understood in terms of the discussion with which it had been accompanied in De civitate Dei and De musica,46 then the influence of this Augustinian mediation on the Disputatio de rhetorica should not be limited to the virtues themselves. However important Augustine may have been to Alcuin’s closing analysis of virtue, his presence also extends to the broader assumptions about the relationship between classical learning and Christian faith on which the treatise as a whole is based. The crucial text here is Augustine’s De doctrina Christiana, a work which was fundamental to the entire Carolingian view of learning within a Christian society.47 Can this text too, then, help us understand why Alcuin might have regarded moral virtue as integral to the study of rhetoric? Written as a short reflection on the relationship between words and things and, as a result, on how the relationship between them is dependent on a proper understanding of signs, De doctrina Christiana set out to demonstrate how a basic knowledge of grammar, logic and rhetoric could, and should, be used to expound both the literal and the figurative meaning of the Bible. In expounding the utility of these branches of pagan learning, the ‘gold’ and ‘clothing’ of the Egyptians, Augustine also points out their limitations: some signs will remain ambiguous and obscure, some humanly instituted knowledge is self-indulgent and to be avoided. Rhetorical tropes and ornamentation, however, although they might seem to belong to the category of such suspect knowledge, are present in Scripture because they are natural, not artificial, to humankind. According to Augustine, therefore, as a means of understanding the divine truths which are contained in the Old and New Testaments and, equally importantly, as a means of communicating these truths to others, the disciplines of grammar, logic and rhetoric are fundamental to Christian teaching.48 De doctrina Christiana did not itself attempt to provide an introduction to the study of grammar, logic and rhetoric. Indeed, Augustine issues explicit 46 47

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Matthew S. Kempshall disclaimers on this score. ‘This would not be the proper place’, he writes, ‘to present [figures of speech] to people not familiar with them; I do not wish to look as if I am giving a course on grammar.’49 Tropes are intrinsic to language and natural to human beings without a formal training in grammar but this is not to say that they should be excluded from closer attention. Far from it. In De doctrina Christiana, however, Augustine simply recommends that these tropes should be learned separately. Likewise with the study of rhetoric. Augustine writes: At the outset, I must curb the expectations of any readers who think that I am going to present the rhetorical rules which I learned and taught in pagan schools, and warn them . . . not to expect that sort of thing from me. This is not because the rules have no practical use, but because such practical uses as they do have must be learned separately – assuming that a person of good character (uir bonus) has the time to learn them on top of everything else – and not sought from me either in this or any other work.50

Augustine was clearly concerned by the amount of time that could be spent in learning all these rhetorica praecepta and he therefore suggested that, rather than occupy an individual’s mature or advanced years, they should be learned when young. As a result, the remainder of De doctrina Christiana is devoted, instead, to a demonstration of how the interpreter and teacher of divine scripture can use different styles of elocutio in order to defend the Christian faith and defeat error, communicate what is good and eradicate what is bad.51 With that proviso, however, Augustine’s recommendation is clear: As for the relevant observations and rules which, together with a skilful manner of speaking that uses an abundance of words and verbal ornament, constitute what we mean by eloquence, these should be learned independently of this work by those who can do so quickly, by setting aside an appropriate period of time at a suitable and convenient stage of their lives.52

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The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus Augustine’s main concern, unlike Alcuin’s (at least in the Disputatio de rhetorica), is Scripture. Yet, while Alcuin acknowledges that the wisdom he is expounding is indeed that of the rhetoricus rather than the evangelicus,54 he is still careful to intersperse his own digest of the praecepta rhetorica with scriptural examples. Demonstrative, judicial and deliberative rhetoric, for example, are all illustrated directly from the Bible – by Cain and Abel, Ahithophel and Hushai, Tertullus and Paul respectively.55 It is also true that Augustine registers profound concern over the potential abuse of eloquence when it has no goal other than pleasure and when it is placed in the service of falsehood rather than truth. Delight in words is, for Augustine, only ever a means to further the primary goals of persuasion, namely instruction in truth and inspiration to good action. Within these terms of reference, however, he still insists that it serves a useful purpose.56 Just because the rules of eloquence can be used to commend falsehood does not, for that reason, make them invalid. ‘Since they can also be used to commend the truth’, Augustine states, ‘it is not the subject itself that is reprehensible but the perversity of those who abuse it’.57 Truth should not stand unarmed in its fight against falsehood; rhetoric should not be left to those who serve iniquity and error. Oratorical ability, he concludes, needs to be acquired by good and zealous Christians in order to fight for the truth.58 Alcuin registers the same concerns and the same solution. Indeed, he cites (apparently via Boethius) the same piece of sophistical discourse as Augustine in order to make the point.59 Augustine’s concentration on scriptural exegesis and on the dangers of sophistry should not be allowed to obscure his conviction of just how useful a knowledge of rhetoric could be. Two points emerge from his line of argument which, when viewed from the perspective of Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica, deserve much greater emphasis than they are sometimes given. First, Augustine gives a list of the contexts in which rhetoric can prove a valuable instrument, a

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Matthew S. Kempshall list which extends far beyond the exposition of scriptural texts in sermons and homilies. It comprises entreaties (obsecrationes), rebukes (increpationes), rousing speeches (concitationes) and solemn admonitions (coercitationes),60 and it extends to the instruction and advocacy of things to be acted upon.61 Rhetoric can be deployed, Augustine argues, in public or in private, with one person or with several, with friends and opponents, in continuous speech and debate, in treatises and books, in letters of great length or extreme brevity; in other words, wherever, and in whatever form, instruction in Christian truths and exhortation to a Christian way of life is required.62 This is therefore the first point which needs to be underlined – the sheer range of non-Scriptural contexts in which Augustine considered classical rhetoric to be useful. This does not mean that Augustine wanted Christians to devote huge amounts of time to the study of rhetoric. Indeed, he actively discourages this. What he does imply, however, is that it would be helpful if there were a way of picking up the essentials of classical rhetoric briefly and quickly. What was needed, in other words, was a distillation of everything a Christian needed to know about rhetoric. This is therefore the second point – Augustine’s recommendation provides one very good reason why Alcuin might subsequently have thought it desirable, even necessary, to produce a convenient primer of rhetoric as the short-cut to a time-consuming and distracting preoccupation with the classical rhetoricians themselves. De doctrina Christiana, in other words, helps explain how Alcuin might have intended the composition of his Disputatio de rhetorica to fulfil a quite specific need within a Christian educational programme. What this still does not explain, of course, is why Alcuin considered the subject of virtue to have been an appropriate conclusion for the Disputatio de rhetorica. As it stands, the transition from the discussion of delivery (elocutio, the last of the five parts of rhetoric) is effected by the observation that, if honestas is absolutely essential in every aspect of life, then this is particularly true of words, because a man’s speech bears testimony to his character (mores).63 The importance of moral goodness to the orator is a point that had been made by Augustine in De doctrina Christiana (as, indeed, it had been made by Marius Victorinus, Julius Victor and Fortunatianus) but, in reinforcing the connection 60

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The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus between eloquence and wisdom, Augustine had been noticeably equivocal on the need for virtue on the part of the orator himself. Eloquence must always be connected with wisdom, and it must be deployed by the individual who is himself of good character. In emphasizing the utility of elocutio in instructing an audience of the truth and in persuading them to put goodness into action, Augustine states that greater weight (maius pondus) is carried by the life of the speaker. The art of speaking both wisely and eloquently is defined as the use of elocutio to support things that are true and necessary. It is better to treat something wisely and not eloquently rather than the other way around but, if neither is possible, then an individual should simply live his life in such a way that he serves as an exemplum to be imitated by others so that the form of his life carries, as it were, the force of eloquence. Yet, although Augustine argues that it is accordingly much better to practise what one preaches, and that an exemplary life will benefit a greater number of people, he also concedes that a wise and eloquent speaker can proclaim the truth and yet still lead a wicked life in person.64 For an emphasis on moral virtue as an absolute precondition for eloquence, we have to turn elsewhere, in the first instance to Cassiodorus’s Institutiones, the text from which Alcuin derived his original definition of rhetoric comprising ciuiles quaestiones. As a demonstration of how the theory of De doctrina Christiana might be translated into practice, the Institutiones certainly showed Alcuin how Augustine’s strictures on uniting sapientia with eloquentia could actually be achieved through a Christian educational programme. In discussing the particular scope of rhetoric, moreover, Cassiodorus also demonstrated to Alcuin how ciuiles quaestiones should be understood as comprising everything which concerns equity and goodness, de aequo et bono. What makes these particular words so suggestive for the structure of the Disputatio de rhetorica is, in the first instance, the sanction these two terms could have given for a bipartite treatment of rhetoric – that is, one which separated discussion of its specifically legal and juridical aspects from the question of its relation to moral goodness, dealing with each one of them in turn. Cassiodorus’s pairing de aequo et bono may thus have provided Alcuin with sufficient justification for his decision to structure and entitle the Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus in the way in which he did – first as an exposition of predominantly legal rhetoric (that is, the judicial rhetoric which has equity as its goal) and then as a discussion of the cardinal virtues (which provide the goal of demonstrative and deliberative rhetoric). Still more suggestive, however, is the source from which Cassiodorus, and before him Fortunatianus, had themselves derived this phrase ‘equity and goodness’, namely Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria. 64

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Matthew S. Kempshall Whether Alcuin read Quintilian in extenso or simply in the form of the excerpts he had found in Julius Victor is, in many respects, the most tantalizing of all the questions to ask of the Disputatio de rhetorica. That Alcuin should have sought out Quintilian as the natural partner for Cicero’s De inuentione is explicitly indicated by Cassiodorus himself when, having recommended De inuentione and drawn attention to the commentary of Marius Victorinus, he credited Quintilian with having enriched Cicero’s work still further. As a consequence, Cassiodorus records his own decision to bind Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria into a single volume with Cicero’s De inuentione so that, notwithstanding the size of the resulting codex, both texts could be to hand when they were needed. For the convenience of those who wanted a brief (but still subtle and perceptive) guide, Cassiodorus further suggests the three books of Fortunatianus (a work which he had himself distilled so that a reader might derive the essentials of rhetoric without getting bored), but otherwise his recommendation of a combination of Cicero with Quintilian is clear.65 Although the earliest extant manuscript of all twelve books of Quintilian dates from the early tenth century (Bamberg M. 4. 14), a complete text was apparently copied in the mid-ninth century in a northern Italian scriptorium (this lost exemplar is reflected in the codex Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, E. 153).66 In addition, two letters of the ninth-century scholar Lupus of Ferrières request a manuscript from which he could supplement and correct the incomplete Quintilian which he already possessed.67 The second of these letters was written at some point between 855 and 858 to Pope Benedict III in Rome, but Lupus’s first target, in 852, had been Abbot Ealdsige of York. It is this letter which has prompted the suggestion that the exemplar for the complete ninth-century Quintilian came ‘conceivably . . . from York’.68 Even though it is unclear whether Lupus was successful in his quest (the one surviving manuscript of Quintilian which can be closely connected to Lupus, 65

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The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus Berne 351, is of an incomplete text),69 the letter is nonetheless revealing. In the early 830s, Lupus had written to Einhard asking for copies of De inuentione, De oratore, the Rhetorica ad Herennium and Marius Victorinus’s commentary on De inuentione – all of these he knew to be in the library at Fulda from an inventory of books he had seen.70 In the case of Quintilian, therefore, if it was Cassiodorus who provided Lupus with his desideratum, then it may well have been Alcuin who led Lupus to think that York was the most likely source for a complete text.71 Nonetheless, whether Alcuin knew Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria in its entirety or whether he simply knew it in the form of one of the various mutili (that is, manuscripts which lacked most or all of books V–IX, parts of books X–XI and the end of book XII), the possibility that (as with Fortunatianus) Alcuin was familiar with more of Quintilian than the excerpts available in Julius Victor is of considerable significance for the argument of the Disputatio de rhetorica. This is because of what is contained in books I and XII of the Institutio oratoria since it is there, at the beginning and end of his treatise, that Quintilian emphasizes the need for a rhetorician to possess not just eloquence but moral virtue. Quintilian makes it clear from the outset of his work that, in describing everything which contributes to the education (institutio) of the complete or perfect orator, he has a much broader agenda than simply to provide a technical manual on the laws of rhetoric. Excellence in the facultas dicendi will certainly constitute the core of his treatise as he outlines it – five books will thus be devoted to inuentio (III–VII), four to style, memory and delivery (VIII–XI)72 – but his primary concern, in books I–II and in book XII, is to wrest back from philosophy material which he believed to have been wrongly, indeed disastrously, separated from the study of rhetoric. In Quintilian’s view, restoring the correct relationship between eloquentia and sapientia means, first and foremost, reuniting expertise in rhetoric with the study of moral virtue, since it was precisely when these two disciplines were divorced that eloquence began to be put to evil uses and wisdom became a cover for vice.73 At the very beginning of book I, Quintilian accordingly announces his intention to reclaim for oratory the rules of virtue (praecepta uirtutis), a subject which is not just germane to rhetoric but actually constitutes its better part (melior pars).74 69

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Matthew S. Kempshall Quintilian’s impassioned plea on the need for rhetoric to be united with virtue has two far-reaching consequences for the characterization of the orator whose training and formation is outlined in his treatise. Once again, these are made explicit right at the start of book I. The principles of moral goodness and eloquence are inseparable, he argues, not just because there is scarcely any subject which does not involve discussion of justice, fortitude, temperance, equity and goodness (aequo ac bono), but also because it is impossible to be a perfect orator without possessing all these virtues of character oneself, without actually being a uir bonus. The perfect orator can, in fact, be called the truly wise man (uere sapiens) because he is perfect, not just in the knowledge and practice of speaking, but also in his own moral conduct. This is therefore Quintilian’s first point and one to which he returns repeatedly in the course of book I – the orator is skilled in rhetoric but he is also morally virtuous;75 he is the uir bonus dicendi peritus.76 The second corollary which Quintilian elicits is the breadth of the subject-matter with which the perfect orator will have to be conversant and the scope of his activity within the human community. From the foundations laid in grammar and dialectic, he argues, the orator should be trained, not just in moral philosophy, but also in geometry, music, civil law and natural philosophy; in short, he will be educated in everything that falls within the term sapientia.77 The perfect orator will therefore be morally virtuous – a good man – but he will also be truly ‘civil’ (uere ciuilis), in the sense that he will administer public and private matters in the ciuitas, rule by counsel, institute laws and correct faults through judgement.78 The perfect orator, in short, will be not just the uir bonus but the uir ciuilis, an individual who is truly wise (uere sapiens) and is committed, not to secret disputations, but to the administratio rei publicae. This perfect orator pursues everything which makes the goal of rhetoric, not persuasion as such, but speaking well, that is, securing what is morally good and advantageous.79 Quintilian returns to these themes in the final book of his treatise. Indeed, book XII’s recapitulation of the principles already outlined in book I is, 75

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The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus according to Quintilian’s own description, the most weighty (grauis) part of his work. One of the reasons for this is his explicit acknowledgement that its contents have moved his own discussion of rhetoric well beyond what Cicero had provided. For all the praise which he bestowed on Cicero,80 Quintilian wished to go further – whereas Cicero had simply discussed the component parts of rhetoric (genus dicendi), Quintilian wanted to establish principles both for the moral conduct (mores) of the perfect orator and for his public responsibilities (officia).81 Quintilian accordingly proceeds to underline the significance of each of these two categories – the orator as uir bonus and the orator as uir ciuilis – in the conclusion to his work. Moral virtue is a prerequisite for the orator; in fact, it provides the more important of the two pairings in the phrase uir bonus dicendi peritus.82 This is not simply a case of saying that the orator should be a good man but an insistence that no one can ever be an orator unless he is a good man first. Quintilian furnishes both negative and positive reasons for such a prescription. Given the capacity of speech to cause harm, there is, he argues, nothing more dangerous to public or private matters than eloquence without virtue. More constructively, the subject-matter of rhetoric is such that the aim of every speech is to convince a judge of its truthfulness and moral worth (uera et honesta), just as it is fundamental to demonstrative and deliberative oratory to consider what is morally good (honestum). According to Quintilian, the greatest part of rhetoric therefore deals with what is equitable and good; indeed, there is hardly a case which does not at some point deal de aequo et bono.83 The perfect orator is thus the uir sapiens, an individual who is perfect as much in his moral conduct as in his power of speech and who draws on the precepts of wisdom (praecepta sapientiae).84 This moral goodness derives from the nature of his character but also from instruction. It is for this reason that the primary concern of the orator’s studies will be the cultivation of moral conduct and the inculcation of everything good and just – because, without this knowledge, the orator can be neither uir bonus nor dicendi peritus.85 As a result, even though knowledge of these subjects must be sought from their sources in sapientia and therefore from philosophers, rhetoric retains the intrinsic role of discussing everything which is equitable, just, true and good. This does not mean the orator should be a philosopher himself, since that would remove him from his ‘civil’ responsibilities in the administratio rei publicae, but it does mean that he should be a uir sapiens. Only then will the orator be a true uir ciuilis, engaged, not in hidden disputations, but in action.86 80 81

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Matthew S. Kempshall According to books I and XII of the Institutio oratoria, the study of wisdom will give the orator a complete knowledge of what has been written on virtue, enabling him to combine knowledge of the divine with knowledge of the human.87 It is this final observation which prompts Quintilian to set out just how central to eloquence is the study, not just of ethics, but of dialectic and ‘matters divine’ (de rebus diuinis), matters which comprise the origins of the soul, religious observance and the governance of the universe.88 What greater subjects are there for the orator, Quintilian asks, than virtue, the res publica, providence, the origins of the soul and friendship?89 Nor does the list end there. Quintilian also advocates the study of history, of the sayings and deeds of antiquity,90 and of poetry,91 as well as knowledge of the ius ciuilis, both written and customary.92 The orator, Quintilian concludes, is involved in giving judgement, delivering counsel, engaging in disputes, participating in assemblies and discharging every officium of the good citizen.93 This is why the primary goal of rhetoric is for humans to be boni uiri. Quintilian worries that he will be criticized for having thereby set too high a standard with his insistence that skill in speaking must be exercised by the morally good man, or for having included too many subjects with his insistence, not just on the rules of rhetoric, but on the precepts of virtue and knowledge of law as well. However, he remains convinced that the education of the orator consists, above all, in cultivating a life which is morally good and blessed (institutio uitae honestae beataeque).94 So, where does this leave Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus? In the first instance, it leaves the treatise entirely coherent as an introduction to rhetoric, but in terms both of its technical components and of its wider role in human society. In defining its scope as ciuiles quaestiones, Alcuin’s conception of rhetoric includes everything which prevents human society from reverting to a state of nature – this is what he had gleaned from reading De inuentione and Julius Victor through Cassiodorus, Fortunatianus and Marius Victorinus. In establishing the necessity of the connection between eloquentia and sapientia, Alcuin was driving home a point which had been fundamental to Cicero, Julius Victor, Marius Victorinus and Cassiodorus, but also to Augustine. Indeed, it is worth noting that, when Alcuin quotes Julius Victor on wisdom as the foundation of eloquence, he inserts a characteristically Augustinian emphasis with 87

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Ibid. XII.2.8, p.703. Cf. Marius Victorinus, Explanatio in rhetoricam, I.24, p. 216: ‘ac diuina quidem natura ad rhetoricam non pertinet, et ideo hanc omisit. sciri tamen debet, quia loco argumenti saepe rerum diuinarum inducitur disputatio . . . sed hoc ad rhetoricam non tamen ex rhetorica descendit’. 89 Institutio oratoria, XII.2.20–1, p. 705. Ibid. XII.2.28, p. 707. Ibid. XII.2.29–30, p. 707. Ibid. XII.4.1–2, pp. 710–11. Cf. I.8.10–2, p. 56; X.1.27–9, pp. 572–3; X.5.4, pp. 607–8. 93 94 Ibid. XII.3.1–10, pp. 708–10. Ibid. XII.11.1, p. 740. Ibid. XII.11.11–12, p. 742.

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The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus his own comment that this is, in fact, the most important point of all.95 It was Augustine’s De doctrina Christiana, moreover, which had highlighted the need for an epitome of the rules of rhetoric in order to save the student from the sheer volume of classical writing on the subject. Last, but not least, in establishing such a firm connection between eloquentia and moral virtue, Alcuin argued that rhetoric could not, and should not, be exercised except by the uir ciuilis, by the individual who was perfect in the exercise of the cardinal virtues. In a purely formal sense, therefore, it is possible to find complete coherence in the way in which Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica is put together, from the breadth of the definition with which it opens to the discussion of virtue with which it concludes – a digest of the precepts of classical rhetoric, certainly, but one which is arguing a particular point by demonstrating the dependence of human society on the connection between eloquence and wisdom, between rhetoric and the four cardinal virtues. This broader argument is reflected in the particular definition with which it opens and the particular connection with which it concludes – and, indeed, in the particular title which is given to the whole work. Alcuin’s knowledge of classical rhetoric left him acutely aware of what happened when philosophy withdrew from society, when sapientia did not have eloquentia to translate it into action, and not just by an elite but by all those who could exercise the natural capacity of their minds to understand equity and goodness. He was also aware of how extensively rhetoric would therefore need to be deployed, serving sapientia by enabling wisdom to be communicated and acted upon through a variety of channels – in letters, in treatises and in personal exhortations. Only then would ‘the multitude of the wise be the wellbeing of the world’ (Wisdom VI.26).96 Alcuin’s understanding of rhetoric, in short, was central to his understanding of how wisdom should be applied by individuals within human society. Read in these terms, the Disputatio de rhetorica is much more than just a textbook. It provides a profound insight into how Alcuin put together the instruments of his own public and literary activity, as a means of discharging his own duty as a uir ciuilis, his own responsibility as a servant of sancta sophia. Read in these terms, indeed, the Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus suggests one final possibility with which it might be appropriate to conclude. If the list of books in Berlin Diez B. 66 does, in fact, indicate the contents of the court library under Charlemagne, then the presence on this list, not just of Julius Victor (a rare text, after all, which Alcuin clearly did know), but also of Horace’s Ars poetica throws up a very striking parallel to the view of rhetoric expounded 95 96

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Horace, Ars poetica, ed. C. O. Brink, Horace on Poetry (Cambridge, 1971), p. 69, lines 391–407. I would like to thank David Ganz, Mary Garrison and Elizabeth Tyler for their valuable comments on the original version of this paper which was delivered in 2001 at the Quodlibet Conference on Alcuin held at the Centre for Medieval Studies in York; for its publication, finally, and in its present form, I am grateful to Katy Cubitt, David Ganz and Gillian Hargreaves.

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) peter a. stokes

abstract S 786 is one of the so-called Orthodoxorum charters, a group of documents which provide important evidence about the Anglo-Saxon chancery, the development of charters in the tenth century, and the history of Pershore Abbey and the tenth-century Benedictine reforms. The document has therefore received a great deal of attention over the past century or so, but this attention has been focussed on the surviving tenthcentury single sheet, and so a second, significantly different version of the text has lain unnoticed. This second version is preserved in a copy made by John Joscelyn, Latin Secretary to Archbishop Matthew Parker. Among the material uniquely preserved in this copy are Old English charter bounds for Wyegate (GL), Cumbtune (Compton, GL?) and part of the bounds probably for Lydney (GL), as well as a reference to a grant by Bishop Werferth of Worcester. In this article both versions of the document are discussed and are published together for the first time, and a translation of the single sheet is provided. The history of the two versions is discussed in some detail, and the text of a twelfth-century letter which refers to the charter is also edited and translated.

The so-called Orthodoxorum charters have long played an important role in our understanding of the tenth-century Benedictine reforms. They form a group of six charters, all purportedly issued between 959 and 993, and all surviving in multiple copies.1 They are usually considered as a group because they share many similarities in formulation, most notably the proems which are all very long, approximately the same, and in the same style of elaborate (and quite difficult) ‘hermeneutic’ or ‘poetic’ Latin.2 They are interesting with respect to the tenth-century Reforms because they all claim rights for their monastic beneficiaries such as the right to elect their own abbot from within their own 11

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community. They are also important for the debate over the production of royal charters.4 And they are of further interest because their authenticity has been debated for over a century. This latter debate is long and complex and can only be summarized briefly here. Two of the more recent protagonists are Simon Keynes and Susan Kelly; other important contributions include that by Eric John, and useful summarydiscussions have been published by both Charles Insley and John Hudson.5 In short, Simon Keynes (among others) has argued that only the latest of the group, S 876, is genuine and that the rest are forgeries, whereas Susan Kelly is one of several to argue that the earlier charters are genuine (with the exception of S 788, to which we shall return shortly). Both scholars have drawn on a long series of discussions which can be traced back nearly a century.6 The purpose of this article is not to solve the question of authenticity, although that question will certainly be in the background. Instead, the focus of this discussion is on one of these charters: the one from Pershore. This document, S 786, is unusual even by Orthodoxorum standards. It survives in an apparently original single sheet, the text of which is mostly legible but with patches of relatively extensive wear. The text is unusually long: the surviving single sheet is one of the largest to survive from Anglo-Saxon England and still the scribe could not fit all the text on the face despite his small hand but had to continue onto the dorse as well. The charter purports to be a pancart, namely a single document confirming a very large number – presumably all – of the estates held by the abbey. This format of the pancart was relatively common on the Continent but very few survive from Anglo-Saxon England, and all of the ones from there which we do have are questionable in some way; the very format is therefore grounds for suspicion.7 Given all these difficulties, the purpose of this paper is to compile and reevaluate the evidence which can be 13

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) gleaned from close examination of all the surviving manuscripts of S 786. The hope is that such a compilation will allow a better understanding of the Orthodoxorum charters in general and the Pershore one in particular. Indeed the importance of the manuscripts can readily be demonstrated as one of them, one which has long been known but apparently not closely examined, is not a copy of the surviving single-sheet charter as scholars have assumed but instead contains a significantly different version of the text, including three ‘new’ charter bounds which have not previously been studied. It is also of great importance for our understanding of Pershore Abbey, the transmission of documents, and the authenticity and larger context of the Orthodoxorum charters in general. the manuscript s Peter Sawyer’s Annotated List gives five surviving copies of S 786, and this list is essentially unchanged in the Electronic Sawyer.8 There is a sixth manuscript: a modern transcript of Sawyer’s MS 2 made before the original was damaged in the Cottonian fire; this copy is generally very accurate and thus provides some readings which have otherwise been lost. The six manuscripts are therefore as follows: A London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 6 (s. x2) T London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. xiii, 163v–164r (s. xi2; contains only the bounds of Acton Beauchamp) V London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius D. vii, 29r–30v (s. xvi) D1 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152), 66r–67r (s. xvii; direct descendant of A; no bounds or witnesses) D2 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 78 (S.C. 5019), 2r–3v (s. xvii; direct descendant of A; no bounds or witnesses) R Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B. 445, unfoliated; the text is labelled as from fol. ‘B. 160’ of exemplar (s. xvii; direct copy of T) These six manuscripts fall into three distinct textual groups, and these groups will now be discussed in further detail. The ‘Single Sheet’ Version (AD1D2) The earliest surviving copy of the document is Augustus ii. 6.9 This is a single sheet and is ostensibly original but, as noted above, its authenticity is by no means certain. It is unusually large: it is not perfectly square but measures 18 19

Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, pp. 250–1; Electronic Sawyer, no. 786. For another discussion of this manuscript see S. D. Thompson, Anglo-Saxon Royal Diplomas: a Palaeography, Publ. of the Manchester Centre for AS Stud. 6 (Woodbridge, 2006), pp. 142–5. An edition of the text and translation of the Latin is given below, pp. 43–53 and 73–6.

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Peter A. Stokes approximately 635 ⫻ 530–40 mm, with a writing-frame of approximately 590 ⫻ 495 mm;10 it is written in fifty-six long lines on the face and has an additional seventeen lines on the dorse.11 The text is quite badly damaged in places, particularly along the horizontal folds, in the lower right-hand corner, and about two-thirds of the way up the right-hand side of the face. The parchment was repaired at some point after the charter was reproduced in the facsimileedition of 1877.12 Unfortunately these repairs have obscured letters, so the facsimile is still a valuable witness. The scribe wrote the boundary-clauses in a smaller script than that of the main text, as was normal from about 940 onwards,13 but he used the same Insular letter-forms for both Old English and Latin; this practice of script was common up until about the start of Æthelred’s reign, after which charters were normally written in Anglo-Caroline for Latin and either Square minuscule or Vernacular minuscule for Old English.14 There is some influence of Caroline script in this scribe’s hand, however, and he did admit Caroline forms, though very infrequently: the phrase coapostolo paulo dedicatum habetur monachis in the middle of line 11 was written with three of the four occurrences of a and the first d all Caroline, as shown in Figure 1. Indeed, Caroline d and a are evident elsewhere in the document, although the round-backed ‘uncial’ d and singlecompartment a are both much more common. Similarly, tall essentially Caroline s is found before t, but the round majuscule s was normally used elsewhere, although low Insular s was also used occasionally.15 Finally, the 10

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Fig. 1 Variation in a, d and s in Augustus ii. 6

It is perhaps for these reasons that the script used to be dated to the eleventh century, but more recent palaeographers from T. A. M. Bishop onwards have tended to prefer the tenth century, and indeed the script seems not inconsistent with the claimed date of 972.17 In particular, as Dumville has shown, some Square minuscule which can be securely dated to the early 960s is unusually tall and narrow in its proportions and entirely lacks the flat-topped a, sometimes showing the Caroline form; it therefore has much in common with script of the early eleventh century.18 The hand of our single sheet is not so clearly tall and narrow as this form of Square minuscule, but it is written quite consistently 16

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Peter A. Stokes throughout, probably too consistently to be an eleventh-century imitation. Furthermore the forms of tall æ and e in ligature, as well as the mixture of round, tall and low s, are paralleled quite closely in some hands which were certainly or possibly written at Worcester Cathedral around the time of Oswald’s episcopacy, although those hands are otherwise quite different from this one.19 Unfortunately a full history of Anglo-Saxon Square minuscule is still to be written for the period from 960 until its demise in the early years of the eleventh century, and so dating a hand from this time at all closely is a perilous exercise.20 Nevertheless, the similarity in letter-forms and appearance with other single-sheet charters dated to the 960s is striking.21 A later date is still possible, but the short stints of Caroline script, as illustrated in Fig. 1, show none of the features which are characteristic of Anglo-Caroline minuscule from about the second quarter of the eleventh century.22 If this document is a forgery, then, it was surely written not long after the purported date, and the script suggests no more than thirty-five or perhaps forty years later at most. The single sheet received a relatively large number of alterations. Some of these are minor changes in Old English orthography which seem to have been made by the original scribe and which do not seem particularly significant except to indicate that some care was taken in writing and correcting the document.23 Perhaps related are some erasures of the Latin text, most of which are short and of little obvious significance. However, one erasure is much longer 19

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) than the others: it comes immediately after the list of estates and covers the space of about 125–30 letters or just over half a line of the charter.24 Erasures cannot usually be dated with any confidence, but this may be an exception: the last letter of the word which precedes the erasure, libertatis, seems to have been added or freshened-up: indeed, it looks as if this letter was accidentally erased along with the following passage and then written in again. Interestingly, this s has the same round form which is found elsewhere throughout the document and which is common enough in the tenth century but dropped out of use fairly quickly in the eleventh.25 The letter may have been written by a later scribe in imitation of the main hand, but if so then it was done with some sensitivity and skill; an alternative and perhaps more likely possibility is that the erasure and ‘freshening up’ were by the original scribe. One set of alterations seems to be quite different in character from the others. These are all found in the list of estates and hidages included in the grant. Several of the hidages have been altered, and these alterations do not seem to have been made by the main scribe: however, the hand looks Anglo-Saxon, insofar as one can tell from such a small sample, and so the changes were presumably made not long after the original document was written (although even a century later would be possible on palaeographical grounds, if not historical ones). In some cases, numbers were erased and different numbers were clearly written over the top. In other cases one cannot be certain of erasure but the spacing strongly suggests that this has happened. For example, the hidage for Sture now reads as ten (‘x’), but there is a gap after the numeral which suggests that the number was once longer. Similarly, the document does not specify the total number of hides, but there is a space where the number may once have been, and the letter immediately preceding the space looks like it was partially erased along with the hidage. Another possibility is that the hidages were left blank and filled in later, but most of the numerals do seem clearly to have been entered by the main scribe at the time of writing and so later erasure is the most likely explanation.

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Fig. 3 Examples of underlines and the ‘caret’ symbol in Augustus ii. 6

Turning from this manuscript, there are two others which need also to be mentioned here. These are Dodsworth 10 and Dodsworth 78, manuscripts four and five in Sawyer’s handlist, both of which are now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford; the former is described in the summary catalogue as ‘a first draft of Dugdale and Dodsworth’s Monasticon, wherein practically the whole of its contents are incorporated’, and the latter as ‘notes from chartularies and monastic collections in the Cottonian Library’.27 Both copies descend from Augustus ii. 6 and both stop at the beginning of the vernacular bounds. Their relationship to Augustus ii. 6 is evident not only from the identical content but also because Dodsworth 78 begins with a sketch of the 〈␻ which is found at the start of Augustus ii. 6, and both Dodsworth 10 and Dodsworth 78 contain notes referring explicitly to an exemplar in Cotton’s library.28 Furthermore, some illegible portions of the single sheet, including the long erased passage, are represented by dots in both copies. The copies are therefore of little use in establishing the text, particularly as Dodsworth 10 is extremely 26 27

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) inaccurate, often containing lectiones faciliores which are ungrammatical or entirely nonsensical. Many of these errors can also be found in Dodsworth 78 but were subsequently corrected there, apparently by comparison with the original. These common errors suggest that the two copies were not made independently, and indeed one might assume that Dodsworth 10 was copied directly from Dodsworth 78.29 However, original and legible readings in Dodsworth 78 are left as lacunae in Dodsworth 10, a detail hard to explain if either one is a direct copy of the other. A case of eye-skip in Dodsworth 10 might seem to confirm copying from manuscript 78, as the skipped passage in the former (‘necnon . . . coapostolorum Paulo’) corresponds exactly to a complete line of text in the latter. However, this same passage also fits exactly between two vertical folds in Augustus ii. 6 and so the copyist may have skipped from one fold to the next while he was copying, a mistake which is easy to understand in a large document with such long lines. Indeed examination of separative variants seems to demonstrate that both copies were made from an intermediate and that Dodsworth 78 was then checked against Augustus ii. 6 at a later date. A sample of these variants is listed in Table 1, below. Augustus ii. 6 (A)

Dodsworth 10 (D1)

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liminibus

luminibus die tu preclarus congregatio . . . . . . . . . . (series of dots) iuste aregeind the et LEANE, NAA, SUTN, LONGAH LONTRESNAA vrinam . . . (series of dots) eroba barratri . . . (series of dots) cum Saphyra iugiter . . . (series of dots)

liminibus (altered from luminibus) dictu (altered from die tu or perhaps dic tu) præcluens (altered from præclarus) congregatio apto elegerit consilio . . . . . (series of dots) iuste (clear; not altered or inserted) a rege uidelicet (altered from ?tregeind the et) LEAHE, HAA, SUTH, LONGAH (clear, not altered) 7 on TRESHAA (clear; not altered) ueniam nec in theorica (clear; not altered or inserted) barathri incendiis trusus cum (last word altered from ?lugubris; incendiis unclear) Saphyra iugiter miserrimus cruciatur. (clear; not altered or inserted)

dictu præcluens congregatio apto elegerit consilio secundum [. . .] abbatem iuste a rege uidelicet LEAHE, HAM, SUTH, LONGAN 7 on TRESHAM ueniam nec in theorica (written across fold) barathri incendiis trusus cum (written across fold) Saphyra iugiter miserrimus cruciatur.

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A pencilled note on Dodsworth 10, 66r, has an O with a circle around it followed by ‘fol. 2’, a clear reference to the copy in Dodsworth 78; for these shelfmarks of letters within shapes see J. Hunter, Three Catalogues: Describing the Contents of the Red Book of the Exchequer, of the Dodsworth Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, and of the Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn (London, 1838), pp. 76–82. Madan also noted that Dodsworth 10 was transcribed out of other Dodsworth manuscripts including number 78 but did not specify which parts were copied from which manuscripts; he cites as evidence a list on folio 6v of Dodsworth 10, but that list does not specifically mention Pershore. See Madan, Summary Catalogue II, 872 (no. 4152).

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Peter A. Stokes ‘Hemming’s Cartulary’ (TR) The second manuscript given in Peter Sawyer’s Annotated List is ‘Hemming’s Cartulary’ which was compiled towards the end of the eleventh century at Worcester.30 This manuscript does not contain a copy of S 786, however: instead it contains the boundary-clause for just one of the estates in our document, namely that of Acton Beauchamp, an estate which was claimed by Pershore, Worcester, and also Evesham in the eleventh century.31 The compiler may have had a full copy of S 786 but selected only one boundary clause for inclusion, but this seems unlikely. Furthermore, the boundary-points are the same in all three versions but the phrasing of each version is different from the others, and it is hard to imagine why the phrasing would have been altered so significantly while the text was being copied. On balance, it seems more likely that the copy in ‘Hemming’s Cartulary’ was drawn from a different exemplar than that of either Augustus ii. 6 or the transcript discussed below.32 The cartulary was damaged in the Cottonian fire, and material towards the front and back of the volume (including the bounds of Acton Beauchamp) can be difficult to read. However, a copy of the entire manuscript was made before the fire and is now preserved at Oxford; it is listed as R above. A note on the first flyleaf of the copy states that it was made for one Richard Graves of Mickleton and was used by Hearne in his edition of the cartulary. Several of the boundary-clauses in this copy have been recently collated against the original by the author of the present paper, and the transcript has generally proven to be very accurate and a useful witness for readings that are now lost.33 The ‘Transcript’ Version (V) This leaves Vitellius D. vii, a paper manuscript written in the sixteenth century which was burnt during the fire at Ashburnham House in 1731. The manuscript was made by John Joscelyn, Latin secretary to Matthew Parker, and is generally referred to as ‘Joscelyn’s notebook’ as it contains his transcripts of 30

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The manuscript is BL Cotton Tiberius A. xiii, fols. 119–200. For a full edition, see Hemingi chartularium ecclesiæ Wigorniensis, ed. T. Hearne (Oxford, 1723), for the manuscript, see N. R. Ker, ‘Hemming’s Cartulary’, in his Books, Collectors and Libraries: Studies in the Medieval Heritage, ed. A. G. Watson (London, 1985), pp. 31–59, and for the scribe of this portion see P. A. Stokes, ‘The Vision of Leofric: Manuscript, Text and Content’, Peritia (forthcoming). Victoria History, ed. Willis-Bund and Doubleday IV, 224–7; Hemingi chartularium, ed. Hearne, pp. 250–1. This has also been suggested by Kelly, ‘S 786’. For the texts see the bounds of Acton Beauchamp below, pp. 47, 54–5, and 57. For these collations, see LangScape: the Language of Landscape; Reading the Anglo-Saxon Countryside <www.langscape.org.uk> version 0.9 (last accessed 15 October 2008), boundaries for S 80, S 104, S 121, S 174, S 180, S 201, S 217, S 401 and S 1335.

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) charters, chronicles, and other historical and Anglo-Saxon texts.34 As a result of the fire the leaves are burnt all around the edges, usually with loss on all four sides, and comparison with descriptions in catalogues made before the fire reveals the loss of material at the start of the manuscript and the jumbled order of the leaves which remain.35 A few letters are lost at the edges of every page, and several lines are gone from the tops and bottoms. The pages are not ruled and the density of the writing varies significantly, but the leaves containing S 786 have between about forty-five and fifty-five long lines surviving on each page, with the remnants of several more lines visible at the bottoms of the pages. The text begins on a recto with the right-hand margin still visible, but the left-hand margin and the first few letters of each line are burnt away; similarly the right-hand edge of the text is lost on the following verso, and so on. The very end of the text has been burnt away but Wanley recorded a note which is now lost: ‘Habui ab Matthaeo Archiepiscopo Cant. et exhibita fuit per Parcivelum Creswel nomine Abbatis et Conventus de Parshoyer 15 Sept. an. 1537.’36 This seems to indicate that Joscelyn’s exemplar was at Pershore shortly before the abbey was dissolved in 1539 and that the original then came into the possession of Matthew Parker. The exemplar was not Augustus ii. 6, however, as Joscelyn transcribed a text significantly different to that of the surviving single sheet.37 The Latin proem is more or less identical, but the list of estates 34

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For the activities of Matthew Parker and John Joscelyn with regard to Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, see especially R. I. Page, Matthew Parker and his Books: Sandars Lectures in Bibliography Delivered on 14, 16, and 18 May 1990 at the University of Cambridge (Kalamazoo, MI, 1993). For ‘Joscelyn’s notebook’ see especially The Recovery of the Past in Early Elizabethan England: Documents by John Bale and John Joscelyn from the Circle of Matthew Parker, ed. T. Graham and A. G. Watson (Cambridge, 1998), and J. S. Gale, ‘John Joscelyn’s Notebook: a Study of the Contents and Sources of B. L., Cotton MS. Vitellius D. vii’ (unpubl. M. Phil. thesis, University 35 of Nottingham, 1978). Gale, ‘John Joscelyn’s Notebook’, pp. 50–7. ‘I had it [the charter] from Matthew [Parker] Archbishop of Canterbury, and it was shown by Percival Creswell in the name of the Abbot and community of Pershore, 15 September 1537.’ H. Wanley, Librorum veterum septentrionalium . . . catalogus (Oxford, 1705), p. 240. This Percival Creswell seems likely to be the Catholic who worked for the financier Sir Richard Gresham and whose son was Joseph Creswell, a Jesuit exile during Elizabeth’s reign. See A. J. Loomie, ‘Creswell, Joseph (1556–1623)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H. C. G. Matthew and B. H Harrison, 61 vols. (Oxford, 2004) XIV, 157–8, and I. Blanchard, ‘Gresham, Sir Richard (c. 1485–1549)’, ibid. XXIII, 760–4, and also F. Edwards, ‘The Strange Case of the Poisoned Chalice’, Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 56 (1987), 3–82, at 14. The name also appears in London, The National Archives, E 159/310, the record of a suit of 1532 against the vicar of Acton in Chester enforcing the prohibition against clerics holding leases; the document is available online at (last accessed 17 April 2008) where it is listed as L55. This difference was noticed by Gale who has printed the texts in Augustus ii. 6 and Vitellius D. vii. However, she has provided no discussion, noting simply that Joscelyn’s exemplar no longer survives. See Gale, ‘John Joscelyn’s Notebook’, pp. 194–5 and her Appendix II.

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Peter A. Stokes is quite different, and three boundary-clauses, one very incomplete, are also included which are not known from anywhere else.38 the text s All six witnesses were fully collated when preparing this edition; however, as noted above, the Dodsworth transcripts are direct copies of the surviving single sheet and so are omitted from the apparatus here except where they provide evidence for otherwise lost or uncertain readings. Augustus ii. 6, Vitellius D. vii, and Tiberius A. xiii have all suffered fairly extensive damage and thus portions of each are now illegible or burnt away, but in many cases these readings can be restored with some confidence. The photograph of Augustus ii. 6 which was printed by the British Museum in their series of facsimiles clearly shows a number of readings which have since been covered by repairs;39 these are provided in the text without comment, as are readings which have been recovered by examination and enhancement of a high-quality digital photograph of the single sheet. Similarly, if one or two letters are lost from the burnt edges of the pages in Vitellius D. vii, and if the reading is otherwise consistent with the remaining copies, then these losses are not noted. Alterations are generally noted, however, and the distinction is made between material which has been crossed out, represented here in strikethrough, and erased, represented here by a note in the apparatus. The vernacular boundary-clauses present additional problems to the Latin text. First, the charter bounds are only preserved in the Augustus and Vitellius manuscripts, so the Dodsworth copies are of no use in establishing lost readings. Second, although very many of the boundary-points are the same in the two versions, nevertheless the phrasing is significantly different, as often is the spelling. These differences are important and should be recorded but they are also too numerous and complex to include in an apparatus. For this reason the largely vernacular portion of Vitellius D. vii from list of estates through to the end of the boundary-clauses are not collated against that of Augustus ii. 6 but are printed separately afterwards. Where the two versions are printed separately, lost readings are supplied in square brackets where this can be done with some confidence, thus: ‘re[con]struction’. If lost text can be postulated by comparison with the other version but without any further evidence to support it then this text is again printed in square brackets but is also italicized to emphasize its more speculative nature, thus: [tentative reconstruction]. Ellipses ‘. . .’ indicate lost text which cannot be reconstructed, and angled brackets <> indicate supplied readings for which there is no space in the manuscript. 38

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) Latin ę in Joscelyn’s transcript is silently normalized to e, as is j to i and v to u, but ę is preserved when used in Old English. In the portion of text which is common to the Augustus and Vitellius manuscripts, the Latin orthography of the single sheet is followed and minor variations in the transcript are not noted; these differences include ecclesia, ecclesiasticus, decussatim, proh, Saphira, Britannię and once dipinxi in Vitellius for æclesia, æclesiasticus, decusatim, pro, Saphyra, Brittanie and depinxi in Augustus. Similarly the practice of the single sheet in the use of æ, ę, and e is followed throughout the (Latin) portions printed in common, and variations in the transcript are not noted. Old English wynn (w) has been normalized to w in all texts, and all abbreviations in both Old English and Latin have been silently expanded except for the Tironian nota (7) when used in the vernacular; this last abbreviation has been preserved because the scribe of Augustus ii. 6 used both ond and and as well as the nota and so no consistent expansion can be provided. Crossed thorn (b) is silently expanded to  æt in the Augustus text and «æt in the Vitellius text in order to preserve the respective orthographies. No attempt is made to reproduce the punctuation or worddivision of either manuscript.40 BL Cotton Augustus ii. 6 + 〈␻ Orthodoxorum uigoris æclesiastici monitu creberrime instruimur utc illi oppido subiecti suppeditantes famulemur, qui totius mundi fabricam miro ineffabilique serie disponens, microcosmumd, Adam uidelicet, tandem quadriformi plasmatum materia almo ad sui similitudinem instinctum spiramine, uniuersis quę in infimis formauerate uno probandi causa excepto uetitoque preficiens, paradisiacae amoenitatisf iocunditate conlaterana Æua scilicet comite decentissimeg collocauit. Laruarica pro dolor seductus cauillatione, uersipellis suasibilisque tergiuersatione uiraginis pellectus anathematis alogiah ambro pomum momordit uetitum et, sibi ac posteris in hoc ærumnoso deiectus sæculo loetum promeruit perpetuum. Vaticinantibus siquidem profetisi et cælitus superni regis diuturna clandestino presagia dogmate promentibus, nitide orthodoxis eulogium ex supernis deferens, non ut Iudæorum seditiosa elingue fatetur loquacitas, sed priscorum atque modernorum lepidissimam ambiens facundiam, Arrianas Sabellianasque proterendo nenias anagogico infrustransj famine nosque ab obtunsi cæcitate umbraminis ad supernorum alacrimoniam patrimoniorum aduocans, angelus supernisk elapsus liminibus in aurem intemeratae uirginis ut euangelica promulgant a

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Many of the texts have also been translated and more fully edited by D. Hooke, Worcestershire Anglo-Saxon Charter-Bounds, Stud. in Anglo-Saxon History 2 (Woodbridge, 1990), pp. 177–230 (no. 29) and D. Hooke, Warwickshire Anglo-Saxon Charter Bounds, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 10 (Woodbridge, 1999), pp. 67–71 (no. 8). A full edition and discussion by Susan Kelly is also forthcoming as part of the British Academy series on Anglo-Saxon Charters, a draft of which is Kelly, ‘S 786’. At the time of writing the LangScape database contained information about the bounds in S 786 but the semi-diplomatic transcripts were not yet available for display or word searches. See ‘Archives’ in LangScape (under the ‘Resources’ submenu; last accessed 15 October 2008).

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Peter A. Stokes famina stupenda cecinisse uidetur carmina, cui æclesia tota catholica consona uoce altibohando proclamat: ‘Beata es uirgo Maria que credidisti, perficientur in te quæl dicta sunt tibi a Domino.’ Mirum dictu incarnatur uerbum et incorporatur, scilicet illud de quo euangelista supereminens uniuersorum altitudine sensuum inquit: ‘In principio erat uerbum et uerbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat uerbum’, et reliqua. Qua uidelicet sumpta de uirgine incarnatione antiquæ uirginis facinus demitur et cunctis mulieribus nitidis præcluens taumatibus decus irrogatur. Intacta igitur redolente Christi diuinitate passaque ipsius humanitate libertas addictis clementer contigit seruulis. Hinc ego Eadgar altithrono amminiculante Anglorum ceterarumque gentium in circuitu triuiatim persistentium basileus, ut huius libertatis altithroni moderatoris clementia merear optinere consortium, coenobio loco celebri qui ab huius prosapie solicolis Perscoranm nobili nuncupatur uocabulo situm, genetricique domini nostri semper uirgini Mariæ, necnon beato Petro apostolorum principi eiusque coapostolo Paulo, dedicatum habetur, monachis regulariter degentibus monastici aeternam priuilegiin concedo libertatem, quatenus post decessum Foldbrihtio abbatis egregii cuius temporibus hæc libertatis restauratio Christo suffragante concessa est quem sibi uniuersap præfati coenobii congregatio qapto elegerit consilio rsecundum regularia beati Benedicti instituta abbatemq r iuste ex eodem fratrum cuneo eligens constituats Huius priuilegii libertas deinceps usu perpetuot a cunctis teneatur catholicisu, nec extraneorum quispiam tyrannicav fretus contumacia inw prædicto xmonasterio ius arripiens exerceatx potestatis, sed eiusdem ycoenobii collegium perpetuæ ut prædixi libertatisy glorietur a2priuilegio. Sit autem prefatum monasterium omni terræne seruitutis eodem tenore liberum quo a precessore nostro, a rege uidelicet Coenulfo orthodoxe fidei strenuissimo, fuerat uti uetusto continetur priuilegio (Beornotho duce optinente) solutum, agri equidem qui ad usus monachorum domino nostroz Iesu Christo eiusque genitrici Marie, priscis modernisque temporibus, a regibus et religiosis utriusque sexus hominibus et a me ipso restituendo iure concessi sunt,a2 b2 Id est in Perscoran uidelicet [. . . . . .] mansic2, in Brihtulfingtuned2 x mansi, in Cumbrincgtune x mansi, in Pedneshamme ve2 mansi, in Eccyncgtune xvi mansi, in Byrlingahamme x mansi, in Deopanforda x mansi, in Strengesho x, in Bettesforda xf2, in Cromban [. . .]g2, in Stoce x, in Pyritune x, in Uuadbeorhan iiiih2, in Ciuincgtunei2 iiij2, in Broctunek2 iii, in Piplincgtunel2 x, in Snoddesbyri x, in Niuuantune vii, in Eadbrihtincgtune iiiim2, in Uuihtlafestune v, in Flæferthn2 v, in Graftune v, in Deormodesealdtune v, in Husantreo 7o2 on Meretune v, in Broctune iii, into Hleobyrip2 ii, [in] Langandune xxx, in Poincguuic vii, in Beornothesleahe iiiq2, in Actune iii, in Suthstocer2 7 on Hilleahes2 7 on Tresham 7 on Cyllincgcotan 7 on Ealdanbyri 7 Dydimeretunet2 7 Badimyncgtun 7 Uptun xlu2, in Deorham x, in Longanege v, on Lidanege vi, in Uuiggangeate vi, in Beoleahe vv2, Gyrdleahe vw2, in Sture xx2, in Bradanuuege xx, in Cumtuney2 v, in Uuiguuennanz2 x, et ad usum conficiendi salis duobus in locis xviii doliorum situs, on middelwic x, 7 on neodemestan wic viiia3, et duarum fornacium statio on Uuictune, et uas quod dicitur west rincge cum uno manso et dimidium mansi in loco qui dicitur Hortunb3: eiusdem perpetualiter sint libertatis. [. . .]c3

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) Tempore siquidem quo rura quae domino deuoto concessi animo iniuste a sancta Dei æclesia ablata fuerant, perfidi quique nouas sibi hereditarias kartas usurpantes ediderunt sed in patris et filii et spiritus sancti nomine d3precipimus ut catholicorum nemo easdem recipiat, sed a cunctis repudiatę fidelibus in anathemate deputentur ueteri iugiter uigente priuilegio.d3 h3 Si quis uero tam epilempticus phylargirię seductus amentia (quod non optamus) hanc nostræ munificentiæ dapsilitatem ausu temerario infringere temptauerit, sit ipse alienatus a consortio sanctæ Dei æclesię, necnon et a participatione sacrosancti corporis et sanguinis Iesu Christi filii Dei, per quem totus terrarum orbis ab antiquo humani generis inimico liberatus est. Et cum Iuda Christi proditore sinistra in partee3 deputatus, ni prius hic digna satisfactione humilis penituerit quod contra sanctam Dei æclesiam rebellis agere pręsumpsit, nec in uita hac practica ueniam nec in theorica requiem apostata obtineat ullam, sed æternis barathri incendiis trusus cum Anania et Saphyra iugiterf3 miserrimus crucietur.g3 h3 Eis sindon ta lond gemæra tæra tun londa te into perscoran belimpae. [Pershore Estates] Ærest of piri forda on ta dic,i3 andlang dic on ta pyrigan, of tære pyrigan on tone long[an mapuldre, of  am mapuldre on ceap manna w]yllan, [of «ære wyllan] to tam hl[æwe, be] eære h[læwe to  am bænincges byrig, of b]ænincgesj3 byrig to wealh ge[ate], of we[alh gea]te to mæ[r] cnolle, of mær [c]nolle on lind hoh, of lind ho on clottes more, of clottes more on mær p[ul] , ondlongk3 pulles on afene, of afene on caldan wyllan, of caldan wyllan on wyre hlinc, of wyre hli[nce on hor p]yt, [o]f hor py[tte o]n culfran mere, of tæm mere on hag[an weg, of hagan wege on b]roc [h]rycg, of broc hrycge on ta ealdan dic, of e[ære dic] on swyne, of swyn[e] on reod dic, of eære dic on weorces mere, of tære mere on ta twycene, of tære twycenan on ta hæsel ræwe ondlong streames on hor wyllan, of hor wyllan ondlong dic on cymman le[a]h[e], of eære leahe on sæfern ondlong sæfern to ham stede, of ham stede on ropleah geat, of tæm geate ondlong dic tæt on east mor tær on ta rode, of eære rode on heaeeburhe weoreyg, of eæm woreige ondlong hrycges to bysceopes swyn hege, on[d]long heges on beartan weg, of beartan wege on calfan leahe, tæt ondlong dic to hæe halan, of hæe halan o[n] ta ealdan dic, ondlang dic on piddes meres weg, of tæm wege on ta ealdan dic, of eære dic on wad b[eor]gas, of wad beorgan to tam hlyp geate, of e[am] geate on sealtan mere, of tam mere on sue mæduan, of eære mæde ondlong sices tæt on yrse, ondlong yrse on hwitan dune, of hwitan dune on lus eorl3, of lus eorne on fulan pyt, of tam pytte on beornwynne den[e], ondlong dene tæt on hymel broc æt wudu forda, andlang broces on oxan ers, andla[ng] sices to tan stan gedelfe, of eam stan gedelfe on ta dic, ondlong dic on hunig burnan, 7lang burnan tæt on hymel broc, ondlang broces to beccan leahe, on ta ealdan dic 7lang mær weges on ceafor leahe, of tære leahe on ta heg stowe, of eære heg stowe on hennuc, a[ndl]ong hennuc tæt on ta eorn ræwe eastrihte tæt hit cyme to tan rah hege, æfter [t]amm3 hege a be tam ofre, tæt eft on ta dic, tæt on pidelan stream, 7lang streames on afene, andlang afene tæt eft on piri ford.n3 [Wihtlafestun (North Piddle), Abberton, Naunton and Ælflædetun (Flyford Flavell)] Wis sind tara feower tuna lond gemæra wihtlafes tun 7 eadbriht[i]ncg tun 7 niwan tun 7 ælflæde tun. Ærest of pidelan on ta eald[an dic, of] tære dic 7lang fura on

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gemæra] gera A on] inserted A eeornan] cross-stroke of e extremely faint, probably added, but ascender long like that of e rather than d A hege] ge inserted A hwitan] h inserted A eft] ef A yldres] letter erased before y A of eære] of altered: letter before o erased, o formed from minim, f added; e perhaps also an alteration A hlincan] h inserted A healre] e inserted A of] inserted A rycge] e inserted A Eis sind] lost, but top of e visible, as is top of a red bracket which precedes it A greatan] Birch and others printed blacan but greatan seems more likely given evidence of V and probable traces of g. See Stokes, ‘Rewriting the Bounds’. broc] c inserted A of gislan forda . . . seatan] written in a smaller and more compressed hand A streame] a inserted A geredincg] c inserted A hongran] first n clumsily altered from ?r A beorh] approx. 5–6 letters lost after beorh; next word perhaps swa A beardincg] Bond and others printed beardyncg; obscured in manuscript but i clear in facsimile A broc] c inserted A gyrdd] perhaps on erasure; second d inserted A lympe] e inserted A 7lang] 7l probably on erasure A cumbe] first two letters unclear but pretty certainly cū, pace Bond and others, although suspension-stroke extremely faint and perhaps added A beorna] first letter unclear but pretty certainly b, pace Bond and others A vii . . . seofan] both extremely unclear; Bond printed asan for both, but V reads vii and this fits better for first word here; -san or -fan seems clear for second word; note also Seven Wells near modern Broadway at SP1235. A on] o A Text collated with V from here. dcccc lxxii] 972 (in ‘Arabic’ numerals) V his testibus] h inserted and est cramped; scribe first wrote iste for his te[stibus]? A Witness-list in five columns A Witness-list in long lines V Dorobernensis] altered from Dorbbernensis A regis] g inserted A corroboraui] conprobaui V (S 788 reads corroboraui) Ego . . . tauma] illegible in A Ego Ælftan [sic] . . . archimandrita tau[. . .] V tauma from S788 Ælferye] illegible; Bond printed Ælferye A Second column of witnesses begins here A New line begins here V verbs of subscription heavily abbreviated and sometimes ambiguous AV conscripsi] cons A coscrip V (so not consensi, pace Birch) dictaui] lost to fire V Cyneweard] y unclear but pretty certain; i unlikely, pace Bond, Birch and others A (S 788 reads Cineweard) Y clear in V abbas descripsi] lost to fire V Ælfeah] lfeah illegible; Bond and Birch printed Ælfhæh A Ælfhaeh clear in V Ego Sideman abbas] go . . . abbas illegible; Bond printed Ego Sideman abbas A clear in V

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Ego . . . consensi] Ego Osweard abbas illegible; verb written as con so ambiguous A con[sensi] lost to fire V consensi] cons A cos V (abbreviations ambiguous) abbas assensi] abb ass A abbas assensi lost to fire V Abbreviation ambiguous; Birch printed assensim [sic] prebui, presumably supplied from Oswald of York’s attestation, but assensi not uncommon in witnesslists. (S 788 reads assensi) Third column of witnesses begins here A New line begins here V Ego Oslac . . . Brihtnoe dux] Ego Oslac, Æeelwine, Brihtnoe duces V Ego Æeelweard minister] begins new line; minister omitted; all occurrences of Ego and minister omitted or lost from here on V Æeelsige] sige illegible (but printed by Bond) A Wulfric] lost to fire V Fourth column of witnesses begins here A No new line here V Æeelweard] lost to fire V Ælfric] lfric lost to fire V Leofwine] lost to fire V Fifth column of witnesses begins here A No new line here V Ealdred, Ælfheah] lost to fire V Leofa, Brihtric] lost to fire; end of page so further material may be lost V prefata] sic; V reads praefato (see below) XP eis . . . Marian] badly worn; for reconstruction see below, pp. 66–7 A

BL Cotton Vitellius D. vii, 29v–30v The following is only the portion of text which is significantly different from that of Augustus ii. 6, namely the list of estates, the bounds, and the appurtenances. The first three paragraphs of the document, the dating-clause and the witness-list are therefore omitted here but are included in the apparatus for Augustus ii. 6 above. [Hec] sunt nomina terrarum quę ad Perscoram pertinent: Brintulfingtona, Cum[brincg]tun, Æccingtun, Byrlingaham, Depaford, Strengeshoh, Cromban, Pyrigtun, Wadbeorhas, Cyfington, Broctun, Piplingtun, Snoddesb[yri], Graftun, Deormodestunb, Broctun, Fleferth, Wihtlafestun, Eadby[ri]tingtun, Niwantun, Langandun e(Tresham, Cyllingcotan, Ealda[n]burh, Dydemeretun, Badymingtun, Guthbrihtingtunc, Deorham, H[. . .]tund, Langaneg, Lidaneg, Wiggangeat, Cumbtun)e Mortun, Wy[.]landf, Stithaneg, Ceatewesleh, Yldresfeld, Stantun, Wynbur Ediscg, Bettesfordh, Poingwic, Wicereshami, Beornothesleh, Hohisylan, Actun, Husantreo, Meretun, Beoleah, Gyrdleah, Tæflanlæh, Greotan Cwelaleahj, Sture, Bradanweg, Wicwynnan, Stoce, Uptun, Hyldesle[h]. Prefato quoque coenobio trium iugerorum quantitas et duo predia in famosa urbe quę ab accolis dicitur Wigornaceaster accidunt, quę sub eiusde[m] conditione libertatis perpetualiter in nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi haberi p[reci]pio, et ad usum conficiendi salis duobus in locis xviii doliorum situ[s] on middelwic x, 7 on neoeomestan wic viii, et duarum fornacium st[a]tio on Wictune et uas quod dicitur Westringe, cum uno manso e[t] dimidium mansi in loco qui dicitur Hortun, et dimidium mansi i[n] loco qui dicitur æt Westwuda; eiusdem perpetualiter sint libertati[s]. Hęc sunt termini illarum terrarum, quę in circuitu monasterii ualen[t] 150k manentes.

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Peter A. Stokes [Pershore Estates] Ærest of pirigforda 7lang dic on ea pyri[gan], eanan on eane langan mapolder, eæt on ceap manna wyllan swa to n[. . .]l hlawe a be eęre ecge on mær cnol, eanan on lind hoh, eæt on clott[es] mor swa on mær pul, eæt on afene swa on caldanm wyllan, eæt on w[yr«]n hlinc, eanan on hor pyt, eæt on culfre mere swa on hagan weg, [eæt on] broc hricg, eanan on ea ealdan dic, eæt on swine swa on reod dic, eæt [on] weorces mere, eanan on ea twycene, eæt on ea hæsel ræwe swa [7]lang streames on hor wyllan, eanan on ea langan dic on cym[man] leahe swa on sæfern up 7lang streames to hamstede, ea[nan] 7lang stræt east to wuda, eæt on heaee burge weorei swa on hricges on bisceopes swyn hege, eæt on beartan weg, eanan [on calfan] leahe, eæt 7lang dic to hæe halan, eft 7lang dic on piddes meres w[eg on] wad beorhas, eanan on sealtan mere swa 7lang sices on yrs[e], 7lango yrse on hwitan dene, eanan east on eæne fulan py[t] on byrn wynne dene, eæt on hymel broc æt wuda forda, up 7lan[g bro]ces on oxan ears, eæt to ean stan gedelfe, eanan 7lang dic on [hunig] burnan, eæt eft on hymel broc, 7lang broces to beccan leahe [on] ea dic swa 7lang mære weges on ceafor leahe, eæt on ea hege sto[we, ea]nan on hennuc, eæt on ea eorne ręwe, eonan east on eone rah [hege], eæt be eam ofre eft on ea dic, eæt swa on pidelan stream up 7[lang] streames on ea ealdan dic, eæt 7lang fura on ea heafdu æ[t win]ter burnan swa on hereferees meduwan, eæt in eæt sic, eana[n on] eane cumb swa on ea ealdan dic, eæt in pidelan, eanan ymb [. . .] swa on pidelan, eæt on afene up 7lang afene eft on py[rig] ford. [Flyford (Dormston?)] Eis sint eæra fif hida land gemæra to flefere. Æ[rest] of eam ealdan slæpe on winter burnan, eanan on eone swyn [hege], eæt on et meres mæduan swa on hodes ac, eæt 7lang heges on [«one] weg, eonan on winter burnan swa on hereferees m[æduan, eanan] in eæt sic, eanan in eane cumb swa on ea ealdan di[c in pidelan], eanan ymbutan bradan hame eft in pidelan, ea[nan eft to eam] slæpe. [?, Chaceley and Longdon] Eis sind eæra xxx hida land gemæra [. . . . . . . . . .]p 7 to ceatewes leahe into langa[n] d[u]ne. Ærest [of sæfern on wi]ferees medua hege, [of «am hege . . .] to erim [. . .]q [Powick (including Leigh)] [Eis sind «æra . . . hida land gemæra to poincg wican. Ærest up of sæfern on beornwolde]s sæt[an «æt on hagan] geat, eæt on secg leah[e]s s[trod, «æt on troh hricg, «æt] on tecles more, eæt on baldan ricg swa on flotan ricg, eanan on ea [sme «an ac on l]ind ricg swa on abbandunes wican, eæt in baldan geat, eonan 7lang dune on Ea[dwoldi]ncg leahe middewearde 7 an æcer into beornoees leahe, of eam æcere on [. . .]r mær hege, eanan on scearpan hyl swa on wæee burnan, eæt on gundenling [ricg], eana on codran swa to syl beame, eæt in crame eanans on hwitan wyllan swa [on h]agan geat, eæt on ea greatan ac, eanan on ea sand seaeas swa in temedel, eæt on [ea l]itlan becas, eanan on gryndles bece, of eam bece swa eæt gemæra ligee, eæt on [tem]edan 7lang streames to eldres ege ymbutan yldres ege eæt eft in temedan, [7la]ng streames eft on sęfern. [Acton (Beauchamp)] Eis sind eæra iii hida land gemæra æt ac [tun]e. Ærestt of horsa broce on heafoc ricg, eanan on bylingu broc, eæt in at leahe [geat] swa in ea hlydan, eanan on bicera fald swa on sand ford, eæt on scotta [pæ]e, eanan on gislan ford, eæt on sand burnan swa on scead wyllan, eæt on ea lam [sea]eas, eanan on ledene, eæt in linleahe swa on saltera weg, eanan on hean ofer [in] sue broc, eonan in west

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) broc swa in clæg wyllan, eanan on æeelstanes graf, [eanan] in henxtes halh, eæt eft in horsa broc. [Martin Hussingtree] Eis sind eara v hida land gemæra [æt] husan treo 7 æt mere tune. Ærest of eære stræt 7lang dic to bradan for[de 7]lang burnan on sala werpan 7lang streames to col forda, eanan 7lang [eær]e miclan dic on alr broc, eanan on dyrnan mor swa on ea dic, eæt on feower [gem]æra, eanan on eorn leahe swa on ea dic, eæt eft on ea stræt. [Beoley] Eis sind [eara] x hida land gemæra to beo leahe. Ærest of beo leahe on cunding æce[ras], eanan on fearn healas swa on burh leahe, eæt on iahes ofer, eanan on [stan] geat, eæt on wulferes wyllan swa on deawes broc, eæt on mapoldren geat, [eanan] on beardincg ford swa 7lang dic, eæt on arewe up 7lang streames on [. . .]v burnan, up 7lang burnan on febban leahe, eonan on beadegyee wyllan [. . .]stv rihte on byric æcer, eæt on blacan pyt, eanan on fos geat swa on [. . .]nv mere, eæt on fugges treo swa eft on beo leahe. [Yardley] Eis sind eara x hida [land] gemæra æt gyrd lea on colle. eanan on mær dic swa on blacan mearc[an eæt] on eane hæe garan swa on dægarding weg, eonan on ac wyllan, eæt on ea bra[dan a]poldre, eanan on mær eorn swa on smalan broc, eæt on cyng tunes broc, [eanan] on dyrnan ford swa on brom halas, eæt on hwitan leahe, eanan on Leof[mann]incg wic swa on colle, eæt on meos mor ufewearde eanan on deope dæl, eæt [cio]ndan swa on spel broc, eanan on bulan wyllan swa on ea langan æc, eæt on [mund]es dene, eanan on colle, eæt eft in gyrd leah. [Alderminster] Eis sindw eara x hida land ge[mæra] æt sture. Ærest of sture æt denewalding hemmes ende 7lang dic forn[on byr]na scylfe 7lang stræt on mær broc, swa on langan dunes ende, eæt on pos [hliwan, e]anan on sealt mere, eæt on fugel mere, swa on baldreding æceras, eanan on [steapa]n hlinc, eæt on horpyttes sic, eanan on baran broc, swa ymbe widan cumb [on hæ«] hylle, eanan on stan hlinces ende, eæt on rum beorhas, swa eonne on eone cealc [sea«an, ea]nan to tileegnes treowan, swa on meox beorh, eæt on peoles dene 7lang [. . .]nx clop hyrste, eanne 7lang dic in sture swa eæt ealde ea den beligee. [Broadway and (Childs) Wickham] Eis sind [eara ]xy hida land gemæra æt bradan wege 7 æt wicwennan. Ærest of mær [cumb]ez on pes broc, eanan on ea heafdu, eæt on west meduwa, swa eft on ea he[afdu], eæt on eistel mere 7lang slædes on pincan dene, eanan upon beorna [dune] ufeweard, et swa on eone stapol, eæt on fugel hlaw, eanan on egesan mor, [eana]n on langan dune, eæt on bæddes wyllan, eanan on brer hlaw, swa ymbutan [nor« h]am 7lang dic eæt on sand broc, of eæm broce on bord rieig, eanan on hor [pytte]s rieig swa up 7lang fura eæt on cadan mynster, eanan on ea ecge, eæt on [ea sea]lt stræt swa on ea dic æt nanes manes lande eæt on vii wyllan, eanan [on «ri]stinga dene up 7langa2 dene, eæt on ea dic æt wad beorgeb2, swa eft on hor [cumbe].z [(South) Stoke] [Eis sind] eara xc2 hida gemæra æt stoce. Ærest of mæddene westeweardre [on bead]o[c] hil, eæt 7lang middere dene on badan pyt swa on æsc wyllan, eæt on afene swa [on broc] heardes ford, eanon on swyn burnan, eæt on funtnes burnan swa on bre[mer lea]h 7lang dene on stan leah,d2 eanne 7lang seonecan dene middere [on ehan fe]ldes geate swa on gate wyllan, eæt on cynges crumblu 7lang dene on [risc mere s]wa on æsc dene, eæt ord dene, eæte2 on eone holan weg on luhhing [wudu on fil]ee leahe swa

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Peter A. Stokes on sceortan graf, eonan on æeeling wyllan 7 [adune on stream] up on hyrd wyllan swa on cynges crundelf2, eæt on ricg wegg2, eanan [on «one stapol, «anan on] ea hlydan, of eam streame be eam heafdon on mihan leah [easteweardne on «one garan up 7lang weges, «anon] be eam heafdon, eæt on mæd be[orh.] [Dyrham] [Eis sind «ara . . . hida] land gemæra æt deor [hamme. Ærest of sulan forda on loddra wellan, «onon on by]d micel swa be abban [grafe to bryde wyllan, «æt swa on eccan treo, «onon on miclan] mæduwan, eæt [on byd, «onne on Hygeredincg æceras 7 swa bi clop æcere ufa in sulig cumb, «onon on mus beorh, «æt swa to æ«eredes wellan, «onon on clæg weg be ciric stede, «æt swa bi sadol hongran on fearn beorh wuda on gemær broc, «æt eft on sulan broc.] [Lydney] [. . .]anh2 bæce, eæt on mær broc, swa on neowern, eæt eft on sæferni2. [Wyegate] [Eis sind] eæra vi hida land gemæra æt wiggan geat. Ærest of weg on clor br[. . .]j2 on clor leah, eanan on preoste wyllan, eæt on grenan hlaw, swa on [. . .] eæt on smalan broc, eanan on mylen broc, eæt eft in weg. [Cumbtune] Eis sin[d eara] v hida land gemæra æt cumb tune. Ærest of besewe springe 7[lang] broces on ræges slæd up 7lang dune on cumbtunes broc, swa y[mb] ea fif æceras eæt on wad beorh, eanan on eneda mere, swa on ea [. . .] æt rudan ofre, eæt on holan cumb ufeweardne eanan on mot hyl[le 7]lang weges, on cycggan cumb ufeweardne swa eft on bes wyl sp[ringe]. 7 Wærfere bysceop gebocede anne hagan Æeelune into Cumbr[incg]tune on Wigorneceastre . lxx . p . xlv . p .k2 ¯ ¯ a b c d e f g

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cumbe] first boundary-point in A is unclear but probably cumbe; last boundary-point in A is cumbe 7lang] 7land beorge] messy deletion of one letter after this word x] space initially left blank, x inserted in pencil or very faint ink stan leah] stan stan leah tæt] bonne crundel] crumbel weg] altered from wæg Approx. nine lines of manuscript lost. Last lost line perhaps ‘. . . weg swa . . .’ sæfern] fæfern br. . .] letters lost due to fire, but first letter after b probably r Text followed by anathema (si quis uero), dating-clause and witness-list as in A; see above, pp. 48–50.

Tiberius A. xiii, 163v–164r The text below is the portion of S 786 which is preserved in ‘Hemming’s Cartulary’, namely the bounds of Acton Beauchamp, as it appears in that manuscript but with lost readings supplied from the Rawlinson copy. [Acton (Beauchamp)] tis synd tara iii hida land gemæra æt ac tune. Ærest of horsa broce on heafoca hrycg, of heafoc hrycge tanon on byling broc 7 swa in at leahgesb geat 7 swa onc ta hlydan, of eære hlydan on bikera fald, of dbikera falde ond sand ford, of sand forda tæt on scottae pæe 7 swa on gislan ford, of gislan forda tæt on sand burnan, of tære burnan on scead wyllan 7 swa on ta lam seaeas, of tam seaean tæt on ledene, 7 of ledene in lin leahge, of lin leahge on saltera weg, of tam wegie on hean ofer 7 swa in sue broc, of sue broke on west broc, of west broke in clæg wyllan, of tære wællan on Ælfstanes graf, 7f of tam grafe in Henxtes halh, 7 of tam hale tæt eft in horsa broc. a b c d e f

heafoc] e inserted T leahges] h inserted R on] illegible due to fire-damage; probably inserted by original scribe T bikera falde on] illegible due to fire-damage T scotta] otta illegible due to fire-damage T 7] inserted T

Comparison of the Texts The larger structural differences between the two versions of S 786 are summarised in Table 2, along with the other charters in the Orthodoxorum group. There are many more differences in phrasing and detail than are listed here, but the similarities between them are still evident, and both versions of the Pershore charter belong clearly in this group. Comparing the two versions of S 786 shows that they have essentially the same content as each other but that the order of this content has been reworked. Both have the same core and are based on the same model, the primary difference being the position of the list of estates and the block of boundary-clauses, as well as the section beginning 57

Peter A. Stokes tempore siquidem. Indeed the transcript and S 788 are unique among the Orthodoxorum group in the way they position this section and this suggests that the transcript might be a reworking of the single sheet. Specifically, the structure of Augustus ii. 6 shows some influence from the model of S 658 but is otherwise almost identical to that of S 673, except for the added list of estates and section ‘prefato quoque coenobio’. One might therefore speculate that the single sheet was drawn up from a model very much like that of S 673 and that the list of estates was inserted and the ‘prefato quoque coenobio’ added at that time. Perhaps, then, this text was subsequently reworked to produce the transcript version, with the list of estates updated, some boundary clauses added and reworked, the ‘tempore siquidem’ clause moved, the bounds placed before the anathema, and the ‘prefato quoque coenobio’ integrated into the list of estates. This order of material seems more logical and is more consistent with the usual structure of Anglo-Saxon charters and so is more likely to be the result of revision than the other way around. Moving from structure to detail, one important difference between the two versions is the list of estates claimed by Pershore, as noted above and summarized in Table 3. The two lists share a common ancestry as blocks of names are identical or very similar in the two versions. However, the differences are not simply the result of scribal omission or uninformed alteration as two estates are included in the single sheet which are not in the transcript, and fourteen estates are in the transcript but not the single sheet.41 The differences have proven difficult to explain and do not seem to correspond with obvious patterns in location, organisation, or holdings before or after a given date. A full discussion of the complexities of Pershore’s land-holdings is beyond the scope of this article and so I simply note the differences here and observe that both lists seem to reflect a fairly thorough knowledge of the community’s holdings, presumably at two slightly different dates. The boundary clauses are also different, as shown in Table 4: the order of the bounds is different and each version has details (and indeed entire bounds) which are missing from the other, but the versions are nevertheless not entirely independent. Most bounds do appear in both versions, and most of those common bounds have identical boundary-points. Kelly has noted that the phrasing in the bounds of the single sheet is very homogeneous and probably reflects some degree of standardization by the copyist, and indeed the same applies to the transcript. Such homogenisation is particularly evident in the 41

The two estates are Pensham and Libbery, and the fourteen are Guthbrington, H[.]ton, Meretun (probably Castle Morton), Wy[.]land (perhaps Welland), Stithaneg, Chaceley, Eldersfield, Staunton and Wynburgh Edisc, Wiceresham, Hohislan, Tæflanleh, Greotan Cwelaleah (Great Whitley?), and Westwood (Westwood Park).

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Table 2 Structure of the Orthodoxorum charters. The dotted boxes indicate sections only found in S 786 and S788.

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Peter A. Stokes burnan’). The ‘lea’ and ‘Beadgyth’s spring’ or ‘well’ (‘febban leahe, eonan on beadegyee wyllan’) could have been somewhere around SP061738, where the modern boundary leaves the brook, and ‘byric æcer’ seems likely to have been Birch Acre, which is on the modern boundary at SP069734. ‘Fos geat’ cannot refer directly to the Fosse Way, as that road ran some twenty miles south-east of Beoley, but was presumably a ditch in the area.45 The Ordnance Survey maps also show many pits in the area, any one of which could have been the ‘black pit’ (‘blacan pyt’). To establish the bounds more securely requires further investigation but it seems that at least some of these new points can be securely located. Three boundary-clauses are found only in Vitellius D. vii and are therefore ‘new’ insofar as they have not been studied before. One of these can be identified easily, namely Wyegate in Gloucestershire (‘Wiggangeat’). The second is Cumbtune, presumably the Comtune of Augustus ii. 6 which has not been identified but which Kelly has suggested should be near Broadway and Childswickham.46 Indeed it is striking that the bounds of Broadway and Cumbtune both include references to wad beorh, ‘woad barrow’. If these references are both to the same place, and if Hooke is correct in her reconstruction of Broadway’s bounds, then Cumbtune must be immediately south of Broadway in modern Buckland or Snowshill, Gloucestershire.47 The bounds of Cumbtune are not inconsistent with this as they contain several references to steep slopes which match the geography of that area (slæd, ‘valley’; beorgh, ‘barrow’; ofre, ‘bank’; cumb, ‘coomb’; hyll, ‘hill’), but locating specific features has not yet proven possible and the location of the estate is by no means certain. The third boundary-clause is very incomplete, with only the last four boundary-points surviving, and so it cannot be identified with absolute certainty. However, one of these points is neowern, a good candidate for which is modern Newerne near Lydney. As Kelly has pointed out, only three estates are named in the list of Augustus ii. 6 but are not covered by the boundaryclauses of that document, namely Longney, Lydney and Wyegate, all in Gloucestershire. Wyegate and probably Lydney have now been accounted for, and it is entirely possible that the bounds for Longney preceded those of Lydney in the transcript but are now lost to fire. Finally, a rather cryptic comment is included in the transcript after the bounds: ‘7 Wærfere bysceop gebocede anne hagan Æeelune into Cumbr[incg]tune on Wigorneceastre . lxx 45

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Perhaps relevant here is a moat at SP084715, or perhaps Moss Lane at SP080695 if some cor46 ruption is allowed in the text. Kelly, ‘S 786’. The common points are ‘on ta ealdan dic æt wad beorhe’ and ‘swa y[mb] ea fif æceras eæt on wad beorh’ respectively; for the former, see Hooke, Worcestershire, pp. 226 and 229. The ‘besewe springe’ in the bounds of Cumbtune might also be a corruption of Broadway’s ‘seofan wyllan’.

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. p . xlv . p’. This ‘Wærfere’ was presumably Wærfrith, bishop of Worcester ¯ ⫻ 872¯⫺ 907 ⫻ 915, who appears in a number of charters and other 869 records from this time, but none of these refers to this transaction with Æthelhun.49 Indeed it is unclear who this Æthelhun was, as several possibilities are evident: perhaps the most intriguing is Wærfrith’s successor as bishop of Worcester (907 ⫻ 915 ⫺ 915 ⫻ 922), but other possibilities include three different abbots and a Mercian dux.50 S 788: Somers Charter 16 Given the similarities between the two main versions of S 786, and given the good Old English in both, it seems that the two versions’ boundary-clauses, like the lists of estates, were produced relatively close to each other in both time and place, and that both were produced with detailed knowledge not only of Pershore’s holdings but also of the landscape itself. The question remains how the two versions relate to each other and why two versions were produced, but to progress with this some further documents must be considered. The first of these, Somers Charter 16, is not a copy of S 786 but is integral to any discussion of the pancart from Pershore. The Somers charter is in favour of Worcester Cathedral and dated 972. The document is now lost but it was printed by Smith and also summarized by Patrick Young.51 It has long been recognized that this document is a forgery, and specifically that the text is based very closely on that of S 786.52 Indeed, much of the text is identical, and the few changes are very crude indeed, such as altering the name of the abbot from Foldbriht to ‘N’ (for nomen), presumably because the forger did not know what name to insert. Given that there are two versions of S 786, however, the question that naturally arises is which version was used when fabricating S 788. For once there is little doubt: examination of the documents’ structures makes it clear that the forger used the transcript-version, not the single sheet. S 788 has exactly the same structure as the transcript, including the relative positions 48

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‘And Bishop Wærferth booked a haga to Æthelhune at Comberton in Worcester’. The numbers and abbreviations are obscure; possibilities include a sum of money (seventy pounds and forty-five pence) or an area of land (seventy perticae by forty-five perticae), but both of these seem much too large for a single haga. ‘Wærfrith 6’, Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (last accessed 10 January 2007). ‘Æthelun 12’ through ‘Æthelun 18’ in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England. Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, ed. J. Smith (Cambridge, 1722), pp. 775–7. Young’s text is preserved on 131r of Cotton Vitellius C. ix and has been described somewhat misleadingly as an incomplete copy of S 788; see Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, p. 252, and Electronic Sawyer, no. 788. E. John, Land Tenure in Early England: a Discussion of some Problems, rev. ed. (Leicester, 1960), p. 104; The Early Charters of the West Midlands, ed. H. P. R. Finberg, 2nd ed. (Leicester, 1972), p. 118 (no. 303).

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Peter A. Stokes of the tempore siquidem and prefato quoque coenobio clauses.53 This means first of all that the forger was even less inventive than previously thought: his apparent changes to the structure of the single-sheet version are instead simply blind copying of the previously unnoticed transcript-version. More importantly, though, it suggests very strongly that a copy of the transcript-version was kept in the Worcester Cathedral archives. Indeed, to my knowledge the similarity of S 788 is the only evidence in favour of S 786 being described as from the archive of ‘Worcester (ex Pershore)’.54 The transcript-version might reasonably be described thus, but the cathedral archive may never have held a copy of the single sheet, let alone Augustus ii. 6 itself. The significance of S 788 in discussion of S 786 is manifold. It is important for questions of provenance, as has just been discussed. It is also useful for establishing the text of S 786 as it can supply lost readings, particularly given the extensive damage suffered by both Augustus ii. 6 and Vitellius D. vii. Of these lost readings, perhaps the most tantalizing is the endorsement. All but one of the Orthodoxorum charters has a rubric or endorsement of some sort, but for most this is the rather uninteresting Charta Eadgari Regis or similar. Those from Pershore and Worcester seem to have rather more to offer, but most of the evidence from Pershore is lost. Joscelyn’s transcript once had a heading of some sort but this has been almost entirely destroyed by fire; the only text to survive is the phrase 7 sancte Benedicte (‘and to Saint Benedict’). The single sheet had a lengthy endorsement but this was subsequently subjected to very heavy wear or erasure and has not hitherto been successfully read. However, new techniques in digital image-enhancement have helped significantly, and a large portion of the text can be recovered in this way.55 Furthermore, Smith printed 53 54

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See above, Table 2. For this description see Electronic Sawyer no. 786, after P. H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, revised ed. by S. E. Kelly (Cambridge, 1994), p. 506. Most of the text was recovered from a digital photograph of the endorsement by mixing the red and blue channels at -56% and 100% respectively, then adjusting the levels and overlaying the result on top of the original image. For these and other techniques, see especially J. Craig-McFeely and A. Lock, Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music: Digital Restoration Workbook, Oxford Select Specialist Catalogue Publications (Oxford, 2006) (last accessed 5 June 2008), and P. A. Stokes, ‘Recovering Anglo-Saxon Erasures: Some Questions, Tools and Techniques’, Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England, ed. R. Chai-Elsholz and T. Silec (forthcoming). Much more sophisticated techniques are being developed by Hao Zhang and Nick Kingsbury in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge but these were not sufficiently developed at the time of writing. For the principles involved, see especially N. G. Kingsbury, ‘Complex Wavelets for Shift Invariant Analysis and Filtering of Signals’, Jnl of Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis 10 (2001), 234–53 and I. W. Selesnick, R. G. Baraniuk and N. G. Kingsbury, ‘The Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform’, IEEE Signal Processing Mag. 22 (2005), 123–51.

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) a vernacular clause at the end of his text of S 788, and the position and formulation of this clause suggests very strongly that it was the endorsement of the original charter. The note reads ‘eis is se freolse 7 eara landa boc ee Eadgar cyning geute into Wigera ceastre Gode to lofe 7 Sancta Marian 7 Sancte Benedicte’.56 That which can be read of the endorsement of Augustus ii. 6 suggests that its text is very close to that printed by Smith for S 788. Combining this assumption with image-enhancement, different lighting, and the sizes and shapes of otherwise illegible letters, a likely reconstruction of the text is ‘[XP] eis [is se freolse] 7 tara landa boc [ee] Eadg[ar] cining geuee into Perscoran swa his yldran hit ær gesettan Gode to lofe 7 Sancta Marian’.57 Interestingly there is no sign of any reference to St Benedict here, unlike both S 788 and Joscelyn’s transcript; such a reference may have been particularly thoroughly worn but this seems unlikely and there is no evidence to suggest it, although there is sufficient space on the parchment. On the other hand, Sancte Benedicte is the one phrase that does survive in the transcript, and this with the other similarities in text suggest that the transcript-version once had an endorsement which was very close or identical to that of S 788, mutatis mutandis. provenance There are two pieces of evidence which demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that at least one version of S 786 was at Worcester, probably by the late eleventh century and certainly by the mid-twelfth. The first of these is S 788, which was produced at Worcester and which draws very heavily on the transcript-version of S 786, as discussed above: this suggests very strongly that either Joscelyn’s exemplar or a descendent of it was at Worcester, and it may not be a coincidence that this version is the one which contains a note relating to Wærfrith who was bishop there.58 However, we must also remember Joscelyn’s note, which Wanley preserved and which implies that Parker obtained his exemplar directly from Pershore.59 This document may have gone from Pershore to Worcester and back again, but perhaps more likely is that another copy of the same version was held in the cathedral archives. The second piece of evidence is yet another document: BL Cotton Augustus ii. 7, the next in sequence after the single sheet from Pershore. Augustus ii. 7 is a comparatively small piece of parchment measuring approximately 56

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‘This is the privilege and grant of lands which King Edgar gave to Worcester in praise of God and St Mary and St Benedict.’ ‘This is the privilege and grant of lands which King Edgar gave to Pershore just as his elders did previously in praise of God and St Mary.’ Letters in square brackets are postulated on the basis of S 788; all other letters have been read with a reasonable degree of confidence, either from the original manuscript or with the image-enhancement described above, n. 55. For the note, see above, pp. 64–5. 59 See above, p. 41.

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Peter A. Stokes 240–5 ⫻ 72 mm. It is written in a hand of the twelfth century and consists of a letter from Godfrey, archdeacon of Worcester, to one ‘Pope A’.60 The archdeacon refers to a charter, specifically an ‘original of this copy’ which has three seals attached to it:61 although the evidence is circumstantial it seems reasonable to assume that the he was referring to Augustus ii. 6. Certainly the sequential numbering of the two documents in Cotton’s library suggests that they have been associated since the seventeenth century, but such an association may have resulted from early modern rather than medieval activity. There is somewhat stronger evidence to support an early connexion, however. One such piece of evidence relates to the seals which Godfrey described. These were apparently those of King Edgar, Dunstan archbishop of Canterbury, and Ælfhere earl of Mercia. They have presumably been lost or destroyed – they certainly have not been identified to my knowledge – but if they were attached to Augustus ii. 6 then one would expect evidence of this to remain in the parchment, and there are indeed slits at the bottom of the single sheet. The evidence is not entirely straightforward, however. Two slits are clearly visible, one about 20 mm long and starting about 45 mm in from the left-hand edge, and the other about the same length and starting about 175 mm from the same edge. The bottom of the charter is in poor condition around the middle and right-hand side, however, and it has been repaired in places; it is therefore difficult to tell where any further slits may have been. Fortunately the nineteenth-century facsimile was printed before the repairs took place but this clearly shows five slits, all of similar length.62 This evidence is further supported by some early descriptions of the document which also mention the slits, although the descriptions are not entirely consistent.63 None of the slits is 60

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The text is edited and translated in Appendix II of this paper, and I thank Simon Keynes for bringing it to my attention. Godfrey was archdeacon 1144 –1156 ⫻ 7 and c. 1158 ⫻ 9 – 1167 ⫻ 8: see John Le Neve, Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1066–1300, ed. D. E. Greenway, J. S. Barrow and M. J. Pearson, 10 vols. (London, 1968–) II, 105, and English Episcopal Acta 33: Worcester 1062–1185, ed. M. Cheney, D. Smith, C. Brooke and P. M. Hoskin (Oxford, 2007), pp. 180–4. Unfortunately there were three popes in succession during this time with the initial ‘A’: Anastasius IV (1153–4), Adrian IV (1154–9), and Alexander III (1159–81). ‘Noverit . . . quod contrascripti huius scriptum originale . . . sigilla tria . . . commendant.’ Facsimiles, ed. Bond III, 30. For the fifth slit, see below, p. 70. G. Hickes, Dissertatio epistolaris, in vol. III of his Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archaeologicus 3 vols. (London, 1703–5), p. 71: ‘verum charta illa, cui in collectione Cottoniana, . . . non tres (quod pace Seldeni dictum velim) sed quinque . . . incisuras habet’ (‘but that charter in the Cottonian collection has not three but five slits, pace Selden’). Selden described S 786 unambiguously and referred also to the letter of Godfrey; he did not specify that the charter was Cotton’s but this seems clear in the context. See J. Selden, A Brief Discourse Touching the Office of Lord Chancellor of England (London, 1671), pp. 2–3 (Ch. 2). Finally, six slits were described by Stevenson, ‘Yorkshire Surveys’, p. 6, n. 17, but (judging from the facsimile) his sixth slit looks more like accidental damage than deliberate cutting.

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) particularly neat or straight, nor are they any more than approximately parallel to the bottom edge, and it is possible that they are simply splits in the parchment, as can certainly be found elsewhere on the document. However, the presence of five such splits, all between the writing and the bottom edge of the parchment, all approximately horizontal and all approximately the same length, suggests human agency rather than accidental damage. The second piece of evidence for the letter’s association with the surviving single sheet begins with yet another early-modern manuscript. This is a copy of the archdeacon’s letter which was made by John Joscelyn and which survives in Corpus Christi College in Cambridge.64 The copy has the heading ‘Hoc scriptum appensum fuit magnæ chartæ de cœnobio Parshorensi in testimonium eius chartæ’.65 This states unambiguously that Godfrey’s letter was physically attached to the ‘great charter’ when Joscelyn saw it, and indeed it was apparently still so in the eighteenth century when it was described by George Hickes as being attached to a charter in Cotton’s collection.66 Joscelyn did not specify which ‘great charter’ he was describing, and so the letter could conceivably have been attached to the exemplar of Vitellius D. vii, but this would require an otherwise unknown charter to have been lost from Cotton’s collection some time after Hickes saw it. However, if the letter was indeed attached to the single sheet then one might expect to see physical evidence of this attachment. Neither Susan Kelly nor I have been able to find any evidence of stitching on either the charter or the letter,67 but other physical evidence suggests that the two documents were indeed joined. The pattern of folds in the single-sheet charter is somewhat unusual in that it has a pair of vertical folds down the centre, rather than a single fold. The two folds are about 18– 20 mm apart; the one to the left is approximately vertical, but the one on the right angles slightly towards the left as it comes down. Similarly, the twelfthcentury letter also shows two vertical folds which are themselves about 18 mm apart and again with the right-hand one angled slightly in to the left. Indeed, careful comparison of the two charters together reveals that the folds match 64

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The copy is Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 111, p. 135, part of a small section written by Joscelyn and now bound between a twelfth-century cartulary from Bath Abbey and a set of transcripts by the antiquarian Robert Talbot. See M. R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1909–12) I, 242–3 (no. 111). I again thank Simon Keynes for bringing this copy to my attention. ‘This writ had been attached to the great charter from the monastery of Pershore in witness to that charter.’ ‘Verum charta illa, cui in collectione Cottoniana, Godefridi litterae suffixae cernuntur . . .’ (‘But that charter in the Cottonian collection, to which Godfrey’s letter has been attached beneath . . .’): Hickes, Dissertatio epistolaris, p. 71. However, Wanley made no suggestion that the two documents were attached: see Wanley, Librorum veterum catalogus, p. 258. Kelly, ‘S 786’.

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Peter A. Stokes extremely closely, and this indicates that the two pieces of parchment were once folded together. Specifically, the lower edge of Augustus ii. 7 was once aligned with the bottom line of text in Augustus ii. 6, and on the horizontal axis the letter was apparently placed approximately in the middle of the single sheet. The problem of stitch-marks remains, but even this can probably be accounted for. The letter has been trimmed, at least along the bottom edge, as the bottom of the letters in a sixteenth-century note on the dorse have been cut off.68 Much more significantly, Augustus ii. 6 has a slit on the bottom between the two vertical folds, and the letter also has a slit at the same point between its corresponding folds. Furthermore, the bottom five lines of writing on the single sheet seem to be slightly more smudged than those immediately above, and these lines correspond to the area that would have been covered by the letter if it had been attached as just described. This difference in smudging is very slight and may be due to any number of other circumstances, but it does match the other evidence very well. Finally, Hickes’s description of the letter as suffixa (‘attached below’), rather than the more general appensa (‘attached’) used by Joscelyn, also suggests attachment at the bottom, although Hickes may not have meant the word so literally.69 None of these points is conclusive in itself, but in combination it seems certain that Augustus ii. 7 was attached to Augustus ii. 6 before Joscelyn’s time and also that the document which Archdeacon Godfrey described was most likely our surviving single sheet. Some questions remain, however. Godfrey wrote that the seals were attached to ‘the copy of this charter’; this implies that his letter was referring to a copy which lacked seals rather than the original which had them, but it seems entirely reasonable that a copy of the letter would have been stored with the original charter. The evidence seems to suggest that Augustus ii. 6 was the original at Pershore; Godfrey’s copy was probably derived from this, unless it was a copy of the other version and he, like so many after him, failed to notice the difference. Another question is that if Joscelyn saw Augustus ii. 6 with the archdeacon’s letter attached, and if he thought that seals had been attached to 68 69

For the note, see below, p. 77. See above, note 66. It is perhaps relevant that surviving single-sheet charters with parchment attached seem to be stitched along the bottom, although this stitching need not have been (and in some cases was certainly not) Anglo-Saxon. Examples include BL Cotton Augustus ii. 98 (S 163; Facsimiles, ed. Bond II, 9), BL Stowe Charter 17 (S 293; Facsimiles, ed. Sanders III, 17), BL Cotton Charter viii. 16A (S 416; Facsimiles, ed. Bond III, 3), and perhaps BL Cotton Augustus ii. 29 (S 1171; Facsimiles, ed. Bond I, 2), although the holes in this last document look very different and seem to have served a different purpose. For these, including digital photographs, see S. Keynes et al., ‘A Classified List of Anglo-Saxon Charters on Single Sheets’ (last accessed 22 March 2008), nos. 33, 56, 91 and 2 respectively.

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) this document – indeed the seals may still have been in place at that time70 – then why did he chose to copy the other version? Although there are many possibilities, perhaps the simplest is that he made his copy before he was aware of Augustus ii. 6. Joscelyn’s comment in his notebook that he obtained the original from Matthew Parker suggests that he may have copied it in Cambridge or Lambeth before going to Worcester or Pershore.71 Although it is unknown when Parker obtained the exemplar which Joscelyn copied, the comment at least allows the possibility that it was acquired not long after the abbey was dissolved in 1537, at a time when Parker was still Master of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge and when Joscelyn was still a young child. Furthermore, Augustus ii. 6 may never have been at Worcester at all: Godfrey could have travelled to Pershore, or the document could have travelled to the archdeacon. Joscelyn may then have found Augustus ii. 6 some time during the period 1560–77 when he was prebend at Hereford and spent time at Worcester collecting manuscripts and making transcripts, as demonstrated not only by the number of Anglo-Saxon books from Worcester Cathedral which entered Matthew Parker’s library but also by the number of texts in Vitellius D. vii which he copied directly from manuscripts at Worcester.72 Joscelyn would therefore have had ample opportunity to find any document if it was at Worcester, and it is entirely likely that he would also have travelled the nine miles or so to Pershore to examine the holdings there, just as Leland had done a generation or so before.73 Whatever the case, someone at some time seems to have compared the two versions and to have recognized the differences between them. As discussed above, some words in the single sheet have been underlined in a dark ink, and a caret-symbol added.74 These annotations are not random, however: the ones in dark ink all correspond precisely to the points where the two texts deviate (see below, Table 5, and compare above, Table 2). There is insufficient evidence to date the annotations at all closely, but the darker ink is not typically Anglo-Saxon, and a possible candidate for adding them must again be John Joscelyn. There is little doubt that he saw both versions of the charter, given 70

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The seals were missing by the time Selden described the document in the 1670s (A Brief Discourse, pp. 2–3), but they may perhaps have been present still in the sixteenth century. See above, p. 41. Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Wigorniensis made in 1622–1623 by Patrick Young, ed. I. Atkins and N. R. Ker (Cambridge, 1944), pp. 9–11; see also N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, 2nd ed., Royal Hist. Soc. Guides and Handbooks 3 (London, 1964), p. 206; and M. Budny, Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: an Illustrated Catalogue, 2 vols. (Kalamazoo, MI, 1997) I, xlv–xlvii. For Leland’s movements and acquisitions for King Henry VIII, see Catalogus Librorum, ed. Atkins and Ker, pp. 8–9, as well as J. Leland, De rebus Britannicis collectanea, 2nd ed., 6 vols. 74 (London, 1770) IV, 160. See above, p. 38.

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Peter A. Stokes his copy of the one and his copy of the letter attached to the other. It may also be significant that dots are visible in the left-hand margin of Joscelyn’s notebook alongside the last three boundary-clauses. These dots appear to be in the same ink as the main text and are presumably Joscelyn’s. Unfortunately we cannot be certain if any other bounds had similar dots because the left-hand margins of most pages have been destroyed by fire. Nevertheless, it is a striking coincidence that the boundary-clauses which are so marked are precisely the ones which are not found in the single-sheet version, and this may also suggest comparison of the two versions. Perhaps, then, our early-modern antiquaries had noticed the difference in texts which most twentieth-century scholars had not.75 Annotation

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decentissime collocauit concessi sunt. ^ Id est in Percoran Actun Suthstoce [Start of group] wic viii | et duarum fornacium Hortun: eiusdem perpetualiter . . . uigente priuilegio. Si quis uero . . .

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Table 5 Annotations in Augustus ii. 6. Those in dark ink are given here with grey background.

c onclusion Many questions still remain from this discussion. The precise relationship between the two versions has not been fully elucidated, nor the question why they were both apparently produced at about the same time. Perhaps one hint towards an answer is the number of alterations to Augustus ii. 6; it almost looks as if this is an early working copy, although the script seems too careful and consistent for a simple draft, and even if it was first planned as such the seals clearly indicate that it was later deemed authoritative. However, Pershore’s land-holdings were very unstable during the first third or so of the eleventh 75

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) century, as Edward the Confessor gave most of its estates to Westminster.76 This instability may explain the need for alteration, if Augustus ii. 6 was indeed kept at Pershore and updated as events unfolded. The threat to Pershore’s holdings could also help to explain the need for two early charters, as additional documentation may well have helped any attempts to retain the land. It also suggests that both versions were drawn up between the purported date of 972 and the irrevocable loss of estates to Westminster during the Confessor’s reign. An alternative factor may be the fire which burnt down Pershore Abbey, apparently in the first few years of the eleventh century;77 the original document could have been destroyed then and a new version drawn up almost immediately afterwards, and the palaeography and philology both seem to allow such a date. The monks at Pershore may have already lodged a copy at Worcester before the fire but need not necessarily have used this when recreating their archive, instead updating the text by use of other records. This is all speculative but it might explain the need for two different versions produced in such quick succession, and the number of erasures and alterations in the single sheet could also reflect a somewhat haphazard production. Certainly the Orthodoxorum charters remain a fascinating but complex source of evidence for Anglo-Saxon England during the tenth century, but it is also worth remembering that their importance and interest extended well beyond the Norman Conquest, with the two versions from Pershore demonstrably receiving attention at least once in almost every century from the eleventh to today.78

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S 1143–46; compare also 174v–175r of Domesday book: Domesday Book: a Survey of the Counties of England ‘Liber de Wintonia’ compiled by direction of King William I, ed. and trans. J. Morris et al., History from the Sources, 38 vols (Chichester, 1975–) XVI.8 (174c–175b). Leland, Collectanea I, 242 and 244; J. Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary, 3rd ed., 9 vols. in 5 (Oxford, 1770) V, 2. Note also the statements of witnesses recorded in an attempt to establish Pershore’s holdings after the monastery was again burned down and their register destroyed in the thirteenth century; the document is BL Add. Charter 42,605 and was printed by R. Dodsworth and W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, 3 vols. (London, 1655–73) I, 205–8; see also Victoria History, ed. Willis-Bund and Doubleday II, 128 and 130. I thank Rosalind Love for her comments on the translations in this paper, and Simon Keynes for his assistance and comments; any errors that remain are, of course, entirely my own. I also thank the Isaac Newton Trust and the Leverhulme Trust for their financial support, without which much of this would not have been possible.

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Peter A. Stokes Orthodoxorum charters from Abingdon.79 However, his translation was used to help correct and improve this one, and my debt to him will be evident to anyone who compares the two. By the counsel of orthodox men of ecclesiastical strength we are most frequently instructed that we, entirely subjected subjects, serve Him who, arranging the fabric of the whole world in a marvellous and ineffable sequence, set up the microcosm (namely Adam), most fittingly with Eve side by side (namely as a companion) with the joy of paradisiacal delightfulness. Adam was formed at last with four-formed material and inspired with nourishing breath to a likeness of Himself, and He placed him over all things which He had formed in the world below except for one thing forbidden as a test. Led astray – oh woe! – by diabolical sophistry, enticed by the chameleonic and persuasive virago’s subterfuge, with the prohibition silenced, the glutton bit into the forbidden fruit, was cast down, and fully earned perpetual death for himself and his descendants in this wretched world. Since the prophets were foretelling and disclosing with hidden doctrine the highest king’s eternal prognostics from heaven, a shining angel brought down from on high the good word to the orthodox, not as the factious loquacity of the Jews speaks ineptly, but encompassing the most agreeable eloquence of the ancients and moderns, rendering useless the Arian and Sabellian incantations by crushing them under foot with mystical speech, and calling us from the blindness of powerless darkness to the tearlessness of heavenly inheritances; the angel slipped down from the thresholds on high and is seen to have sung amazing songs into the ear of the undefiled virgin, as the evangelical utterances promulgate; the whole (namely catholic) church cries out to her by bellowing high with one voice: ‘Blessed are you, virgin Mary, you who believed; those things will be fulfilled in you which were told to you by the Lord.’ Amazing to say, the word is made flesh and is made body, namely that of which the evangelist, towering above with the height of all perceptions, says ‘In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God’, and so on. That is, after this incarnation was taken up from the virgin, the crime of the ancient virgin is removed and on all women is bestowed glory renowned in its shining marvels. Thus after the sweet-smelling divinity of Christ was left untouched, after his humanity had suffered, happily liberty came to the bounden servants. Hence I Edgar, by the support of the high-throned one ruler of the English and the other peoples living all around far and wide, so that I may deserve to obtain participation in this liberty by the mercy of the high-throned governor: to the monastery held to be located in that famous place which is named by the inhabitants of this race with the noble name Pershore, and dedicated to Mary the ever-virgin mother of our Lord and also to blessed Peter, chief of the apostles, and to his fellow apostle Paul; to monks living by the Rule I grant eternal liberty of monastic privilege, insofar as after the death of the exemplary abbot Foldbriht in whose times this restoration of liberty has been granted with Christ favouring it, let the whole congregation of the aforementioned monastery appoint as abbot him whom it will have elected for itself with a fitting council, choosing him rightly from that same troop of brothers according to the regulating institutes of blessed Benedict. 79

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) Let the liberty of this privilege be held hereafter in perpetual use by all catholic people, and let no outsider, relying on tyrannical obstinacy and seizing the right of power, exercise it in the aforementioned monastery, but may the community of the same monastery glory in the privilege of perpetual liberty as I have said before. Moreover let the aforesaid monastery be free of all earthly servitude in the same way in which it had been freed by our predecessor, namely by King Coenwulf, the most vigorous in orthodox faith, just as is contained in an ancient privilege which Earl Beornoth obtained: indeed the fields which were granted to our Lord Jesus Christ and his mother Mary by me myself restoring that right, for use of the monks in times ancient and modern, by kings and religious people of both sexes, that is namely [. . .] hides belonging to Pershore: ten hides at Bricklehampton, ten at Comberton, five at Pensham, sixteen at Eckington, ten at Birlingham, ten at Defford, ten at Strensham, ten at Besford, [. . .] at Croombe, ten at [Severn] Stoke, ten at Pirton, four at Wadborough, three at Chevington, three at Broughton, ten at Peopleton, ten at Snodsbury, seven at Naunton [Beauchamp], four at Abberton, five at Wihtlafestune, five at Flyford, five at Grafton [Flyford], five at Dormston, five at Martin Hussingtree, three at Broughton [Hackett], two at Libbery, thirty at Longdon, seven at Powick, three at Leigh, three at Acton [Beauchamp], forty at South Stoke, Hillesley, Tresham, Kilcott, Oldbury, Didmarton, Badminton and [Hawkesbury] Upton, ten at Dyrham, five at Longney, six at Lydney, six at Wyegate, five at Beoley, five at Yardley, ten at Alderminster, twenty at Broadway, five at Compton; ten at [Childs] Wickham, and sites of eighteen vats in two places for the purpose of manufacturing salt, ten at Middlewich and eight at Netherwich, and a station of two furnaces at Witton and a vat which is called Westrincge, with one and a half hides at the place called Horton [Hampton Lovett]; let them hold the same liberty in perpetuity. Since, at the time when the lands which I have granted with devout mind to the Lord had been unjustly taken away from the holy church of God, some treacherous men, usurping the hereditary charters, issued new ones to themselves, yet in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit we have commanded that no catholic should accept these same charters but they should be considered as having been repudiated in anathema by all the faithful with the old privilege thriving continually. But if some madman is so led astray with the folly of avarice (which we do not wish) that he should try with impudent daring to infringe this abundance of our munificence, may he be estranged from the community of the holy church of God and likewise from participation in the sacred body and blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God through whom the whole orb of lands has been freed from the ancient enemy of the human race, and may he be numbered on the left side with Judas, betrayer of Christ, unless first he shall have humbly repented with due satisfaction that he presumed to act as an insurgent against the holy church of God; may the apostate not obtain any forgiveness in this active life nor rest in the contemplative one, but may the most miserable man be driven into the eternal fires of the Pit with Ananias and Saphira and tormented without end. [. . .]80 80

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Peter A. Stokes In the year of the Lord’s Incarnation 972 the written contract of this munificence was written with these witnesses agreeing whose names are recorded below, laid out each in its own order according to the authority of each, with God supporting. [. . .]81 Also to the monastery falls the aforementioned quantity of three iugera and two praedia in that well-known city which is called Worcester by its inhabitants, which (quantity) I grant to be held under condition of the same liberty in perpetuity in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.

appendix ii: the letter from godfrey, archdeac on of worcester

The text and translation of Godfrey’s letter is provided below. Two manuscripts were collated for this text: A London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 7 (s. xii) C Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 111, p. 135 (s. xvi) The principles of editing are the same as those used for S 786 above.82 text a

Reuerentissimo domino et patri A. summo pontifici, minimus sanctitatis suęb seruus Godefridus dictus Wigornensis archidiaconus, offerre domino incensum dignum in odorem suauitatis. Inter cetera uirtutum indumenta quę decent seruum bonum et fidelem presertim coram domino suo, ualde necessarium estimo sinceritatis et ueritatis ornamentum. Si quis enim huiuscemodi uestem nuptialem non habuerit, nonc intromittetur ad nuptias, sed eicietur foras, nec ascendet superius, ut sit honor ei coram simul discumbentibus. Quia qui sine ueritate est, patrifamilias placere non potest. Ego itaque, ut tamen non loquaturd os meum opera hominum, huius rei gratia ueritatis emulator existens, ad ueritatem uocatus, ueritati testimonium perhibeoe, ut ex temporali ueritatis exequutionef ab eo qui ueritas est ueritatem mereamini mercedis ęternę. Nouerit itaque sanctitas uestra uerum esse quod contrascriptig huius scriptum originale in uirtute sanctę trinitatis sigilla tria, trium personarum autenticarum, ad ueritatem triplici confirmatione commendant. Est autem sigillum primum illustris regis Ędgari, secundum Sancti Dunstani Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, tercium Alferi ducis Merciorum. Sicut ex diligenti litterarum impressarum inspectione euidenter accepi. Operetur igitur si uobis placet filię uestrę sanctę Persorensis ęcclesię detrimentum intolerabile. Operetur inquam infra pietatis paterne uiscera compassionem, compassio restitutionem, restitutio consolationem, et quę ex toto fere defecit, quia non erat qui adiuuaret; nunc, nunc tandem, cum acceperitis tempus iustitias iudicandi, sentiat prophetam esse in Israelh, 81

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King Edgar’s Charter for Pershore (AD 972) eoque efficatius, quoniam et domnusi abbas et ceteri fratres inibi Deo seruientes per uitę quę coram Deo est sanctitatem et ab hiis qui foris sunt testimonii sani meruere celebritatem. Valeat in perpetuum Sanctitas Vestra. n Hic A. fuit Alexander tertius cuius tempore Galfridus Nothus Henrici Secundi fuit Archidiaconus Wigornensis, Lincolnensis, etj Eboracensis et Cantuariensisk, et postea anno 1174 electus episcopus Lincolnensis. Ut Mattheus Parisiensis, et Mattheus Westmoniensis anno praedicto. Et anno 1178 decorauit eum cingulo militari. Et Florilegus anno 1182 dicit Galfridum renunciasse ministerium episcopalem ex superbia generis. Hic Galfridus fuit 32 Archiepiscopus Eboracensis anno dominil 1189 factus, et eo anno impetitus fuit per Hugonem Dunelmensem et Hubertum Sarum, ut eo anno scribit Walterus Couentrensis.m n Vide Wilhelmum Nouiburg libro secundo capitulo 22 et libro quarto capitulo 2.n a

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Hoc scriptum appensum fuit magnæ chartæ de cœnobio Persoran Parshorensi in testimonium eius chartæ heading in C sue] tue C non] noti C loquatur] loquantur C perhibeo] exhibeo C exequutione] execucione C contrascripti] conscripsi C Israel] isrł A Israel C domnus] dominus C et] om. C et Cantuariensis] inserted A domini] om. C Hic . . . Couentrensis.] written on dorse in an early modern hand in A; written at end of text in C Vide . . . cap. 2.] marginal note to preceding paragraph in A; written after preceding paragraph in C

translation To the most reverend lord and father, Pope A, Godfrey, called Archdeacon of Worcester, the least servant of your Holiness to offer the lord an incense worthy in the odour of its sweetness.83 Among other clothing of virtues which above all befit a good and faithful servant before his lord, I hold especially necessary the ornament of sincerity and truth. For if anyone shall lack wedding clothes of this sort he shall not be admitted to the wedding but shall be thrown out the door,84 nor shall he go up higher so that at the same time there be honour for him before those sitting at the table.85 Because he who is without truth cannot please the head of the family. Accordingly, so that my mouth speaks not the works of men,86 for the sake of this matter being exceedingly zealous87 for the truth, called to truth, I offer witness to truth, so that, out of a moment’s execution of the truth, from him who is truth you might deserve the truth of eternal reward. And so may your Holiness know that it is true that three signs of three authenticating 83 87

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Peter A. Stokes people in virtue of the holy Trinity do commend the original of this copy to the truth with triple confirmation. For the first is the seal of the most famous King Edgar, the second of St Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, the third of Ælfhere, earl of Mercia; I have accepted it as evidently thus from careful inspection of the letters which have been stamped on it. It could, therefore, affect an intolerable loss for your daughter the holy church of Pershore if it pleases you. It could, I repeat, effect compassion with the mercy of paternal love, compassion could bring about restitution, restitution consolation, and that is something which has been almost entirely lacking because there was noone who would help; now, now at last, since you have accepted that it is time to judge with right judgements,88 let him know that there is a prophet in Israel,89 and all the more efficaciously, since both the lord abbot and the other brothers serving God there through the holiness of a life in God’s sight as well as from those who are outside the community have deserved a cause for celebration at sound testimony. May your Holiness fare well in perpetuity. This A. was Alexander III, in whose time Geoffrey90 the bastard son of Henry II was archdeacon of Worcester, Lincoln, and York (and Canterbury), and afterwards was elected bishop of Lincoln in 1174 (as Matthew Paris and Matthew of Westminster under the aforementioned year).91 And in 1178 he was knighted. And Florilegus says that in 1182 Geoffrey had renounced his bishopric out of pride of birth.92 This Geoffrey was made thirty-second archbishop of York in 1189, and in that year was attacked by Hugh of Durham and Hubert of Sarum, as Walter of Coventry writes for that year.93 See William of Newburgh, Book 2 Chapter 22, and Book 4 Chapter 2.94 88 90

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Lost voices from Anglo-Saxon Lichfield gifford charles-edwards † and helen mckee

abstract Several dry-point glosses were added to the Lichfield Gospels during the tenth or eleventh century, apparently recording the names of members of the pre-Conquest community at Lichfield. We consider the relationship of these glosses to the list of Anglo-Saxon names on p. 141 of the Gospels, and discuss parallels from elsewhere in the Insular world.

The eighth-century gospel book Lichfield, Cathedral Library, Lich. 1 – more commonly referred to as the Lichfield Gospels or the Gospels of St Chad – is one of the outstanding examples of Insular manuscript art. Its origins are, however, unclear. Its earliest known provenance is Llandeilo Fawr in Carmarthenshire, south-west Wales (where it received various additions during the ninth century), but the lack of comparable manuscripts from Wales has prevented recognition of the Lichfield Gospels as an identifiably Welsh book. By the tenth century, it had reached Lichfield (Staffordshire), where it has remained.1 Situated at the heart of Mercia, Lichfield was an important AngloSaxon city (its cathedral had been founded by St Chad in 669). It is, however, 11

The entry Wynsi[ge] pr[e]sul on p. 6 of the Lichfield Gospels provides the earliest evidence for its presence in Mercia; a man of this name was bishop of Lichfield from 963 ⫻ 964 to 975. On the manuscript, see E. A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores [hereafter CLA], 12 vols. and supp. (Oxford, 1934–71) II, second edition (Oxford, 1972), no. 159; W. M. Lindsay, Early Welsh Script (Oxford, 1912), pp. 3–5; D. Huws, Medieval Welsh Manuscripts (Aberystwyth, 2000), p. 5 and plate I; D. Jenkins and M. E. Owen, ‘The Welsh Marginalia in the Lichfield Gospels’, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies [hereafter CMCS] 5 (Summer 1983), 37–66, and 7 (Summer 1984), 91–120; N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957; rev. imprint, 1990), p. 158 (no. 123); D. N. Dumville, A Palaeographer’s Review: the Insular System of Scripts in the Early Middle Ages, Volume One (Osaka, 1999), p. 123; R. Gameson, ‘The Insular Gospel Book at Hereford Cathedral’, Scriptorium 56 (2002), 48–79 (pp. 59–60, 67). A recently published discussion of the Lichfield Gospels has placed their origins firmly in Anglo-Saxon England: see M. P. Brown, ‘The Lichfield Angel and the Manuscript Context: Lichfield as a Centre of Insular Art’, Jnl of the British Archaeol. Assoc. 160 (2007), 8– 19, and compare Janet Backhouse’s assessment in The Making of England, ed. J. Backhouse and L. Webster (Toronto, 1991), no. 90 (p. 127). However, we would take issue with several of Professor Brown’s statements. In particular, we would note that the presence of runes in the Lichfield Gospels (specifically, four runic forms out of a total of 126 display letters) need not preclude Welsh origin. There is evidence from the earliest Welsh inscriptions (V. E.

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Gifford Charles-Edwards and Helen McKee one from which regrettably little has survived – although an unexpected spotlight was shone on the shrine of St Chad c. 800 with the recent discovery of a magnificent sculpture of an angel, during archaeological investigations beneath the cathedral nave.2 One comparatively neglected feature of the Lichfield Gospels has been the existence of dry-point glosses – scratched with a stylus rather than written in ink – on several of its pages. Humfrey Wanley, and later Wendy Stein, observed several on pp. 217 and 226.3 Now that Gifford Charles-Edwards has identified additional stylus markings on p. 221 (the incipit page to Luke, one of the most heavily decorated in the book), a transcription and discussion of these glosses as a group seems appropriate. The rich decorative detail and precise penmanship of Insular gospel books focus the eyesight to operate at a certain specialized level. Dry-point glossing, an equally precise type of writing, may exist unnoticed on the same page, and is only revealed by close study. In order to see dry-point glosses clearly, the eye must focus in a quite different way, at an acute angle to the writing surface, and if possible in a raking light. Only by fixing the eye upon marks made by the flensing knife, or on follicles if the hair-side is being examined, will drypoint letters reveal themselves clearly. They are notoriously difficult to photograph, and those observed in the Lichfield Gospels are here presented as line drawings.

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Nash-Williams, The Early Christian Monuments of Wales (Cardiff, 1950), Group 1) that Welsh letterers were making use of exotic alphabets. Moreover, there is a runic alphabet in the early ninth-century Welsh manuscript known as Liber Commonei: see Saint Dunstan’s Classbook from Glastonbury: Codex Biblioth. Bodleianae Oxon. Auct. F.4.32, facs. ed. R. W. Hunt (Amsterdam, 1961), f. 20r. We note in addition that the influence of runes on Insular display capitals, which has sometimes been affirmed (e.g. M. P. Brown, The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe (London, 2003), pp. 229, 236), is uncertain; the origins of the angularized letter forms in question lie in the epigraphic traditions of western Britain. Cf. C. Tedeschi, ‘Some Observations on the Palaeography of Early Christian Inscriptions in Britain’, in Roman, Runes and Ogham: Medieval Inscriptions in the Insular World and on the Continent, ed. J. Higgitt, K. Forsyth and D. N. Parsons (Donington, 2002), pp. 16–25 and G. Charles-Edwards, The Origin and Development of Insular Geometric Letters (Oxford, forthcoming). A good example of early geometric letter-forms from Wales is the Catacus inscription from Llanfihangel Cwm Du, Breconshire: A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales, I, ed. M. Redknap and J. M. Lewis (Cardiff, 2007), no. B21 2 (pp. 194–6). See Brown, ‘The Lichfield Angel’. H. Wanley, Librorum Vett. Septentrionalium . . . Catalogus Historico-Criticus (G. Hickes and H. Wanley, Antiquæ Literaturæ Septentrionalis Libri Duo (Oxford, 1703–5), II), p. 290, no. IX (bis); W. A. Stein, ‘The Lichfield Gospels’ (unpublished PhD dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 1980), p. 6 (she referred incorrectly to p. 227 rather than 226). Cf. The Liber Vitae of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey, Winchester, ed. S. Keynes (Copenhagen, 1996), p. 55.

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There is a small but growing collection of dry-point writings to provide comparanda,4 and we might include with them the sgraffito constructional notes made by metalworkers on metal.5 A series of scratched glosses extensive enough to provide a complete alphabet and varieties of stroke combinations exists in Dublin, Trinity College, Ussher 1 (noted and listed by William 14

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Recent discussions of Anglo-Saxon dry-points include P. G. Rusche, ‘Dry-Point Glosses to Aldhelm’s De laudibus virginitatis in Beinecke 401’, ASE 23 (1994), 195–213, and A. Falileyev and P. Russell, ‘The Dry-Point Glosses in Oxoniensis Posterior’, Yr Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh, ed. P. Russell (Aberystwyth, 2003), pp. 95–101. M. P. Brown, ‘Paten and Purpose: the Derrynaflan Paten Inscriptions’, The Age of Migrating Ideas, ed. R. M. Spearman and J. Higgitt (Edinburgh, 1993), pp. 162–7.

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Gifford Charles-Edwards and Helen McKee O’Sullivan in the front end-papers of the rebind).6 Such letters were made with firm pressure on the upright stylus. Devoid of the linking strokes of cursive hands, this minimalist alphabet reduced letter-forms to the simplest straight down-strokes and tightly curved bows; it was written with a body height as small as one-sixteenth of an inch. In the order that they appear in the manuscript, the Lichfield dry-points (Fig. 4a–d) read: p. 217

[at the lower left of the page, to the left of + Teudur + Ourdol +] Wulfun Alchelm Eadric

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The content of these scratched glosses – Anglo-Saxon personal names8 – encourages the assumption that they were written in Anglo-Saxon England. Their script harmonizes with this: a form of Insular minuscule on pp. 217 and 226, and mixed majuscules on p. 221. Insular minuscule of one kind or another is found in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts from the seventh century until after the Norman conquest (it was the most common script-form until the middle of the tenth century), while mixed majuscules were also regularly used by English scribes. The date of these glosses is potentially very important: were they written in the tenth century or later (when the Lichfield Gospels are already known to have been at Lichfield), or might they pre-date the manuscript’s sojourn at Llandeilo Fawr (thus providing evidence for its ultimate origin in Anglo-Saxon England)? 16

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Lost voices from Anglo-Saxon Lichfield There is also the question of why these names were entered into the Lichfield Gospels. Significantly, they are not the only personal names which the manuscript contains. While in Wales, it received numerous names (many accompanied by crosses), which are most likely to record persons to be commemorated at the altar at Llandeilo.9 The gospel book appears to have continued to function as a liber vitae (if that is what it was) when it was taken to Mercia. Apart from the mention of a priest called Wynsige on p. 1,10 there is an extensive list of Anglo-Saxon names on p. 141 (surrounding the lower half of the Welsh ‘Surexit’ memorandum): this list is headed with alpha et omega and looks like a formal record of souls to be remembered.11 We should not expect memorials to be inscribed with a stylus, however, since this renders them effectively invisible. Should we characterize the drypoint glosses in the Lichfield Gospels as ‘tourist’ graffiti, almost comparable with ‘I was here’ on a modern-day wall?12 Another curious point is that six out of the nine scratched names also appear in the long list of names added to p. 141: Wulfun, Alchelm, Eadric, Berhtfled, Elfled and Wulfild. It is particularly striking that Eadric and Alchelm appear side by side on the penultimate line of p. 141, just as they are to be found scratched close together on p. 217, and that Berhtfled and Ælffled appear side by side (partly in Greek letters) a few lines above on p. 141, just as they are to be found together on p. 226. Could the copyist(s) of the list of names on p. 141 also have written some, or all, of the dry-point glosses?13 To answer this question we turn to the dry-points’ palaeography. It is important to emphasize at the beginning the non-standard nature of the glosses’ script. As indicated above, the process of scratching letters onto parchment with a hard point results in rather different letter-forms from those produced by pen and ink. For example, there are no Insular wedges at the tops of ascenders.14 In addition, because it is impossible when using a hard point to 19 11

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Gifford Charles-Edwards and Helen McKee flow smoothly from one letter to the next, there is a high degree of separation, not only between individual letters, but also between parts of letters (especially noticeable on p. 217). The open e seen in, for example, Alchelm and Elfled is typical of this type of script.15 The number of hands involved in the execution of the Lichfield dry-points is not certain. While we may be dealing with three, four, or five – a different hand on each page, and perhaps two or even three on p. 221 – it is possible that the glosses on pp. 217 and 226 at least were by the same person. These two groups of three glosses each were scratched in the same type of minuscule script, and show similar variation of letter-forms, even within individual names (see l in Wulfild on p. 226 and u in Wulfun on p. 217). On the other hand, the higher visibility of gaps between pen-strokes on p. 217, and the use of rolled entry-strokes on p. 226 alone (see Berhtfled), mean that it is safer to assume that two different people were after all involved here, and that the resemblances between their contributions are simply owing to their having used the same (very common) script-type. (An interesting letter-form on p. 217 is the A of Alchelm, reminiscent of a display-capital A found in several high-grade Insular manuscripts.)16 The bottom inscription on p. 221, while also in a form of Insular minuscule, displays characteristics not seen on pp. 217 and 226, notably the a+s ligature (if that is what this is) and the convex top to t. It is also very difficult to decipher: its first letter (G? P? Æ?) appears anomalous, and [+ icc] does not make obvious sense. The two additional names which are visible on p. 221 contain letter-forms of a higher grade than those on the other pages. -DVLF and the ER- of Berhtelf are in Capitals of monumental, geometric type, although for htelf we see a shift down into minuscule again. It is possible that [ ]DVLF was written first, and that another hand was responsible for 7 + Berhtelf, connecting the two names with an et-nota. It is impossible to be certain as to the date of these glosses, partly because the normal morphology of the letter-forms has been distorted by the use of a hard point. The form of (rounded, single-compartment) a ligatured with e at the beginning of Eadric (p. 217) might suggest that we are not dealing with the tenth century, since during that period Anglo-Saxon minuscule script tended to feature square a (and this would have been easy to execute in ligature with the 15

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Gifford Charles-Edwards and Helen McKee to date from relatively early in the career of Anglo-Caroline, and presumably no later than the second decade of the eleventh century (by which time English Caroline script had become the almost exclusive preserve of Latin material, and was in any case developing a range of new letter-forms). Its author may have been a priest: the prayer Domine benedic . . . which is written to the right of the names includes the phrase meis indignis precibus, suggesting an ecclesiastic’s private intercession. We have seen that the Anglo-Saxon names inscribed with a stylus in the Lichfield Gospels contain such standard Insular minuscule letter-forms that they are effectively undatable to any but the broadest bounds. It is suggestive, however, that they include several names which were also written in ink on p. 141.23 Two other names, while they appear only in the dry-points, do contain identical elements to some of the inked names: Wulfild (p. 226) may be compared with Wulfun and Wulfric on p. 141, and Berhtelf on p. 221 with Berhtfled on p. 141. We know that Anglo-Saxon children tended to be given names which included elements from their parents’ names.24 The similarities between the names in the dry-points and those in the collection on p. 141 may be merely coincidental, but it is not impossible that they relate to the same community. The simplest explanation for the personal names scratched into the Lichfield Gospels is that they represent informal commemorations of nine individuals from tenth- or eleventh-century Lichfield, presumably members of the religious community there. From its early history in Wales, the manuscript had served as a repository of both documents and names to be remembered, and it is not surprising that it was used for the same purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. However, the dry-point glosses which were added to the pages of the Gospels are puzzling in several respects. They are effectively invisible, unlike the inked names on p. 141, and their execution would not have been simple. By the time that they were added, not only must the volume have been a revered one, but the surface of the vellum would have hardened with age. How could anyone have approached so close to such a precious object that they could, slowly and painstakingly, have inscribed letters in it? It might have happened while the volume lay open upon an altar, but as good daylight is necessary to execute such work, this seems unlikely. The names have been written by hands accustomed to writing: we might speculate that the authors of the scratched glosses were in some way involved in the keeping of a library, or the 23

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T H E L I S T O F A N G L O - S A X O N N A M E S O N P . 141 O F T H E L I C H F I E L D G O S P E L S

A et ⍀ Atulf. Ælfheh. æ Wulfmer. Wulfgeat. [.]iii Wulfric. 1

Domine benedic, sicut uis et scis, sic fac,2 omnes q[ui] me ‘[W]’3 docuerunt, et ‘omnes qui’ meis indignis precibus se commendauerunt,4 qui confesi fuerint,5 et omnes qui batismum acceperunt.6 + Wulfun. Wulfere.7 Wuftryt. Wulferye. Wihtmund. Berhtfled. [Pater eius Hehwyn].8 Ælffled. Leofe.9 Wynsige. Wulfric. Æeelfled. 11

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The Old English Promissio regis mary clayton

abstract The Old English Promissio regis is a translation of the threefold promise made at their coronations by Anglo-Saxon kings in the tenth and eleventh centuries followed by two paragraphs on the duties of kingship; it is preserved in one eleventh-century manuscript and we have two copies of a second. This article reviews discussions of the text, looks at the manuscript evidence for what it can tell about its authorship and history, examines its sources and function and suggests a close connection with Wulfstan, archbishop of York. A new edition of the text concludes the piece.

The Promissio regis is an Old English text composed of a translation of the threefold promise made at their coronations by Anglo-Saxon kings in the tenth and eleventh centuries, followed by two paragraphs on the duties of kingship, addressed to king and people. According to the text itself, it is copied letter by letter from the document which Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury from 959 to 988, gave to the king, ‘urum hlaforde’, when he was consecrated king at Kingston. From this, we can deduce that the text was addressed to an AngloSaxon king who had been consecrated by Dunstan and who was still alive at the time of writing. While the promise has been printed many times, most notably by Liebermann in his monumental edition of Anglo-Saxon law, and has been discussed by historians, little detailed attention has been paid to the other two paragraphs.1 These two paragraphs on kingship have not yet been included in the Toronto Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus, as this took its text from Liebermann’s edition of the promise only. The entire text was printed by Hickes in 1689 from London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. vii, by Arthur Taylor in The Glory of Regality in 1820 from London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra B. xiii, by Wright and Halliwell in 1843 from Cleopatra B. xiii and by Stubbs in his Memorials of St Dunstan in 1874, again from the Cleopatra version, but it has not been edited since Stubbs. 2 His edition, while 11

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Mary Clayton accurate, is not easily obtainable, his use of th for both  and  is not in accord with modern practice, and, as the text is printed only in an appendix to his book, there is no introduction or notes to the text. This article will, therefore, include an edition of the text. Discussions of the text since Stubbs’s edition have been brief. Plummer suggested that the Promissio might be the address referred to in the entries for 1043 in two versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C and E, which describe Archbishop’s Eadsige’s address to the newly consecrated Edward the Confessor, quoted here from the C Chronicle: ‘Her wæs Eadward gehalgod to cinge on Wincestre on forman Easter dæig mid myccelum wyrscupe . . . Eadsige arcebisceop hine halgade. 7 to foran eallum am folce hine wel lærde. 7 to his agenre neode 7 ealles folces wel manude.’3 Liebermann set out the relationship of the promises to the Latin promises preserved in coronation ordines from Anglo-Saxon England and argued that the vernacular version was for the coronation of Edward the Martyr (in 975) or of Æthelred (in 979); Dunstan certainly consecrated Æthelred at Kingston but we do not know where Edward the Martyr was consecrated, though it is highly probable that it was also at Kingston with Dunstan officiating.4 Dunstan had already consecrated Edgar in 973, but that coronation was in Bath and so cannot be the one referred to here. Although we do not have any documentary evidence of it, it is highly likely that Edgar had previously been consecrated c. 960, soon after he came to the throne, and in that case it is possible that Dunstan, who became archbishop in 959, also consecrated Edgar then, again most probably at Kingston, the favoured place for royal consecrations.5 Liebermann dated the translation of the promise 973 to 988 (Dunstan died in 988), saying that it ‘entstand vielleicht schon 973–78 oder bald nachher’.6 Given the youth of both Edward and Æthelred when consecrated (Edward was at least eleven at his father’s death in

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The Old English Promissio regis 975, when he became king, but may not have been much older, and Æthelred was probably about thirteen when he was crowned in 979),7 a vernacular promise might have been considered particularly appropriate at their consecrations. Liebermann was cautious on the question of the accompanying address. He pointed out that it is, in parts, very like Institutes of Polity and Napier L,8 both by Wulfstan, and said that it is possibly by the translator of the promise and that, judging by the language and the dates of the manuscripts, it was written, at the latest, by 1030–60.9 If it is by the translator of the promise, then, given Liebermann’s own dating of the vernacular promise, it would have to be from the 970s or 980s. Robertson, in her edition of the promise, reiterated Liebermann’s indications of the similarities between the address and the Wulfstan texts and further pointed out that: ‘In tone and phraseology also it suggests comparison with V and VI Æthelred’, two of Wulfstan’s lawcodes.10 A common assumption about the address over the last forty years is that it is a coronation address. Janet Nelson describes the king reading out the vernacular promise and says that the ‘manuscript evidence shows that the vernacular promise was linked with an address, also in Anglo-Saxon, to the new king, exhorting him to keep his promises’.11 Patrick Wormald in 1978 assumed that 17 18

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The Old English Promissio regis views from his earlier treatment. While asserting that ‘a king consecrated by Dunstan at Kingston, and still reigning at the time of writing, can only have been Æthelred’,20 he suggests that since ‘Vitellius was originally a Ramsey MS, and in the light of Byrhtferth’s wellknown interest in coronations, it might – at the risk of fathering further unwanted progeny on Byrhtferth – be worth pondering his possible role in the oath’s translation.’21 Of the sermon, he says that: ‘The idiom, though not the language, is already that of Wulfstan’;22 he also argues that the sermon ‘may correspond to that said by two of the Chronicles to have been preached to Edward the Confessor in 1043’.23 Wormald is the only one to have commented on the source of the sermon, pointing out that the sermon’s ‘source (which is very close), [is] the section on the “Rex iniquus”, in pseudo-Cyprian’.24 Pseudo-Cyprian is De duodecim abusiuis, a seventh-century Hiberno-Latin text on the twelve abuses of the world; the ninth abuse, the unjust king, had a profound influence on Western ideas of kingship.25 To sum up this review of discussions of the Promissio regis, it is clear that the prevailing assumption is that this is a coronation sermon for Æthelred’s consecration, which might have been used also for Edward the Confessor’s. There is not total agreement about the authorship of the text, but a number of historians have assumed that Dunstan was responsible for it. We find in the literature repeated references to the text’s similarities with various texts of Wulfstan’s, but no-one attributes the text to Wulfstan. The similarities are instead seen as being due to Wulfstan drawing on or being inspired by the Promissio and/or to Æthelred taking seriously the promises made by him at his coronation and ensuring that they were closely reflected in his legislation, much of which was written by Wulfstan. It is notable that Wulfstan scholars other than Wormald have not engaged with the Promissio. There has been very little discussion of the Promissio’s sources and content, other than Liebermann’s comparision of the three promises to the Latin forms of the promises in consecration rituals from Anglo-Saxon England and Wormald’s drawing attention to the text’s close dependence on De duodecim abusiuis. In this article, therefore, in addition to providing a new edition of the Promissio regis, I will explore the sources and the ideology of the text and look again at the question of its authorship and function. 20 22 25

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Mary Clayton the manuscript s London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra B. xiii (Part 1) The vernacular Promissio regis is now found only in an eleventh-century Exeter manuscript, London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra B. xiii (Part 1).26 Part 1 (fols. 1–58) of Cleopatra B. xiii contains Old English homilies and some other short pieces. As Cleopatra B. xiii is one of the manuscripts produced in the scriptorium established by Leofric in Exeter, it can be dated fairly accurately. Leofric transferred his see from Crediton to Exeter in 1050, therefore the manuscript must have been produced between 1050 and the year of Leofric’s death, 1072.27 Cleopatra B. xiii is a small, easily portable manuscript, now measuring, after cropping, 184 ⫻ 124 mm.; the written space is 170 ⫻ 80 mm. It is ruled for nineteen lines to the page, except for fol. 57 with twenty-three lines and fol. 58 with twenty-eight lines. The contents are: Fol. 1r: Seventeenth-century table of contents for entire manuscript Fol. 1v: Parkerian table of contents for Part 1 11. Fols. 2r–7v: In die iudicii (Wulfstan, ed. Napier, XL; collated by Scragg, Vercelli Homilies, homily II) 12. Fols. 7v–12r: Ælfric, Catholic Homilies I.XVII (for the Second Sunday after Easter) 13. Fols. 13r–31r: Ælfric, Catholic Homilies I.I (on the Creation, quando uolueris) 14. Fols. 31r–38r: Homilies of Wulfstan, ed. Bethurum, no. XVIII (for the dedication of a church) 15. Fols. 38r–43r: Wulfstan, ed. Napier, XXXVII (for the consecration of a bishop)28 16. Fols. 44r–55v: Vercelli XIX with passages from Ælfric, Catholic Homilies, I.XVIII; ed. Luiselli Fadda29 and collated by Scragg, Vercelli Homilies (homily XIX) 26

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homiliary. Given the diversity of items, it appears likely that the scribes drew on different sources in assembling the collection.46 The Wulfstan items in the manuscript are particularly interesting, as Bethurum XVIII, for the dedication of a church, survives only in this manuscript47 and Napier XXXVII (corresponding in part to Bethurum XVII), for the consecration of a bishop, is preserved only here and, in a different form, in Hatton 113, where it is divided between two items, the first 43 lines in Bethurum’s edition of homily XVII as item 30 on 93v–94v and, with a beginning that is not in Cleopatra B. xiii, lines 36 to 79 in item 26, fols. 83–84v.48 Neither item in Hatton 113 has the substantial ending of the text in Cleopatra B. xiii;49 Bethurum rejected this ‘because it has not much organic relation to what precedes, and, though the separate phrases are Wulfstan’s and can be paralleled in his other writings, the whole has the effect of an ill-considered scribal addition’.50 The Cleopatra version of the homily is, however, accepted as genuine by Wilcox, who calls attention to Bethurum’s unsatisfactory editing of this piece.51 As with Cleopatra B. xiii, the Exeter additions to CCCC 421 contain an interesting Wulfstan text; Napier L, beginning ‘We secgea urum cynehlaforde and eallum folce cyan wylla’, an address to king and people, is found here and nowhere else.52 The make-up of the last part of the Old English section of Cleopatra B. xiii is irregular. Six quires of eight folios are followed by a quire which now wants a leaf after fol. 55.53 Fol. 55*, not included in the early modern numbering 45

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The Old English Promissio regis The surviving folios of Vitellius A. vii were written by three scribes; the first wrote fols. 1–15 and 54v–72v, line 12; the second 15v–54r; and the third 72v, line 12–112v.70 Drage identifies the hand which wrote the third stint and which also played an important role in adapting the Leofric Missal as the hand of Leofric himself, ‘the only accomplished scribe who does not write in an Exeter-type hand or in some derivative of that style’.71 Watson identifies the first hand as that of 38–55v of Cleopatra B. xiii,72 although Drage does not assign any of Vitellius to the scribe of these folios of Cleopatra.73 If Vitellius and Cleopatra are connected to each other in this way, then they also form part of a group ‘interconnected by Exeter provenance and script and by the hands of some of the scribes’.74 Given that Leofric himself wrote part of the Vitellius Pontifical, it was presumably in accordance with his wishes that vernacular texts were included in it.

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altare posuerat, sic (autem) illi Episcopus dictabat: IN NOMINE SS. TRINITATIS Ego tria promitto populo Christiano, & subditis meis. Primum quod Ecclesia Dei, & populus Christianus omnis ditionis meæ vera pace perfruetur. Secundum est, quod Ego latrocinium, & injustitiam omnimodam omnibus hominum ordinibus prohibebo. Tertium autem, quod spondeo, & præcipio in judiciis omnibus justitiam, & misericordiam adhibendam esse, ut nobis etiam omnibus pro æterna sua clementia ignoscat benignus, & misericors Deus, qui vivit, & regnat, etc. Rex Christianus, qui hæc custodit, temporalem sibi ipsi honorem promeretur, atque Deus insuper se propitium ille præbebit, & in præsenti vita, & in æterna etiam illa, quæ nunquam deficiet. Si quando autem violaverit quod Deo promissum erat, regni sui status quam citissime in pejus ruet, & in fine omnia in exitium vertentur, nisi dum vita suppetat, hæc prius emendaverit. O dilecte domine! cave præ omnibus diligenter tibi ipsi. Recogita hoc frequenter, quod ipse gregem, cujus in hac vita pastor creatus es, ad Dei judicium produces, atque præibis, & tunc cognosces te illum (scil. gregem) gubernare, quem olim Christus ipse suo sanguine redemit. Consecrati regis officium est neminem injuste judicare, viduas, & orphanos, & peregrinos protegere, ac tueri, furta prohibere, adulteria punire, incesta conjugia discindere, & penitus impedire, sagas, & incantatores delere, parricidas, & perjuros exterminare, egenos eleemolynis pascere, insuper senes, sapientes, & sobrios à consiliis habere, & homines justos in ministros constituere. Quandoquidem quæcunque ipsi inique fecerint ejus culpa, eorundem omnium ipse (Rex) rationem reddet in die judicii.’ On the hands, see Bishop, English Caroline Minuscule, p. 24; Drage, ‘Bishop Leofric’, p. 365; and Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts I, 109–10 and I, 71; I, 101; I, 120; and I, 130. Drage, ‘Bishop Leofric’, p. 139; see also pp. 140–1. This view is accepted in The Leofric Missal, ed. N. Orchard, 2 vols., HBS 113 and 114 (London, 2002) I, 140–1. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts I, 101 (no. 524) and I, 110 (no. 573). Ibid. I, 71; see Drage, ‘Bishop Leofric’, p. 155. Treharne, of course, attributes much more of Cleopatra to this scribe but does not discuss Cleopatra’s connections with Latin manuscripts from Exeter. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts I, 71. Watson states that the same scribe also wrote parts of London, British Library, Add. 28188 (a pontifical and benedictional), London, British Library, Harley 863 (the ‘Leofric Psalter’) and London, British Library, Harley 2961 (the ‘Leofric Collectar’); the ‘Leofric Missal’, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 579, is also linked with these manuscripts through the additions it received in Exeter.

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Mary Clayton In contents, the incomplete pontifical in Addit. 28188 is related to that in Vitellius A. vii.75 There is no Old English in Addit. 28188, but its pontifical does not include the Latin texts for which translations were supplied in Vitellius. Likewise, Addit. 28188 does not include a coronation ordo; that in Vitellius A. vii comes before the point at which it begins to correspond to Addit. 28188. Vitellius and Addit. 28188 both have strong East Anglian connections and seem to be modelled on a book from that region; Ramsey has been suggested for both manuscripts.76 Nicholas Orchard, however, argues that Ramsey is not likely as a place of origin for the model as pontificals are bishops’ books and Ramsey was a monastic community. He suggests instead that: In view of the fact that much of Vitellius A. vii’s text descends in parallel with that of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 44 from a pontifical drawn up by Stigand at Christ Church Canterbury in the 1050s, North Elmham seems likeliest. Stigand’s brother Æthelmær was bishop of the house from 1047 until his expulsion in 1070.77

One would like to see more evidence for this claim but, if Vitellius A. vii is closely connected with CCCC 44, then this also suggests that the vernacular texts were added to the pontifical in Exeter, rather than being copied from the exemplar; CCCC 44 has two short vernacular texts at the beginning of the manuscript, but they do not correspond to the vernacular texts in Vitellius A. vii. the relationship of the text s The texts of the Promissio regis in Cleopatra B. xiii and Vitellius A. vii were both produced in the same scriptorium in the same time period.78 Drage suggests that the manuscripts associated with Leofric were produced ‘over a fairly short period of time’79 and that ‘the bulk of the activity at Exeter may well have taken place in the 1050s, rather than being spread evenly throughout the period of Leofric’s episcopate.’80 It is likely, therefore, that the manuscripts were written within the same decade. The variations between the texts are minor, being confined largely to / variation; Cleopatra has ac for Vitellius’s eac in line X, but 75

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The Old English Promissio regis the ac may be due to the e of the preceding word, ge, misleading the scribe, rather than being a dialectal variant. Cleopatra finishes the first section of the text with FINIT, which is not in Hickes’s or Junius’s transcriptions and which was, therefore, presumably missing from Vitellius. Liebermann argued that Vitellius was copied from Cleopatra because, where i has been corrected to y in Cleopatra, Vitellius had y. This would mean that the corrections in Cleopatra would have had to be made very shortly after the text was written, as Vitellius seems to have been copied within the same decade as Cleopatra; Liebermann, of course, was not aware that the two manuscripts had been produced in such a short time-frame. Other explanations for this observation are also possible, however: Cleopatra and Vitellius could have been copied from a common exemplar, with i being a scribal form later corrected from the exemplar in Cleopatra or, indeed, Cleopatra could have been copied from Vitellius and corrected from it. The i to y correction is not restricted to this text in Cleopatra, but is a feature of other homilies in the manuscript also, as Ker pointed out;81 this makes it more difficult to assess its significance for the relationship between the two copies of the Promissio. Ker pointed to four manuscripts which contain i to y corrections;82 Jonathan Wilcox, in his PhD thesis, then observed that three of these four manuscripts are Exeter manuscripts and that this correction therefore seems to be an Exeter characteristic.83 The three Exeter manuscripts are CCCC 190, CCCC 419+421 and Cleopatra B. xiii. In CCCC 190 the i to y correction is found in items 20 and 21, the two anonymous vernacular translations of sermons by Abbo of St-Germain.84 Ker says that the hand which added articles 17 to 21 to CCCC 190 was ‘very like that in no. 69 [CCCC 421], pp. 3–96 and 209–41’ (that is, the similar hands responsible for the Exeter additions to CCCC 421, discussed above),85 so the three manuscripts are connected. It is even possible that this correction may have something to do with Leofric himself, given that both Cleopatra and CCCC 421 were probably part of his personal homiliary and that the corrected texts in CCCC 190 were intended to be preached by a bishop and that Leofric’s own hand is found elsewhere in this manuscript.86 81 83

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sermons from which they were translated are found in bishops’ books. On Leofric’s homiliary, see Treharne, ‘The Bishop’s Book’ (forthcoming). Wormald, Making of English Law, p. 448, n. 118. Ker dated Cleopatra to s. xi (3rd quarter) and Vitellius to s. xi1. Two sermons for the dedication of a church, printed by R. Brotanek, Texte und Untersuchungen zur altenglischen Literatur und Kirchengeschichte (Halle, 1913); CCCC 44, an English pontifical from the first half of the eleventh century, also contains two short vernacular texts, before the Latin texts begin (see T. Graham, ‘The Old English Prefatory Texts in the Corpus-Canterbury Pontifical’, Anglia 113 (1995) 1–15), and other pontificals contain short texts such as vernac89 ular forms of exorcism. See above, p. 102.

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The Old English Promissio regis Saxon England. Liebermann noted that some of the ‘ermahnende Anrede an den König’ in sections two and three was word for word like part of Polity and Napier L and made the king responsible for the welfare of his people at the Last Judgement in the same terms that the bishop had been responsible for his flock.90 In discussing the sources and analogues, I will take each of the three sections separately. (a) Section One This section consists of the introductory sentence, recounting the circumstances in which the reigning king made the threefold promise, and a close translation of the promise. We have no independent verification of a custom of the Anglo-Saxon king placing a text of the promise on the altar at his coronation, and the Latin ordines do not mention such an action; they describe the king being led by the hand by two bishops to the church, prostrating himself before the altar while a hymn was sung and then rising from the floor and making the promise.91 However, given that the text addresses the king whose coronation is being described, it was presumably true, at least on this occasion. It may have been a standard feature of the consecration rite or could have been a feature unique to this ceremony; the text stresses that the king did this at the direction of Dunstan, ‘swa se bisceop him dihte’. We have, however, other evidence for particularly important texts being placed on the altar92 and a striking parallel and probable model is that Benedictine monks, at their profession, had to place a copy of their promise on the altar of their church;93 this may well have been the inspiration for the king’s action. The ordo for the profession of monks opens with the monk placing his written promise on the altar – as in, for example, the ordo in the Benedictional of Archbishop Robert: Ego frater .N. deo datus. promitto stabilitatem meam et conuersionem morum meorum et oboedientiam secundum regulam sancti benedicti coram deo et sanctis eius in presentia domini .N. episcopi. Inposita uero propria manu promissione super altare.94

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Mary Clayton According to Schramm, Frankish kings also placed their coronation promises on a holy place.95 The threefold promise is a fairly faithful translation of a version of the Latin threefold promise and is similar but not identical to the promise found in a variety of pontificals from Anglo-Saxon England. The promise is closest to the form in what is known as the Second English Coronation ordo. Here a short excursus on the early history of the English coronation ordines is necessary. What is known as the first English ordo for the consecration of a king is found in three manuscripts: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodleian 579 (the Leofric Missal), Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 10575 (the so-called Egbert Pontifical) and Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale A.27 (the so-called Lanalet Pontifical).96 This ordo was in existence by the middle of the ninth century, at the latest.97 This first English ordo concludes with an acclamation of the king by the people and his enthronement, after which the principes kiss him, and this is followed by the issuing of three commands to his people, his first acts as law-giver. The rubric and the text of the precepta in the Leofric Missal read: Rectitudo regis est nouiter ordinati et in solium sublimati, populo tria precepta sibi subdito precipere. Inprimis, ut ecclesia dei, et omnis populus christianus, ueram pacem seruent, in omnipotenti deo. R. Amen. Aliud est, ut rapacitates et omnes iniquitates, omnibus gradibus interdicat. R. Amen. Tertium est, ut in omnibus iudiciis, aequitatem et misericordiam precipiat, ut per hoc nobis indulgeat suam misericordiam clemens et misericors deus. R. Amen.98

The Second English ordo draws on the First English ordo and ninth-century West Frankish sources and exists in two versions, termed A and B by Janet Nelson.99 Unlike the First English ordo, the second includes a coronation. The A version is represented by the Sacramentary of Ratoldus (second half of the tenth 95 96

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The Old English Promissio regis century, before 986) and by a number of French manuscripts.100 B appears in seven manuscripts written in England in the later tenth and the eleventh century, representing two sub-versions. The Benedictional of Archbishop Robert (Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale, Y 7, from Winchester, s. x2) is the sole representative of one sub-version of this ordo.101 The following six manuscripts contain a second sub-version of the Second ordo: the Pontifical of Dunstan (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 943, s. x2, probably made in Canterbury, and in Sherborne by the beginning of the eleventh century);102 the Anderson Pontifical (London, British Library, Additional 57337, probably from Canterbury, s. x/xi); Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 146 (a Winchester pontifical, s. xiin); Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 44 (Canterbury, s. xi); London, British Library, Cotton Claudius A. iii (the Claudius Pontifical II, from Canterbury, s. xiex);103 and Vitellius A. vii, the Exeter pontifical from the third quarter of the eleventh century which contained the Promissio regis and whose coronation ordo is incomplete, due to the loss of part of the manuscript in the Cotton fire. This second sub-version made only ‘minor verbal changes’ to the version represented by the Benedictional of Robert.104 Janet Nelson suggests a date of c. 900 for the A version of the Second ordo;105 the Robert sub-version of B perhaps dates from the beginning of Edgar’s reign, c. 960,106 and the other B sub-version, which made only minor verbal changes to the Robert sub-version, may date from Edgar’s imperial consecration in Bath in 973.107 She tentatively associates the Robert sub-version of B with Æthelwold, but does not associate any name with the other B sub-version.108 While the A version of the Second ordo preserves the three precepta of the First ordo, in the B version the ‘single significant innovation’ is that the commands are replaced by a threefold promise or coronation oath, placed now at the beginning, rather than the end, of the ceremony: 100

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Mary Clayton Its substance was derived from the three-fold precept, originally the concluding section of the First English ordo and taken from it into the A version of the Second ordo. But the change in place meant a change in function: what had been a royal declaration of intent, a kind of programmatic statement issued literally from the throne by the newlyinstalled king, was turned by the reviser into a promise that was essentially a precondition of the ensuing consecration.109

The Benedictional of Robert has the same text of the promise as the other B sub-version and the transformation of precepts into promise must therefore date from c. 960, in the version tentatively associated with Æthelwold by Nelson. If the placing of a text of the promise on the altar was a standard feature of the consecration ceremony, then it may well have been introduced when the precepts were changed to a promise, as it is more likely that the king would place a promise which bound him on the altar than a set of commands to his people. Of the manuscripts listed above, Vitellius A. vii no longer preserves the part of the Latin text containing the promise, which means that six liturgical manuscripts now contain the Latin promissio. However, a further text of the threefold promise is included in Byrhtferth’s Vita Oswaldi, which contains a very detailed description of Edgar’s 973 coronation, clearly following a text of the Second ordo; Byrhtferth gives most of the text of the promise, though with slight variations from the texts in pontificals.110 All of the manuscripts containing the B version of the Second ordo have very similar texts of the threefold promise and I quote here that from the Anderson Pontifical, as it is not yet available in print: Haec tria populo christiano et mihi subdito in Christi promitto nomine. Inprimis ut aecclesia dei et omnis populus christianus ueram pacem nostro arbitrio in omni tempore seruet. Aliud ut rapacitates et omnes iniquitates omnibus gradibus interdicam. Tertium ut in omnibus iudiciis aequitatem et misericordiam precipiam, ut mihi et uobis indulgeat suam misericordiam clemens et misericors deus, qui uiuit et regnat.111

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Liebermann, Gesetze III, 144. The Leofric Missal and the so-called Egbert Pontifical have per hoc; the Lanalet Pontifical does not. In the Leofric Missal and the Egbert Pontifical; the Lanalet Pontifical has ‘sibi et nobis’. Liebermann, Gesetze III, 144. I am most grateful to Gill Cannell, of the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, for making a copy of the promise in CCCC 146 available to me and to Birgit Ebersperger for 117 sending me a text of the promise from the Dunstan Pontifical. See above, p. 108.

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The Old English Promissio regis placed a single sheet with his promise on the altar but, when (and if) this text was delivered to an audience, the speaker could have either held up to the audience the text of this address or he could have displayed a separate single sheet, similar to that which the king had used. If the preacher showed a single, separate sheet to his audience, then the promise contained on that sheet could have been in Latin or English. We do not know whether AngloSaxon kings took the promise in Latin or in the vernacular but the ordines for the coronation ceremonies, including the promise, are in Latin in AngloSaxon pontificals. As pointed out above, however, both Edward and Æthelred were very young when consecrated and it is possible that a vernacular promise would have been considered appropriate for their consecrations. Yet it is perfectly conceivable that, in delivering the Promissio, the speaker could have held up a Latin text while providing a vernacular version in the sermon. This clearly has a bearing on whether the author of the Promissio is responsible for the translation of the promise or whether he incorporated a pre-existing vernacular promise into his text – was the text copied ‘stæf be stæfe’ a Latin text on a separate sheet or an already existing Old English text which the author of the Promissio regis incorporated in his own text? In terms of orthography, there are no striking differences between the promise and the remainder of this text, suggesting that the vernacular version could have been created for this text, rather than for the coronation, and that the reference to letter-by-letter copying could be a rhetorical feature, intended to stress the closeness of the text to the eminent archbishop known to have performed the coronation. (b) Section Two The second section recounts the happy consequences for the king, in this life and the next, of keeping his coronation promise and the disastrous consequences for both him and his people if he breaks it; this is followed by a direct appeal to the king to protect himself and a reminder that he, as shepherd, will have to lead his herd to judgement and account for his rule. The linking of the kingdom’s welfare to the behaviour of the king in this section is generally indebted to the influence of the ninth abuse, the unjust king, in the seventhcentury Hiberno-Latin tract De duodecim abusiuis, but there are none of the verbal parallels which are so evident in the third section of the Promissio. As the ninth abuse is central to the third section as well as being of significance for the second, I shall outline it briefly here. The rex iniquus chapter begins by explaining that the unjust king does not maintain the dignity of his name, even though the rex should be rector and should rule and guide the wicked. It follows this with a list of what the righteousness of the king consists in, concluding: ‘Haec regni prosperitatem in praesenti faciunt et regem ad caelestia regna 113

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meliora perducunt.’ Then come the evil effects for the kingdom of a bad ruler: the peace of the people disturbed, the fruits of the earth reduced, deaths of loved ones, hostile invasions, storms, and sons and grandsons failing to inherit. The happy effects for the kingdom of a good king are then enumerated, including peace, protection, temperate weather, still seas, a fruitful earth and the sure inheritance of his children. The ninth abuse ends with a warning to the king that, just as he is set highest among men on earth, he will be given the foremost place of punishment in hell unless he administers justice and that he will be punished in the next world for the sinners he allowed under him. De duodecim abusiuis was ‘one of the most profoundly influential formulations of Christian political obligations in the entire Middle Ages’ and had an enormous influence on later ideas of kingship; 119 the text was very widely disseminated, with over five hundred extant manuscripts.120 The linking of the welfare of the kingdom to the behaviour of the king was taken up in Carolingian texts and can be found in the works of Anglo-Saxons at the court of Charlemagne such as Cathwulf, in his Letter to Charlemagne (c. 775), and Alcuin, and in the works of other Carolingian scholars.121 De duodecim abusiuis was also known in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries: Æthelwold donated a copy of the Latin to Peterborough and Ælfric produced an Old English adaptation of the entire text, as well as using it in Catholic Homilies II.XIX.122 118

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associated with Wulfstan. Wulfstan’s so-called ‘commonplace Book’, of which we have multiple versions, includes, in CCCC 265 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barlow 37 (neither, however, contemporary with Wulfstan), a section headed De rege, which draws on Sedulius Scottus, the Hibernensis and Isidore;129 the Hibernensis extracts are Liber XXV, ch. 3 (last sentence), ch. 4, ch. 7 and ch. 15. Chapters 3 and 4 are the chapters based on the ninth abuse. The ninth abuse was also quoted by Bishop Jonas of Orléans in his De institutione regali and in the acts of the Council of Paris in 829, for which Jonas was also responsible; the section quoted is that beginning ‘Iusticia regis est’.130 Abbo of Fleury, in compiling his Collectio canonum in the early 990s, adopted the same quotation, taking it from Ansegisus’s capitulary which included the acts of the Council of Paris;131 however, we have no evidence for knowledge of Abbo’s Collectio canonum in England, despite Abbo’s stay in Ramsey from 985 to 987, which one would expect would have led to copies of his later works being sent to England.132 Ansegisus’s capitulary, however, was known in England, and book 1 is in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42, and was annotated by Wulfstan. There were, therefore, several channels by which the ideas of the De duodecim abusiuis on kingship were disseminated. The ideas in De duodecim abusiuis’s treatment of kingship were quite well known in English church circles, then, and we can see their influence, adapted to suit the context of an address on the coronation promise, in the Promissio’s affirmation that the king who rules with the peace and justice demanded by the threefold promise will be rewarded in this life and the next and that the king who reneges on his promise will have disastrous results for his people (see below, p. 149, for translation): Se cristena cyng e as ing gehealde. he geearna him sylfum woroldlicne weormynt. and him éce god. æger gemiltsa. ge on andwerdum life. ge eac on am ecean e æfre ne ateora; Gif he onne æt awæg. æt gode wæs beháten. onne sceal hit 128

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The statement ‘onne sceal hit syan. wyrsian swye. sóna on his eode. and eall hit on ende. gehwyrf on æt wyrste’ reads almost like a vernacular summary of the list of ill-effects given in the ninth abuse and texts dependent on it. This first part of the second section of the Promissio, then, shows the influence of ideas from De duodecim abusiuis but the very summary treatment does not allow us to determine an exact source. The same ideas are reflected also in vernacular texts by Ælfric and Wulfstan, but without verbal similarities to the Promissio. Ælfric, in his Catholic Homilies II text for the Monday in Rogationtide, drawing on De duodecim abusiuis, says that: ‘æt folc bi gesælig urh snoterne cyning. sigefæst. and gesundful. urh gesceadwisne reccend; And hi beo geyrmede urh unwisne cyning. on manegum ungelimpum. for his misræde’;133 In his adaptation of the full Hiberno-Latin text, Ælfric gives more detail: Gif se cyning wile mid carfulnysse healdan as foresædan beboda. onne by his rice gesundfull on life. 7 æfter life he mot faran to am ecan [rice] for his arfæstnysse. Gif he onne forsyh as gesetnyssa 7 lare. onne by his eard geyrmed for oft. æger ge on heregunge ge on hunger. ge on cwealme. ge on ungewyderum. ge on wildeorum.134

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In this same revision, Wulfstan also added Polity I.11, clearly drawing on Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies II.XIX: urh cyninges wisdom folc wyr gesælig, gesundful and sigefæst.137

In his final reworking of Polity, Wulfstan amplified this with another passage influenced by the same Ælfric homily, this time dealing with the ill-effects for the kingdom of an unwise king: Þurh unwisne cyning folc wyr geyrmed for oft, næs ane, for his misræde.138

Wulfstan’s address to king and people, Napier L, also includes a passage identical to the revised Polity I. 5.139 No other late-tenth-century or early-eleventhcentury vernacular author includes similar ideas. The remainder of the second section of the Promissio is the quintessential expression of pastoral kingship in Old English. The author appeals to the king, as shepherd of his flock, to protect himself by acting in accordance with his coronation promise and reminds him that he will have to lead his flock at the Last Judgement and render account of how he has ruled them: ‘Eala leof hlaford beorh huruinga georne e sylfum. Geenc æt gelome æt u scealt a heorde. for æt godes dóme. ywan and lǽdan. e u eart to hyrde gescyft on ysum life. and onne gecennan hu u geheolde. æt crist ǽr gebohte. sylf mid his blóde.’ While I have not been able to find a source for the appeal to the king to protect himself, analogous appeals addressed to a congregation to protect themselves can be found in Old English texts and are a feature of Wulfstan’s work, in particular; Ælfric, while he uses the word gebeorgan, does not seem to use it in this kind of appeal to his audience to protect themselves spiritually, though anonymous texts occasionally include such passages. While other texts do not single out an individual and appeal to him directly, then, the 136

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The same idea is repeated in identical words in Napier L,162 and Wulfstan reworked it in the second edition of Polity: Cristenum cyninge gebyre swye rihte, æt he cristen folc rihtlice healde, and æt he sy, swa hit riht is, folces frofer and rihtwis hyrde cristenre heorde.163

Pope pointed out that both Cristes gespeliga and hyrde are found in the Ælfric passage just quoted and suggested that Wulfstan had taken both from this Ælfric passage.164 It is certainly a striking coincidence that the two terms which Wulfstan used in successive versions of Polity are found in the same sentence in Ælfric’s homily165 and neither term is used by any other Old English prose author for the king, only for various ecclesiastical ministries. The final major ideas in this second section of the Promissio are the idea that the king will lead his people at the Last Judgement and that he will have to render an account of how he has ruled them, and these again depend on seeing 161

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The lines quoted here are repeated word for word in the ‘homiletic exordium’ at the end of Cnut’s second lawcode, where sections 84–84.4b are identical to part of this CCCC 201 text.170 In Wulfstan’s sermon for the consecration of a bishop, as transmitted in Cleopatra B. xiii, he exhorts Christians to obey their shepherds, who will lead them on Judgement Day: ‘Ac don cristene men, swa swa we læra, hyran gode georne and am godcundan hyrdan, e æt godes dome hy for scylan lædan’.171 The same idea is found also in the so-called Poenitentiale Pseudo-Egberti or Old English Penitential, edited by Raith; this text occurs in manuscripts associated with Archbishop Wulfstan and was known by him.172 In Book III, chapter 16, part of the text which, in general, closely follows the Latin source (the Penitential of Halitgar), the Old English version adds a sentence to the end of the chapter which is not paralleled in the source: ‘Eall is is gecweden be biscopon 7 be <mæsse>preoston e godes folc on domesdæg to am dome lædan sceolon: ælc æne dæl e him her on life ær betæht wæs.’173 169

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The Promissio, then, seems to be influenced by other vernacular texts in this passage, but, while the other texts are all concerned with abbots, bishops, priests and canons, the Promissio tailors this theme to the office of king, by stressing his responsibility for injustice committed in his name. It is noteworthy that the Promissio does not have a conventional ending, such as one would expect in an address to king and people such as this appears to be. The final words, ‘for an swa hwæt swa hig to unrihte gedo urh his aful. he his sceal ealles gescead agyldan on domesdæg’, do not feel like a conclusion, and one would expect them to be followed by another plea to the king or, at least, a prayer-like finish. Napier L, addressed to king and people, ends with the prayer that every Christian will turn from sin and earn the heavenly kingdom ‘ær is ece blis and æfre bi mid am, e leofa and rixa a butan ende. amen’.191 The lack of a conventional ending may be an indication that the Promissio was never completed. the function of the text As is evident from the review of discussions of the Promissio at the beginning of this article, the majority view to date is that this text was composed as a coronation text, probably by Dunstan.192 The presence of the text in a pontifical, Vitellius A. vii, before the ordo for the coronation, naturally lends support to this view and one can imagine that it would be relatively easy to adapt the Promissio for a coronation address. However, the text itself makes very clear that it was not composed for preaching at a coronation. The first sentence introduces the translation of the promise by referring back to Dunstan’s coronation of ‘urum hlaforde’. The coronation of this king, who is still reigning, is in the past, ‘a on dæg a hine man halgode to cinge’; it is not something which is taking place on the occasion at which this sermon was delivered. The Promissio regis, then, is addressed to the same king whom Dunstan directed to lay the promise on the altar, but it makes no claim to be by Dunstan himself or 190

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Afol was replaced in subsequent versions of the Institutes of Polity with mægene,202 and Jost explains this by suggesting that Wulfstan himself replaced a littleknown word with a better-known one.203 Wulfstan uses woroldafelum in homily XII, line 38; this text is Wulfstan’s reworking of Ælfric’s De falsis deis and here he writes ‘e mihtige wurdan on woruldafelum’ for Ælfric’s ‘e mihtige wæron on woruldlicum geincum’.204 He uses it again in his Canons of Edgar, where he says that any priest who cannot or does not dare compel a man to penance for woruldafole must declare this at a synod.205 Sara Pons-Sanz has recently discussed afol and suggests that it is not, as had been thought, a Norse loanword, but is more likely to be of native origin, with abal as an alternative spelling; in this case, she says, ‘the preservation of its spelling in Old English solely in Wulfstan’s works should simply be understood as one of Fortune’s whims.’206 While too much weight cannot be placed on Wulfstan’s use of afol, then, it nevertheless remains the case that this is a rare word, with three of its four attestations in Wulfstan (that is, including the attestations of woruldafol), and its use in the Promissio could be a pointer towards Wulfstan’s involvement with this text. Apart from its use in the Promissio, the word sibleger is also found only in Wulfstan, and Audrey Meaney suggests that it may be Wulfstan’s own 200 201 202 204

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The Old English Promissio regis typical of Wulfstan, but is used in his homily II, line 33, with the spelling grundlinga. Wulfstan’s works also contain passages similar to other parts of the Promissio. The notion that the joy of eternal life will never fade is a common one in Old English homilies, often expressed by Ælfric, for example, in a phrase like ‘e him næfre ne ateora’214 and this is similar to the Promissio’s ‘ge eac on am ecean e æfre ne ateora’; it is, however, also paralleled in Wulfstan’s homily 7, where even the unusual æfre, rather than næfre, is found: ‘And se e to am gesælig bi æt he to am mærum 7 to am myrhum cym, ne ateoria hy him æfre.’215 The appeal to the king to protect himself is similar to the many appeals to the congregation or readers that Wulfstan made in his sermons, laws and Institutes of Polity to protect themselves, all using the verb beorgan, as in the examples quoted above.216 These pleas to enlightened self-interest – if for no other reason, people should behave righteously for the sake of their own salvation – are characteristic of his work and the Dictionary of Old English says that the verb, which occurs altogether c. 130 times, is ‘disproportionately frequent in Wulfstan’.217 The Promissio’s appeal to the king, Eala leof hlaford, is again similar to the many addresses to his audience in Wulfstan’s work, generally in his characteristic form leofan men and often prefaced with Eala.218 This is not a feature of the work of other Old English homilists; Ælfric does use Eala leof x in speeches within his texts, but not in addressing a congregation, while anonymous homilists prefer Eala men a leofestan. Like the joys of heaven never fading, the concept of Christ buying salvation with his blood or his life is a common enough one in Old English homilies, but nevertheless it is very frequent in Wulfstan and his work contains striking parallels to the Promissio’s ‘hu u geheolde. æt crist ǽr gebohte. sylf mid his blóde’: from V Æthelred, ‘ac beorge man georne, æt man a sawla ne forfare, e Crist mid his agenum life gebohte’219 and from Wulfstan homily XIII, ‘Ac he gebohte us a ealle mid his deorwuran blode of helle wite.’220 In the revised Polity, Wulfstan asks what will happen to shepherds (here priests) on the Last Day if they did not guard or rule 214 215

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As well as features of vocabulary and turns of phrase, the concerns of this address are shared by Wulfstan. It is not only the word sibleger itself that points to Wulfstan, but also the interest in incest. Incest was a preoccupation of Wulfstan’s and something that he asked Ælfric about early in his archepiscopate, receiving a less than helpful reply.222 Texts dealing with incest are also included in his ‘commonplace book’.223 In the ‘Peace of Edward and Guthrum’, dated before 1008, he stipulated the punishment for incest;224 in VI Æthelred Wulfstan defined the forbidden degrees of marriage,225 repeating them in I Cnut,226 and in II Cnut he came back again to the topic, pointing out that the compensation had to reflect the degree of consanguinity involved.227 Incest is included in the list of sins of the English in the Sermo Lupi and in Napier XXVII, another Wulfstan homily.228 It would be in keeping with Wulfstan’s marked interest in the topic that he would introduce it in the Promissio, without warrant from the source. Both the topic and the word chosen to express it point, then, to Wulfstan. That the justice of the king includes that he should ‘grundlunga. forbeode. wiccan. and galdra adilige’ is again characteristic of Wulfstan’s interests: in the ‘Peace of Edward and Guthrum’, in VI Æthelred, and in II Cnut, it is ordained that witches are to be driven out or completely destroyed.229 In Cnut’s letterproclamation of 1020, Wulfstan lists as examples of unriht ‘mægslagan 7 221

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This manuscript, like De duodecim abusiuis and Hibernensis A, has ‘parricidas et periurantes uiuere non sinere’, but is otherwise very close to the Promissio. A point which might tell against Wulfstan as author is that Jost adduces some evidence, though not very substantial, which indicates that Wulfstan knew Ælfric’s De duodecim abusiuis, which, of course, contains a version of the ninth abuse; if this were the case, then we might expect him to have drawn on it for the Promissio, given his tendency to use Ælfric as a source. The two versions of the ninth abuse material are very different, however, and the Promissio shows no traces of influence from Ælfric. It is possible, however, that Wulfstan was not acquainted with Ælfric’s full version of De duodecim abusiuis, though he certainly knew Catholic Homilies II.XIX, which draws on the Hiberno-Latin text. Jost’s main evidence is that Wulfstan uses for oft in Polity II.13, echoing, he says, Ælfric’s for oft in his full De duodecim abusiuis.241 He also points to Wulfstan’s use of for mid in Polity II.112, a paragraph on bishops, which phrase is, he says, also taken from Ælfric’s full De duodecim abusiuis, although none of the rest of the section has any verbal echoes of Ælfric.242 The evidence consists of such minute points that it seems rather flimsy. However, Ælfric’s text is part of the Worcester manuscripts CCCC 178 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 115, whose contents display striking similarities with the list of Ælfric texts Wulfstan is known to have used.243 Even if he knew Ælfric’s full version of De duodecim abusiuis, if the Promissio is by Wulfstan it is very possible that his 241 242

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The Old English Promissio regis source for the last section was the Hibernensis, so that Ælfric’s text of the twelve abuses might not have even occurred to him as relevant. Some features of the text’s vocabulary do not point to Wulfstan. Wulfstan does not use forgifan in the sense of ‘to give’, as in the Promissio’s ‘his ecean miltse forgyfe’; Jost points out that Wulfstan uses forgifan only in the sense of ‘forgive’ and this is borne out by the DOE Corpus.244 Jost also points out that nænig is very unusual in Wulfstan,245 but it is found occasionally in his work, and is in the Promissio.246 Ar and its derivatives, including arfaest, are also not found in Wulfstan, except where he is adapting Ælfric, when he does employ it; 247 the Promissio has arfæst in line 8. Unusual too is the translation of the Latin ‘iustos super regni negotia constituere, senes et sapientes et sobrios consiliarios habere’ as ‘ealde. and wise. and syfre him to geeahterum hæbbe. and rihtwise mæn him to wicnerum sette’. Ælfric’s translation of this same passage is: ‘Witan him sceolon rædan . . . He sceal sofæste men settan him to gerefan’, making his text very immediate for an Anglo-Saxon audience. The Promissio’s ‘to geeahterum’ and ‘to wicnerum’ do not convey the same sense of Anglo-Saxon institutions, whereas, if Wulfstan were the author, one would expect him to do this. Geeahtere is not attested in Wulfstan and wicnere only in VIII Æthelred, where it refers to the officers of abbots.248 Had Wulfstan translated this passage and come up with his own equivalent of those responsible for regni negotia and of consiliarios, we might expect something more like Ælfric’s witan or the ‘eorlan and heretogan, deman and gerefan’ whom he addressed in Napier L.249 It is notable that these uncharacteristic vocabulary items are all in the sections directly dependent on sources, that is, in the translation of the promise and of the ninth abuse/Hibernensis extract. The other crucial factor in any attribution to Wulfstan is his style, and the style of the Promissio has not been associated with him. It is true that the Promissio lacks the density of rhetorical features that we regard as most typical of Wulfstan; however, it is most certainly not entirely lacking in them and Wulfstan’s texts vary in the degree to which they employ his high style.250 The Promissio contains many two-stress phrases, alliteration, and some doublets and rhyme. These can be found in all parts of the text to some extent; for example, 244 246

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or the doublet ‘ic behate and bebeode’, with its rhyme and alliteration. What is striking, however, is that the middle section, which does not depend on a direct source in the way that the other two sections do, is composed – and punctuated in Cleopatra B. xiii – in two-stress phrases throughout, such as are invariably associated with Wulfstan: Se cristena cyng e as ing gehealde. he geearna him sylfum woroldlicne weormynt. and him éce god. æger gemiltsa. ge on andwerdum life. ge eac on am ecean e æfre ne ateora; Gif he onne æt awæg. æt gode wæs beháten. onne sceal hit syan. wyrsian swye. sóna on his eode. and eall hit on ende. gehwyrf on æt wyrste. butan he on his liffæce. ǽr hit gebéte. Eala leof hlaford beorh huruinga georne e sylfum. Geenc æt gelome æt u scealt a heorde. for æt godes dóme. ywan and lǽdan. e u eart to hyrde gescyft on ysum life. and onne gecennan hu u geheolde. æt crist ǽr gebohte. sylf mid his blóde.

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The Old English Promissio regis This section also has a lot of grammatical rhyme, on the -e endings, again very typical of Wulfstan’s style. Alliteration is frequent: cristena cyng; woroldlicne weormynt; eac / ecean; æfre / ateora and so on. I think that in the case of this section there can be little doubt that, stylistically, it could have been written by Wulfstan. So we have the situation where we have some vocabulary items associated solely with Wulfstan up to now, Exeter manuscripts that preserve otherwise unknown Wulfstan texts, ideas associated very closely with Wulfstan, a style that is, at least in part, very like his, combined with some uncharacteristic features of vocabulary and some inconsistency of style. The most Wulfstan-like section, style-wise, is the middle one, but the words otherwise unique to Wulfstan are found in the third section. In addition, this text could only have been composed and delivered by someone with great authority – Wulfstan certainly possessed that and we know that he was involved in law-making and preached to the witan and the king. The Promissio author would also have to have had the confidence to transfer themes associated with bishops, in particular, to the king – leading the flock on the Day of Judgement, especially. One possible explanation for the marked similarities with Wulfstan’s work combined with some uncharacteristic features of vocabulary, in particular, is that Wulfstan had been supplied with – or had commissioned – vernacular translations of the two main Latin sources, the coronation promise and the ninth abuse and that he then reworked these, but without completely eliminating features alien to his style, perhaps because the piece was never finished. Malcolm Godden has pointed to how, when writing in the vernacular, Wulfstan ‘does seem to have found it convenient to use as a starting point texts in English’;251 possibly this is what happened here, as it is otherwise difficult to reconcile the clear Wulfstan connections of the piece with the occasional atypical features. It is hard to believe that anyone else could have been responsible for a text which shares so much with the archbishop’s work and whose closest parallel is Wulfstan’s Napier L. If Wulfstan was not the author then it is not, I think, a case of Wulfstan knowing the Promissio, as Stafford states,252 so much as the Promissio author knowing and drawing on Wulfstan’s work; we would have to postulate a Wulfstan-imitator to account for the similarities. There was no shortage of Wulfstan imitators but they do not compose texts like this, addressing the king with all the force that we find here.253 I find it hard to attribute this text to a Wulfstan imitator. 251 252 253

Godden, ‘The Relations of Wulfstan and Ælfric’, p. 374. Stafford, ‘The Laws of Cnut’, p. 186, n. 53. On Wulfstan imitators, see D. Scragg, Dating and Style in Old English Composite Homilies, H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lectures 9 (Cambridge, 1999).

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The Old English Promissio regis L that ‘the parts of Ælfric’s letters used are left almost unchanged. When Wulfstan reworked Ælfric’s material for oral delivery, he changed it sufficiently to give the lines his own rhythm, not Ælfric’s.’260 The ‘haste’ which, rightly or wrongly, Bethurum saw in homilies XVII, XVIII and Napier L may help to explain some puzzling features of the Promissio, which, if Wulfstan’s, also seems to contain passages written by someone else which are imperfectly assimilated to Wulfstan’s style and fewer rhetorical features than we might expect; it also seems to be incomplete. Bethurum comments too on the fact that homily XVIII ‘is preserved only in MS N [Cleopatra B. xiii] suggests that it was not in the main body of Wulfstan’s collected sermons.’261 The same is true of Napier L and Napier XXXVII/Bethurum XVII and, if it is his, the Promissio. Given that they are all found in what is essentially the same Exeter manuscript, the likelihood is that they all came to Exeter together. It is difficult to know why these texts are not preserved in manuscripts from Worcester or York, where one would expect them to be preserved, but the reason why they were not circulated more widely perhaps lies in the fact that they are, as Bethurum said of XVII and XVIIII, ‘archepiscopal’ and therefore not terribly suited to delivery by priests who could make use of many of Wulfstan’s other sermons in their own preaching. It is possible, though certainty is unattainable, that these texts were preserved in Worcester until the middle of the eleventh century, at least, and sent to Exeter at Leofric’s request because they were suited to a bishop. Leofric seems to have acquired CCCC 190 from Worcester and a booklet containing these texts could have travelled with it, all being considered appropriate for a newly appointed bishop.262 the date of the text The internal indications in the Promissio date it to between 960, the earliest possible date when Dunstan could have consecrated a king, and 1016, the date of 260

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Wormald, Making of English Law, p. 337, n. 344. Ibid. pp. 445–9. I am grateful to Don Scragg and Juliet Mullins for their comments on this article.

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The text is based on London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra B. xiii, 56r–57v (C), with variants from Junius’s transcript of London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. vii in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 60 (J) and from George Hickes’s text, also of the Vitellius version, in the Preface to his Institutiones grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae, et Moeso-Gothicae (H). Punctuation, capitalization and accent marks are from Cleopatra B. xiii. Abbreviations have been expanded. Variant readings where they consist of  for  or and for the tironian nota have not been noted.

PROMISSIO REGIS.. 1 is gewrit is gewriten stæf be stæfe. be am gewrite e dunstan arcebisceop2 sealde urum hlaforde æt cingestune. a on dæg3 a hine man halgode to cinge. and forbead him ælc wedd to syllanne butan ysan wedde e he up on cristes weofod lede swa se bisceop4 him dihte; On ære halgan rynnesse5 naman . Ic reo ing behate cristenum folce. and me undereoddum;6 An ærest æt godes cyrice and eall cristen folc7 minra gewealda soe sibbe healde., Oer is æt8 ic reaflac and ealle unrihte ing. eallum hadum forbeode. Þridde æt9 ic behate and bebeode on eallum dómum riht and mildheortnesse. æt us eallum arfæst and mildheort god urh æt. his ecean miltse forgyfe.10 Se lyfa11 and rixa. FINIT..12 Se cristena cyng e as ing gehealde. he geearna him sylfum woroldlicne weormynt. and him éce god. æger gemiltsa. ge on andwerdum life. ge eac13 on am ecean e æfre ne ateora; Gif he onne æt awæg. æt gode wæs behaten. onne sceal hit syan. wyrsian swye. sóna on his eode.14 and eall hit on ende. gehwyrf15 on æt wyrste.16 butan he on his liffæce. ær hit gebéte. Eala leof hlaford beorh huruinga georne e17 sylfum. Geenc æt gelome æt u scealt a heorde. for æt godes dome. ywan and lædan. e u eart to hyrde gescyft on ysum life. and onne gecennan hu u geheolde. æt crist ær gebohte. sylf mid his blóde.. 11 12 14 16 19 13

Sacramentum vel promissio Regis in consecratione J; no title H 13 arceb with stroke through ascender of b, C, J; arcb H dæge H 15 .b. with stroke through ascender C, J; bisceop H y altered from i C 17 18 undereoddum J; undereodum H folce H  C, J; at H 10 111 12  C, J; at H y altered from i C y altered from i C omitted J, H 14 15 16 17 ac C eode J, H gehwyrfa H wyrst H e J

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The Old English Promissio regis Gehalgodes cynges riht is. æt he nænigne man ne fordeme. and æt he wuduwan. and steopcild. and æleodige werige. and amundige. and stala forbeode. and unrihthæmedu gebete. and siblegeru19 totwæme. and grundlunga.20 forbeode. wiccan. and galdra adilige.21 mægmyrran and manswaran of earde adrife. earfan mid ælmyssan fede. and ealde.22 and wise. and syfre him to geeahterum hæbbe. and rihtwise mæn23 him to wicnerum sette. for an swa hwæt swa hig to unrihte24 gedo urh his aful. he his sceal ealles gescead agyldan on domesdæg.. 18

This document is written letter by letter in accordance with the document which Archbishop Dunstan gave our lord at Kingston on the day when he was consecrated as king and he forbade him to give any pledge except for this pledge which he laid on Christ’s altar, as the bishop directed him: In the name of the Holy Trinity, I promise three things to the Christian people who are subject to me: first, that God’s church and all Christian people in my dominions preserve true peace; the second is that I forbid robbery and all unrighteous things to all orders; the third, that I promise and command justice and mercy in all judgements, so that the kind and merciful God because of that may grant us all his eternal mercy, who lives and reigns. Finit. The Christian king who observes these things will earn for himself worldly honour and eternal God will have mercy on him both in this present life and also in the eternal which will never come to an end. If he fails to fulfil that which was promised to God, then within a very short time after that things will grow worse among his people, and in the end it will all turn out for the worst, unless he previously make amends for it in his lifetime. O beloved lord, eagerly protect yourself at least! Remember frequently that you will have to present and lead forth the flock of which you are appointed shepherd in this life and then will have to declare how you ruled that which Christ himself had previously purchased with his blood. The justice of a consecrated king is that he condemn no man [unjustly?]; and that he defend and protect widows and orphans and foreigners; and forbid theft; and correct adulteries; and separate those who commit incest; and completely forbid witches; destroy spells; drive kin-murderers and perjurers out of the country; feed the needy with alms; have the old and wise and temperate as his counsellors; and appoint righteous men as officers; because, whatever they do unjustly by means of his might, he must give a reckoning on judgement day for all of it.

notes to text l. 18 There is a problem with the Old English here; Stubbs translated fordeme as ‘judge unrighteously’ and this is clearly the meaning demanded by the context (Memorials of St Dunstan, p. 356). However, the Dictionary of Old English gives the meaning of fordeman as ‘to condemn, express strong disapproval of, censure, blame, find guilty, pass judicial 18 22

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Mary Clayton sentence on, pass sentence on (with the sentence expressed), to damn, to judge, pass judgement on’; fordeman does not mean, therefore, ‘to judge unrighteously’ and no occurrence in the DOE Web Corpus supports such a meaning. None of the DOE meanings seems as suitable to the context as Stubbs’s translation, however, as the text can hardly be saying that a king should not condemn or not judge, especially as the promise insists on just judgements. It may be that a word is missing here, the ‘unrighteously’ which Stubbs’s translation includes and which would translate the Latin’s iniuste; possibilities are the word unrihtlice or the phrase on unriht, giving ‘æt he nænigne man unrihtlice/on unriht ne fordeme’. Compare, for example, Wulfstan’s ‘Ne ænig man oerne on unriht ne fordeme.’ (Homily 10c, Homilies of Wulfstan, ed. Bethurum, lines 92–3). I have not, however, amended the OE text, as Cleopatra and Vitellius do not differ from each other and it is possible that the error goes back to the author. l. 20 Sibleger can mean incest or those who commit incest. It first occurs in Wulfstan’s ‘Peace of Edward and Guthrum’; in this text and in Cnut’s letter-proclamation to the people of England in 1020, written in part by Wulfstan, it is used, as here in the Promissio, to denote those who commit incest. Meaney is uneasy about siblegeru in the Cnut letter as, she says, ‘it comes in rather awkwardly, since all the other words refer to people, while it is abstract’ (see A. Meaney, ‘ “And we forbeoda eornostlice ælcne hæenscipe”: Wulfstan and Late Anglo-Saxon and Norse “Heathenism” ’, Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, ed. Townend, pp. 461–500, at p. 481, n. 75). Given the use in the Promissio, the ‘Peace of Edward and Guthrum’ and Cnut’s letter-proclamation, it is clear that the word was not only abstract, but could also refer to people. On Wulfstan’s part in Cnut’s letter, see Wormald, Making of English Law, p. 347. l. 20: The manuscript punctuation makes it difficult to decide whether and grundlunga. forbeode is to be read with the preceding clause, and siblegeru totwǽme, or with the following word, wiccan. I have chosen the latter in my translation.

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Viking invasions and marginal annotations in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162 kathryn powell abstract In the margins of Ælfric’s ‘Ash-Wednesday’ homily in Cambridge Corpus Christi College 162, an early-eleventh-century annotator adds a remark specifying ‘invasions’ among various misfortunes afflicting the English on a daily basis. This article argues that this marginal annotation constitutes a contemporary reference to the viking raids of King Æthelred the Unready’s reign. The article examines this marginal text in the context of Ælfric’s homily and in relation to other marginalia possibly written by the same scribe, including a second comment on the viking incursions. Based on this evidence, it is suggested that the annotator is revising homilies in this manuscript for preaching, possibly at St Augustine’s, Canterbury, in the years 1009–12.

In the margins of early English manuscripts, one finds all sorts of annotations by later readers, including corrections, alterations and expansions of the main text or commentary upon it, glosses on particular words, rubrics, and apparently unrelated texts that have been copied into an available blank space. It is extremely rare, however, for such marginalia to relate a text to contemporary events. Yet that is what we appear to find in two separate additions in the margins of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162. One of these annotations, found in the margins of an anonymous rogationtide homily, is badly rubbed so that any reading of it must be at least partly conjectural, and is phrased in such a way that it need not refer to events taking place at the time when it was written. On its own, then, it does not appear remarkable, which may account for the fact that it has received scant comment.1 The other annotation, however, found in the margins of Ælfric’s ‘Ash-Wednesday’ homily, is much more striking, although no more frequently noticed.2 When viewed in its manuscript context, it becomes clear that this marginal text must refer to invasions taking place at the time when it was written – that is, in the early eleventh century. In other words, we have here evidence of someone reading one of 11

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Ker notes that the decorative capitals used at the opening of homilies are reminiscent of those in BL, Royal 6 C. i from St Augustine’s, Canterbury. The early-eleventh-century addition of the beginning of a unique homily on St Augustine of Canterbury to a blank leaf at the end of the manuscript also supports a connection with Canterbury. By the mid-eleventh century, however, the manuscript was at Rochester, and it has been suggested that it might have been written there; see Ker, Catalogue, p. 56; Vercelli Homilies, ed. D. G. Scragg, EETS os 300 (Oxford 1992), xxviii–xxix; Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies: The Second Series, ed. M. Godden, EETS ss 5 (Oxford, 1979) [hereafter CH II], xxxi–xxxiii.

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Viking Invasions and Marginal Annotations in CCCC 162 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 340/342, and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 198 – although, as Donald Scragg has shown, it is a much more independently organized collection, including many alternative homilies not found in those manuscripts, particularly for the period leading up to and immediately following Easter.4 The manuscript seems to have been well used throughout the first half of the eleventh century, since it has been heavily corrected and annotated by a number of different hands of this date.5 One of these hands writes a number of marginal or interlinear notes against various homilies, including the marginal addition to Ælfric’s ‘Ash-Wednesday’ homily with which we are concerned.6 Ælfric begins his homily by admonishing his audience to observe the fast particularly during Lent, because Ash Wednesday and the subsequent Lenten season are about shunning the ephemerality of this world and putting one’s faith in the next. He characterizes the next life as one never-ending good day, whereas this life is full of cares. He writes: We sceolan gewilnian symle tæs ecean lifes fortan te on tam life syndon gode dagas, na swa teah manega dagas ac an, se ne geendae næfre. Weah te hwa wille her on life habban gode dagas, he ne mæg hi her findan teah te he sy welig forean te he bie otte untrum oeee hohfull, otte his frynd him ætfeallae oee his feoh him ætbyrst. oeee sume oeer ungelimp on tysum life becyme, and tær-to-ecean he him ondræt his deaees symble7

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Once he has dated the main hand of the manuscript in this way, he has little choice about how to date nearly contemporary annotations. I do not think that he would wish to depart from his usual system without a good historical basis for doing so, and he does not have Ælfric’s chronology to support such a departure with regard to the annotations. It should not be surprising, therefore, if he does not date the annotator’s hand as ‘s. xi in.’ He cannot date it as ‘s. x/xi’ even if the features of the hand might support a date within that range, since it would at least appear to assign an earlier date to the annotation than to the manuscript that contains it. His only real choice is ‘s. xi1’. Given the circumstances, I do not think in this case that we need necessarily read that date to mean ‘about 1025’, but only ‘in the years following the production of the manuscript’. Overall, there is nothing in the palaeographic evidence to preclude the dating of this annotation to the earliest decades of the eleventh century. The language of the annotation also conjures images of the viking incursions of the early eleventh century. The word ‘heregangum’, in particular, is suggestive. Heregang is a noun compound that literally would mean something like, ‘the comings and goings of an army’, and that in Old English usage refers either to an invasion or to the devastation caused by an invasion force. It is etymologically distinct from heregung or hergung, a participle that derives from the verb hergian, and also means ‘invasion’ or ‘attack’, or the ‘harrying’ or plundering that comes with an invasion.19 In practice, however, the two words differ hardly at all in their meanings or spellings, and are frequently conflated in surviving texts. So, for example, while the Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 10 copy of the Old English version of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica describes ‘swa reere hergunge 7 swa gelomlicre tara noreteoda’ during the reign of Vortigern, the copy in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41 has ‘heregange’.20 Likewise, when Ælfric describes the ages of the world in the course of his homily for the second Sunday after Epiphany, he refers to the Babylonian invasion and occupation of Judea as the ‘babiloniscre heregunge’ while Wulfstan, 18 19

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Viking Invasions and Marginal Annotations in CCCC 162 of composition falling in the periods of intense viking activity from 1006–7 and 1009–12. Considering that the manuscript was compiled in the southeast, either at St Augustine’s, Canterbury, or in Rochester, one could hardly imagine a better historical context for expressing concern about the viking incursions than the period from 1009–1012, when this region of England was under serious threat from Thorkell’s army. Although it can be no more than speculation, I think it worth considering the possibility that this annotator was working during this period at St Augustine’s, Canterbury, and that his remarks address what would have been the very serious concerns of any audience he might find there. In 1009, when Thorkell’s army arrives in the east of England, the Chronicle tells us that they intended to storm Canterbury, ‘gif hi ee hraeor to him friees ne gyrndon. 7 ealle Eastcentingas frie wie tone here genamon 7 him gesealdon .iii. tusend punda’.53 This is a relatively small sum of money compared to the tributes paid by the English generally at this time, but a large sum for East Kent alone to raise, suggesting that the people of Canterbury at this time would know something about being afflicted ‘mid ungylde’. The ‘hraeor’ of the chronicle entry suggests that it may have been necessary to raise the money quickly, and one suspects some part of it would have been drawn from treasures or contingency funds held by Christ Church in particular, and possibly by other religious communities.54 It seems unlikely, then that members of the community at St Augustine’s would have been cloistered from the worldly concern of raising funds on short notice to pay tribute to the vikings. According to the Chronicle account, the payment of tribute worked temporarily. Thorkell’s army made its way through the whole of the rest of the southeast and East Anglia, as well as other parts of the country, burning and looting wherever it went, but managed to avoid Canterbury until September of 1011. Then, the chronicler tells us, on eissum geare betweox Natiuitas Sancte Marie 7 Sancte Michaeles mæssan hi ymbsæton Cantwareburuh, 7 hi into coman turuh syruwrencas forean Ælmær hi becyrde, te se arcebisceop Ælfeah ær generede æt his life, 7 hi tær ea genaman tone arcebisceop Ælfeah 7 Ælfweard cynges gerefan 7 Leofrune abbatissan 7 Godwine bisceop. 7 Ælfmær abbod hi leton aweg, 7 hi eær genamon inne ealle ta gehadodan men 7 weras 53

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Kathryn Powell 7 wif – tæt wæs unasecgendlic ænigum men hu micel tæs folces wæs – 7 on tære byrig syttan wæron swa lange swa hi woldon, 7 hi ea hæfdon ta buruh ealle asmeade, wendon him ta to scypan 7 læddon tone arcebisceop mid him. Wæs ea ræpling se ee wæs heafod Angelkynnes 7 Cristendomes. Wær man mihte ea geseon yrmee tær man oft ær geseah blisse on tære earman byrig tanon com ærest Cristendom 7 blis for Gode 7 for worulde. 7 hi hæfdon tone arcebisceop mid him swa lange oe tæne timan te hi hine gemartiredon.55

The entry for 1012 goes on to detail the shameful martyrdom of the archbishop on 19th April of that year, but the damage to Canterbury had already been done. The Ælfmær responsible for betraying the city to Thorkell’s men was the abbot of St Augustine’s, and the Chronicle account makes it clear enough that members of his own community must have become victims of the viking atrocities as a result of his actions. At Easter in 1012, the English people were forced to pay a tribute of £48,000 to the vikings – the largest such payment yet – in order to obtain a brief respite from the viking depredations.56 Particularly in the aftermath of these events, it is not difficult to imagine some member of the community at St Augustine’s reading Ælfric’s ‘AshWednesday’, coming upon his assertion that no one finds good days in this life because ‘his friends will turn away from him, or he will lose his money, or some other misfortune will come upon him in this life, and further, he will always dread his death’, and thinking immediately of the vikings (and perhaps of his supposed ‘friend’, Ælfmær) as the annotator of Ælfric’s homily in CCCC 162 does. Nor is it problematic to understand his interpolations in ‘Ash-Wednesday’ and the anonymous homily as having special resonance for the members of St Augustine’s or for a broader audience in Canterbury at this time. While Thorkell’s army laid siege to the city in 1011, the people of Canterbury would indeed have faced attacks daily, as the ‘Ash-Wednesday’ annotation stipulates. Likewise, in the period from 1009–12, the English people generally and the people of Kent in particular would have ample experience of both ‘excessive payment’ and ‘troop-terror’. These annotations fit well, then, within this 55

ASC CDE, s.a. 1011 (ASC, MS C, ed. O’Brien O’Keeffe, p. 95–6): ‘in this year, between the Nativity of St Mary and Michaelmas, they besieged Canterbury, and they entered through trickery, because Ælfmær betrayed them, he whose life Archbishop Ælfheah had previously saved. And they then took there the Archbishop Ælfheah and Ælfweard the king’s reeve and Abbess Leofrune and Bishop Godwine, and they let Abbot Ælfmær go away. And they took there within all the monastics and men and women – no one could say how many people that was – and they were in the town afterwards just as long as they wished. And when they had searched the entire town, they returned to their ships and led the archbishop with them. He was then a captive who was the head of the English and of Christendom. There might one then see misery where one often before saw joy, in that poor city whence first came Christianity and bliss before the eyes of God and the world. And they had the archbishop 56 with them up until the time when they martyred him’. ASC CDE, s.a. 1012.

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Re-evaluating base-metal artefacts: an inscribed lead strap-end from Crewkerne, Somerset gabor thomas, naomi payne and elisabeth okasha abstract Strap-ends represent the most common class of dress accessory known from late Anglo-Saxon England. At this period, new materials, notably lead and its alloys, were being deployed in the manufacture of personal possessions and jewellery. This newly found strap-end adds to the growing number of tongue-shaped examples fashioned from lead dating from this period. It is, however, distinctive in being inscribed with a personal name. The present article provides an account of the object and its text, and assesses its general significance in the context of a more nuanced interpretation of the social status of lead artefacts in late Anglo-Saxon England.

the lo cation of the find The strap-end was found by Mr Michael Charles, who was using a metal-detector on an arable field about two km from the Saxon settlement at Crewkerne, in south Somerset. The strap-end has been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) database under the reference SOMDOR-0DB481 and has been acquired by the Somerset County Museum.1 Michael Charles has been metal-detecting on the site, and on three adjacent fields, for more than a year and three objects of a similar date have been located nearby: an incomplete Winchester-style strap-end, a fragment of a Ringerike-style harness cheek-piece and an oval openwork Urnes-style mount.2 Crewkerne was a royal manor of the kings of Wessex.3 The manor was first mentioned in the will of King Alfred (871–99), in which the king left it to his younger son Æthelweard.4 Æthelweard died c. 920. It is possible that the manor passed to one or other of his sons, Ælfwine and Æthelwine, both of whom were killed at Brunanburh in 937, and that it passed thereafter to King Æthelstan 11 12

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Gabor Thomas, Naomi Payne and Elisabeth Okasha (924–39). St Bartholemew’s church was an Anglo-Saxon minster and Crewkerne was also the site of one of Somerset’s eleven Anglo-Saxon mints, in operation at times during the reigns of Æthelred II (978–1016), between c. 997 and 1003, Cnut (1016–35) and Harold (1037–40).5 It was one of the twelve Somerset settlements which appear to have had urban characteristics by the time of the compilation of Domesday Book.6 There is little archaeological evidence for the early-medieval period in Somerset before the tenth century because of the scarcity of diagnostically datable artefacts.7 Tenth- and eleventh-century artefacts are also uncommon in the county, although in recent years metal detector finds have added to the known assemblage of metalwork. On the PAS database there are three further strap-ends of probable tenth- to eleventh-century date from the county. Two fairly crude copper alloy Class E strap-ends come from Milborne Port; one is an unelaborate Winchester-style example and the other is decorated with stamped annulets.8 Another much finer Winchester-style strap-end has been found at Chilton Trinity.9 There are also several Class B strap-ends which may be as late in date as c. 1100. The only other dress accessories are three undecorated hooked tags of probable tenth-century date, the first of silver from Long Sutton and the other two of copper alloy from West Chinnock and Charlton Mackrell.10 Nine provenanced eleventh-century stirrup-strap mounts have been reported through the PAS. They come from Broadway (Williams Class A, Type 6), Ilminster (Williams Class A, Type 1 and Williams Class A, Type 11), Milborne Port (Williams Class A, Type 1), Puriton (Williams Class A, Type 9), Spaxton (Williams Class B, Type 2), Ston Easton (Williams Class B, Type 4), Taunton (Williams Class B, Type 1) and Wiveliscombe (Williams Class A, Type 11).11 Other finds of a similar date include a bridle cheek-piece from Ilminster, a harness bit link from Milborne Port, a stirrup terminal from Milborne Port 15

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Re-evaluating base-metal artefacts and a probable mount fragment in the Urnes style from Otterhampton.12 Due to the small quantity of finds, the distribution of these recent discoveries seems likely to reflect the locations where metal detecting has taken place rather than to represent a historically significant pattern. description of the strap-end The lead strap-end is complete and measures a maximum of 42 mm in length. One end is squared and the other rounded, the squared end containing three holes for attachment. On side B these holes are slightly recessed. It seems likely that the strap-end was constructed in this way, although it is just possible that the recessing was caused by wear. The strap-end is decorated on both sides with four incised lines which continue around both the squared and the rounded ends; however, these incised lines surround the attachment holes only on side A. The incised lines leave a blank panel in the middle of the strap-end on each side, and these panels are filled with an inscribed text. On both sides, the text starts from the end with the attachment holes. It is likely that the text is primary, that is, that the strap-end was always intended to be inscribed. The letters are formed to fit into the space available, some of them touching each other and some touching the incised lines at top and bottom of the panels. Only one letter, the first letter A on side B, extends slightly outside the panel, above its upper line. The letters vary in size between a maximum of 6 mm and a minimum of 3 mm. the text The text is divided between the two sides of the strap-end. Brackets indicate a reading that is less than totally certain, and underlining indicates a damaged letter. Side A: W [V] L F S T A N

Side B: M [E] C A H A

reading of the text With word-division added, the text reads w[v]lfstan m[e]c ah a, that is, ‘W[u]lfstan owns me -’, apparently with an extraneous letter A at the end. The lack of worddivision and the use of the letters V for U and W (the Old English letter wynn) for W are perfectly usual in Anglo-Saxon inscriptions. The first bracketed letter appears as if it should read Y, not V. However, this form of Y, as if it were a 12

PAS database respectively SOMDOR-940716, SOMDOR-DBBDC3, SOMDOR-CCB761 and SOMDOR-B7E4C7.

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Gabor Thomas, Naomi Payne and Elisabeth Okasha small V with a medial vertical tail, is not elsewhere recorded in the corpus of Anglo-Saxon inscriptions. All recorded examples of Y in inscribed texts are formed like an X but with one or other lower limb missing. It seems probable that the inscriber incised a small form of V, perhaps inadvertently, and then incised a vertical line to fill in the space below, possibly so that the letter would touch the lower line of the panel. On side B, the M is also formed with a medial vertical line, which affords a nice parallel with the V of side A. The second bracketed letter, E, is damaged but the reading is reasonably certain. interpretation of the text The text is in Old English and is probably to be read as above meaning ‘W[u]lfstan owns me -’. The name Wulfstan is a relatively common name, especially in the later Anglo-Saxon period: the PASE database lists over fifty occurrences of the name.13 The word mec is an old and/or poetic variant of the usual Old English word me ‘me’. This form is quite common in comparable inscribed texts. The word ah is the third person present singular of the verb agan ‘to own’. Although it is formally possible that the final letter A represents the Old English word a ‘for ever’, this has been rejected on the grounds that adverbs are virtually unrecorded in existing Old English inscribed texts. This final letter A is better considered as a space-filler rather than as part of the text as such. Why should a space-filler be necessary? We may perhaps assume that the inscriber was copying a text in written form and found that (s)he had completed it before reaching the end of the allotted space within the panels. One may speculate that the written exemplum might have had the personal name divided by a space from the rest of the text, thus encouraging the inscriber to place the name on side A and the rest of the text on side B. Some squashing of the final letter of the name on side A seems to have occurred, which might support this hypothesis. The inscriber might have noticed the spacing problem during the inscribing of side B: the letters AH, forming the word ah ‘owns’, are considerably larger than the preceding letters on this side and this letter A has a widely splayed leg. However, even after this enlargement, extra space still remained and the inscriber may therefore have decided to repeat the penultimate letter to fill up the space available. The addition of extraneous letters to fill extra space can be paralleled from other inscribed objects (see below). It seems that the inscriber of the strap-end had a dislike of spaces, which might also account for the extra vertical lines in the letters V (on side A) and M (on side B). Alternative, but less likely, explanations for the extra letter A are simple error or, perhaps, that the text continued on another object. However the dividing of one text between two objects is highly unusual among Anglo-Saxon inscriptions. 13

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Re-evaluating base-metal artefacts similar anglo-saxon text s No other Anglo-Saxon strap-end, from the vast number recorded, bears an inscription. Small portable items containing owner texts of the sort on the Crewkerne strap-end are, however, not uncommon in the corpus of AngloSaxon objects with inscriptions. There are nine other Anglo-Saxon inscribed objects that use the Old English owner formula me(c) ah ‘owns me’, that is, with personification of the object.14 The types of objects, and the material they are made from, differ: there are six items of jewellery, two weapons and one weaving tool. They are all made of metal (gold, iron, silver), except for the weaving tool which is whale-bone. One of these objects is a gold ring from Bodsham, Kent, now in the British Museum.15 Following the owner formula [g]armvnd mec ah ‘[G]armund owns me’ are the two extraneous letters I and M. Although other explanations are possible, the likelihood is that these letters are simply filling up the available space so as not to leave a blank portion on the ring. This ring text thus affords a nice parallel with the strap-end text. script of the text The script used is known as Anglo-Saxon capitals. One typical feature of this script is the lack of word-division. Another is that certain letters may touch each other: examples here are the first two, and the last two, letters on side A, W and V, then A and N. Another typical feature is that different forms of seriffing may appear, while some letters may lack serifs altogether. On side A there is less seriffing than on side B, and on side A the seriffing mainly takes the form of a slight thickening of the stem. This may be related to the lack of space on this side. On side B there is more seriffing, with more obvious full and half serifs on some letters. Another common feature of Anglo-Saxon capital script is that different letter-forms can occur in the same text. In the present case, only the letter A appears more than once, but three different forms are used. In all three instances the A is of the pointed variety, but other details differ. The first instance of A, on side A, has a large serif at the top but lacks a medial crossbar. The next instance, the first A on side B, also has a large top serif but has a v-shaped cross-bar. The final instance likewise has a v-shaped cross-bar but contains a line instead of a serif at the top. Of those letters that may appear in either a rounded or an angular form, two are angular (C and W ⫽ W), while one is rounded (S). 14

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Gabor Thomas, Naomi Payne and Elisabeth Okasha As regards epigraphical dating, the text contains only a few diagnostic forms. The use of the Anglo-Saxon letter W ⫽ W certainly suggests a date in the preConquest, or immediate post-Conquest, period, but more particular dating features are inconclusive: both angular and rounded letters occur, while all three instances of A have a pointed top. These features are all consistent with any date within the literate Anglo-Saxon period. The form of the object itself offers more useful evidence of its probable date-range. discussion The Crewkerne find belongs to a series of Anglo-Saxon tongue-shaped strapends, ultimately derived from a continental Carolingian prototype, popularized across southern and eastern England during the tenth and eleventh centuries.16 This series, together with its commoner animal-headed predecessor of the ninth century, numbers several thousand objects. However, no other native Anglo-Saxon strap-end bears an inscription.17 One has to travel to the continental mainland to find a similarly inscribed example, in the form of the fine silver-gilt strap-end from Notmark (Alsen), Denmark, which ended its life beyond the borders of its native Frankish homeland as a converted Viking brooch.18 As is sometimes found on the tongueshaped examples, including the Crewkerne piece itself, the Notmark strap-end carries ornamentation on both sides. The front bears a fairly typical panel of acanthus decoration and the reverse has a central field of vine-scroll surrounded by a clockwise niello-inlaid inscription. The text, which reads ‘EGO IN D.NOMINE + ERMADU(S) ME FECIT’ (‘I, in God’s name, Ermadus made me’), has been attributed to the early ninth century on epigraphic/ linguistic grounds. This date receives general support from the style of the plant decoration carried on both surfaces which displays affinities with the decorative repertoire of manuscripts illuminated at Tours during the 840s and 850s.19 Unfortunately the Crewkerne strap-end lacks stylistic detail that might permit a more refined dating within the late Anglo-Saxon period, the tenth and eleventh centuries. Nor does its decoration suggest any assessment of origin. What little surface elaboration does occur is confined to multiple concentric borders and is clearly designed to focus the viewer’s attention on the central 16 17

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Re-evaluating base-metal artefacts inscription. This inscription is displayed boldly in large letters which consume the available space. Although the deployment of text as decoration on inscribed Anglo-Saxon objects certainly occurs,20 it is unusual to find such an overt visual celebration of text on a dress-fitting, particularly one fashioned from an alloy of the base metal, lead. Anglo-Saxon inscriptions on objects made of lead are not very common, with the exception of a group of lead funerary crosses and plates.21 How can we explain the seemingly contradictory combination of a status-proclaiming display of literacy on such a rudimentary object as the Crewkerne strap-end? The number of known lead and lead-alloy dress accessories of late AngloSaxon date has increased in recent years. To date, a total of seventy such items have been recorded on the PAS database. The majority of these, forty-eight, are brooches but the second most common object type is the strap-end (sixteen items). The majority of examples are from Lincolnshire (twenty-eight), Suffolk (thirteen), Norfolk (ten) and Cambridgeshire (five). It is more unusual to find lead dress accessories so far to the south and west of the country as Crewkerne. There has hitherto been a tendency to assign late Anglo-Saxon dressaccessories made of lead, lead-alloy or lead-tin alloy (pewter) into one of two categories: cheap alternatives to those made from precious metals or else trialpieces or models used in the casting process. A proportion of the repertoire may certainly fall into one of these two categories; however, the expanded corpus of lead dress accessories brought to light by the Portable Antiquities Scheme encourages a rather more rounded view. The known lead examples appear finished and were therefore presumably used. Some of these accessories are executed to an impressively high technical and artistic standard, echoing the Winchester-style strap-end from Thetford, Norfolk, which surpasses the quality of many of its copper-alloy counterparts.22 Other well-made examples with competent designs are the ornate rectangular plate brooches, one of pewter, the other of debased tin, recovered from excavations at Mill Lane, Thetford.23 20

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Gabor Thomas, Naomi Payne and Elisabeth Okasha The derogatory tone that colours discussion of late Anglo-Saxon lead-based dress accessories stems partly from the widely held perception that during the period under review sources of lead were plentiful and ubiquitous. Indications that lead escaped the recycling process more often than did other non-ferrous alloys and precious metals would certainly appear, superficially at least, to support this view, and no doubt other evidence for its relative abundance could be garnered from a wider comparative assessment of workshop evidence and patterns of contemporary consumption.24 Yet we should beware of making simplistic connections between estimates of availability on the one hand and judgements on the value which contemporaries attached to finished products on the other. This is particularly so given our knowledge that lead was utilised, quite conspicuously, in such religious and ritual contexts as church roofs, chalices, inscribed funerary crosses, inscribed plaques attached to ossuaries, and large handled tanks, some of which were arguably used as fonts.25 It thus seems reasonable to argue that secular manifestations of the deployment of lead could, through the power of association, be imbued with symbolic meaning and significance. The apparent upsurge in the production of lead-alloy jewellery and dress accessories during the later tenth and the eleventh centuries also needs to be considered in this re-assessment. Although there are a number of rural findspots recorded on the PAS database, the frequent discovery of lead jewellery and manufacturing detritus from late Anglo-Saxon towns demonstrates that this trend was closely linked to urban expansion. We may conclude, as others have done, that this material reflects the dawn of mass production, fuelled by an expanding consumer market of town dwellers eager to adorn themselves with affordable accessories.26 However this conclusion misses the point that lead and pewter were at the forefront of novel, continentally inspired designs in jewellery manufacture, as is admirably demonstrated by the fine selection of beads, finger-rings and brooches represented in the Cheapside hoard from London.27 Anything more than a cursory comparison is sufficient to highlight the fact that the artistic inspiration behind late Anglo-Saxon lead-alloy disc brooches on the one hand, and silver ones on the other, was sometimes quite different. Lead and lead-alloy dress accessories, at least at the more accomplished end of the range, 24

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Re-evaluating base-metal artefacts emerge as more than just cheap, derivative copies of precious-metal exemplars, but as distinctive fashion statements in their own right. As a consequence of the widespread availability of lead and the relative ease with which it could be turned into finished products, it is hardly surprising to find that the repertoire of late Anglo-Saxon dress accessories derived from this metal includes the bad and the decidedly ugly. Given the dull and often bedraggled condition of such material on recovery, however, we may be less inclined than we should be to recognize the ‘good’. A considerable feat of imagination is often required to appreciate the aesthetic impact of untarnished surfaces which, on occasion, could have been further enhanced and protected by a silver coating.28 The Wulfstan behind the Crewkerne inscription clearly had no difficulty in reconciling the material selected for his new acquisition with a prestige-enhancing display of literacy, which simultaneously acted as a proud proclamation of ownership. The latest and most remarkable addition to the growing corpus of late Anglo-Saxon dress accessories fashioned from lead, the Crewkerne strap-end bears witness to the possibilities which this metal offered as a medium for advertising status, whether real or aspirational. As a final observation: in a period which has otherwise left behind frustratingly little evidence for establishing the gender of dress accessories, it is helpful to receive at least one piece of confirmation of male ownership. While a single inscription is hardly a sufficient basis for making wider generalizations, nevertheless tongue-shaped strap-ends depicted in Carolingian manuscripts and represented in furnished Norse burials do hint at a bias towards use by males.29 The same sources also indicate that strap-ends of this type served as attachments to leather waist-belts and baldrics, with the smaller end of the range catering for garters and spurs.30 28

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Plate VI Inscribed strap-end from Crewkerne

Plate VII Inscribed strap-end from Crewkerne. Illustrated by Jane Read

Anglo-Saxon and related entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) helen foxhall forbes, matthias ammon, eliza beth boyle, c ona n t. d oyle, peter d. evan, rosa maria fera, paul ga zzoli, helen imhoff, anna matheson, sophie rixon and levi roach The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), originally designated the New Dictionary of National Biography, was published in 2004 as a successor to the renowned Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), edited by Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904) and itself published in sixty-three volumes between 1885 and 1900, with supplements. All of the subjects in the old DNB were retained for the ODNB; new entries were commissioned for a significant proportion of the existing subjects (including almost all of those falling within the early medieval period); and of course the opportunity was taken to add entries for a large number of new subjects. In its print version, the ODNB occupies sixty volumes, though it is unlikely to be found in that form outside reference libraries; most importantly, it is also available online, to subscribing institutions, with search facilities and other useful features. Like its most distinguished predecessor, the ODNB is already well established as an invaluable academic resource. It is not the purpose of this article to reflect on the criteria for inclusion, or on the mode of treatment, or to discuss how respects in which the old DNB had come to show its own age had necessitated the production of a modern successor blazing a new historiographical path for the twenty-first century. More mundanely, it is to register the existence of the quantity and range of entries in the ODNB on ‘Anglo-Saxon’ and ‘related’ subjects, and in this way to advertise its credentials as a massive collaborative achievement of a certain and indispensable kind. The ODNB includes re-assessments of familiar subjects, including Arthur (O. J. Padel), the Sutton Hoo burial (J. Campbell), Cuthbert (D. Rollason and B. Dobson), Aldhelm (M. Lapidge), Bede (J. Campbell), Alcuin (D. Bullough), Alfred the Great (P. Wormald), Ælfric (M. Godden) and Edward the Confessor (F. Barlow), alongside accounts of many other or lesser figures. It also provides excellent coverage of ‘Welsh’, ‘Scottish’ and ‘Irish’ subjects, across the same period. No less important for the AngloSaxonist are the entries on twelfth- and thirteenth-century historians, such as William of Malmesbury (R. M. Thomson) and Matthew Paris (S. Lloyd and R. Reader), and the entries on a wide range of antiquaries and scholars, from John 183

Helen Foxhall Forbes et al. Leland (J. Carley) and Sir Robert Cotton (S. Handley) to Elizabeth Elstob (M. Gretsch), John Mitchell Kemble (J. D. Haigh) and Sir Frank Stenton (J. C. Holt). In the ‘Bibliography for 2004’, published in Anglo-Saxon England 34 (2005), all of the contributions were subsumed under a single entry: Matthew, H. C. G., and Brian Harrison, ed., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in association with the British Academy: from the Earliest Times to the Year 2000, 60 vols. with index of contributors as suppl. vol. (Oxford)

This entry does not begin to do justice to the work of all those who contributed ‘Anglo-Saxon’ and related entries to the ODNB. It was felt, however, that the inclusion of separate entries in the annual bibliography, for each contributor, distributed between the relevant sections, would overload the rest of the bibliography and detract from its usefulness. At the same time, it would not accord with the nature of the ODNB to isolate the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ entries from those covering other parts of Britain and Ireland; and it was felt that a separate listing of all of the ODNB entries for the period might be of some interest and value in its own right. Users of the ODNB who have access only to the online version may also find it helpful for one reason or another to have the bibliographical details of a particular contribution in the printed work. The great majority of the entries registered below are of a standard biographical type, written in accordance with the principles laid down by the general editors of the ODNB. In addition to these entries, there are several ‘joint entries’, in which one or two additional family members are appended to the main entry, and several ‘group-entries’, bringing together a number of subjects who for whatever reason did not rate separate treatment in their own right but who could be usefully covered as part of a larger group.1 In its online form, the ODNB is able to publish additional entries at frequent intervals. An entry for Patrick Wormald (A. May) was published in January 2008. The ODNB is also supplemented regularly, in its online form, by ‘Themes’ of three types. The ‘Reference lists’ comprise organized sets of links to a selection of separate entries, with some explanatory text. Among the subjects currently available are the following: ‘Rulers of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (5th cent.–924)’, ‘Archbishops of Canterbury’, ‘Archbishops of York’, ‘Consorts of the monarchs 11

Anglo-Saxon group-entries: kings of the East Saxons (B. Yorke), of the people of Kent (B. Yorke), of the South Saxons (S. E. Kelly), and of the Hwicce (P. Sims-Williams). ‘British’ group-entry: Roman officials (A. R. Birley). ‘Scottish’ group-entries: abbots of Iona (T. M. Charles-Edwards); kings of Dál Riata (M. O. Anderson) and of the Picts (M. O. Anderson). ‘Irish’ group-entries: saints of Connacht (T. M. Charles-Edwards), saints of Leinster (C. Doherty), saints of Meath (N. Stalmans and T. M. Charles-Edwards), saints of Munster (E. Johnston) and saints of Ulster (T. M. Charles-Edwards).

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Anglo-Saxon and related entries in the ODNB (2004) of England’, ‘High-Kings of Ireland’, ‘Monarchs of England’, ‘Monarchs of Scotland’, ‘Saints in the Oxford DNB’ and ‘Viking and Scandinavian kings and leaders in the Oxford DNB’; new entries on individual subjects are listed, under ‘Reference lists’, as ‘Updates’. The ‘Reference groups’ are substantive entries in their own right, bringing together significant groups of subjects, some but not all of whom may be treated separately in the main dictionary; examples currently available include ‘Gregorian mission (act. 596–601)’ (N. P. Brooks), ‘Scholars at King Alfred’s Court (act. 880–899)’ (M. Lapidge), ‘Cynfeirdd (act. 6th–11th cent.)’ (M. E. Haycock) and ‘Companions of the Conqueror (act. 1066–71) (C. P. Lewis). The ‘Feature essays’ are more wide-ranging; examples currently available include ‘Roman Britain’ (P. Salway), ‘The rising of Owain Glyn Dwr’ (Ll. Smith), ‘The Isle of Man’ (B. Maddrell) and ‘School founders and patrons in England, 597–1560’ (N. Orme). The various forms of entry in the ODNB are covered in the listing below under various numbered sections. In section 1, the names of those who contributed new entries to the ODNB are arranged in alphabetical order, with an indication of the subjects in question. In these sections, the subjects themselves are reduced to their bare names, without titles or dates, in order to avoid large-scale duplication; fuller details, derived from the ODNB entries, are given in the later sections. Joint-entries and group-entries are treated under the contributor’s name as single entries; the subjects mentioned within such entries are registered separately in the later sections, although in some cases it will be found that there is little more than a passing reference. The names of these who revised existing entries, whether derived from the old DNB or (for example) from the Missing Persons supplement (1993), are given where appropriate below. Sections 2–6 cover subjects in the ODNB who fall within the chronological limits which had to be set for the present purpose (400–1100). In October 2006, a search for all subjects in the ODNB database who flourished within this period generated a data-set of 1,290 names, which could be arranged in alphabetical order, in birth-date order, or in death-date order. Within this data-set one could search for men (1196), or for women (94). One could also generate a list of all those believed to have been alive in any specified year (24 alive in 400; 84 alive in 500; 160 alive in 600; 144 alive in 700; 93 alive in 800; 70 alive in 900; 120 alive in 1000; 351 alive in 1100); or a list of all those associated with specified places (e.g. Cambridge, 2; London, 40; Oxford, 10; Winchester, 54; York, 46); or (overlapping) lists of those with particular fields of activity (e.g. ‘Royalty, rulers and aristocracy’, 607; ‘Religion and belief’, 596; ‘Scholarship and research’, 78). The subjects were divided into four main groups. The largest is inevitably a set of ‘Anglo-Saxon’ entries, which includes persons of Scandinavian, Norman and other extraction who are known to have come to England before 1066 (section 2); there are also groups labelled 185

Helen Foxhall Forbes et al. ‘British’, ‘Welsh’, ‘Irish’ and ‘Scottish’, which in view of many complications have to be taken in much the same spirit (sections 3–6). Within each of these sections, subjects are classified for the user’s convenience under generic subheadings, whether ‘Kings and rulers’, ‘Ecclesiastics’ or ‘Secular men and women’; again, the many anomalies are easily detected. Sections 7–9 are necessarily of a different nature. Section 7 includes a selection of subjects who flourished between c. 1080 and c. 1450, whose writings bear directly or indirectly on our perception of the early medieval past, starting with those who wrote about Anglo-Saxon saints (Goscelin, Folcard, et al.), the AngloNorman historians (Florence of Worcester, Eadmer, William of Malmesbury, et al.), and the main thirteenth-century historians (Roger of Wendover, Matthew Paris, et al.). These subjects are listed in alphabetical of their first name. Section 8 covers a selection of ‘Antiquaries’ who flourished between c. 1450 and c. 1750, who in their different ways laid the foundations for current understanding of the period, including Leland, Parker, Cotton, Dugdale, Wanley, and many others. Section 9 covers a selection of ‘Modern scholars’ who were active between c. 1750 and c. 2000, including Astle, Kemble, Stenton and Whitelock. The subjects in sections 8–9 are listed in alphabetical order of their surname. Throughout these lists, an asterisk (*) signifies a woman; that there are so few is of course instructive. Entries for a majority of the subjects in the ODNB will be found in the old DNB, and in many cases the old entries are of interest as an indication of the perception of the given subject at the end of the nineteenth century. A valuable feature of the ODNB, in its online form, is that all of the ‘original’ entries in the old DNB can be seen simply by clicking on ‘DNB Archive’ in the left-hand column of the new or revised entry. In the classified lists below, the name of the DNB contributor is given, after the reference. It so happens that over 200 of the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ entries were written by William Hunt (1842–1931), here identified by his initials WH. An entry for him is to be found in the ODNB. Some of his entries (for example, those on Ælfric and Wulfstan) show how far scholarship has moved forwards since his day, but overall he deserves credit as one who made a sustained effort to work things out from first principles. Other recurrent contributors are similarly identified here only by their initials: Mary Bateson (MB); Alice M. Cooke (AMC); C. L. Kingsford (CLK); J. E. Lloyd (JEL); A. J. G. Mackay (AJGM); Norman Moore (NM); Thomas Olden (TO); A. F. Pollard (AFP); W. R. W. Stephens (WRWS); D. L. Thomas (DLT); E. M. Thompson (EMT); and T. F. Tout (TFT). The work involved in the compilation of this article was undertaken by the group of graduate students named at the top of the first page, based in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge. The task was organized by Helen Foxhall Forbes, as co-ordinating editor; and 186

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Anglo-Saxon and related entries in the ODNB (2004) Leyser, Karl: (John) Michael Wallace-Hadrill, xxiv.438–9 Lloyd, Simon, & Rebecca Reader: Matthew Paris, with John of Wallingford, xlii.620–8 Loyn, H. R.: Sharon Turner, lv.661–3 Lucas, Peter J.: John Capgrave, ix.991–3 Lund, Niels: Ohthere, xli.639; Óláf Tryggvason, xli.665–6 MacCarthy, Fiona: William Morris, xxxix.317–24 Macfarlane, Leslie J.: William Elphinstone, xviii.326–8 MacMahon, M. K. C.: Arthur Sampson Napier (online update, October 2007); Henry Sweet, liii.447–50 Macquarrie, Alan: Catroe, x.559–60; Donald, xvi.494; Monan, xxxviii.574–5; Owen the Bald, xvi.494; Ternan, liv.153–4 Maddicott, J. R.: Ecgfrith, xvii.639–40 Marenbon, John: Candidus, ix.888–9; John Scottus [John Scottus Eriugena], xxx.196–203 Martin, G. H.: John Joscelin, xxx.714–15; John Smith, li.205–6; William Henry Stevenson, lii.612–13 Mason, Emma: Ælfric, i.385; Ælfwine, i.391; Æthelnoth, i.406–7; Æthelric, i.419–20; Athelm, ii.806; Lyfing, xxxiv.857–8; Sigeric, l.593; Wulfstan, lx.562–4 Mason, J. F. A.: Hemming, xxvi.280 Maund, K. L.: Ealdgyth, xvii.551; Herewald, xxvi.766–7 May, Alex: Patrick Wormald (online update, January 2008) Mayr-Harting, Henry: Áedán, i.376–7; Augustine, ii.948–50; Ecgberht, xvii.635–6; Guthlac, xxiv.301–2 McGurk, P.: Florence of Worcester, lx.292; John of Worcester, lx.292–3 Meehan, Bernard: Symeon of Durham, liii.581–2 Meens, Rob, Columbanus, xii.810–13 Miller, Sean: Æthelbald, i.395–6; Æthelberht, i.397–8; Æthelred I, i.408–9; Ceolwulf II, x.821; Ecgberht, church reformer, xvii.634–5; Edward, xvii.779–83 Milsom, S. F. C.: Frederic William Maitland, xxxvi.204–10 Mortimer, Ian: Thomas Talbot, liii.725 Mortimer, Richard: Richard de Clare, xi.759–60 Nelson, Janet L.: Æthelwulf, with Judith, i.438–41; Balthild, iii.618–19; Bertha, v.479– 80; Eadburh, xvii.524; Eadgifu, xvii.526–7; Hæsten, xxiv.440–1; Osburh, xlii.40 Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín: Adomnán, i.353–6; Loingsech mac Óenguso, xxxiv.329 Ó Briain, Mairtin: Oisín, xli.645 O’Donoghue, Bernard: Robin Ernest William Flower, xx. 177–8 O’Donoghue, Heather: Gabriel Turville-Petre, xliii.907–8 O’Loughlin, Thomas: Ailerán, i.489–90 Ó Muraíle, Nollaig: Dubhaltach Óg Mac Fhirbhisigh, xxxv.387–8; Míchél Ó Cléirigh, xli.433–5; John O’Donovan, xli.527–9; Whitley Stokes, lii.872–4 Ó Riain, Pádraig: Óengus of Tallaght, xli.540–1 Ó Riain-Raedel, Dagmar: Deicolus, xv.695; Gall, xx.307–8; Killian, xxxi.548–9; Virgilius, lvi.561–2 Orme, Nicholas: Nicholas Roscarrock, xlvii.730–1; William Worcester, lx.294–5

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2. ‘ANGLO-SAXON’ AND ‘NORMAN’ SUBJECTS (c. 400–c . 1100) a. Kings, consorts and other rulers *Ælfgifu, consort of King Eadwig (fl. 956–66): Pauline Stafford, i.380–1; DNB WH *Ælfgifu, first consort of King Cnut (fl. 1006–36): Pauline Stafford, i.381–2; DNB WH

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3. ‘BRITISH’ SUBJECTS ( c. 400–c. 600) a. Kings, consorts and other rulers Arthur, legendary warrior and supposed king of Britain (supp. fl. in or before 6th cent.): O. J. Padel, ii.529–43; DNB C. F. Keary Brochfael Ysgithrog, king of Powys (supp. fl. 6th cent.): T. M. Charles-Edwards, vii.742–3; DNB WH Brychan Brycheiniog, king of Brycheiniog (fl. c. 500): David E. Thornton, viii.412–13 Cadell Ddyrnllug, king of Powys (fl. 5th cent.): David E. Thornton, ix.402 Constantine III, Roman emperor proclaimed in Britain (d. 411): R. S. O. Tomlin, xiii.33–5 Cunedda, ruler in north Wales (supp. fl. late 4th–5th cent.): Patrick Wormald, xiv.65 Gwallawg, king in Britain (fl. 572x9–585x92): T. M. Charles-Edwards, xxiv.336 Llwyarch Hen, legendary hero (supp. fl. late 6th cent.): Jenny Rowland, xxxiv.180; DNB DLT Mynyddog Mwynfawr, king in Britain (supp. fl. 6th cent.): T. M. Charles-Edwards, xl.87 Rhun Hir, king of Gwynedd (fl. 547–c. 600): David E. Thornton, xlvi.611–12; DNB JEL Rhydderch Hen, king of Strathclyde (fl. c. 573–c. 612): David E. Thornton, xlvi.613; DNB JEL Uther Pendragon, supposed king of Britain (supp. fl. late 5th cent.?): O. J. Padel, ii.534; DNB C. F. Keary Vorteporius, king of the Demetae (fl. c. 540): T. M. Charles-Edwards, lvi.594–5 Vortigern, ruler in Britain (fl. 5th cent.): David E. Thornton, lvi.598–9; DNB JEL b. Ecclesiastics Asaf, bishop (supp. fl. 6th cent.): David E. Thornton, ii.584–5; DNB DLT Brynach, founder of the church of Nevern, Pembrokeshire (fl. 6th cent.): T. M. Charles-Edwards, viii.429–30 Cadfan, founder of a religious settlement (supp. fl. 6th cent.): T. M. Charles-Edwards, ix.408; DNB Arthur Miller Cadog, founder and abbot of Llancarfan (fl. 6th cent.): T. M. Charles-Edwards, ix.410– 12; DNB Arthur Miller

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4. ‘WELSH’ SUBJECTS ( c. 600–c. 1100) a. Kings, consorts and other rulers Anarawd ap Rhodri, king in Wales (d. 916): rev. David E. Thornton, ii.12–13; DNB Arthur Miller Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, king of Gwynedd and of Powys (d. 1075): Huw Pryce, vi.198–9 Cadell ab Arthfael, king of Gwent (d. 942): David E. Thornton, ix.401; DNB TFT Cadell ap Rhodri, king in Wales (d. 910): David E. Thornton, ix.401–2; DNB TFT Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd (d. 664/82): David E. Thornton, ix.423–4; DNB TFT Cadwallon ap Cadfan, king of Gwynedd (d. 634): T. M. Charles-Edwards, ix.425–6; DNB W. R. W. Stephens Cadfan ab Iago, king of Gwynedd (fl. c. 616–c. 625): David E. Thornton, ix.408; DNB TFT Caradog ap Gruffudd ap Rhydderch, king in Wales (d. 1081): David Walker, x.10–11; DNB TFT Caradog ap Rhydderch, king in Wales (d. 1035): David Walker, x.10–11; DNB TFT Cynan Garwyn, king of Powys (fl. c. 550–c. 600): David E. Thornton, xiv.858 Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn, king in Wales (fl. c. 616–c. 641): David E. Thornton, xiv.859–60 Cyngen ap Cadell, king of Powys (d. 854/5): David E. Thornton, xiv.865–6 Gruffudd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd (1054/5–1137): Huw Pryce, xxiv.133–5; DNB TFT Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, king of Gwynedd and of Deheubarth (d. 1063): David Walker, xxiv.136–7; DNB TFT Gruffudd ap Rhydderch, king in Wales (d. 1055): David Walker, x.10; DNB TFT Gwynllyw, king of Glywysing (fl. 6th cent.): T. M. Charles-Edwards, xxiv.360–1; DNB TFT Hywel [called Hywel Fychan], king of Gwynedd (d. 825): David E. Thornton, xxix.171–2; DNB TFT Hywel ab Edwin, king of Deheubarth (d. 1044): rev. David E. Thornton, xxix.172; DNB TFT Hywel ab Ieuaf, king of Gwynedd (d. 985): David E. Thornton, xxix.172–3; DNB TFT Hywel Dda, king in Wales (d. 950): David E. Thornton, xxix.175–6; DNB TFT Iago ab Idwal ap Meurig, king of Gwynedd (d. 1039): Huw Pryce, xxiv.133; DNB DLT Iago ab Idwal Foel, king of Gwynedd (d. c. 979): David E. Thornton, xxix.177; DNB DLT Idwal ap Meurig, dynast (d. 996/7): David E. Thornton, xxix.190; DNB DLT Idwal Foel, king of Gwynedd (d. 942): David E. Thornton, xxix.190–1; DNB DLT

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5. ‘IRISH’ SUBJECTS ( c. 400 –c. 1100) a. Kings, consorts and other rulers Áed Allán mac Fergaile, high-king of Ireland (d. 743): T. M. Charles-Edwards, i.373 Áed mac Néill, high-king of Ireland (d. 879): Benjamin T. Hudson, i.373–4 Áed Oirdnide mac Néil, high-king of Ireland (d. 819): T. M. Charles-Edwards, i.374–5 Áed Sláine mac Diarmata, joint high-king of Ireland (d. 604): Philip Irwin, i.375–6 Áed [in Gaí Bernaig] Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht (d. 1067): Seán Duffy, lv.835–6; DNB NM Áed Uaridnach mac Domnaill, high-king of Ireland (d. 612): T. M. Charles-Edwards, i.376 Ailill Molt, high-king of Ireland (d. c. 482): Philip Irwin, i.490 Báetán mac Cairill, king of Ulster (d. 581): Philip Irwin, iii.212 Blaímac [Blathmac] mac Áeda, joint high-king of Ireland (d. 665): T. M. CharlesEdwards, vi.70 Brian Bóruma, high-king of Ireland (c. 941–1014): Seán Duffy, vii.533–8; DNB NM Cathal mac Conchobair, king of Connacht (d. 1010): Seán Duffy, x.536; DNB NM Cathal mac Finguine, king of Munster (d. 742): Philip Irwin, x.536–7 Cellach mac Máele Coba, joint high-king of Ireland (d. 658): T. M. Charles-Edwards, x.805–6 Cellach Cualann, king of Leinster (d. 715): Charles Doherty, x.804–5 Cellachán mac Buadacháin, king of Munster (d. 954): Benjamin T. Hudson, x.806; DNB NM Cenn Fáelad mac Blaímaic, high-king of Ireland (d. 675): T. M. Charles-Edwards, x.810 Cerball mac Dúngaile, king of Osraige (d. 888): Benjamin T. Hudson, x.821–2; DNB NM Cináed mac Írgalaig, high-king of Ireland (d. 728): T. M. Charles-Edwards, xi.712–13 Coirpre mac Néill, high-king of Ireland (supp. fl. 485–94): Philip Irwin, xii.441 Conall Cóel mac Máele Coba, joint high-king of Ireland (d. 654): T. M. CharlesEdwards, x.805–6 Conchobar mac Donnchada, high-king of Ireland (d. 833): Benjamin T. Hudson (online update, October 2005) Congal Cáech, high-king of Ireland (d. 637): T. M. Charles-Edwards, xii.929 Congal Cendmagair, high-king of Ireland (d. 710): Charles Doherty, xii.929–30 Congalach mac Máele Mithig, king of Brega and high-king of Ireland (d. 956): Benjamin T. Hudson, xii.930 Cormac mac Cuilennáin, king of Munster and bishop (d. 908): Paul Russell, xiii.434–5; DNB NM Dál Riata, kings of: see sect. 6a, ‘Scottish’ kings and other rulers

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Anglo-Saxon and related entries in the ODNB (2004) Diarmait mac Cerbaill, high-king of Ireland (d. 565): T. M. Charles-Edwards, xvi.22–3 Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, king of Leinster (d. 1072): Benjamin T. Hudson, xvi.23 Domnall mac Áeda, high-king of Ireland (d. 642): T. M. Charles-Edwards, xvi.489–90 Domnall mac Murchada, high-king of Ireland (d. 763): T. M. Charles-Edwards, xvi.490 Domnall ua Néill, high-king of Ireland (d. 980): Benjamin T. Hudson, xvi.490–1 Donnchad Donn mac Flainn, high-king of Ireland (d. 944): Charles Doherty, xvi.532–3 Donnchad mac Briain, king of Munster (d. 1064): Damian Bracken, xxxv.65–7; DNB NM Donnchad mac Domnaill, high-king of Ireland (733–97): Charles Doherty, xvi.533–4 Feidlimid mac Crimthainn, king of Munster (d. 847): Damian Bracken, xix.235–6 Fergal mac Máele Dúin, high-king of Ireland (d. 722): Charles Doherty, xix.338–9 Fiachu mac Néill, king in Ireland (fl. 510–16): Philip Irwin, xix.462 Fínsnechtae Fledach mac Dúnchada, high-king of Ireland (d. 695): T. M. CharlesEdwards, xix.629 Flaithbertach mac Loingsig, high-king of Ireland (d. 765): T. M. Charles-Edwards, xix.979 Flaithbertach ua Néill, king of Ailech (d. 1036): Seán Duffy, lv.844–5; DNB NM Flann Sinna, high-king of Ireland (847/8–91): Charles Doherty, xix.998–9 Fogartach mac Néill, high-king of Ireland (d. 724): Philip Irwin, xix.199–200 Forggus mac Muirchertaig, joint high-king of Ireland (d. c. 566): T. M. CharlesEdwards, xix.366–7 Godred Crovan, king of Man and the Isles (d. 1095): Seán Duffy, xxii.600–1 *Gormlaith, queen in Ireland and tragic heroine (d. 948): Elva Johnston, xxii.1011 Lethlobar mac Loingsig, king of Ulster (d. 873): Benjamin T. Hudson, xxxiii.509–10; DNB NM Lóegaire mac Néill, high-king of Ireland (fl. 5th cent.): Philip Irwin, xxxiv.292–3; DNB NM Loingsech mac Óenguso, high-king of Ireland (d. 704): Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, xxxiv.329; DNB NM Lugaid mac Lóegairi, high-king of Ireland (d. 507): Philip Irwin, xxxiv.724; DNB NM Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, high-king of Ireland (948–1022): Benjamin T. Hudson, xxxvi.101–2; DNB NM Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid, high-king of Ireland (d. 862): T. M. CharlesEdwards, xxxvi.102–4; DNB NM Muirchertach mac Muiredaig, high-king of Ireland (d. 534): T. M. Charles-Edwards, xxxix.681–2; DNB NM Muirchertach mac Néill, king of Ailech (d. 943): Benjamin T. Hudson, xxxix.682–3; DNB NM Muirchertach ua Briain, high-king of Ireland (c. 1050–1119): Damian Bracken, lv.830–2; DNB NM Nath Í mac Fiachrach, high-king of Ireland (supp. d. 445?): Philip Irwin, xl.264 Niall Frossach mac Fergaile, high-king of Ireland (718–78): Philip Irwin, xl.743–4; DNB NM

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6. ‘SCOTTISH’ SUBJECTS ( c. 400–c . 1100) a. Kings, consorts and other rulers Adda, king of Bernicia (d. 565?): D. J. Craig, xxix.189; DNB WH Aed Find, king of Dál Riata (d. 778): see Dál Riata, kings of

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8. ANTIQUARIES (c. 1450–c. 1750) Astle, Thomas, archivist and collector (1735–1803): Nigel Ramsay, ii.771–3; DNB H. R. Tedder Aubrey, John, antiquary and biographer (1626–97): Adam Fox, ii.907–11; DNB Richard Garnett Bale, John, bishop of Ossory, evangelical polemicist, and historian (1495–1563): John N. King, iii.482–6; DNB Mandell Creighton Boece, Hector, historian and college head (c. 1465–1536): Nicola Royan, vi.418–21; DNB AJGM Bradshaw, Henry, scholar and hagiographer (d. 1513): Joan Greatrex, vii.213; DNB WH Buchanan, George, poet, historian and administrator (1506–82): D. M. Abbott, viii.468–72; DNB AJGM Camden, William, historian and herald (1551–1623): Wyman H. Herendeen, ix.603–14; DNB EMT Coke, Sir Edward, lawyer, legal writer, and politician (1552–1634): Allen D. Boyer, xii.451–63; DNB G. P. Macdonell Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce, first baronet, antiquary and politician (1571–1631): Stuart Handley, xiii.624–9; DNB Sidney Lee Davies, John, clergyman and Welsh scholar (c. 1570–1644): Mihail Dafydd Evans, xv.381–2; DNB A. W. Renton

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9. MODERN SCHOLARS (c. 1750–) *Bateson, Mary, historian and suffragist (1865–1906): Mary Dockray-Miller, iv.331–3; DNB TFT Bishop, Edmund, liturgical scholar and ecclesiastical historian (1846–1917): R. J. Schoeck, v.864–5 Bond, Sir Edward Augustus, librarian (1815–98): Michael Borrie, vi.509–11 Bosworth, Joseph, Anglo-Saxon scholar (1787/8–1876): rev. John D. Haigh, vi.749–50; DNB Henry Bradley Bruce-Mitford, Rupert Lee Scott, archaeologist and art historian (1914–94): Martin Biddle, xxxviii.459–60 Chadwick, Hector Munro, literary scholar (1870–1947): rev. John D. Haigh, x.840; DNB W. Telfer *Chadwick, Nora, literary scholar (1891–1972): Paul Knobel, x.847–8 Chalmers, George, antiquary and political writer (bap. 1742, d. 1825): Alexander Du Toit, xi.870–2; DNB AJGM Cleasby, Richard, philologist (1791–1847): rev. John D. Haigh, xi.999; DNB Richard Garnett Cockayne, Thomas Oswald, philologist and teacher (bap. 1809, d. 1873): Daniel F. Kenneally, xii.326–7; DNB A. Brodribb Collingwood, William Gershom, author, artist, and antiquary (1854–1932): James S. Dearden, xii.681–3 Craigie, Sir William Alexander, lexicographer and philologist (1867–1957): A. J. Aitken, xiii.967–9 Dasent, Sir George Webbe, Scandinavian scholar (1817–96): rev. John D. Haigh, xv.217–18; DNB Thomas Seccombe Earle, John, philologist (1824–1903): rev. John D. Haigh, xvii.570; DNB Charles Plummer Flower, Robin Ernest William, scholar of Irish literature and poet (1881–1946): Bernard O’Donoghue, xx.177–8; DNB H. I. Bell Foster, Sir Idris Llewelyn, Welsh and Celtic scholar (1911–84): R. Geraint Gruffydd, xix.504–5

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Bibliography for 2007 paul g. remley, carole p. biggam, simon keynes, carole hough, rebec ca rushforth, mark blackburn, martha bayless, felicity h. clark and fiona edmonds This bibliography is meant to include all significant books, articles and reviews published in any branch of Anglo-Saxon studies during 2007, as well as entries omitted from previous bibliographies. It excludes reprints unless they contain new material. The year of publication of a book or article is 2007 unless otherwise stated. The arrangement and the pages on which the sections begin are as follows: 1. general and miscellaneous page 237 2. old english language 243 Lexical aspects (Lexicon, 243; Glosses, 248); Phonology, syntax and other aspects, 248 248 3. old english literature 257 General and miscellaneous (including studies treating Old English and Anglo-Latin subjects), 257; Poetry, 260 (General and miscellaneous, 260; ‘Beowulf ’, 263; Other verse, 269); Prose, 274 (General and miscellaneous, 274; Authors and texts, 276) 4. anglo-latin, liturgy and other latin ec clesiastical text s 284 General and miscellaneous, 284; Authors and texts, 287 (Early period (before Alcuin, excluding Bede), 287; Bede, 290; Alcuin, 293; Other pre-Reform authors and texts, 296; Reform period and beyond, 296; Other pre-Conquest authors and texts, 297); Liturgical books, 297 5. palaeo graphy, diplomatic, illumination and related subject s 299 Palaeography and codicology, 299; Diplomatic, 303; Illumination and iconography, 303; Scriptoria, libraries and transmission of non-native texts, 305 6. history 307 General and miscellaneous, 307; c. 400–c. 900, 311; c. 900–c. 1100, 313; Classified subjects, 316 7. numismatics 318 8. onomastics 320 9. archaeolo gy 323 General and miscellaneous, 323; Environment, landscape and agriculture, 327 (Environment, 327; Landscape, 328; Agriculture, 329); Towns and other

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Paul Remley has served as chief editor of the bibliography and has been responsible mainly for the ten parts of sections 1–4 and 10. Carole Biggam has served as editor of the archaeological entries and has been responsible mainly for the ten parts of section 9. Rebecca Rushforth has been responsible mainly for the four parts of section 5; Martha Bayless, Felicity H. Clark and Fiona Edmonds for the four parts of section 6; Mark Blackburn for section 7; and Carole Hough for section 8. Additional entries have been supplied for section 2 by Thomas N. Hall and Melinda J. Menzer. Additional entries have been supplied throughout by Simon Keynes, Carole Biggam and Paul Remley. References to publications issued in Japan, and elsewhere in eastern Asia, have been contributed mainly by Professor Yoshio Terasawa. Paul Remley has been responsible for co-ordination of the contributions and has prepared the bibliography for publication. The following abbreviations occur where relevant (not only in the bibliography but also throughout the volume): AAe AB AC AHR ANQ ANS AntJ ArchJ ASE ASNSL ASPR ASSAH AST AUON BAR BGDSL BN

Archaeologia Aeliana Analecta Bollandiana Archaeologia Cantiana American Historical Review American Notes and Queries Anglo-Norman Studies Antiquaries Journal Archaeological Journal Anglo-Saxon England Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History Anglo-Saxon Texts Annali, Sezione germanica ns (Università degli studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’) British Archaeological Reports Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur Beiträge zur Namenforschung

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British Numismatic Journal Current Archaeology Council for British Archaeology Cahiers de civilisation médiévale Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters Études anglaises Economic History Review Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile Early English Text Society English Historical Review English Language Notes Early Medieval Europe English Place-Name Society English Studies Frühmittelalterliche Studien Henry Bradshaw Society Publications Historische Sprachforschung Historische Zeitschrift Indogermanische Forschungen Journal of the British Archaeological Association Journal of English and Germanic Philology Journal of Ecclesiastical History Journal of the English Place-Name Society Journal of Medieval History Journal of Theological Studies ns The Local Historian Medieval Archaeology Medium Ævum Monumenta Germaniae Historica Modern Language Review Modern Philology Mediaeval Studies Notes and Queries ns Numismatic Chronicle Numismatic Circular Northern History Neuphilologische Mitteilungen Old English Newsletter Oxford Medieval Texts Proceedings of the British Academy

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Patrologia Latina Publications of the Modern Language Association of America Philological Quarterly Revue bénédictine Review of English Studies ns Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, 2nd ed. (Berlin) Rolls Series Saga-Book (London, Viking Society for Northern Research) Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles Settimane di studio della fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull’alto Medioevo (Spoleto) Studi medievali, 3rd ser. Studia Neophilologica Studies in Philology Times Literary Supplement Transactions of the Philological Society Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Yearbook of English Studies Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur

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Bibliography for 2007 1. GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Anderson, Douglas A., ‘R. W. Chambers and The Hobbit’, Tolkien Stud. 3 (2006), 137–47 [also esp. on Chambers, Widsith (Cambridge, 1912); Beowulf, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1932); and other works] [Anon.], ‘Donald Bullough, Bibliography 2000–2003’, EME 12 (2003), 337–8 ‘Joan Turville-Petre (née Blomfield), 10 May 1911–9 March 2006’, SBVS 30 (2006), 98–100 [signed by ‘T. T.-P. and D. T.-P.’] ‘Publications of Thomas D. Hill’, Source of Wisdom, ed. Charles D. Wright et al. [see sect. 3a], pp. 387–98 ‘Tom Shippey: Academic Publications’, Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth, ed. Andrew Wawn et al., pp. 357–65 Antonsson, Haki, Sally Crumplin and Aidan Conti, ‘A Norwegian in Durham: an Anatomy of a Miracle in Reginald of Durham’s Libellus de admirandis beati Cuthberti’, West over Sea, ed. Beverley Ballin Smith et al. [see sect. 6a], pp. 195–226 [figure of Cuthbert; also on Alcuin, Vita S. Willibrordi (prose and verse)] Arblaster, Paul, ‘Paris 1615–1676’, Woolhampton 1903–2003, ed. Geoffrey Scott, pp. 1–36 [esp. for later cults of Augustine of Canterbury, Edmund, king of East Anglia, et al.; also for Bede, Ecgwine et al.] Arnold, Martin, ‘“Lord and protector of the earth and its inhabitants”: Poetry, Philology, Politics and Thor the Thunderer in Denmark and Germany’, Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth, ed. Andrew Wawn et al., pp. 27–52 [esp. on N. F. S. Grundtvig; also for J. Grimm et al.] Ashe, Laura, ‘“Exile-and-Return” and English Law: the Anglo-Saxon Inheritance of Insular Romance’, Lit. Compass 3 (2006), 300–17 [continuity of AS traditions, esp. in twelfth- and thirteenth-century French romance and in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Middle Eng. sources; online: DOI 10.1111/j.1741– 4113.2006.00330.x] Aealgeir Kristjánsson, ed., ‘Tvö bréf Helga Biskups Thordersen til Gísla Brynjúlfssonar’, Gripla 18, 195–201 [see further stud. and ed. of Gísli’s verse by S. P. Ísaksson, as cited below and in sect. 3cii, with ‘Ælfric’] Baker, Peter S., ‘Typing in Old English Since 1967: a Brief History’, OEN 40.1 (2007 for 2006), 28–37 Battles, Paul, ‘What Is “Middle-Earth”? Origin, Evolution and Mythic Function’, Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth, ed. Andrew Wawn et al., pp. 319–42 Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte Miriam, ‘L’au-delà du soi. Métamorphoses sigillaires en Europe médiévale’, CCM 49 (2006), 337–58 [extensive discussion of later cult of Cuthbert; also for AS cult] Bell, David N., ‘What Nuns Read: the State of the Question’, The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism, ed. James G. Clark (Woodbridge), pp. 113–33 [esp. for later fortunes of Alcuin and pseudo-Alcuin] Bishop, Chris, ‘Civilizing the Savage Ancestor: Representations of the Anglo-Saxons in the Art of Nineteenth-Century Britain’, Stud. in Medievalism 15 (2007 for 2006), 55–76

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Bibliography for 2007 Brown, Jennifer N., ‘Translating Edward the Confessor: Feminism, Time and Hagiography’, Med. Feminist Forum 43.1, 46–57 [esp. in anon. twelfth-century verse by nun of Barking] Bruce, Alexander M., ‘Maldon and Moria: on Byrhtnoth, Gandalf and Heroism in The Lord of the Rings’, Mythlore: a Jnl of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams and Mythopoeic Lit. 26.1–2, 149–59 Buchloh, Paul G., ‘Angeln: regio oder natio? Eine philologische Betrachtung’, Offa 37 (1981 for 1980), 360–5 [with considerable reference to England] Burgess, Christopher, ‘Anglo-Saxon Pages’, Heroic Age 3 (2000) [online; rev. article treating online resources in AS stud.] Burns, Marjorie, ‘Tracking the Elusive Hobbit (in its Pre-Shire Den)’, Tolkien Stud. 4, 200–11 [OE holbytla as Tolkien’s declared explanation of hobbit] Carroll, Jayne, and Christina Lee, ‘Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of Christine Fell: Introduction’, Nottingham Med. Stud. 51, 201–5 [introd. to collection of essays] Colls, Robert, ed., see sect. 6a Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo and Mercedes Salvador, ‘Old English Studies in Spain: Past, Present and . . . Future?’, OEN 40.1 (2007 for 2006), 38–58 [includes extensive bibliography] Conti, Aidan, see sect. 3cii, with ‘Wulfstan’ [twelfth-century reception] Crabus, Tobias, see below, with Fleck, Beate Sophie, et al. [figure of Boniface] Crépin, André, in collaboration with Leo Carruthers, ‘Old English Studies in France’, OEN 40.3, 28–30 [includes bibliography] Davis, Glenn, and Robin Norris, ed., The Future of the Past: Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Classroom [= Stud. in Med. and Renaissance Teaching 14.2] (Wichita, KS) Denison, David, and Bas Aarts, ‘Richard Hogg, 20 May 1944–6 September 2007’, Eng. Lang. and Ling. 11.3, i–ii Dockray-Miller, Mary, ‘Historical Sources of the Middle English Verse Life of St. Æthelthryth’, ANQ 20.2, 8–11 [later med. sources; also on figure of Edith of Wilton] Donoghue, Daniel, ed., ‘The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2004’, OEN 39.2 (2007 for 2006), 3–226 Donoghue, Daniel, and R. M. Liuzza, ed., ‘The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2003’, OEN 38.2 (2007 for 2005), 3–219 Driscoll, Stephen T., ‘Professor Leslie Alcock’, Scottish Archaeol. Jnl 28.1 (2006), v–x Drout, Michael D. C., ‘The Problem of Transformation: the Use of Medieval Sources in Fantasy Literature’, Lit. Compass 1 (2003–4) [Tolkien et al.; esp. for Wanderer, and for Beowulf; online: DOI 10.1111/j.1741–4113.2004.00101.x] ‘Tolkien’s Prose Style and its Literary and Rhetorical Effects’, Tolkien Stud. 1 (2004), 137–62 [esp. on lexical and semantic influence of OE] ‘A Spliced Old English Quotation in “Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics” ’, Tolkien Stud. 3 (2006), 149–52 [esp. on Widsith; also on Beowulf, Seafarer and Wanderer] ‘J. R. R. Tolkien’s Medieval Scholarship and its Significance’, Tolkien Stud. 4, 113–76 [includes bibliographies]

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Bibliography for 2007 Drukker, Tamar S., ‘Historicising Sainthood: the Case of Edward the Confessor in Vernacular Narratives’, The Medieval Chronicle IV, ed. Erik Kooper (Amsterdam, 2006), pp. 53–79 [esp. in twelfth- and thirteenth-century sources] Dutton, Marsha L., ‘The Staff in the Stone: Finding Arthur’s Sword in the Vita Sancti Edwardi of Aelred of Rievaulx’, Arthuriana 17.3, 3–30 [esp. in sect. 4; also for figure of Wulfstan II of Worcester] Evans, Jonathan, ‘Wörter, Sachen und Wahrheit: Philology and the Tree of Language in Tolkien’, Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth, ed. Andrew Wawn et al., pp. 243– 74 [esp. in sects. 2–6] Faletra, Michael A., ‘The Conquest of the Past in “The History of the Kings of Britain” ’, Lit. Compass 4, 121–33 [Geoffrey of Monmouth, esp. in treatment of AS hist.; online: DOI 10.1111/j.1741–4113.2006.00392.x] Fehrenbacher, Richard W., ‘Beowulf as Fairy-Story: Enchanting the Elegiac in The Two Towers’, Tolkien Stud. 3 (2006), 101–15 Fimi, Dimitra, ‘Tolkien’s “ ‘Celtic’ type of legends”: Merging Traditions’, Tolkien Stud. 4, 51–71 [integration with AS borrowings; also esp. on notes by Tolkien for a contemplated ed. of Seafarer, used subsequently by I. L. Gordon in ed. publ. in 1960] Fleck, Beate Sophie, Friedel Helga Roolfs and Gabriela Signori, ed., Das Freckenhorster Legendar. Andacht, Geschichte und Legende in einem spätmittelalterlichen Kanonissenstift. Edition und Kommentar, Religion in der Geschichte 10 (Bielefeld, 2003) [figure of Boniface, occurring in extenso; also includes contributions in introd., pp. 6–12, by Tobias Crabus (esp. for the treatment of Boniface et al.)] Flieger, Verlyn, ‘A Distant Mirror: Tolkien and Jackson in the Looking-Glass’, Stud. in Medievalism 13 (2005 for 2004), 67–78 [esp. on influence of Beowulf; treats film issued in 2001, The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Rings, directed by Peter Jackson] ‘The Curious Incident of the Dream at the Barrow: Memory and Reincarnation in Middle-Earth’, Tolkien Stud. 4, 99–112 [use of OE, esp. in names of characters] Frederick, Jill, ‘In Memoriam: Phillip John Pulsiano (1955–2000)’, Signs on the Edge, ed. Sarah Larratt Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr [see sect. 5a], pp. 1–2 Frederick, Jill, Marijane Osborn and Elaine Treharne, ‘In Memoriam: Stephen O. Glosecki (1950–2007)’, OEN 40.3, 3–4 Ganz, David, ‘Donald A. Bullough’, EME 12 (2003), 332–5 Garver, Lee, ‘Seafarer Socialism: Pound, The New Age and Anglo-Medieval Radicalism’, Jnl of Mod. Lit. 29.4 (2006), 1–21 Gillies, Patricia, ‘Anglo-Norman Literature: the Road to Middle English’, ‘Beowulf ’ and Other Stories, ed. Richard North and Joe Allard, pp. 454–88 [esp. on later transmission of OE] Grégoire, Réginald, ‘L’incontro del monaco e del lupo: una tipologia didattica’, Monastica et Humanistica, ed. Francesco G. B. Trolese, 1 vol. in 2 (Cesena, 2003), pp. 577–90 [esp. on figure of Edmund, king of East Anglia] Griffin, Felicity, ‘Offa, Ingvar or Ubba: Which Is It? A Goodie or a Baddie in Southwold’s East Window’, Suffolk Inst. of Archaeol. and Hist. Newsletter 46 (1998), 14–15 [an attempt to identify a figure in a window of St Edmund’s church]

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Bibliography for 2007 Hall, Mark A., ‘Two Women and a Boat, or a Novel Approach to Engendering the Sutton Hoo Excavations’, Soc. for Med. Archaeol. Newsletter 38, [7–8] [rev. of a recent novel: John Preston, The Dig (London)] Hall, Mark F., ‘The Theory and Practice of Alliterative Verse in the Work of J. R. R. Tolkien’, Mythlore: a Jnl of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams and Mythopoeic Lit. 25.1–2 (2006), 41–52 Hall, Thomas N., with Melinda Menzer, ‘Old English Bibliography 2005’, OEN 39.4 (2007 for 2006), 3–48 ‘Old English Bibliography 2006’, OEN 40.4, 3–39 Hammond, Wayne G., and Christina Scull, ed., ‘The Lord of the Rings’, 1954–2004: Scholarship in honor of Richard E. Blackwelder (Milwaukee, WI, 2006) Härke, Heinrich, ‘Invisible Britons, Gallo-Romans and Russians: Perspectives on Cultural Change’, Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Nick Higham [see sect. 6b], pp. 57–67 [esp. on mod. analogues of AS hist. events] Hausmann, Frank-Rutger, Anglistik und Amerikanistik im ‘Dritten Reich’ (Frankfurt am Main, 2003) [esp. for E. Sievers, L. L. Schücking, M. Förster et al.] Hill, Joyce, ‘Donald G. Scragg: a Tribute’, The Power of Words, ed. Hugh Magennis and Jonathan Wilcox, pp. 15–27 [includes summary of work by Scragg publ. in 2001– 5, augmenting earlier bibliography cited in ASE 32 (2003), p. 310.] Honegger, Thomas, ‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth: Philology and the Literary Muse’, Tolkien Stud. 4, 189–99 [debt to OE] Hostetter, Carl F., ‘Tolkienian Linguistics: the First Fifty Years’, Tolkien Stud. 4, 1–46 [debt to OE] Ísaksson, Sigurjón Páll, ‘W´yeingar Gísla Brynjúlfssonar úr fornensku’, Gripla 18, 89–109 [stud. of Gísli’s trans. of OE prose into mod. Icelandic verse, first publ. in 1853; see also Ísaksson’s new ed. of the verse, publ. in two parts, as cited in sect. 3cii, with ‘Ælfric’] Jackson, Deirdre, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London) [esp. for figures of Cuthbert, Guthlac et al., in later med. art] Jurasinski, Stefan, ‘Andrew Horn, Alfredian Apocrypha and the Anglo-Saxon Names of the Mirror of Justices’, JEGP 105 (2006), 540–63 Keefer, Sarah Larratt, ‘C. S. Lewis’s “Edgestow” as Homophonic Polysemy’, ANQ 14.3 (2001), 40–5 [OE links of fictive place-name] Kelemen, Erick, ‘More Evidence for the Date of A Testimonie of Antiquitie’, The Library 7th ser. 7 (2006), 361–76 [earliest known use of typeface reproducing AS script, c. 1566; also for Ælfric] King, Andy, and A. J. Pollard, ‘“Northumbria” in the Later Middle Ages’, Northumbria: History and Identity, ed. Robert Colls, pp. 68–87 Kisor, Yvette L., ‘“Elves (and hobbits) always refer to the sun as she”: Some Notes on a Note in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings’, Tolkien Stud. 4, 212–22 [esp. on OE sunna and mona; also includes extensive discussion of ‘Old English Martyrology’] Kleist, Aaron J., see sect. 4c, with ‘homiliary’ [AS homiliaries in Tudor and Stuart periods] Kowalik, Barbara, ‘Reviving Christian and Druid Ideals in St. Erkenwald’, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 41 (2005), 225–35 [esp. on treatment of AS background]

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Bibliography for 2007 Kragl, Florian, ‘Wer hat den Hirsch zum Köder gemacht? Der “Münchner Oswald”, spiritualiter gelesen’, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 63, 157–78 [AS background, esp. in sect. 2] LaCelle-Peterson, Mark, ‘Claiming a Place at the Table: Anglo-Saxons in the Liberal Arts Curriculum’, Stud. in Med. and Renaissance Teaching 14.2, 15–29 Lee, Stuart D., ‘Film and Early Medieval Literature’, Lit. Compass 1 (2003–4) [online: includes OE; DOI 10.1111/j.1741–4113.2004.00101.x] Lees, Clare A., ‘Analytical Survey 7: Actually Existing Anglo-Saxon Studies’, New Med. Literatures 7 (2005), 223–52 Liuzza, R. M., ‘In Memoriam: Nicholas Howe (Feb. 17, 1953–September 27, 2006)’, OEN 40.1 (2007 for 2006), 3–4 Liuzza, R. M., ed., Old English Newsletter 40 (2006–7) Magennis, Hugh, and Jonathan Wilcox, ed., see sect. 3a Marzec, Marcia Smith, ‘“Retrieving the Anglo-Saxon Past”: a Course Plan’, Stud. in Med. and Renaissance Teaching 14.2, 71–88 Mathieu, James R., ‘Introduction’, Stud. in Med. and Renaissance Teaching 14.2, 7–13 [in special issue The Future of the Past: Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Classroom; see above with Davis, Glenn, and Robin Norris, ed.] Moffett, Joe, ‘Anglo-Saxon and Welsh Origins in David Jones’s The Anathemata’, North Amer. Jnl of Welsh Stud. 6.1 (2006), 1–18 [online; also esp. on Pound and Auden] The Search for Origins in the Twentieth-Century Long Poem: Sumerian, Homeric, Anglo-Saxon (Morgantown, WV) [esp. on G. Hill, Mercian Hymns, in ch. 4] Netzer, Katinka, Wissenschaft aus nationaler Sehnsucht. Die Verhandlungen der Germanisten 1846 und 1847 (Heidelberg, 2006) [J. Grimm, W. Grimm, K. Müllenhoff et al.] Niles, John D., ‘Land of Contrasts: the Lejre Experimental Centre’, Niles et al., ‘Beowulf ’ and Lejre, pp. 461–7 [esp. for traditions of Beowulf] ‘Lejre in the Modern Era: the Rise and Fall of a Myth’, Niles et al., ‘Beowulf ’ and Lejre, pp. 267–86 [O. Worm, L. A. Gebhardi et al.] Niles, John D. et al., see sect. 3bii North, Richard, and Joe Allard, ed., see sect. 3bii Ó Carragáin, Tomás, ‘Éamonn Ó Carragáin: a Bibliography’, Text, Image, Interpretation, ed. Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts [see sect. 3a], pp. 569–72 O’Mara, Veronica, and Suzanne Paul, ‘A Preliminary List of Patristic and Other Authors Cited in the Middle English Prose Sermon: an Introduction to an Online Resource in Progress’, Med. Sermon Stud. 51, 42–79 [http://www.hull.ac.uk/ middle_english_sermons, under heading ‘Sermon Quotations’; extensive citation of Bede] Ouy, Gilbert, ‘Jean Lebègue (1368–1457), auteur, copiste et bibliophile’, Patrons, Authors and Workshops, ed. Godfried Croenen and Peter Ainsworth (Louvain, 2006), pp. 143–71 [later reception of Bede, in sect. 3] Padel, O. J., ‘Obituary: Harold Fox, 1945–2007’, JEPNS 39, 173–4 Pape, Matthias, ‘Das Bonifatius-Gedenkjahr 1954 im allgemeinpolitischen und gesamtkirchlichen Kontext’, Bonifatius, ed. Franz J. Felten et al. [see sect. 4bi, with ‘Boniface’], pp. 375–410

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Garner, Lori Ann, ‘The Old English Andreas and the Mermedonian Cityscape’, Essays in Med. Stud. (Chicago et alibi) 24, 53–63 [online] BA T T L E O F B RU NA N BU R H

Carroll, Jayne, see sect. 3bi Cavill, Paul, see sect. 8 Powell, Kathryn, ‘Ealde u«witan in The Battle of Brunanburh’, The Power of Words, ed. Hugh Magennis and Jonathan Wilcox [see sect. 3a], pp. 318–36 BA T T L E O F M A L D O N

Altman, Chris, ‘Making Use of the Terrain: Byrhtnoe’s Strategy in The Battle of Maldon’, ANQ 20.1, 3–8 Bruce, Alexander M., see sect. 1 [influence on Tolkien] Dance, Richard, ‘“Wær weare hream ahafen”: a Note on Old English Spelling and the Sound of The Battle of Maldon’, The Power of Words, ed. Hugh Magennis and Jonathan Wilcox [see sect. 3a], pp. 277–317 Halbrooks, John, ‘Byrhtnoth’s Great-Hearted Mirth, or Praise and Blame in The Battle of Maldon’, PQ 82 (2004–5 for 2003), 235–55 Jorgensen, Alice, ‘Power, Poetry and Violence: The Battle of Maldon’, Aspects of Power and Authority in the Middle Ages, ed. Brenda Bolton and Christine Meek (Turnhout), pp. 235–49 CÆDMON’S HYMN

Frantzen, Allen J., and John Hines, ed., ‘Cædmon’s Hymn’ and Material Culture in the World of Bede: Six Essays, Med. European Stud. 10 (Morgantown, WV) Hines, John, see sect. 4bii Holsinger, Bruce, see sect. 4bii O’Donnell, Daniel P., ‘Material Differences: the Place of Cædmon’s Hymn in the History of Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Poetry’, ‘Cædmon’s Hymn’, ed. Allen J. Frantzen and John Hines, pp. 15–50 [esp. in sects. 6–7; also esp. on Aldhelm] Wyly, Bryan Weston, see sect. 3bi

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Arner, Timothy D., and Paul D. Stegner, ‘“Of tam him aweaxee wynsum gefea”: the Voyeuristic Appeal of Christ III’, JEGP 106, 428–46 Shimomura, Sachi, Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature, New Middle Ages (Basingstoke, 2006) [‘Visualizing Judgment in Anglo-Saxon England: Illumination, Metaphor and Christ III’, ch. 1] CHRIST AND SATAN

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Dubois, Marguerite-Marie, ‘La légende de Weland, célebrée dans le poème vieil-anglais du Deor et gravée sur le Coffret d’Auzon’, Poètes et artistes, ed. Sophie CassagnesBrouquet et al. (Limoges), pp. 17–23 Kopár, Lilla, see sect. 9giii [figure of Weland] Mostert, Marco, ‘Remembering the Barbarian Past: Oral Traditions about the Distant Past in the Middle Ages’, The Medieval Chronicle IV, ed. Erik Kooper (Amsterdam, 2006), pp. 113–25 [includes close stud. of Deor] DESCENT INTO HELL

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Biggs, Frederick M., see sect. 3bi Earl, James W., ‘Trinitarian Language: Augustine, The Dream of the Rood and Ælfric’, Source of Wisdom, ed. Charles D. Wright et al., pp. 63–79 Ikeda, Tadashi, ‘The Dream of the Rood’: Mysticism in English Literature (Tokyo, 1976) [in Japanese; includes trans.; also esp. on ‘Ruthwell Crucifixion poem’] Marchand, James W., ‘The Leaps of Christ and The Dream of the Rood’, Source of Wisdom, ed. Charles D. Wright et al., pp. 80–9 [also esp. on Christ II]

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Hernández Pérez, María Beatriz, ‘Elene as an Agent of Torture: an Anglo-Saxon Depiction of Sanctity’, Insights and Bearings: Festschrift for Dr. Juan Sebastián Amador Bedford, ed. Manuel Brito et al. (La Laguna), pp. 221–32 Janda, Michael, see sect. 2ai E XO D U S

Bammesberger, Alfred, ‘Old English læste near (Exodus, line 308b)’, N&Q 54, 357–9 Shippey, Tom, see sect. 3bi [on ed. by Tolkien, publ. in 1981] F I N N S BU R H F R AG M E N T

Shippey, Tom, see sect. 3bi [on ed. by Tolkien, publ. in 1982] F O RT U N E S O F M E N

DiNapoli, Robert, ‘Close to the Edge: The Fortunes of Men and the Limits of Wisdom Literature’, Text and Transmission in Medieval Europe, ed. Chris Bishop (Newcastle), pp. 127–47 GENESIS A AND B

Buchelt, Lisabeth C., ‘All about Eve: Memory and Re-Collection in Junius 11’s Epic Poems Genesis and Christ and Satan’, Women and Medieval Epic, ed. Sara S. Poor and Jana K. Schulman (Basingstoke), pp. 137–58 Karkov, Catherine E., see sect. 5c [depictions of Eve] GENESIS A

Orchard, Andy, ‘Intoxication, Fornication and Multiplication: the Burgeoning Text of Genesis A’, Text, Image, Interpretation, ed. Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts [see sect. 3a], pp. 333–54

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Biggs, Frederick M., see sect. 3bi J U D G E M E N T DAY I I

Lendinara, Patrizia, ‘Translating Doomsday: De die iudicii and its Old English Translation (Judgement Day II)’, ‘Beowulf ’ and Beyond, ed. Hans Sauer and Renate Bauer [see sect. 3a], pp. 17–67 see also sect. 4bii [circulation] JUDITH

Callahan, Leslie Abend, ‘Ambiguity and Appropriation: the Story of Judith in Medieval Narrative and Iconographic Traditions’, Telling Tales, ed. Francesca Canadé Sautman et al. (New York, 1998), pp. 79–99 Fitzgerald, Christina M., see sect. 3bii [pedagogical use] Hall, Alaric, see sect. 3a J U L I A NA

Dendle, Peter, ‘How Naked Is Juliana?’, PQ 83 (2005–6 for 2004), 355–70 ‘ M E N O LO G I U M ’ Karasawa, Kazutomo, ‘A Note on the Old English Poem Menologium (3b on  y eahteo«an dæg)’, N&Q 54, 211–15 ‘ P H YS I O LO G U S ’ P O E M S Dolcetti Corazza, Vittoria, ‘Crossing Paths in the Middle Ages: the Physiologus in Iceland’, The Garden of Crossing Paths, ed. Marina Buzzoni and Massimiliano Bampi, rev. ed. (Venice), pp. 225–48 [also esp. on lost AS Physiologus manuscript containing OE glosses] Drout, Michael D. C., ‘“The Partridge” Is a Phoenix: Revising the Exeter Book Physiologus’, Neophilologus 91, 487–503 RHYMING POEM

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Millar, Angel, ‘The Old English Rune Poem: Semantics, Structure and Symmetry’, Jnl of Indo-European Stud. 34 (2006), 419–36 ‘ RU T H W E L L C RU C I F I X I O N P O E M ’ Ikeda, Tadashi, see above, with Dream of the Rood Orton, Fred, et al., see sect. 9gi S E A FA R E R

Fimi, Dimitra, see sect. 1 [notes by J. R. R. Tolkien for contemplated ed.] Garver, Lee, see sect. 1 [trans. by E. Pound] Magennis, Hugh, ‘The Solitary Journey: Aloneness and Community in The Seafarer’, Text, Image, Interpretation, ed. Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts [see sect. 3a], pp. 303–18 S E A S O N S F O R FA S T I N G

Richards, Mary P., ‘Old Wine in a New Bottle: Recycled Instructional Materials in Seasons for Fasting’, The Old English Homily, ed. Aaron J. Kleist [see sect. 3ci], pp. 345–64 [comparison of structure with OE composite homilies; also for ‘Menologium’ and other verse, and for Wulfstan (esp. in connection with Latin text on Ember fasts) and Byrhtferth]

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Gwara, Scott, ‘Forht and fægen in The Wanderer and Related Literary Contexts of AngloSaxon Warrior Wisdom’, MS 69, 255–98 Sheppard, Alice, ‘A Word to the Wise: Thinking, Knowledge and Wisdom in The Wanderer’, Source of Wisdom, ed. Charles D. Wright et al. [see sect. 3a], pp. 130–44 WIFE’S LAMENT

Lee, Sung-Il, ‘The Identity of the geong mon (line 42) in The Wife’s Lament (or, “The Lament of an Outcast”)’, Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language and Culture, ed. Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr, and Richard Scott Nokes (Kalamazoo, MI), pp. 175–93 Shimomura, Sachi, ‘Remembering in Circles: The Wife’s Lament, conversatio and the Community of Memory’, Source of Wisdom, ed. Charles D. Wright et al. [see sect. 3a], pp. 113–29 W U L F A N D E A D WA C E R

Daniëlli, Sonja, ‘“Wulf, min Wulf ”: an Eclectic Analysis of the Wolf-Man’, Neophilologus 91, 505–24 [reissue of essay publ. in 2006] c. Prose i. General and miscellaneous Abram, Christopher, ‘Anglo-Saxon Homilies in Their Scandinavian Context’, The Old English Homily, ed. Aaron J. Kleist, pp. 425–44 Anlezark, Daniel, ‘Reading “The Story of Joseph” in MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201’, The Power of Words, ed. Hugh Magennis and Jonathan Wilcox, pp. 61–94 [free-standing excerpt from anon. OE trans. of Genesis; also esp. for Ælfric] [Anon.], ‘Introduction’, The Old English Homily, ed. Aaron J. Kleist, pp. 1–12 see also sect. 4c, with ‘homiliary’ [N. R. Ker and AS homiliaries] Bredehoft, Thomas A., see sect. 5a [OE homilies in Gneuss no. 39] Brookes, Stewart, ‘Prose Writers of the English Benedictine Reform’, ‘Beowulf ’ and Other Stories, ed. Richard North and Joe Allard [see sect. 3bii], pp. 417–53 [esp. on Ælfric and Wulfstan; also for Byrhtferth and for Apollonius of Tyre] Bussières, Michèle, see sect. 5a [anon. hagiographical prose] Chardonnens, László Sándor, see sects. 3a [two items; prognostics] and 5a [also on prognostics]

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Hall, Thomas N., ‘Christ’s Birth through Mary’s Right Breast: an Echo of Carolingian Heresy in the Old English Adrian and Ritheus’, Source of Wisdom, ed. Charles D. Wright et al. [see sect. 3a], pp. 266–89

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Allen, Cynthia L., ‘The Case of the Genitive in the Peterborough Continuations’, The Language of the ‘Peterborough Chronicle’, ed. Alexander Bergs and Janne Skaffari, pp. 57–75 [includes OE, esp. in sect. 3.4] Álvarez López, Francisco Javier, ‘The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 755: an Annotated Bibliography of the Cynewulf and Cyneheard Episode from Plummer to Bremmer’, SELIM: Jnl of the Spanish Soc. for Med. Eng. Lang. and Lit. 13 (2005–6), 99–117 Ashe, Laura, see sect. 6d, with ‘Bayeux “tapestry”’ Bergs, Alexander, ‘Spoilt for Choice? Problem with in <ee> Peterborough Chronicle’, The Language of the ‘Peterborough Chronicle’, ed. Bergs and Janne Skaffari, pp. 45–56 [includes OE] Bergs, Alexander, and Janne Skaffari, ‘Invitation to the Peterborough Chronicle and its Language’, The Language of the ‘Peterborough Chronicle’, ed. Bergs and Skaffari, pp. 5– 12 Bergs, Alexander, and Janne Skaffari, ed., The Language of the ‘Peterborough Chronicle’, Stud. in Eng. Med. Lang. and Lit. 20 (Frankfurt am Main) Bishop, Chris, see sect. 3a Bredehoft, Thomas A., ‘OE y«hengest and an Unrecognized Passage of Old English Verse’, N&Q 54, 120–2 Carroll, Jayne, ‘Viking Wars and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’, ‘Beowulf ’ and Other Stories, ed. Richard North and Joe Allard [see sect. 3bii], pp. 301–50 Drinka, Bridget, ‘The Periphrastic Perfect in Early English: Evidence from the Peterborough Chronicle’, The Language of the ‘Peterborough Chronicle’, ed. Alexander Bergs and Janne Skaffari, pp. 135–62 [‘The OE Perfect Profile’, sect. 3] Dumville, David N., ‘Vikings in Insular Chronicling’, Dumville, Celtic Essays [see sect. 6a], II, 141–58 [rev. version of stud. also to be publ. in forthcoming collection]

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Gettliffe, Patrick, ‘Étude d’un extrait des chapitres VII et VIII d ‘“Apollonius de Tyr”’, Actes du colloque ALAES, AMAES, GRAAT, ed. Jean-Paul Régis and Fabienne Toupin [see sect. 2b], pp. 91–7 BEDE

Bredehoft, Thomas A., see sect. 5a Crépin, André, ‘Quelques enseignements tirés de la comparaison linguistique entre l’Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum de Béde et sa version vieil-anglaise’, Actes du colloque ALAES, AMAES, GRAAT, ed. Jean-Paul Régis and Fabienne Toupin [see sect. 2b], pp. 23–30 Major, Tristan, ‘1 Corinthians 15:52 as a Source for the Old English Version of Bede’s Simile of the Sparrow’, N&Q 54, 11–16 Page, R. I., see sect. 10 [account of Imma and its source in Bede, Historia ecclesiastica] Schaefer, Ursula, ‘A Dialogue between Orality and Literacy: Considerations on Linguistic Strategies in the Old English Bede’, Dialogische Strukturen, ed. Thomas Kühn and Schaefer (Tübingen, 1996), pp. 17–33 Thornbury, Emily V., see sect. 3ci BLICKLING HOMILIES

Kleist, Aaron J., ed., see sect. 3ci Thompson, Nancy M., ‘The Carolingian De festiuitatibus and the Blickling Book’, The Old English Homily, ed. Aaron J. Kleist, pp. 97–119 [esp. on question of audience] Toswell, M. J., ‘The Codicology of Anglo-Saxon Homiletic Manuscripts, especially the Blickling Homilies’, The Old English Homily, ed. Aaron J. Kleist, pp. 209–26 [esp. on question of ‘booklets’] Wright, Charles D., see sect. 3ci [Blickling Homily I] BYRHTFERTH

Stephenson, Rebecca, ‘Reading Byrhtferth’s Muses: Emending Section Breaks in Byrhtferth’s “Hermeneutic English”’, N&Q 54, 19–22 CHARMS

Schulz, Monika, Magie, oder Die Wiederherstellung der Ordnung, Beiträge zur europäischen Ethnologie und Folklore, Reihe A: Texte und Untersuchungen 5 (Frankfurt am Main, 2000) [‘Die Projektilthese: Wi« gescotum’ and ‘Return to Sender: Wi« færstice’, sects. 1.2.2.2.2 and 1.3.2.2] FONTHILL LETTER

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Calle-Martin, Javier, and Antonio Miranda-García, ‘On the Use of ond-Clauses in the Old English Gospels’, SN 79, 119–32 Marqués Aguado, Teresa, ‘Old English Punctuation Revisited: the Case of the “Gospel according to Saint Matthew”’, SELIM: Jnl of the Spanish Soc. for Med. Eng. Lang. and Lit. 13 (2005–6), 51–72 Miranda García, Antonio, and Javier Calle Martín, ‘The Validity of Lemma-Based Lexical Richness in Authorship Attribution: a Proposal for the Old English Gospels’, ICAME Jnl: Computers in Eng. Ling. 29 (2005), 115–29 Zironi, Alessandro, ‘The Evangelic Text as Translation and Interpretative Experience: the Paradigm of the Germanic Languages’, The Garden of Crossing Paths, ed. Marina Buzzoni and Massimiliano Bampi, rev. ed. (Venice), pp. 119–37 [also for Alfredian trans. of Gregory I, Regula pastoralis, and on lexical issues] HEXATEUCH

Withers, Benjamin C., see sect. 5c L A P I DA RY

Giliberto, Concetta, ‘Stone Lore in Miscellany Manuscripts: the Old English Lapidary’, Foundations of Learning, ed. Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr, and Kees Dekker [see sect. 3a], pp. 253–78 L AW S

Eska, Charlene M., ‘Rewarding Informers in Cáin Domnaig and the Laws of Wihtred’, CMCS 52 (2006), 1–11 Grimmer, Martin, ‘Britons in Early Wessex: the Evidence of the Law Code of Ine’, Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Nick Higham [see sect. 6b], pp. 102–14 Hough, Carole, ‘Women and the Law in Seventh-Century England’, Nottingham Med. Stud. 51, 207–30 Klinck, Anne L., ‘“To have and to hold”: the Bridewealth of Wives and the mund of Widows in Anglo-Saxon England’, Nottingham Med. Stud. 51, 231–45 Oliver, Lisi, ‘Lex talionis in Barbarian Law’, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual UCLA IndoEuropean Conference, ed. Karlene Jones-Bley et al. (Washington, DC, 2006), pp. 197–217 Rabin, Andrew, ‘Old English forespeca and the Role of the Advocate in Anglo-Saxon Law’, MS 69, 223–54 L E T T E R T O B RO T H E R E D WA R D

Clayton, Mary, ed., ‘Letter to Brother Edward: a Student Edition’, OEN 40.3, 31–46 [Cameron item B.1.8.7 = ÆLet 7; the attribution to Ælfric is now in question] LIFE OF ST GILES

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Simek, Rudolf, see sect. 5c MEDICAL TEXTS

Bezzo, Luisa, ‘Parallel Remedies: Old English “paralisin tæt is lyftadl”’, Form and Content of Instruction, ed. Patrizia Lendinara et al., pp. 435–45 D’Aronco, Maria Amalia, ‘The Missing Plant Names in the Old English Herbal: When were the Blanks Filled in?’, Contexts of English in Use, Past and Present: a Festschrift for Peter Bierbaumer on the occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of His Career at the University of Graz, ed. Margit Reitbauer et al. (Vienna), pp. 39–47 The Transmission of Medical Knowledge in Anglo-Saxon England: the Voices of Manuscripts’, Form and Content of Instruction, ed. Patrizia Lendinara et al. [see sect. 6a], pp. 35–58 see also sect. 5a [Ker no. 402] Glaze, Florence Eliza, see sect. 5a [Peri didaxeon] Hall, Alaric, see sects. 2ai [second entry] and 3a [elves in AS medical texts] Maion, Daniele, see sect. 5d [links to ‘Petrocellus’] Van Arsdall, Anne, ‘Challenging the “Eye of Newt” Image of Medieval Medicine’, The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice, ed. Barbara S. Bowers (Aldershot), pp. 195– 205 [esp. on Herbarium, Bald’s Leechbook and Lacnunga] ‘Medical Training in Anglo-Saxon England: an Evaluation of the Evidence’, Form and Content of Instruction, ed. Patrizia Lendinara et al., pp. 415–34 ‘Reading Medieval Medical Texts with an Open Mind’, Textual Healing, ed. Elizabeth Lane Furdell (Leiden, 2005), pp. 9–29 [Herbarium, Bald’s Leechbook and Lacnunga] ‘ O L D E N G L I S H M A RT Y RO LO G Y ’ Kisor, Yvette L., see sect. 1 [links to Tolkien] Rauer, Christine, ‘Usage of the Old English Martyrology’, Foundations of Learning, ed. Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr, and Kees Dekker [see sect. 3a], pp. 125–46 S O LO M O N A N D S A T U R N

Sauer, Hans, ‘A Didactic Dialogue in Old and Middle English Versions: the Prose Solomon and Saturn and the Master of Oxford’s Catechism’, Form and Content of Instruction, ed. Patrizia Lendinara et al. [see sect. 6a], pp. 363–98 [also esp. on Adrian and Ritheus]

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Nelson, Janet L., ‘Bertrada’, Nelson, Courts, Elites and Gendered Power [see sect. 6a], item IX, 93–108 [also for Boniface; repr. of stud. publ. in 2004] ‘FRIDUGISUS’ Busch, Jörg W., Vom Amtswalten zum Königsdienst. Beobachtungen zur ‘Staatssprache’ des Frühmittelalters am Beispiel des Wortes ‘administratio’, MGH Studien und Texte 42 (Hannover) [esp. in chs. 3–4; also for Boniface, Alcuin et al., esp. in ch. 2] Howlett, David, ‘Fredegisus, De substantia nihili et tenebrarum’, Bulletin Du Cange / Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi 64 (2006), 123–43 ISRAEL THE GRAMMARIAN

Herbert, Máire, see sect. 5a WIGBOD

Gorman, Michael M., ‘Peter of Pisa and the quaestiunculae Copied for Charlemagne in Brussels II 2572, with a Note on the Codex Diezianus from Verona’, Gorman, The Study of the Bible in the Early Middle Ages [see sect. 4a], pp. 276–98 [also for Alcuin; repr. of stud. publ. in 2000, with addendum, p. xiv] v. Reform period and beyond ÆLFRIC

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Sexton, John P., ‘Saint’s Law: Anglo-Saxon Sanctuary Protection in the Translatio et miracula de S. Swithuni’, Florilegium 23.2 (2007 for 2006), 61–80 REGULARIS CONCORDIA

Grégoire, Réginald, Contributi di storia del diritto monastico e istituzionale ecclesiastico, Bibliotheca Montisfani 27 (Fabriano, 2003) [esp. in sects. VIII.3–4] Yearl, M. K. K., ‘Medieval Monastic Customaries on minuti and infirmi’, The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice, ed. Barbara S. Bowers (Aldershot), pp. 175–94 [in sect. 4; also for Bede (and pseudo-Bede) on bloodletting] vi. Other pre-Conquest authors and texts ‘BEATUS QUID EST’ Mirto, Ignazio Mauro, ‘Of the Choice and Use of the Word beatus in the Beatus quid est: Notes by a Non-Philologist’, Form and Content of Instruction, ed. Patrizia Lendinara et al. [see sect. 6a], pp. 349–61 C A R M I NA C A N T A B R I G I E N S I A

Ziolkowski, Jan M., see sect. 4a E N C O M I U M E M M A E R E G I NA E

Barrow, Julia, see sect. 6c V I T A Æ D WA R D I R E G I S

Huntington, Joanna, ‘Saintly Power as a Model of Royal Authority: the “Royal Touch” and Other Miracles in the Early vitae of Edward the Confessor’, Aspects of Power and Authority in the Middle Ages, ed. Brenda Bolton and Christine Meek (Turnhout), pp. 327–43 c. Liturgical books C O L L E C TA R

Karkov, Catherine E., ‘Text as Image in Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’, The Power of Words, ed. Hugh Magennis and Jonathan Wilcox [see sect. 3a], pp. 95–114 Keefer, Sarah Larratt, see sect. 5a [‘Durham ritual’, Gneuss no. 223] Wright, Charles D., see sect. 9h [‘Durham ritual’, Gneuss no. 223]

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Álvarez López, Francisco José, see sect. 5a [Gneuss no. 248] G O S P E L L E C T I O N A RY

Heslop, T. A., see sect. 5c [Gneuss no. 139] Rushforth, Rebecca, St Margaret’s Gospel-Book: the Favourite Book of an Eleventh-Century Queen of Scots, Treasures from the Bodleian Lib. (Oxford) [Gneuss no. 651] GOSPEL-BOOK

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Heslop, T. A., see sect. 5c [Gneuss no. 309]

5. PALAEOGRAPHY, DIPLOMATIC, ILLUMINATION AND RELATED SUBJECTS a. Palaeography and codicology Alcamesi, Filippa, see sect. 5d [two items; on Gneuss no. 53, and on Gneuss nos. 120 and 664] Álvarez López, Francisco José, ‘DCL, B IV, 24: a Palaeographical and Codicological Study of Durham’s “Cantor’s Book”’, Bells Chiming from the Past, ed. Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel and Begoña Crespo-García [see sect. 2b], pp. 209–26 [Gneuss no. 248] [Anon.], see sects. 4c, with ‘homiliary’, and 9gi [first entry; Lichfield gospels, Gneuss no. 269] Biggs, Frederick M., see sect. 3bii [BL Cotton Vitellius A. xv] Bishop, Chris, see sect. 3a [later AS scriptoria] Björkvall, Gunilla, ‘The Remnants of Medieval Book Culture in Sweden: a Current Cataloguing Project of Fragments at the National Archives in Stockholm’, ‘Fragmenta ne pereant’. Recupero e studio dei frammenti di manoscritti medievali e

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Bibliography for 2007 rinascimentali riutilizzati in legature, ed. Mauro Perani and Cesarino Ruini (Ravenna, 2002), pp. 157–68 [esp. on fragments linked to AS mission, in sect. 2] Bredehoft, Thomas A., ‘Filling the Margins of CCCC 41: Textual Space and a Developing Archive’, RES 57 (2006), 721–32 [Gneuss no. 39; esp. for OE Bede, Latin liturgical texts, OE homilies, charms and Solomon and Saturn I] Bremmer, Rolf H., Jr, see sect. 6b [manuscript evidence for missions] Brown, Michelle P., Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age (London) see also sect. 9gi [Book of Cerne and Lichfield gospels (Gneuss nos. 28 and 269)] Bussières, Michèle, ‘The Controversy about Scribe C in British Library, Cotton MSS, Julius E. vii’, Leeds Stud. in Eng. ns 38, 53–72 [also esp. for Ælfric, Lives of Saints, and for non-Ælfrician hagiographical prose] Chardonnens, László Sándor, ‘London, British Library, Harley 3271: the Composition and Structure of an Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Miscellany’, Form and Content of Instruction, ed. Patrizia Lendinara et al., pp. 3–34 [Gneuss no. 435; esp. on prognostics, ‘Beatus quid est’, liturgical texts, glossed prose by Abbo of Saint-Germaindes-Prés and Ælfric, Grammar] see also sect. 3a [two entries; prognostics] Charles-Edwards, Gifford, ‘Insular Display Capitals and Their Origins’, Making and Meaning in Insular Art, ed. Rachel Moss [see sect. 5c], pp. 228–41 Clemens, Raymond, and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Ithaca, NY) Corradini, Erika, see sect. 3ci [homiletic manuscripts] Crowley, Joseph P., see sect. 4c, with ‘prayerbook’ [Gneuss no. 450] Da Rold, Orietta, ‘English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 and the Making of a Re-Source’, Lit. Compass 3 (2006), 750–66 [online: DOI 10.1111/j.1741–4113.2006.00344.x] D’Aronco, M. A., ‘The Traditional Facsimile: Reproduction or Edition? The Case of MS London B.L. Cotton Vitellius C iii’, Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 6, ed. Gillian Fellows-Jensen and Peter Springborg, pp. 76–83 [Ker no. 402] see also sect. 3cii, with ‘medical texts’ [discussion of manuscripts] Declercq, Georges, ed., Early Medieval Palimpsests, Bibliologia 26 (Turnhout) Dietz, Klaus, see sect. 2b [scribal ‘ch’, ‘gh’, ‘sh’, ‘th’ and ‘wh’] Di Sciacca, Claudia, see sect. 5d [glosses in Gneuss nos. 114, 363 and 415] Dumville, David N., ‘The Corpus of Gaelic Manuscripts of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries’, Dumville, Celtic Essays, II, 83–90 [Gneuss nos. 19, 25, 45, 148 and 213–14; rev. reissue of stud. publ. in 2006] ‘The Palaeography of “The Book of Deer”: the Original Manuscript and the Liturgical Addition’, Dumville, Celtic Essays, I, 183–212 [Gneuss no. 19; rev. version of stud. in forthcoming monograph] ‘Writers, Scribes and Readers in Brittany, AD 800–1100: the Evidence of Manuscripts’, Dumville, Celtic Essays, I, 213–31 [esp. on Latin source of Life of Machutus, and on Collectio canonum Hibernensis; rev. reissue of stud. publ. in 2005] see also sects. 6a [collection of recent papers] and 6b [Gneuss no. 327] Fellows-Jensen, Gillian, and Peter Springborg, ed., Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Seminar Held at the Royal Library, Copenhagen, 19th–20th October 2000 (Copenhagen, 2002)

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Bibliography for 2007 Foys, Martin K., see sect. 5c [Gneuss no. 73] Frankis, John, see sect. 3cii, with ‘Life of St Giles’ [Gneuss no. 17; also on Ker no. 57] Fuchs, Robert, ‘Old Restorations and Repairs in Manuscripts’, Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 6, ed. Gillian Fellows-Jensen and Peter Springborg, pp. 224–41 [Gneuss no. 220] Fulk, R. D., see sect. 3bii [numbered sects. in poetic codices] Gameson, Richard, ‘The History of the Book’, A Century of British Medieval Studies, ed. Alan Deyermond [see sect. 3a], pp. 701–35 [esp. on work of James, Wormald, Ker et al.] ‘The Script of the Original Core’, The Durham ‘Liber vitae’, ed. David Rollason and Lynda Rollason, I, 58–65 Glaze, Florence Eliza, ‘Master–Student Medical Dialogues: the Evidence of London, British Library, Sloane 2839’, Form and Content of Instruction, ed. Patrizia Lendinara et al., pp. 467–94 [Gneuss no. 498.9; also esp. for Peri didaxeon, and on Aldhelm] Gretsch, Mechthild, see sect. 4a [lost calendar, Gneuss no. 855.5] Gullick, Michael, ‘The Make-Up of the Durham Liber vitae’, The Durham ‘Liber vitae’, ed. David Rollason and Lynda Rollason, I, 43–57 Gwara, Scott, ‘A Possible Arthurian Epitome in a Tenth-Century Manuscript from Cornwall’, Arthuriana 17.2, 3–9 [esp. on De raris fabulis, Celtic Latin source for Ælfric Bata and the anon. Colloquia e libro ‘De raris fabulis’ retractata, in Gneuss no. 583] Hall, Thomas N., see sects. 4a [Gneuss no. 189] and 4c, with ‘homiliary’ [AS homiliaries and legendaries] Hen, Yitzhak, see sect. 5d [sacramentary and lectionary from AS centre on Continent] Henderson, George, see sect. 9gi [Gneuss no. 848.8] Herbert, Máire, ‘Crossing Historical and Literary Boundaries: Irish Written Culture around the Year 1000’, CMCS 53–4, 87–101 [esp. on Gneuss no. 521 and links to court of Æthelstan; also for tradition of alea evangelii associated with Israel the Grammarian] Hill, Joyce, see sect. 3cii, with ‘Ælfric’ [esp. on Gneuss nos. 16, 24, 129, 130, 209, 222, 226, 273, 424, 452, 753, 763, 763.1 and 763.2] Jolly, Karen Louise, ‘On the Margins of Orthodoxy: Devotional Formulas and Protective Prayers in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41’, Signs on the Edge, ed. Sarah Larratt Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr, pp. 135–83 [Gneuss no. 39] Jones, Christopher A., ‘Monastic Identity and Sodomitic Danger in the Occupatio by Odo of Cluny’, Speculum 82, 1–53 [esp. on copy in Gneuss no. 903] Karkov, Catherine E., see sect. 4c, in two entries, with ‘collectar’ [‘Ælfwine’s prayerbook’, Gneuss no. 380] and with ‘sacramentary’ [‘Red Book of Darley’, Gneuss no. 111] Keefer, Sarah Larratt, ‘Use of Manuscript Space for Design, Text and Image in Liturgical Books Owned by the Community of St Cuthbert’, Signs on the Edge, ed. Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr, pp. 85–115 [Gneuss nos. 220, 223 and 244] Keefer, Sarah Larratt, and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr, ed., Signs on the Edge: Space, Text and Margin in Medieval Manuscripts, Mediaevalia Groningana ns 10 (Louvain)

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Bibliography for 2007 Kleist, Aaron J., see sect. 4c, with ‘homiliary’ [later provenances of homiliaries] Lazzari, Loredana, see sect. 4a [Gneuss no. 775] Lendinara, Patrizia, ‘Instructional Manuscripts in England: the Tenth- and EleventhCentury Codices and the Early Norman Ones’, Form and Content of Instruction, ed. Lendinara et al., pp. 59–113 Lendinara, Patrizia et al., ed., see sect. 6a [manuscript evidence for pedagogy] Maniaci, Marilena, and Giulia Orofino, ed., Le Bibbie atlantiche. Il libro delle Scritture tra monumentalità e rappresentazione (Milan, 2000) [esp. on Codex Amiatinus] O’Keeffe, Katherine O’Brien, see sect. 6d, with ‘Goscelin’ [rituals of consecration in liturgical manuscripts] Pflughaupt, Laurent, Letter by Letter: an Alphabetical Miscellany, trans. Gregory Bruhn (New York) [includes Insular scripts; Eng. trans. of work publ. in 2003] Rambaran-Olm, Mary R., see sect. 3biii, with ‘Descent into Hell’ [Exeter Book] Rollason, David, and Lynda Rollason, ed., The Durham ‘Liber vitae’: London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A. VII – Edition and Digital Facsimile with Introduction, Codicological, Prosopographical and Linguistic Commentary, and Indexes, 3 vols. (London) [with contributions by Elizabeth Briggs et al.] Rollason, Lynda, ‘History and Codicology’, The Durham ‘Liber vitae’, ed. David Rollason and Rollason, I, 5–42 Rumble, Alexander R., ‘Cues and Clues: Palaeographical Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Scholarship’, Form and Content of Instruction, ed. Patrizia Lendinara et al., pp. 115–30 Rushforth, Rebecca, see sect. 4c, with ‘gospel lectionary’ [Gneuss no. 651] Scase, Wendy, ed., Essays in Manuscript Geography: Vernacular Manuscripts of the English West Midlands from the Conquest to the Sixteenth Century, Med. Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 10 (Turnhout) [esp. for Gneuss nos. 98, 639 and 331, Ker nos. 62–4, and on London, Lambeth Palace, 487 (cf. Ker no. 282)] Schipper, William, ‘The Origin of the Trinity College Hrabanus’, The Cambridge Illuminations, ed. Stella Panayatova [see sect. 5c], pp. 45–53 [Gneuss no. 178] ‘Textual Varieties in Manuscript Margins’, Signs on the Edge, ed. Sarah Larratt Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr, pp. 25–54 [esp. for Gneuss nos. 39, 83, 223 and 297] Shaw, Philip, see sect. 3bi [BL Cotton Vitellius A. xv and Exeter Book] Sims-Williams, Patrick, ‘A New Brittonic Gloss on Boethius: ud rocashaas’, CMCS 50 (2005), 77–86 [Gneuss no. 908] Stokes, Peter A., see sect. 3ci [Regius psalter] Swan, Mary, ‘Mobile Libraries: Old English Manuscript Production in Worcester and the West Midlands, 1090–1215’, Essays in Manuscript Geography, ed. Wendy Scase, pp. 29–42 see also sect. 3a [later twelfth-century copies of OE texts] Teresi, Loredana, see sect. 3cii, with ‘Ælfric’ [esp. on Ker nos. 21, 56 and 153] Thomas, Peter W., Medicine and Science at Exeter Cathedral Library: a Short-Title Catalogue of the Printed Books, 1483–1900, with a List of Tenth- to Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts (Exeter, 2003) [Gneuss no. 258, p. 282] Thompson, Nancy M., see sect. 3cii, with ‘Blickling Homilies’ [Gneuss no. 905; esp. on audience]

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Bibliography for 2007 Toswell, M. J., see sect. 3cii, with ‘Blickling Homilies’ [Gneuss no. 905; esp. on question of ‘booklets’] Treharne, Elaine, see sect. 3a [two entries; on Ker no. 209 and on Vercelli Book] Withers, Benjamin C., see sect. 5c [illustrated Hexateuch, Gneuss no. 315] b. Diplomatic Biddle, Martin, see sect. 6c [S 1815, lost charter of Edgar] Burton, J. E., ‘Charters in the Durham Liber vitae’, The Durham ‘Liber vitae’, ed. David Rollason and Lynda Rollason [see sect. 5a], I, 76–7 [S 1659–61] Coatsworth, Elizabeth, see sect. 6a [wills] Crick, Julia, ed., Charters of St Albans, AS Charters 12 (Oxford) [‘The Will of Æthelgifu’, in introd., sects. 7a–g; also esp. for previously unprinted OE texts in nos. 1a–b, 2, 7a, 14 and 16–17] Hough, Carole, see sect. 2ai [S 885] Hudson, John, ed., see sect. 6a [Abingdon] Kelly, S. E., ed., Charters of Bath and Wells, AS Charters 13 (Oxford) Keynes, Simon, see sect. 6c [early eleventh-century diplomatic texts] Licence, Tom, see sect. 6c [S 535] Lowe, Kathryn A., ‘S 507 and the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds: Manuscript Preservation and Transmission in the Middle Ages’, Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 6, ed. Gillian Fellows-Jensen and Peter Springborg [see sect. 5a], pp. 85–105 Moore, Richard, et al., with Ed McSloy et al., see sect. 9cii [charter bounds between Linslade and Soulbury parishes] Nelson, Janet L., see sect. 6a [wills] Pratt, Simon, see sect. 9cii [S 160] Reynolds, Andrew, see sect. 6a [Avebury region] Reynolds, Andrew, and Alex Langlands, see sect. 9cii [Wansdyke] c. Illumination and iconography [Anon.], see sect. 9gi [first entry; Lichfield gospels, Gneuss no. 269] Brown, Michelle P., ‘The Barberini Gospels: Context and Intertextual Relationships’, Text, Image, Interpretation, ed. Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts, pp. 89–116 [Gneuss no. 907] see also sect. 9gi [Book of Cerne and Lichfield gospels (Gneuss nos. 28 and 269)] D’Aronco, M. A., see sect. 5a [Ker no. 402] Department for Culture, Media and Sport [U.K.], see sect. 9h [interlace and zoomorphic decoration on metalwork] Dooley, Ann, ‘Re-Drawing the Bounds: Marginal Illustrations and Interpretative Strategies in the Book of Kells’, Signs on the Edge, ed. Sarah Larratt Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr, pp. 9–24 [brief remarks on mooted AS links, sect. 1] Foys, Martin K., ‘An Unfinished mappa mundi from Late Eleventh-Century Worcester’, ASE 35 (2006), 271–84 [in Gneuss no. 73; also esp. on possible links to Byrhtferth] see also sect. 3a [mappa mundi in Gneuss no. 373]

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Bibliography for 2007 Fuglesang, Signe Horn, see sect. 9gi [apparent AS iconographic influence on continental rune-stones] Harvey, P. D. A., see sect. 4bii [maps] Hedeager, Lotte, see sect. 9a [animals in art] Henderson, George, see sect. 9gi [representation of Apostles in AS art] Heslop, T. A., ‘Manuscript Illumination at Worcester c. 1055–1065: the Origins of the Pembroke Lectionary and the Caligula Troper’, The Cambridge Illuminations, ed. Stella Panayatova, pp. 65–76 [Gneuss nos. 139 and 309] Hofmann, Mara, ‘Der “Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts” der British Library, London’, Katalogisierung mittelalterlicher Handschriften in internationaler Perspektive, ed. Claudia Fabian and Bettina Wagner (Wiesbaden), pp. 139–43 Hourihane, Colum, ed., Time in the Medieval World: Occupations of the Months and Signs of the Zodiac in the Index of Christian Art, Index of Christian Art Resources 3 (Princeton, NJ) [esp. for Gneuss nos. 334, 337 and 373; also for Junius manuscript] Karkov, Catherine E., ‘Evangelist Portraits and Book Production in Late Anglo-Saxon England’, The Cambridge Illuminations, ed. Stella Panayatova, pp. 55–63 ‘Margins and Marginalization: Representations of Eve in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11’, Signs on the Edge, ed. Sarah Larratt Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr, pp. 57–84 see also sect. 4c, with ‘sacramentary’ [‘Red Book of Darley’, Gneuss no. 111] Keefer, Sarah Larratt, see sect. 6a [clerical vestments AS in art] Keefer, Sarah Larratt, and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr, ed., see sect. 5a Kessler, Herbert L., ‘The Word Made Flesh in Early Decorated Bibles’, Jeffrey Spier, et al., Picturing the Bible: the Earliest Christian Art (New Haven, CT), pp. 141–68 [Gospel-Book of St Augustine (Gneuss no. 83)] Kühnel, Bianca, The End of Time in the Order of Things: Science and Eschatology in Early Medieval Art (Regensburg, 2003) [esp. on Codex Amiatinus; also for Gneuss nos. 373, 378, 448–9, 526, 893 and others, and for Alcuin, Bede, Byrhtferth et al.] Luiselli Fadda, Anna Maria, ‘The Mysterious Moment of Resurrection in Early AngloSaxon and Irish Iconography’, Text, Image, Interpretation, ed. Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts, pp. 149–67 [also esp. for Ælfric, and for Alcuin] Minnis, Alastair, and Jane Roberts, ed., see sect. 3a Morrison, Tessa, ‘An Examination of the Blessing Hand in Insular Art’, Making and Meaning in Insular Art, ed. Rachel Moss, pp. 288–300 Moss, Rachel, ed. Making and Meaning in Insular Art: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Insular Art Held at Trinity College Dublin, 25–28 August 2005, TRIARC, Research Stud. in Irish Art 1 (Dublin) [publ. of Trinity College Irish Art Research Centre] Nees, Lawrence, see sect. 9h [esp. on Book of Durrow, Gneuss no. 213] Neiss, Michael, see sect. 9a [animals in art] Neuman de Vegvar, Carol, ‘Remembering Jerusalem: Architecture and Meaning in Insular Canon Table Arcades’, Making and Meaning in Insular Art, ed. Rachel Moss, pp. 242–56 Nielsen, Karen Høilund, ed., see sect. 11 [animals in art]

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Dumville, David. N., see sect. 6a [esp. on Easter controversy] BAY E U X ‘ TA P E S T RY ’ Ashe, Laura, Fiction and History in England, 1066–1200, Cambridge Stud. in Med. Lit. 68 (Cambridge) [‘The Bayeux Tapestry: Performative Text’, in ch. 1; also esp. for Chronicle] Bloch, R. Howard, A Needle in the Right Hand of God: the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making of the Bayeux Tapestry (New York, 2006) Coatsworth, Elizabeth, see sect. 9ji Crafton, John Micheal, The Political Artistry of the Bayeux Tapestry: a Visual Epic of Norman Imperial Ambitions (Lampeter) Foys, Martin K., see sect. 3a Hagen, Rose-Marie, and Rainer Hagen, What Great Paintings Say, Volume 1, trans. Iain Galbraith, Karen Williams and Michael Hulse (Cologne, 2005) [sect. 3; subtitle on cover: From the Bayeaux Tapestry to Diego Rivera] Lewis, Michael John, ‘Identity and Status in the Bayeux Tapestry: the Iconographic and Artefactual Evidence’, ANS 29, 100–20 see also ect. 9ji Owen-Crocker, Gale R., ‘The Bayeux Tapestry: the Voice from the Border’, Signs on the Edge, ed. Sarah Larratt Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr [see sect. 5a], pp. 235– 58 ‘Dress and Authority in the Bayeux Tapestry’, Aspects of Power and Authority in the Middle Ages, ed. Brenda Bolton and Christine Meek (Turnhout), pp. 53–72 ‘The Interpretation of Gesture in the Bayeux Tapestry’, ANS 29, 145–78

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Bailey, Keith, see sect. 6c [two items; London area and Bucks.] Brown, Graham, see sect. 6c [Marlborough Downs] Close-Brooks, Joanna, see sect. 8 [on place-name Utefel] Evans, Christopher, see sects. 6c [church dedications] and 8 [Domesday wics] Eyre, S. R., see sect. 6c [‘Coxwoldshire’] Reynolds, Andrew, see sect. 6a [Avebury region] Roffe, David, Decoding Domesday (Woodbridge) Thornton, David E., ‘Some Welshmen in Domesday Book and Beyond: Aspects of Anglo-Welsh Relations in the Eleventh Century’, Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Nick Higham [see sect. 6b], pp. 144–64 Weddell, Peter, and John Allan, see sect. 9cii [Devon] G I L DA S

Deuffic, Jean-Luc, ‘L’exode des corps saints hors de Bretagne: des reliques au culte liturgique’, Pecia. Ressources en médiévistique (Saint-Denis) 8–11 (2005), pp. 355–423 [esp. in sect. 1] Dumville, David N., ‘Post-Colonial Gildas: a First Essay’, Dumville, Celtic Essays [see sect. 6a], I, 1–15 [rev. reissue of stud. publ. in 2006] Higham, Nick, see sect. 6b Howlett, David, ‘Continuities from Roman Britain’, Pagans and Christians, ed. Lauren Gilmour [see sect. 9a], pp. 175–88 [also for Bede et al., and on knowledge of Latin in post-Roman Britain] McKee, Ian, ‘Gildas: Lessons from History’, CMCS 51 (2006), 1–36 White, Roger, see sect. 6b Wiseman, Howard M., see sect. 6a GODODDIN

Clarkson, Tim, ‘The Gododdin Revisited’, Heroic Age 2 (1999) [online; rev. article treating J. Koch, The ‘Gododdin’ of Aneirin: Text and Context from Dark-Age North Britain (Cardiff, 1997); includes AS] GOSCELIN

Licence, Tom, see sect. 6c [treatment of recluses] O’Keeffe, Katherine O’Brien, ‘Goscelin and the Consecration of Eve’, ASE 35 (2006), 251–70 [also for ‘List of Surviving Anglo-Saxon Liturgical Manuscripts with Rituals of Consecration’, appendix, stressing pontificals] HISTORIA BRIT TONUM

Breeze, Andrew, ‘An Emendation to Ruoihm “Thanet” in the Historia Brittonum’, Studia Celtica 41, 234–7 [includes discussion of OE pseudo-etymology of Thanet; also for Asser]

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7. NUMISMATICS [Anon.], see sect. 9cii [fifth entry; silver penny of Alfred’s first coinage] Archibald, Marion M., ‘The Evidence of Pecking on Coins from the Cuerdale Hoard: Summary Version’, Silver Economy in the Viking Age, ed. James Graham-Campbell and Gareth Williams, pp. 49–53 [hoard of Viking silver from Lancs.] ‘Pseudo-Kufic Base-Metal Coin Brooches from England’, ‘Magister monetae’: Studies in honour of Jørgen Steen Jensen, ed. Michael Andersen, Helle W. Horsnæs and Jens Christian Moesgaard, PNM Stud. in Archaeol. and Hist. 13 (Copenhagen), pp. 127–38 [publ. of Nationalmuseet (Copenhagen)] Archibald, Marion, and Valerie Fenwick, ‘Archaeology: Marion Archibald and Valerie Fenwick Discuss King Albert’s Penny’, Brit. Museum Mag. 13 (1993), 19 [first known silver penny of Albert, king of East Anglia] Ayre, Julian, and Robin Brown, see sect. 9cii [three Alfredian coins] Bean, Simon C., ‘Coins and Tokens, Pre-Roman to Post-Medieval’, David Griffiths et al., Meols [see sect. 9h], pp. 295–350 [includes AS] Blackburn, Mark, ‘Gold in England During the “Age of Silver” (Eighth–Eleventh Centuries)’, Silver Economy in the Viking Age, ed. James Graham-Campbell and Gareth Williams, pp. 55–98 ‘Presidential Address 2006: Currency under the Vikings. Part 3: Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man and Scotland in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries’, BNJ 77, 119–49 Bornholdt Collins, Kristin, and Elina Screen, ‘New Moneyers in Æthelred II’s Benediction Hand Type’, BNJ 77, 270–6 Cardon, Thibault, Jens Christian Moesgaard, Richard Prot and Philipps Schiesser, ‘The First Recorded Viking Hoard in Normandy’, NCirc 115, 308–9 [Saint-Pierre-des-

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Bibliography for 2007 Fleurs (deposited c. 895), twelve coins including nine Danelaw imitations of Alfred’s Horizontal type, and nine fragments of ingots] Carroll, Jayne, and David N. Parsons, see sect. 8 [names of AS mints] Clarke, William N., David Symons, ‘The Mint of Aylesbury’, BNJ 77, 173–89 [Æthelred II to Edward the Confessor] Colman, Fran, Mark Blackburn and Kenneth Jonsson, Royal Coin Cabinet, Stockholm, Part V: Anglo-Saxon Coins, Edward the Confessor and Harold II, 1042–1066, with a Supplement to Part VI (Anglo-Norman Pennies), SCBI 54 (Oxford) [the main pt. is by Colman, the suppl. by Blackburn and Jonsson] Cooper, Amy, see sect. 9h [AS and Anglo-Scandinavian coins in Harrogate hoard] Coupland, Simon, Carolingian Coinage and the Vikings: Studies on Power and Trade in the Ninth Century, Collected Stud. Ser. 847 (Aldershot) [repr. papers; ‘Addenda and Corrigenda’, sect. xvi] ‘Carolingian Coinage and Scandinavian Silver’, Coupland, Carolingian Coinage and the Vikings, item XV, 11–31, with ‘Addenda and Corrigenda’, p. 7 [includes AS; augmented repr. of stud. publ. in 1985–6] ‘Charlemagne’s Coinage: Ideology and Economy’, Coupland, Carolingian Coinage and the Vikings, item I, 211–29, with appended ‘Bibliography’, pp. 1–3, and ‘Addenda and Corrigenda’, p. 1 [three AS pennies in Ilanz and Imphy hoards; augmented repr. of stud. publ. in 2005] ‘Trading Places: Quentovic and Dorestad Reassessed’, Coupland, Carolingian Coinage and the Vikings, item XIII, 209–32, with ‘Addenda and Corrigenda’, pp. 6–7 [AS exports, in sect. 3; augmented repr. of stud. publ. in 2002] Davies, John A., and Martin Allen, see sect. 9ciii, with Emery, Phillip A. [Norwich Greyfriars] Gooch, Megan, ‘Notes on the Swordless St Peter Coinage’, NCirc 115, 208 ‘A Seventeenth Agnus Dei Penny of Æthelred II’, NCirc 115, 308 Graham-Campbell, James, ‘The Lost Coin of Æthelred II from Rushen Abbey’, Proc. of the Isle of Man Nat. Hist. and Ant. Soc. 11.4 (2007 for 2003–5), 579–82 Graham-Campbell, James, and Gareth Williams, ed., see sect. 6a Harris, Anthea, see sect. 9h [finds of Byzantine coins imported to AS England] Hatz, Gert, and Gert Rispling, ‘Münzfunde aus Oldenburg in Holstein (1981–1986)’, Offa 52 (1997 for 1995), 153–62 [includes discussion of a penny of King Æthelred II] Hinds, Katie, see sect. 9h [penny of Offa] Jonsson, Kenneth, ‘Does the CNVT REX SW Coin Legend Show that Cnut the Great Ruled at Sigtuna?’, Cultural Interaction between East and West, ed. Ulf Fransson et al. [see sect. 9a], pp. 272–5 [includes discussion of AS influence] Keynes, Simon, see sect. 6c [Agnus Dei pennies of Æthelred] Lamb, Sara L., ‘Anglo-Saxon Silver Pennies’, The Recorder (Worcester, Worcs. Archaeol. Soc.) 55 (1997), 5 [acquisition by Worcs. County Museum of fourteen pennies found near Severn Stoke] Lessen, Marvin, ‘A Parcel of Mid-Eleventh Century Saxon Coins, Mostly of the York Mint’, NCirc 115, 310 [267 coins of Edward the Confessor’s Sovereign/Eagles type to Harold II]

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Bibliography for 2007 Lyons, Adrian W., and William A. Mackay, ‘The Coinage of Æthelred I (865–871)’, NCirc 115, 71–118 McDonald, Catherine, see sect. 9h [find of silver sceat in Essex] Mays, S., et al., see sect. 9dv [finds of coins at Wharram Percy] Metcalf, D. M., ‘Runic Sceattas Reading epa, Types R1 and R2’, BNJ 77, 49–70 see also sect. 6a [early med. monetized economies] Naylor, John, ‘The Circulation of Early-Medieval European Coinage: a Case Study from Yorkshire, c. 650–c. 867’, MA 51, 41–61 Newman, J., F. Minter and M. Allen, ‘“Mildenhall Area, Suffolk, 2004”, in “Coin Hoards 2007”’, NChron 167, 264 [three pennies of Edmund of East Anglia, deposited in the 860s] Screen, Elina, ‘Anglo-Saxon Law and Numismatics: a Reassessment in the Light of Patrick Wormald’s The Making of English Law’, BNJ 77, 150–72 Steen Jensen, Jørgen, ed., see sect. 11 [single finds] Stewartby (Lord), and D. M. Metcalf, ‘The Bust of Christ on an Early Anglo-Saxon Coin’, NChron 167, 179–82 [on a sceat of Series Q] Taylor, Ruth, ‘Check List of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Coins from Worcestershire in Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery’, Worcestershire Archaeol. and Local Hist. Newsletter 17 (1975–6), 3–4 Von Heijne, Cecilia, Särpräglat. Vikingatida och tidigmedeltida myntfynd från Danmark, Skåne, Blekinge och Halland (ca. 800–1130), Stockholm Stud. in Archaeol. 31 (Stockholm, 2004) [esp. on AS coins found in southern Scandinavia; includes Eng. summary] White, A. J., ‘Anglo-Saxon Coins from Lancaster’, Contrebis 11 (1984), 46–9 Williams, Gareth, ‘Coin of King Eadbald of Kent’, Brit. Museum Mag. 34 (1999), 34–5 ‘Paid in Burnt Silver: Wealth and Power in the Viking Age’, Brit. Museum Mag. 37 (2000), 27–9 [includes discussion of coins in relation to the Vikings, esp. in AS England] ‘The Gold Coinage of Seventh-Century Northumbria Revisited’, NCirc 115, 6–8 see also sect. 6a [esp. on Danelaw] Williams, G[areth], and R. Kelleher, ‘“Bamburgh, Northumberland, 2004”, in “Coin Hoards 2007”’, NChron 167, 264 [131 Northumbrian stycas, deposited in the early 850s]

8. ONOMASTICS Andersson, Thorsten, ‘De Germanska -ingi- Namnen’, Namn och Bygd 94 (2006), 5–13 Ashwin, Trevor, and Alan Davison, ed., see sect. 6a [place-names in Norf.] Breeze, Andrew, ‘Britons and Saxons at Chittoe and Minety’, Wiltshire Archaeol. and Nat. Hist. Mag. 100, 199–202 see also sect. 6d, with ‘Historia Brittonum’ [Ruoihm “Thanet” in Historia Brittonum] Briggs, Keith, ‘Seven Wells’, JEPNS 39, 7–44 Brooke, Daphne, see sect. 9dv, with Lowe, Christopher [place-names of southern Annandale]

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9. ARCHAEOLOGY a. General and miscellaneous [Anon.], ‘Excavation and Fieldwork in Wiltshire 2005’, Wiltshire Archaeol. and Nat. Hist. Mag. 100, 232–8 [includes AS] ‘Interim Reports on Recent Work Carried out by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust’, AC 127, 321–32 [includes AS] Bennett, A., ed., ‘Archaeology in Essex 2004’, Essex Archaeol. and Hist. 36 (2007 for 2005), 147–65 [includes AS, esp. in discussion of an early cemetery at Rayleigh reported by M. Roy and T. Ennis] Brookes, Stuart, Economics and Social Change in Anglo-Saxon Kent AD 400–900: Landscapes, Communities and Exchange, BAR Brit. Ser. 431 (Oxford) Capelle, Torsten, ‘Hauszier frühmittelalterlicher Holzbauten’, Studien zur Sachsenforschung 15 (2005), 149–56 [of relevance to AS buildings; includes a house-shaped Gosforth hogback] Chapman, Andy, ‘Fieldwork Undertaken by Northamptonshire Archaeology’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Newsletter July 2001, 65–6 [includes AS, esp. in discussion of Ely] Chapman, Pat, ed., ‘Archaeology in Northamptonshire 2006’, Northamptonshire Archaeol. 34 (2006), 143–55 [includes AS] Christie, Neil, general ed., ‘Medieval Britain and Ireland in 2006’, ed. Märit Gaimster and Kieran O’Conor with Rory Sherlock, MA 51, 207–302 [includes Portable Antiquities Scheme report, compiled and ed. by Helen Geake]

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Bibliography for 2007 Griffith, F. M., and E. M. Wilkes, see sect. 8 [coastal archaeol. in Devon] Griffiths, David,‘The Early Medieval Period’, Griffiths et al., Meols [see sect. 9h], pp. 399–406 [includes AS] Gurney, David, ed., ‘Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk in 2006’, Norfolk Archaeol. 45.2, 261–73 [includes AS] Gurney, David, and Kenneth Penn, ed., ‘Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk in 2005’, Norfolk Archaeol. 45.1 (2006), 124–37 [includes AS] Hall, Richard, Exploring the World of the Vikings (London) [archaeol. emphasis; includes AS] Hardy, Alan, and Steven Leech, ‘Continuity or Change: Overview of the Saxon and Medieval Evidence’, Settlement on the Bedfordshire Claylands, ed. Jane Timby et al., pp. 199–212 Harrington, Sue, ‘Stirring Women, Weapons and Weaving: Aspects of Gender Identity and Symbols of Power in Early Anglo-Saxon England’, Archaeology and Women: Ancient and Modern Issues, ed. Sue Hamilton, Ruth D. Whitehouse and Katherine I. Wright (Walnut Creek, CA), pp. 335–52 Hässler, Hans-Jürgen, ed., Neue Forschungsergebnisse zur nordwesteuropäischen Frühgeschichte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der altsächsischen Kultur im heutigen Niedersachsen [= Studien zur Sachsenforschung 15 (2005)] (Oldenburg, 2005) [includes AS] Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick, ‘Oxford University Lectureship in European Archaeology (Early Medieval Specialism)’, ‘Collectanea Antiqua’, ed. Martin Henig and Tyler Jo Smith, pp. 153–5 [a paper discovered after Hawkes’s death, written in 1994 at the point of her retirement; its content may indicate her concern for the future of the post] Hedeager, Lotte, ‘Animal Representations and Animal Iconography’, Studien zur Sachsenforschung 15 (2005), 231–45 [includes an argument that Germanic animal art played an organizing role in pagan northern cosmology] Henig, Martin, and Tyler Jo Smith, ed., ‘Collectanea Antiqua’: Essays in memory of Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, BAR International Ser. 1673 (Oxford) Higham, Nick, ed., see sect. 6b Hills, Catherine, ‘Anglo-Saxon Attitudes’, Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Nick Higham, pp. 16–26 [overview of archaeol. trends and views in media] ‘History and Archaeology: the State of Play in Early Medieval Europe’, Antiquity 81.311, 191–200 [on the use, or non-use, of archaeol. evidence by historians] Hollinrake, Nancy, ‘Dark Age Traffic on the Bristol Channel, UK: a Hypothesis’, International Jnl of Nautical Archaeol. 36.2, 336–43 [emphasis on archaeol. evidence] Horne, Barry, ed., ‘Oxfordshire’, South Midlands Archaeol. 37, 22–64 [includes AS, esp. in discussion of a settlement at Black Bourton] King, Peter, and Leslie King, ‘The Kinver Edge Region: Second Interim Report of an Archaeological Survey’, Worcestershire Archaeol. and Local Hist. Newsletter 17 (1975– 6), 9–15 [includes AS] Lawson, Graeme, ‘Large Scale – Small Scale: Medieval Stone Buildings, Early Medieval Timber Halls and the Problem of the Lyre’, Archaeoacoustics, ed. Chris Scarre and Lawson (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 85–94

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Bibliography for 2007 Leech, Stephen, and Alan Hardy, ‘Saxon and Medieval Sites: Archaeological Descriptions’, Settlement on the Bedfordshire Claylands, ed. Jane Timby et al., pp. 159–97 Lewis, Mary E., ‘Impact of Industrialization: Comparative Study of Child Health in Four Sites from Medieval and Postmedieval England (AD 850–1859)’, Amer. Jnl of Physical Anthropology 119 (2002), 211–23 [includes discussion of bone samples from Raunds Furnells, St Helen-on-the-Walls (York) and Wharram Percy] McGrail, Seán, Ancient Boats and Ships, 2nd ed. (Princes Risborough, 2006) [includes discussion of AS and other Viking-Age ships; a rev. and extended version of McGrail, Ancient Boats (Aylesbury, 1983)] MacGregor, Arthur, ‘E. T. Leeds and the Formulation of an Anglo-Saxon Archaeology of England’, ‘Collectanea Antiqua’, ed. Martin Henig and Tyler Jo Smith, pp. 27–44 Martin, Edward, Colin Pendleton and Judith Plouviez, ‘Archaeology in Suffolk’, Proc. of the Suffolk Inst. of Archaeol. and Hist. 41.3, 357–81 [includes AS; with object drawings by Donna Wreathall] Maynard, David, ‘Work of Essex County Council Field Archaeology Unit 2000–1’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Newsletter July 2001, 41–58 [includes AS] Medlycott, Maria, ‘Archaeological Fieldwalking in Essex, 1986–2005’, Essex Archaeol. and Hist. 36 (2007 for 2005), 1–9 [includes AS] Murray, Jon, ‘Fieldwork in 1999 by Hertfordshire Archaeological Trust’, CBA, MidAnglia Newsletter May 2000, 11–13 [includes AS] Neiss, Michael, ‘The Ornamental Echo of Oeinn’s Cult (Kontinuitetsfrågor i germansk djurornamentik II)’, Cultural Interaction between East and West, ed. Ulf Fransson et al., pp. 82–9 [animal art dated to the Viking Age; Eng.-lang. stud.] Nielsen, Karen Høilund, ed., see sect. 11 [animals in art] Perkins, Dave, ‘The Long Demise of the Wantsum Sea Channel: a Recapitulation Based on the Data’, AC 127, 249–59 Points, Guy, Yorkshire: a Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon and Viking Sites ([?Norfolk]) [‘AngloSaxon Churches’ and ‘Illustrative Examples of Stonework’, sects. 1.7 and 1.9] Popescu, Elizabeth Shepherd, and Sarah Poppy, ‘Fieldwork in Cambridgeshire 2006’, Proc. of the Cambridge Ant. Soc. 96, 211–26 [includes AS] Pragnell, Hubert, Architectural Britain: the Saxon Period to the Present Day, rev. ed. (London) [‘Saxon and Norman Architecture’, ch. 1; rev., retitled ed. of work by Pragnell publ. in 1995, rev. in 1999 and 2002] Price, Neil, ‘Motif and Message in Viking Art’, Minerva (London) 18.1, 43–5 Pryor, Francis, see sect. 6a [‘archaeol. hist.’ of Britain] Reynolds, Tim, and Jeremy Parsons, ‘A Selection of Field-Work in Cambridgeshire 1999’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Newsletter May 2000, 16–18 [includes AS] Rippon, Stephen, ‘Focus or Frontier? The Significance of Estuaries in the Landscape of Southern Britain’, Landscapes (Macclesfield) 8.1, 23–38 [includes discussion of the Orwell–Gipping–Lark line as a cultural boundary in AS England] Roberts, Brian K., see sect. 6a [Northumbria] Roberts, Judith, ‘Summary of Work from Cambridgeshire County Council AFU’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Bull. Summer 2002, 14–18 [includes AS, esp. in discussion of Chiefs Street, Ely; publ. addressing the council’s Archaeol. Field Unit]

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Bibliography for 2007 Semple, Sarah, see sect. 8 [on hearg in place-names, and on early cultic sites] Sykes, Bryan, Blood of the Isles: Exploring the Genetic Roots of Our Tribal History (London, 2006) [publ. in North Amer. under title Saxons, Vikings and Celts: the Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland (New York, 2006)] Timby, Jane, ‘Overview’, Settlement on the Bedfordshire Claylands, ed. Timby et al., pp. 405– 14 [includes AS] Timby, Jane, Richard Brown, Edward Biddulph, Alan Hardy and Andrew Powell, A Slice of Rural Essex: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from the A120 between Stansted Airport and Braintree, Oxford Wessex Archaeol. Monograph 1 (Oxford and Salisbury) [includes ch. on AS evidence by Hardy] Timby, Jane, Richard Brown, Alan Hardy, Stephen Leech, Cynthia Poole and Leo Webley, ed., Settlement on the Bedfordshire Claylands: Archaeology along the A421 Great Barford Bypass (Oxford) [Cover and spine title: A421: Archaeology along the Great Barford Bypass] Webster, Leslie, ‘The Making of England’, Brit. Museum Mag. 8 (1991), 3–8 [discussion of an exhibition of that name] Welch, Martin, ‘Anglo-Saxon Kent’, The Archaeology of Kent to AD 800, ed. John H. Williams (Woodbridge [and Maidstone]), pp. 187–248 ‘Sonia Chadwick Hawkes’, ‘Collectanea Antiqua’, ed. Martin Henig and Tyler Jo Smith, pp. 151–2 White, Roger, ‘The Lingering Death of Roman Britain’, CA 211, 11–18 Williams, Howard, ‘Forgetting the Britons in Victorian Anglo-Saxon Archaeology’, Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Nick Higham, pp. 27–41 Wilson, David M., ‘The Recognition of Viking Art’, Cultural Interaction between East and West, ed. Ulf Fransson et al., pp. 312–15 [the recognition, classification and terminology of Viking-Age art] Woodings, R. B., ed., ‘Recent Work and Discoveries’, Norfolk Research Committee Newsletter and Bull. 4 (1971), 11–16 [includes reports on the settlement at North Elmham (by Peter Wade-Martins), and on the cemetery at Swaffham] Zeepvat, Bob, ‘Archaeological Notes’, Records of Buckinghamshire 47.1, 219–35 [includes AS] Ziegler, Michelle, ed., ‘Archaeology Digest’, Heroic Age 3 (2000) [online; includes (under ‘The Anglo-Saxons’): ‘Battle of Hastings Re-Enactment’; ‘Update: Lakenheath Cemetery’; and ‘East Anglian Fenland Village Discovered’] b. Environment, landscape and agriculture i. Environment [Anon.], ‘Saxon Fish-Traps on the Blackwater’, Essex Archaeol. 10 (1993), xiii Dickson, Camilla, ‘Macroscopic Fossils of Garden Plants from British Roman and Medieval Deposits’, Garden History: Garden Plants, Species, Forms and Varieties from Pompeii to 1800 – Symposium Held at the European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello, June 1991, ed. Dagfinn Moe, James H. Dickson and Per Magnus Jørgensen, PACT 42 (Rixensart, 1991), pp. 47–72 [includes early med.; publ. of European Stud. Group on Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Techniques Applied to Archaeol. (PACT)]

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Bibliography for 2007 Dobney, Keith, Deborah Jaques, James Barrett and Cluny Johnstone, Farmers, Monks and Aristocrats: the Environmental Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Flixborough, Excavations at Flixborough 3 (Oxford) Druce, Denise, Dana Challinor, Steven J. Allen and Elizabeth Stafford, ‘Environmental Evidence’, Settlement on the Bedfordshire Claylands, ed. Jane Timby et al. [see sect. 9a], pp. 365–93 [includes AS] Housley, Rupert A., Vanessa Straker, Frank M. Chambers and Jonathan G. A. Lageard, ‘An Ecological Context for the Post-Roman Archaeology of the Somerset Moors (South West England, UK)’, Jnl of Wetland Archaeol. 7, 1–22 Long, Antony J., Martyn P. Waller and Andrew J. Plater, ‘The Late Holocene Evolution of the Romney Marsh/Dungeness Foreland Depositional Complex’, Dungeness and Romney Marsh: Barrier Dynamics and Marshland Evolution, ed. Long, Waller and Plater (Oxford), pp. 188–207 [includes discussion of tidal inlets of Romney and Rye in AS period] McDonald, Alison, The Historical Ecology of Some Unimproved Alluvial Grassland in the Upper Thames Valley, BAR Brit. Ser. 441 (Oxford) [includes AS] Philpott, Robert, see sect. 9h [fishing equipment] Plater, Andrew J., Paul Stupples and Helen M. Roberts, ‘The Depositional History of Dungeness Foreland’, Dungeness and Romney Marsh: Barrier Dynamics and Marshland Evolution, ed. Antony J. Long, Martyn P. Waller and Plater (Oxford), pp. 108–54 [includes evidence for a north-easterly extension of the Foreland in AS period] Serjeantson, D., ‘Birds: Food and a Mark of Status’, Food in Medieval England, ed. C. M. Woolgar et al., pp. 131–47 [archaeol. evidence; includes AS] Serjeantson, D., and C. M. Woolgar, ‘Fish Consumption in Medieval England’, Food in Medieval England, ed. Woolgar et al., pp. 102–30 [includes AS] Stevens, Chris, ‘Lentils as Climatic Indicators?’, The Archaeologist 66, 46 [associated with the warm phase, c. 800/900–1350] Sykes, Naomi Jane, The Impact of the Normans on Hunting Practices in England’, Food in Medieval England, ed. C. M. Woolgar et al., pp. 162–75 [includes archaeol. evidence] The Norman Conquest: a Zooarchaeological Perspective, BAR International Ser. 1656 (Oxford) Waller, Martyn P., and J. Edward Schofield, ‘Mid to Late Holocene Vegetation and Land Use History in the Weald of South-Eastern England: Multiple Pollen Profiles from the Rye Area’, Vegetation Hist. and Archaeobotany 16, 367–84 [includes AS] Woolgar, C. M., et al., ed., see sect. 9biii ii. Landscape [Anon.], ‘Dating Dykes’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Bull. Spring 1996, 5 [recent work provides dates for the Fleam Dyke, in Cambs.] Bapty, Ian, ‘Look on My Works: Finding Offa’, Brit. Archaeol. 97, 20–5 [a summary of archaeol. opinions on Offa’s Dyke, and a case for further investigation] Booth, Paul, et al., see sect. 9cii [upper and middle Thames] Brookes, Stuart, see sect. 9a [Kent]

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Bibliography for 2007 Brown, Graham, David Field and David McOmish, ed., The Avebury Landscape: Aspects of the Field Archaeology of the Marlborough Downs (Oxford, 2005) [with illustrations by Deborah Cunliffe] Fairclough, John, and Mike Hardy, see sect. 9a [Thornham and the Waveney Valley] Harrison, Sarah, and Tom Williamson, ‘The Supposed Saxon Earthworks at Rendlesham’, Proc. of the Suffolk Inst. of Archaeol. and Hist. 41.3, 351–4 [re-examination of earthworks at Bush Covert, provisionally associated with AS Rendlesham by Rupert Bruce-Mitford] Jones, Richard, and Mark Page, Medieval Villages in an English Landscape: Beginnings and Ends (Macclesfield, 2006) [changes from 800 to 1400 in the former Whittlewood Forest, on the borders of Bucks. and Northants.] Pitts, Mike, ‘Wat’s Dyke Dated: Was It Coenwulf ’s Dyke?’, Brit. Archaeol. 97, 7 [a recent excavation suggests an early ninth-century date] Reynolds, Andrew, and Alex Langlands, see sect. 9cii [Wansdyke] Riley, Hazel, The Historic Landscape of the Quantock Hills (Swindon, 2006) [includes ch. on the early and late med. periods, with an archaeol. emphasis; with illustrations by Elaine Jamieson] Rippon, Stephen, Landscape, Community and Colonisation: the North Somerset Levels During the First to Second Millennia AD, CBA Research Report 152 (York, 2006) [includes early med. period] see also sect. 9a [esp. on Orwell–Gipping–Lark line] iii. Agriculture Albarella, U., ‘Pig Husbandry and Pork Consumption in Medieval England’, Food in Medieval England, ed. C. M. Woolgar et al., pp. 72–87 [archaeol. evidence; includes AS] Carew, Tim, et al., see sect. 9cii [Middx.] Crabtree, Pam, ‘Animals as Material Culture in Middle Saxon England: the Zooarchaeological Evidence for Wool Production at Brandon’, Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. Aleksander Pluskowski (Oxford), pp. 161–9 [Suff.] Evans, J. A., S. Tatham, S. R. Chenery and C. A. Chenery, ‘Anglo-Saxon Animal Husbandry Techniques Revealed th[r]ough Isotope and Chemical Variations in Cattle Teeth’, Applied Geochemistry 22.9, 1994–2005 [evidence from Empingham II and Ketton in Rutland] Sykes, N. J., ‘From cu and sceap to beffe and motton: the Management, Distribution and Consumption of Cattle and Sheep in Medieval England’, Food in Medieval England, ed. C. M. Woolgar et al., pp. 56–71 [archaeol. evidence, including AS] Webley, Leo, ‘Prehistoric, Roman and Saxon Activity on the Fen Hinterland at Parnwell, Peterborough’, Proc. of the Cambridge Ant. Soc. 96, 79–114 [the AS features are interpreted as a charcoal production site] Woolgar, C. M., D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron, ‘Conclusion’, Food in Medieval England, ed. Woolgar et al., pp. 267–80 Woolgar, C. M., D. Searjeantson and T. Waldron, ed., Food in Medieval England: Diet and Nutrition (Oxford, 2006) [emphasis on archaeol. evidence]

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Bibliography for 2007 c. Towns and other settlements i. General and miscellaneous Evans, J. A., and S. Tatham, see sect. 9eiv [‘local signature’ in population groups] Gardiner, Mark, ‘Review of Medieval Settlement Research, 1996–2006’, Med. Settlement Research Group Ann. Report 21 (2007 for 2006), 22–8 Hadley, Dawn, see sect. 9ei [rural settlements and cemeteries] Lewis, C., ‘Discovery and Excavations in 2006’, Med. Settlement Research Group Ann. Report 21 (2007 for 2006), 65–80 [includes AS] Ulmschneider, Katharina, ‘The Study of Early Medieval Markets: Are We Rewriting the Economic History of Middle Anglo-Saxon England?’, Studien zur Sachsenforschung 15 (2005), 517–31 [evidence from metal-detecting indicates increasing numbers of so-called ‘productive sites’] ii. The South [Anon.], ‘Covent Garden’s Saxon Past’, London Region Archaeol. 2006, 10 [includes discussion of early burials and Middle Saxon occupation] ‘Roman and Medieval London’, London Region Archaeol. 2007, 6–7 [includes AS burials, one – from St Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster – of high status] ‘Survey of the Year’s Archaeological Finds’, London Region Archaeol. 2002, 2–5 and 8– 11 [includes commentary on AS sunken-featured buildings in Hillingdon, Bromley and Hammersmith; settlement evidence from Lundenwic; and fragments of boat timbers from Newham] ‘“Sub-Roman” Britain – and Beyond’, London Region Archaeol. 2005, 8–10 [includes evidence for AS settlement from the Lea Valley] ‘Prehistory’, London Region Archaeol. 2007, 4–5 [records evidence for AS settlement at Hounslow and Hillingdon, including a silver penny of Alfred’s first coinage] Ayre, Julian, and Robin Brown, ‘Bull Wharf ’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Bull. Spring 1996, 10–11 [includes discussion of the AS waterfront and three Alfredian coins] Bennell, Maureen, and Daryl Stump, ‘Evidence for Middle Saxon Occupation at Otford’, AC 127, 432–4 Biddle, Martin, and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle, ‘Winchester: from Venta to Wintancæster’, Pagans and Christians, ed. Lauren Gilmour [see sect. 9a], pp. 189–214 Bluer, Richard, and Trevor Brigham, with Robin Nielsen, Roman and Later Development East of the Forum and Cornhill: Excavations at Lloyd’s Register, 71 Fenchurch Street, City of London, MoLAS Monograph 30 (London, 2006) [AS evidence consists of pits, robbed Roman walls and pottery; the pottery report is by Lyn Blackmore; publ. of Museum of London Archaeol. Service] Booth, Paul, Anne Dodd, Mark Robinson and Alex Smith, The Thames through Time, the Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames: the Early Historical Period, AD 1–1000, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph 27 (Oxford) [AS evidence includes settlements, as well as evidence from cemeteries drawing on work of Tania Dickinson]

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Bibliography for 2007 Boyer, P., ‘Excavations at Western International Market’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Region Newsletter Spring 2007, 11–12 [includes AS settlement in Hounslow] Brookes, Stuart, see sect. 9a [Kent] Brown, John, ‘Fieldwork Undertaken by Pre-Construct Archaeology 1999–2000’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Newsletter July 2001, 67–77 [includes discussion of Middle Saxon occupation and a seventh-century burial at Covent Garden, Westminster] Butler, Chris, and David Rudling, ‘Barcombe Roman Villa: New Roman Building and Saxon Occupation?’, Sussex Past and Present 111, 12–13 [discovery of a sunken-featured building] Carew, Tim, Barry Bishop, Frank Meddens and Victoria Ridgeway, Unlocking the Landscape: Archaeological Excavations at Ashford Prison, Middlesex, Pre-Construct Archaeol. Monograph 5 (London, 2006) [includes a probable AS hall] Chambers, Richard, and Ellen McAdam, Excavations at Barrow Hills, Radley, Oxfordshire, 1983–5, II: the Romano-British Cemetery and Anglo-Saxon Settlement, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph 25 (Oxford) Cowie, Robert, ‘Saxon London, Concealed Beneath the City Streets’, Discovery! Unearthing the New Treasures of Archaeology, ed. Brian M. Fagan (London), pp. 170–1 Davenport, Peter, Cynthia Poole and David Jordan, Archaeology in Bath: Excavations at the New Royal Baths (the Spa) and Bellott’s Hospital 1998–1999, Oxford Archaeol. Monograph 3 (Oxford) [includes ch. on early med. period] Densem, Robin, ‘London Round-Up: a Selection of Recent Investigations’, CBA, MidAnglia Bull. Summer 1997, 12–16 [includes AS] Fasham, Peter, ‘Banbury Castle: a Summary of Excavations in 1972’, Cake and Cockhorse 5.6 (1973), 109–20 [includes AS structures and finds from two sites] Greenwood, Pamela, and Cath Maloney, London Fieldwork and Publication Round-Up 1995, London Archaeologist 8, suppl. 1 (London, 1996) [includes AS] Greenwood, Pamela, Cath Maloney and T. J. Gostick, London Fieldwork and Publication Round-Up 1996, London Archaeologist 8, suppl. 2 (London, 1997) [includes AS] Helm, Richard, ‘Church Street, Hoo St Werburgh’, Canterbury’s Archaeol. 30 (2007 for 2005–6), 41–2 [includes evidence for AS settlement] Hillelson, David, ‘New Light on an Historic Village: Recent Excavations at Pirton, Hertfordshire’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Bull. Spring 1996, 18–20 [preliminary report on sites going back to the Saxo-Norman period] Holman, Adam, and Charles le Querne, ‘Excavations at The Grove, Watford, 2000’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Newsletter July 2001, 8–10 [includes AS occupation and burials] Horne, Barry, ed., see sect. 9a [Black Bourton, Oxon.] Horsey, Ian, see sect. 9eii [Christchurch, Hants.] Jackson, Reg, Excavations at St James’s Priory, Bristol (Oxford, 2006) [three silt-filled depressions yielding finds of Late Saxon pottery] Jones, Richard, and Mark Page, see sect. 9bii [villages in area of former Whittlewood Forest] Keith-Lucas, Fiona, ‘Saxon and Medieval Newham’, London Archaeologist 11.9, 244–6 Kenyon, David, and Martin Watts, ‘An Anglo-Saxon Enclosure at Copsehill Road, Lower Slaughter: Excavations in 1999’, Trans. of the Bristol and Gloucestershire

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Bibliography for 2007 Archaeol. Soc. 124 (2007 for 2006), 73–109 [possibly an enclosed manorial settlement or farm] Leary, Jim, ‘Excavations at 15–16 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London’, CBA, MidAnglia Region Newsletter Autumn 2006, 6–7 [includes AS] Lewis, Carenza, ‘Braydon: a Study of Settlement in a Parish-Edge Forest’, Patterns of the Past: Essays in Landscape Archaeology for Christopher Taylor, ed. Paul Pattison, David Field and Stewart Ainsworth (Oxford, 1999), pp. 85–96 [Wilts.; includes AS] Maloney, Cath, and Isabel Holroyd, London Fieldwork and Publication Round-Up 2006, London Archaeologist 11, suppl. 3 (Tonbridge) [includes AS] Millett, Martin, ‘Cowdery’s Down: a Multi Phase Site’, Rescue News 20 (1979), 6 [Hants.; preliminary account of the AS settlement] Moody, Gerald, ‘Prehistoric Crouched Inhumations and an Anglo-Saxon Sunken Featured Building: St Peter’s Road, Margate’, AC 127, 422–3 Moore, Richard, Anni Byard, Sarah Mounce and Stephen Thorpe, with Ed McSloy, Alan Vince and Jen Kitch, ‘A4146 Stoke Hammond and Linslade Western Bypass Archaeological Excavations 2005’, Records of Buckinghamshire 47.1, 1–62 [includes investigation of charter bounds between Linslade and Soulbury parishes] Mudd, Andrew, Bronze Age, Roman and Later Occupation at Chieveley, West Berkshire: the Archaeology of the A34/M4 Road Junction Improvement, BAR Brit. Ser. 433 (Oxford) [an AS presence is indicated by pottery and several pits] Newman, Phil, ‘Secrets of the Sands’, Devon Archaeol. Soc. Newsletter 79 (2001), 1 and 8– 9 [evidence of post-Roman settlement at Bantham Ham] ‘Totnes Revealed: New Evidence of the Early Town and its Defences’, Devon Archaeol. Soc. Newsletter 73 (1999), 1–3 [includes AS] Norton, Andrew, ‘Excavations at Ireland’s Land, Northmoor, Oxfordshire’, Oxoniensia 71 (2007 for 2006), 169–96 [Late Saxon pits and pottery] Parfitt, Keith, and Stuart Needham, see sect. 9eii [second entry; Woodnesborough, near Sandwich, Kent] Pratt, Simon, ‘St Mildred’s Tannery’, Canterbury’s Archaeol. 30 (2007 for 2005–6), 1–11 [includes a remodelling of the town defences in AS period, and discussion of a possible site for the sanctuary of the nuns of Lyminge (citing S 160)] Preston, Steve, ‘Bronze Age Occupation and Saxon Features at the Wolverton Turn Enclosure, near Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes: Investigations by Tim SchadlaHall, Philip Carstairs, Jo Lawson, Hugh Beamish, Andrew Hunn, Ben Ford and Tess Durden, 1972 to 1994’, Records of Buckinghamshire 47.1, 81–117 [AS features consist of enclosure ditches and a sunken-featured building; includes a substantial AS pottery report by Jane Timby and Paul Blinkhorn] Rady, Jon, and Damien Boden, ‘Kent Schools Project’, Canterbury’s Archaeol. 30 (2007 for 2005–6), 26–9 [includes a sunken-featured building excavated at Ellington School, Ramsgate] Reeve, Jez, ‘English Heritage Greater London Sites and Monuments Record’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Newsletter July 2001, 25–40 [a directory of sites with the evidence recorded for them; includes AS]

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Bibliography for 2007 Reynolds, Andrew, and Alex Langlands, ‘Social Identities on the Macro Scale: a Maximum View of Wansdyke’, People and Space in the Middle Ages, 300–1300, ed. Wendy Davies et al. (Turnhout, 2006), pp. 13–44 [esp. for discussion of charters and Chronicle, and for Bede] Riley, Hazel, The Historic Landscape of the Quantock Hills (Swindon, 2006) [‘The Migration and Early Medieval Periods: Britons and Anglo-Saxons’, in ch. 4] Rippon, Stephen, see sect. 9bii [North Som.] Scobie, G. D., J. M. Zant and Richard Whinney, The Brooks, Winchester: a Preliminary Report on the Excavations, 1987–88, Winchester Museums Service Archaeol. Report 1 (Winchester, 1991) [includes ch. on AS and med. periods] Seeley, Derek, Christopher Phillpotts and Mark Samuel, Winchester Palace: Excavations at the Southwark Residence of the Bishops of Winchester, MoLAS Monograph 31 (London, 2006) [includes a survey of Late Saxon Southwark, and Saxo-Norman occupation of the site; publ. of Museum of London Archaeol. Service] Slater, T. R., ‘Understanding the Landscape of Towns’, Landscape: the Richest Historical Record, ed. Della Hooke, Soc. for Landscape Stud. ss 1 (Amesbury, 2000), pp. 97– 108 [sect. on AS period reviews archaeol. evidence for towns, esp. from London, Winchester, Southampton and York] Swain, Hedley, see sect. 9eii [St Martin-in-the-Fields, London] Turner, Sam, and Steve Roskams, ‘Excavation and Survey at Mothecombe, September 2004’, Devon Archaeol. Soc. Newsletter 90 (2005), 4 [a post-Roman settlement site] Weddell, Peter, and John Allan, ‘Devon Archaeological Society AGM 2003’, Devon Archaeol. Soc. Newsletter 85 (2003), 8–9 [consists mostly of a presidential address on Devon’s early towns, including archaeol. and Domesday evidence from Kingsteignton, Crediton, Axminster and Colyton] Welsh, Ken, ‘Heathrow Terminal 5 Archaeology Project’, London Region Archaeol. 2003, 4–5 [includes evidence for AS settlement found near Longford, and in Hillingdon and Havering] Wright, Holly, ‘Archaeological Vector Graphics and SVG: a Case from Cricklade’, Internet Archaeol. 20 [online; Cricklade, Wilts., as site of a burh] iii. The East Crabtree, Pam, see sect. 9biii [Brandon, Suff.] Dale, Ruarigh, David Maynard and Joyce Compton, ‘Archaeology on the Mid-Essex Clay, Investigations on the A130 By-Pass: A12 Chelmsford By-Pass to the A127 Southend Arterial Road, 1991–4 and 1999–2002’, Essex Archaeol. and Hist. 36 (2007 for 2005), 10–54 [includes discussion of an AS settlement at Downhouse Farm, as well as artefacts, esp. pottery] Davies, Gareth, Neil Faulkner and Martin Hatton, ‘Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project: Interim Report 2005–07’, Norfolk Archaeol. 45.2, 232–40 [includes discussion of features of AS settlement, and burials without grave-goods] Davison, Alan, ‘Investigations at Godwick and Beeston St Andrew’, Norfolk Archaeol.

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Bibliography for 2007 45.2, 141–54 [AS settlement indicated by pottery finds; includes introd. by Andrew Rogerson] Deeves, Simon, ‘Excavation of an Iron Age and Saxon Site at South Willesborough, Ashford’, AC 127, 237–47 Dickens, Alison, see sect. 9a [Ely] Emery, Phillip A., Norwich Greyfriars: Pre-Conquest Town and Medieval Friary, with a major contribution by Elizabeth Rutledge, East Anglian Archaeol. Report 120 (Gressenhall) [includes a coin report by John A. Davies and Martin Allen] Everson, Paul, and Marcus Jecock, ‘Castle Hill and the Early Medieval Development of Thetford in Norfolk’, Patterns of the Past: Essays in Landscape Archaeology for Christopher Taylor, ed. Paul Pattison, David Field and Stewart Ainsworth (Oxford, 1999), pp. 97–106 Harrison, Sarah, and Tom Williamson, see sect. 9bii [Rendlesham, Suff.] Huggins, Peter, and Rhona Huggins, ‘Waltham Abbey’, London Archaeologist 1.11 (1971), 243–8 [includes evidence for AS settlement] Lewis, Carenza, ‘Test Pit Excavation within Currently Occupied Rural Settlement in East Anglia: Results of the HEFA CORS Project in 2006’, Med. Settlement Research Group Ann. Report 21 (2007 for 2006), 37–44 [publ. addressing the Currently Occupied Rural Settements project of the Higher Education Field Acad.] ‘New Avenues for the Investigation of Currently Occupied Medieval Rural Settlement: Preliminary Observations from the Higher Education Field Academy’, MA 51, 133–63 [investigations of some Currently Occupied Rural Settlements (CORS); AS evidence has been obtained from three Cambs. villages: Houghton and Wyton; Terrington St Clement; and Ufford] Loveluck, Christopher, Rural Settlement, Lifestyles and Social Change in the Later First Millennium AD: Anglo-Saxon Flixborough in its Wider Context, Excavations at Flixborough 4 (Oxford) Loveluck, Christopher, and David Atkinson, The Early Medieval Settlement Remains from Flixborough, Lincolnshire: the Occupation Sequence, c. AD 600–1000, Excavations at Flixborough 1 (Oxford) Malim, Tim, see sect. 9gii [Cambs.] O’Brien, Leonora, ‘Roman and Medieval Finds at Land East of Mill Lane, Water Newton, Huntingdonshire’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Group Newsletter Summer 2003, 11– 12 [includes AS] Roberts, Judith, see sect. 9a [Ely] Shelley, Andy, ‘Excavations at 34 High Street, Dereham, 2004’, Norfolk Archaeol. 45.1 (2006), 60–73 [several linear features and post-holes probably reflect AS occupation] Spoerry, Paul, and Mark Hinman, ‘Early Saxon and Medieval Remains Adjacent to the Round Moat, Fowlmere’, Proc. of the Cambridge Ant. Soc. 96, 135–42 [a sunkenfeatured building and a (possibly contemporary) pony-burial] Wade-Martins, Peter, see sect. 9a, with Woodings, R. B., ed. [North Elmham, Norf.] Wallis, Heather, Excavations on the Site of Norwich Cathedral Refectory, 2001–3, East

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Bibliography for 2007 Anglian Archaeol. Report 116 (Gressenhall, 2006) [includes discussion of a Late Saxon occupation phase, with a road] Webley, Leo, see sect. 9biii [charcoal production in area of Peterborough] Wilkinson, T. J., and M. J. Jones, ‘The Urban Wetlands of Lincoln, England’, NewsWARP (Exeter) 2 (1987), 21–2 [includes AS; publ. of Wetland Archaeol. Research Project] Wise, Philip J., ‘From Roman Camulodunum to Norman Colecestra: Lost Colchester’, Minerva (London) 18.1, 41–2 Woolhouse, Thomas, ‘Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Boundaries and Burials at the Former Oblic Engineering Site, Church Street, Litlington’, Proc. of the Cambridge Ant. Soc. 96, 115–26 iv. The Midlands Bocock, Sam, and Nicholas J. Cooper, ed., ‘Archaeology in Leicestershire and Rutland 2006’, Leicestershire Archaeol. and Hist. Soc. Trans. 81, 173–235 [includes discussion of an AS phase at Freeschool Lane, Leicester] Chapman, Andy, see sect. 9a [Northants.] Edwards, R. E., see sect. 9gi [Worcester] Evans, J. A., and S. Tatham, see sect. 9eiv [Rutland] Evans, J. A., et al., see sect. 9bii [Rutland] Guilbert, Graeme, see sect. 9eiv [Holme Pierrepont, Notts.] Hawkes, Michael, ‘Early Anglo-Saxon Settlement in the East Midlands’, Med. Settlement Research Group Ann. Report 20 (2005), 34 [summary of a thesis] Jones, Richard, and Mark Page, see sect. 9bii [Whittlewood Forest] Main, Olive, ‘Excavations at Polebrook, 2005’, CBA, Mid-Anglia Region Newsletter Spring 2006, 9 Thomas, John, ‘The Archaeology of Historic/Medieval Village Cores: Evidence from Leicestershire and Rutland’, Med. Settlement Research Group Ann. Report 21 (2007 for 2006), 34–6 Twigg, George, see sect. 6a [Dirtwich, Cheshire] Watt, Sarah, ed., ‘Herefordshire’, West Midlands Archaeol. 48 (2005), 26–33 [includes discussion of structures of AS date found in Hereford] ‘Worcestershire’, West Midlands Archaeol. 48 (2005), 135–67 [pits, ditches and postholes of AS date found in Droitwich] v. The North Addyman, Peter, ‘Jorvik Ten Years On’, Museum Management and Curatorship 13.1 (1994), 71–3 Fenton-Thomas, Chris, ‘Excavations at The Gardens, Sprotborough, South Yorkshire’, Yorkshire Archaeol. Jnl 79, 231–310 [includes AS and Anglo-Scandinavian phases] Hass, Jeffrey D., Medieval Selby: a New Study of the Abbey and Town, 1069–1408, Yorkshire Archaeol. Soc. Occasional Paper 4 (Leeds, 2006) [includes an account of the preConquest settlement]

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Bibliography for 2007 Howard, Phil, ‘New Technology to Survey Gefrin’, Archaeol. in Northumberland 17, 4–5 [concerns Yeavering] Johnson, Ben, and Clive Waddington, ‘5000 Years of Lanton, Milfield’, Archaeol. in Northumberland 17, 44–5 [includes evidence for AS occupation, involving sunkenfloored buildings and rectangular, post-built structures] Kirby, M., ‘Smarter Schools PPP Project, Land at Broomhouses, Lockerbie’, Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 7 (2007 for 2006), 48–9 [includes an Anglian hall] Lewis, Mary E., see sect. 9a [Wharram Percy] Loveluck, Christopher, see sect. 9dv [estate organization in the North down to c. 900] Montgomery, Janet, Jane A. Evans, Dominic Powlesland and Charlotte A. Roberts, ‘Continuity or Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England? Isotope Evidence for Mobility, Subsistence Practice and Status at West Heslerton’, Amer. Jnl of Physical Anthropology 126 (2005), 123–38 O’Connor, T. P., ‘Wild or Domestic? Biometric Variation in the Cat Felis silvestris Schreber’, International Jnl of Osteoarchaeology 17.6, 581–95 [some of the experimental material was from Anglo-Scandinavian York] Points, Guy, see sect. 9a [Yorks.] Reeves, Ben, ‘Taking the Lid Off the Bronze Age in York’, Yorkshire Archaeol. Today 13, 11–13 [includes discussion of Anglo-Scandinavian occupation in the area of Lawrence Street] Rushton, Sara, Roger Miket and Christopher Burgess, ed., Bamburgh, with contributions by Miket et al., Archaeol. in Northumberland, Discovery Ser. 1 ([Morpeth]) [includes the Bowl Hole AS cemetery, and the seventh- or eighth-century Bamburgh sword] Shafernich, Sandra Maria, ‘Two Heritage Centres in England’, Museum Management and Curatorship 15.1 (1996), 37–47 [one of the centres is the Jorvik Viking Centre, York] Slater, T. R., see sect. 9cii [York] Smith, Pamela Jane, ‘Roots and Origins: Archaeology and Wharram – an Interview with John G. Hurst’, ed. Carenza Lewis, Med. Settlement Research Group Ann. Report 21 (2007 for 2006), 59–64 Spiegel, Flora, see sect. 6b [Yeavering] Stewart, Ian J., and Cherry Bailey, ‘Castle View Gardens: Lindisfarne’, Archaeol. in Northumberland 17, 9 [evidence for AS settlement in the form of a hearth, a wattle and daub wall and a ditch] Vince, Alan, and Quita Mould, ‘New Thoughts on the Chronology of Saddler Street, Durham: Pottery, Leatherwork and Some Implications’, AAe 36, 79–92 [argument against a tenth-century date for this site, as suggested previously, and for a postConquest date] d. Ecclesiastical and monastic sites i. General and miscellaneous Alexander, Jennifer S., ‘The Introduction and Use of Masons’ Marks in Romanesque Buildings in England’, MA 51, 63–81 [includes sects. on AS quarrying and on Late and Middle Saxon churches]

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Bibliography for 2007 Baylé, Maylis, ‘L’autel dans les grands édifices religieux d’Angleterre et de Normandie du Xe au milieu du XIIe siècle: quelques réflexions’, Hortus Artium Medievalium 11 (2005), 165–76 McNeill, Tom, Faith, Pride and Works: Medieval Church Building (Stroud, 2006) [includes AS] Wilkinson, Philip, see sect. 6a [abbeys and monastic culture] ii. The South Aston, Mick, see sect. 6a [Muchelney Abbey] Blewett, Phillip, All Hallows by the Tower (Andover, 1990) [includes a sect. on the AS parts of the church] Durman, Richard, see sect. 9gi [Sherborne Abbey] Gilbert, Edward, ‘Pre-Carolingian Work at Deerhurst’, Cahiers archéologiques, fin de l’Antiquité et Moyen Âge 25 (1976), 67–75 Keen, Laurence, and Peter Ellis, Sherborne Abbey and School Excavations 1972–76 and 1990, Dorset Nat. Hist. and Archaeol. Soc. Monograph Ser. 16 (Dorchester, 2005) [includes discussion of burials, ditches and walls; possibly monastic] Tatton-Brown, Tim, ‘A New Survey of the Fabric of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Bosham, West Sussex’, Sussex Archaeol. Collections 144, 129–54 Woolhouse, Thomas, see sect. 9ciii [Litlington, Cambs.] iii. The East Andrews, D. D., ‘Church Miscellany’, Essex Archaeol. and Hist. 36 (2007 for 2005), 166– 72 [includes the discovery of possible AS foundations at Stifford St Mary church] Buckberry, Jo, see sect. 9eiii [churchyard burials in Lincs.] Cessford, Craig, with Alison Dickens, ‘Ely Cathedral and Environs: Recent Investigations’, Proc. of the Cambridge Ant. Soc. 96, 161–74 [Middle and Late Saxon evidence, such as a charnel pit, may relate to the pre-cathedral Benedictine monastery] Davies, Gareth, Neil Faulkner and Martin Hatton, see sect. 9ciii [Sedgeford, Norf.] Gilmour, Brian, see sect. 9eiii [cemetery at St Paul-in-the-Bail, Lincoln] Waldron, Tony, see sect. 9eiii [St Peter’s, Barton-on-Humber, Lincs.] iv. The Midlands Blockley, Kevin, ‘Pershore Abbey’s Anglo-Saxon Past’, The Recorder (Worcester, Worcs. Archaeol. Soc.) 54 (1996), 11 [Worcs.] Engel, Ute, Worcester Cathedral: an Architectural History, trans. Hilary Heltay (Chichester) [‘The Anglo-Saxon Predecessors’, sect. 6.1; see also in sect. 3 and, esp. for cults of Oswald and Wulfstan II, in sect. 7; trans. and rev. of work publ. in 2000] Gardiner, Rena, Look at Brixworth Church (Blandford, 1995) Gilbert, Edward S., ‘Wystan’s Church, Repton: its Date and Significance’, Cahiers archéologiques, fin de l’Antiquité et Moyen Âge 22 (1972), 237–9 Lewis, Mary E., see sect. 9a [cemetery at Raunds Furnells] Rodwell, Warwick, ‘The Forgotten Cathedral’, CA 205, 9–17 [Lichfield, including the ‘Lichfield angel’ sculpture]

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Bibliography for 2007 Taylor, H. M., St Wystan’s Church, Repton: a Guide and History, with minor alterations and additions by Martin Biddle, Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle and Stephen Medcalf (Derby, 2002) v. The North Bailiff, I. K., see sect. 9ii [Jarrow] Barber, Brian, see sect. 6c [Doncaster] Buckberry, Jo, see sect. 9eiii [churchyard burials in Yorks.] Daniels, Robin, Anglo-Saxon Hartlepool and the Foundations of English Christianity: an Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon Monastery, Tees Archaeol. Monograph Ser. 3 (Hartlepool) Lewis, Mary E., see sect. 9a [cemetery at St Helen-on-the-Walls, York] Loveluck, Christopher, ‘Cædmon’s World: Secular and Monastic Lifestyles and Estate Organization in Northern England, AD 650–900’, ‘Cædmon’s Hymn’, ed. Allen J. Frantzen and John Hines [see sect. 3biii, with ‘Cædmon’s Hymn’], pp. 150–90 Lowe, Christopher, Excavations at Hoddom, Dumfriesshire: an Early Ecclesiastical Site in South-West Scotland (Edinburgh, 2006) [a report on this Northumbrian monastery, including an account of the post-Roman stones, by Derek Craig; and an appendix on the place-names of southern Annandale, by Daphne Brooke] Mays, S., C. Harding and C. Heighway, Wharram, a Study of Settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds, XI: the Churchyard, York Univ. Archaeol. Publ. 13 (York) [includes reports on AS human remains, coins and artefacts] Points, Guy, see sect. 9a [Yorks.] Stronach, Simon, ‘The Anglian Monastery and Medieval Priory of Coldingham: urbs Coludi Revisited’, Proc. of the Soc. of Antiquaries of Scotland 135 (2005), 395–422 Swann, A. C., and I. Roberts, see sect. 9ev [Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorks.] Went, D., and M. Jecock, Sockburn Hall, Darlington: an Archaeological Investigation of the Medieval and Post-Medieval Manors and the Setting of the Pre-Conquest Church, Eng. Heritage Research Dept. Report 82/2007 (Portsmouth) [a minster site, the site of a later pre-Conquest church] e. Cemeteries and other burials i. General and miscellaneous Carr, Lydia, ‘Sonia Chadwick Hawkes and the “Three Ships”’, ‘Collectanea Antiqua’, ed. Martin Henig and Tyler Jo Smith, pp. 49–51 [implications for the nature of early burials if the period of AS settlement began with the arrival of warriors in only a few ships] Crawford, Sally, ‘“Gomol is snoterost”: Growing Old in Anglo-Saxon England’, ‘Collectanea Antiqua’, ed. Martin Henig and Tyler Jo Smith, pp. 53–60 [social implications of evidence from early burials] Devlin, Zoe, Remembering the Dead in Anglo-Saxon England: Memory Theory in Archaeology, BAR Brit. Ser. 446 (Oxford) Fern, Chris, ‘Early Anglo-Saxon Horse Burial of the Fifth to Seventh Centuries AD’, ASSAH 14, 92–109 [extensive survey]

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Bibliography for 2007 Gowland, Rebecca, ‘Beyond Ethnicity: Symbols of Social Identity from the Fourth to the Sixth Centuries in England’, ASSAH 14, 56–65 Hadley, Dawn, ‘The Garden Gives Up its Secrets: the Developing Relationship between Rural Settlements and Cemeteries, c. 750–1100’, ASSAH 14, 194– 203 Härke, Heinrich, ‘Ethnicity, “Race” and Migration in Mortuary Archaeology: an Attempt at a Short Answer’, ASSAH 14, 12–18 Harrington, Sue, see sect. 9a [female burials] Henig, Martin, and Tyler Jo Smith, ed., see sect. 9a Lee, Christina, Feasting the Dead: Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon Burial Rituals, AS Stud. 9 (Woodbridge) ‘“Wær wæs symbla cyst”: Food in the Funerary Rites of the Early Anglo-Saxons’, At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Timothy J. Tomasik and Juliann M. Vitullo, Arizona Stud. in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 18 (Turnhout), pp. 125–44 Semple, Sarah, and Howard Williams, ed., Early Medieval Mortuary Practices [= ASSAH 14] (Oxford) Williams, Howard, ‘Cremation in Early Anglo-Saxon England: Past, Present and Future Research’, Studien zur Sachsenforschung 15 (2005), pp. 533–49 ‘Emotive Force of Early Medieval Mortuary Practices’, Archaeol. Rev. from Cambridge 22.1, 107–23 ‘Introduction: Themes in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Death and Burial’, ASSAH 14, 1–11 see also sect. 9h [toilet implements in early burials] ii. The South Anheuser, Kilian, and Myrsini Roumeliotou, see sect. 9ji [Headley Drive, near Tadworth, Surrey] [Anon.], see sect. 9cii, in two entries [first entry, on Covent Garden, Westminster; and in second entry, on St Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster] Booth, Paul, et al., see sect. 9cii [cemeteries in upper and middle Thames] Brookes, Stuart, ‘Boat-Rivets in Graves in Pre-Viking Kent: Reassessing Anglo-Saxon Boat-Burial Traditions’, MA 51, 1–18 [these ‘pseudo-boat-burials’ contain fragments of nautical wood and ironwork] ‘Walking with Anglo-Saxons: Landscapes of the Dead in Early Anglo-Saxon Kent’, ASSAH 14, 143–53 [discusses the close correlation of burials with routeways] Brown, John, see sect. 9cii [Covent Garden, Westminster] Brugmann, Birte, Helena Hamerow and Deborah K. Harlan, ‘The Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale: Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods from Kent in the Sonia Hawkes Archive’, ‘Collectanea Antiqua’, ed. Martin Henig and Tyler Jo Smith, pp. 45–7 [introduces a new online resource for previously unpubl., or inadequately publ., finds of Kentish artefacts (web.arch.ox.ac.uk/archives/ inventorium)]

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Bibliography for 2007 Burton, Emily, ‘New Discoveries at St Martin-in-the-Fields’, Rescue News 102, 1–3 [early burials include high-status, seventh-century examples from this London site] Cherryson, Annia Kristina, ‘Disturbing the Dead: Urbanisation, the Church and the Post-Burial Treatment of Human Remains in Early Medieval Wessex, c. 600– 1100’, ASSAH 14, 130–42 Hägg, Inga, see sect. 9ji [Mill Hill, Deal, Kent] Hamilton, Derek, Mike Pitts and Andrew Reynolds, ‘A Revised Date for the Early Medieval Execution at Stonehenge’, Wiltshire Archaeol. and Nat. Hist. Mag. 100, 202–3 [offers new dating of c. 660–890 (calibrated date range, with a probability of 95%)] Harrington, Sue, see sect. 9ji [early inhumations in Kent] Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick, and Calvin Wells, ‘The Inhumed Skeletal Material from an Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery in Worthy Park, Kingsworthy, Hampshire, South England’, Paleobios 1.1–2 (1983), 3–36 Henig, Martin, and Tyler Jo Smith, ed., see sect. 9a Holman, Adam, and Charles le Querne, see sect. 9cii [Watford, Herts.] Horsey, Ian, ‘Christchurch’, Rescue News 17 (1979), 3 [Hants.; preliminary account of AS cemetery] Marzinzik, Sonja, ‘Excavating an Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery’, Brit. Museum Mag. 57, 15 [Ringlemere Farm, Kent] Miles, David, Simon Palmer, Alex Smith and Grace Perpetua Jones, Iron Age and Roman Settlement in the Upper Thames Valley: Excavations at Claydon Pike and Other Sites within the Cotswold Water Park, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph 26 (Oxford) [includes Mid to Late Saxon inhumations at Claydon Pike] Parfitt, Keith, and Barry Corke, ‘Ringlemere Farm, Woodnesborough’, Canterbury’s Archaeol. 30 (2007 for 2005–6), 25–6 [includes an AS cemetery] Parfitt, Keith, and Tania M. Dickinson, ‘The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Old Park, near Dover, Revisited’, ‘Collectanea Antiqua’, ed. Martin Henig and Tyler Jo Smith, pp. 111–26 Parfitt, Keith, and Stuart Needham, ‘Amber, Gold and a Bronze Age Barrow’, CA 208, 41–6 [Ringlemere Farm, Kent; includes an early AS cemetery] ‘Excavations at Ringlemere Farm, Woodnesborough, 2002–2006’, AC 127, 39–55 [near Sandwich, Kent; includes discussion of an early AS cemetery and a sunkenfeatured building] Peacock, Z., see sect. 9h [Figheldean, Wilts.] Philp, Brian, ‘The Saxon Cemetery at Alkham, near Dover’, Kent Archaeol. Rev. 170, 213–14 [discusses activities of metal-detecting treasure-hunters at the site] Stoodley, Nick, ‘New Perspectives on Cemetery Relocation in the Seventh Century AD: the Example of Portway, Andover’, ASSAH 14, 154–62 Swain, Hedley, ‘London’s Last Roman?’, CA 213, 35–9 [apart from a Late Roman burial, excavations near St Martin-in-the-Fields have produced a pendant of gold and glass, a glass palm cup and a copper hanging-bowl]

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Bibliography for 2007 iii. The East Blair, Ian, ‘The Prittlewell Prince: an Anglo-Saxon Royal Burial’, Discovery! Unearthing the New Treasures of Archaeology, ed. Brian M. Fagan (London), pp. 106–9 ‘Prittlewell Prince’, CA 207, 8–11 Buckberry, Jo, ‘On Sacred Ground: Social Identity and Churchyard Burial in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, c. 700–1100 AD’, ASSAH 14, 117–29 Evans, Angela, ‘BM Treasures Return to Sutton Hoo for the First Time Since Their Discovery’, Brit. Museum Mag. 42 (2002), 8 [esp. on new visitor centre at Sutton Hoo] Fell, V., and J. Watson, see sect. 9f [Flixton Park Quarry, Suff.] Filmer-Sankey, William, ‘Was Redwald a European? Sutton Hoo as a Reflection of British Attitudes to Europe’, ‘Collectanea Antiqua’, ed. Martin Henig and Tyler Jo Smith [see sect. 9a], pp. 61–6 Gibson, Catriona, ‘Minerva: an Early Anglo-Saxon Mixed-Rite Cemetery in Alwalton, Cambridgeshire’, ASSAH 14, 238–350 Gilmour, Brian, ‘Sub-Roman or Saxon, Pagan or Christian: Who Was Buried in the Early Cemetery at St Paul-in-the-Bail, Lincoln?’, Pagans and Christians, ed. Gilmour [see sect. 9a], pp. 229–56 Green, Barbara, see sect. 9a, with Dunn, F. I., ed. [Bergh Apton, in Norf.] Hall, Mark A., see sect. 1 [novel treating Sutton Hoo excavations] Leahy, Kevin, ‘Interrupting the pots’: the Excavation of Cleatham Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, North Lincolnshire, CBA Research Report 155 (York) [one of the largest known AS cemeteries; the stud. is principally concerned with the pottery] ‘A Warning to the Curious: Digging an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery’, CA 210, 26–31 [Cleatham, Lincs.; esp. on finds of more than one thousand urns] Minter, Faye, and Donna Wreathall, see sect. 9h [Friston, Suff.] Newton, Andrew A. S., ‘Mid-Saxon Burials at Barnwell Road, Cambridge’, Proc. of the Cambridge Ant. Soc. 96, 127–34 Patrick, Philippa, Charles French and Christine Osborne, ‘Rescue Excavation of an Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Gunthorpe, Peterborough’, ASSAH 14, 204–37 Penn, Kenneth, and Birte Brugmann, with Karen Høilund Nielsen, Aspects of AngloSaxon Inhumation Burial: Morning Thorpe, Spong Hill, Bergh Apton and Westgarth Gardens, East Anglian Archaeol. Report 119 (Gressenhall) Penn, Kenneth, and David Whitmore, ‘A Seventh-Century Burial at Bayfield’, Norfolk Archaeol. 45.2, 212–21 Roy, M., and T. Ennis, see sect. 9a, with Bennett, A., ed. [early cemetery at Rayleigh] Shotliff, Drew, ed., ‘A Selection of Fieldwork from Albion Archaeology’, CBA, MidAnglia Newsletter July 2001, 4–7 [includes a preliminary account of a cemetery at Melbourn, Cambs.] Spoerry, Paul, and Mark Hinman, see sect. 9ciii [possible pony-burial] Vierck, Hayo, ‘Redwalds Asche. Zum Grabbrauch in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk’, Offa 29 (1973 for 1972), 20–49 Waldron, Tony, St Peter’s, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire: a Parish Church and its Community, II: the Human Remains, with contributions by Warwick Rodwell (Oxford) [includes remains from Phase E (c. 950–1150)]

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Bibliography for 2007 Woodings, R. B., ed., see sect. 9a [cemetery at Swaffham] Woolhouse, Tom, ‘Proto-Christian or Evil Dead?’, Brit. Archaeol. 95, 42–3 [an AS burial in Cambs., dated to c. 700, was reburied with Norman pottery] iv. The Midlands Bond, C. J., ‘Fladbury’, Worcestershire Archaeol. Newsletter 10 (1972), 3 [undated inhumation, without grave-goods, held to be AS] Evans, J. A., and S. Tatham, ‘Defining “Local Signature” in terms of Sr Isotope Composition Using a Tenth- to Twelfth-Century Anglo-Saxon Population Living on a Jurassic Clay-Carbonate Terrain, Rutland’, Forensic Geoscience: Principles, Techniques and Applications, ed. K. Pye and D. J. Croft, Geological Soc. Special Publ. 232 (London, 2004), pp. 237–48 [skeletal Sr isotope characteristics can determine whether or not a group contained exotic elements; the cemetery discussed here is Ketton] Guilbert, Graeme, ‘Excavations at Holme Pierrepont Quarry, Nottinghamshire, in 2002–03: Preliminary Summary of a Multi-Period Palimpsest on the Trent Gravels’, Trans. of the Thoroton Soc. 110 (2007 for 2006), 15–48 [includes early AS burials and a sunken-featured building] Thomas, John, ‘Three Bronze Age Round Barrows at Cossington: a History of Use and Re-Use’, Leicestershire Archaeol. and Hist. Soc. Trans. 81, 35–63 [one of the barrows served as the site of an AS cemetery] v. The North Buckberry, J., see sect. 9eiii [Yorks.] Buckberry, J. L., and D. M. Hadley, ‘An Anglo-Saxon Execution Cemetery at Walkington Wold, Yorkshire’, Oxford Jnl of Archaeol. 26.3, 309–29 Mays, S., et al., see sect. 9dv [Wharram Percy] Points, Guy, see sect. 9a [Yorks.] Redmond, Angela Z., ‘Viking Burial in the North of England’, Dynamics of Northern Societies: Proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology, Copenhagen, May 10th–14th, 2004, ed. Jette Arneborg and Bjarne Grønnow, PNM Stud. in Archaeol. and Hist. 10 (Copenhagen, 2006), pp. 281–9 [publ. of Nationalmuseet (Copenhagen), addressing work of the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization and the museum’s Greenland Research Centre (SILA)] Viking Burial in the North of England: a Study of Contact, Interaction and Reaction between Scandinavian Migrants with Resident Groups, and the Effect of Immigration on Aspects of Cultural Continuity, BAR Brit. Ser. 429 (Oxford) [principally an archaeol. stud., but with sects. on place-names and the law] Rushton, Sara, et al., see sect. 9cv [Bowl Hole cemetery, Bamburgh] Swann, A. C., and I. Roberts, ‘Archaeological Investigations at Wakefield Cathedral, 1974–1995’, Yorkshire Archaeol. Jnl 78, 96–106 [includes pre-Conquest burials, one including a Trewhiddle Style ring, as described here by D. Tweddle] Taylor, G. M., C. L. Watson, A. S. Bouwman, D. N. J. Lockwood and S. A. Mays, ‘Variable Nucleotide Tandem Repeat (VNTR) Typing of Two Palaeopathological

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Bibliography for 2007 Wright, Charles D., see sect. 9h [Alfred Jewel] Žvanut, Katja, ‘The Tassilo Chalice Style: Problems of Interpretation and Definition’, Hortus Artium Medievalium 8 (2002), 273–87 [includes discussion of connections between this style and contemporary AS art, as observed on various objects] g. Stone, wood and bone i. Stone Alexander, Jennifer S., see sect. 9di [quarrying] [Anon.], The Lichfield Angel and the St Chad Gospels ‘TTP’: a Guide for Visitors (Lichfield) [publ. of the Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral (cover title: The Lichfield Angel); contains a small sect. on the ‘Turning the Pages’ digitization of the gospels, Gneuss no. 269] ‘“Find of several lifetimes”: Cathedral Archaeologist’, Brit. Archaeol. 88, 7 [AS carving of an angel from Lichfield Cathedral] Bailey, Richard N., ‘The Winwick Cross and a Suspended Sentence’, Text, Image, Interpretation, ed. Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts, pp. 449–72 [also on cult of Oswald] Bailey, Richard N., and Jenny Whalley, ‘A Miniature Viking-Age Hogback from the Wirral’, AntJ 86, 345–56 [includes a petrological note by Alan Bowden and Geoffrey Tresise] Billingsley, John, Stony Gaze: Investigating Celtic and Other Stone Heads (Chieveley, 1998) [carved images of heads in AS use, in chs. 2–3] Bowden, Alan, and Geoffrey Tresise, see above with Bailey, Richard N., and Jenny Whalley [petrological note] Brown, Michelle P., ‘The Lichfield Angel and the Manuscript Context: Lichfield as a Centre of Insular Art’, JBAA 160, 8–19 [esp. for parallels to the sculpture found in the Book of Cerne and Lichfield gospels (Gneuss nos. 28 and 269)] Butler, Lawrence, ‘Recent Archaeological Work in the Dioceses of Ripon and Wakefield 1991–2000’, Yorkshire Archaeol. Jnl 78, 85–110 [includes appendices on AS sculptural fragments from Little Ouseburn and Gilling West] Capelle, Torsten, see sect. 9a [house-shaped hogback] Carruthers, Leo, see sect. 3bi [AS sculpture and poetry] Carter, H. M., ‘Anglo-Saxon Carving from West Mersea Church’, Colchester Archaeol. Group Ann. Bull. 14 (1971), 37 Craig, Derek, ‘Magdalen Field, West Tanfield: a Possible Eremitic Site in Yorkshire’, The Modern Traveller to our Past: Festschrift in honour of Ann Hamlin, ed. Marion Meek ([n.p.], 2006), pp. 94–9 [reconsideration of two AS sculptural fragments] see also sect. 9dv, with Lowe, Christopher [monastic use of stone in Northumbria] Durman, Richard, Ham Hill: Portrait of a Building Stone (Reading, 2006) [includes discussion of AS use of the stone, esp. in Sherborne Abbey, and the Athelney font] Edwards, R. E., ‘Trial Excavation and Salvage Recording at St Oswald’s Almshouses, Worcester (HWCM 9931)’, Trans. of the Worcestershire Archaeol. Soc. 13 (1992), 181– 91 [includes Saxo-Norman or Norman stone mouldings]

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Bibliography for 2007 Newman, Phil, ‘Copplestone Cross Witnesses its Third Millennium’, Devon Archaeol. Soc. Newsletter 75 (2000), 1 [tenth-century cross with interlace decoration] Onians, John, ‘The Romsey Roods: Christ, Rods and the Geography of Religion’, Pagans and Christians, ed. Lauren Gilmour [see sect. 9a], pp. 215–18 [association of Christ with columns and trees] Orton, Fred, and Ian Wood, with Clare A. Lees, Fragments of History: Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments (Manchester) [‘The Ruthwell Runes and The Dream of the Rood’, ch. 7; otherwise, principally a stud. of the artefacts, including a complete photographic record of both crosses] Panter, Ian, and Richard Hall, ‘Gingering up the Viking Age in Lythe’, Yorkshire Archaeol. Today 13, 16–18 [an account of the Lythe hogback (Lythe 29 in the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture)] Points, Guy, see sect. 9a [Yorks.] Potts, W. T. W., ‘A Fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Cross Shaft from Halton Green’, Contrebis 9 (1981), 18–20 Redknap, Mark, see sect. 9h [sculpture, esp. in early med. Wales and the March] Rendell, Joan, ‘A Saxon Stone’, Search (Banwell, Banwell Soc. of Archaeol.) 20 (1984), 40 [interlace-decorated stone reused in the fifteenth century] Rodwell, Warwick, see sect. 9div [‘Lichfield angel’ sculpture] Watts, Susan, Rotary Querns c. 700–1700, Finds Research Group, Datasheet 38 ([n.p.], 2006) Whitfield, Niamh, ‘A Suggested Function for the Holy Well?’, Text, Image, Interpretation, ed. Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts, pp. 495–513 [esp. on AS stone fonts; also for Bede] Williams, Brian C. J., The Story of St Mary and St Hardulph Church: a Cradle of Our Faith (Nottingham, 1996) [contains descriptions and illustrations of the AS sculpture located in the later church; cover title: St Mary and St Hardulph Church, Breedon on the Hill: a History Guide] ii. Wood [Anon.], see sect. 9cii [third entry; fragments of boat timbers from Newham] Brookes, Stuart, see sect. 9eii [first entry; fragments of nautical wood and ironwork] Capelle, Torsten, ‘Anglische, sächsische und angelsächsische Holzschnitzkunst’, Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte 53 (1985 for 1984), 117–32 Favreau, Robert, ‘Les autels portatifs et leurs inscriptions’, CCM 46 (2003), 327–52 [esp. on reliquary of Cuthbert; also for Alcuin] Hillam, Jennifer, ‘A Winchester Tree-Ring Chronology and a Medieval Walnut Toilet Seat’, NewsWARP (Exeter) 11 (1992), 16–20 [data from AS and late med. timbers give a tree-ring chronology from AD 443 to 1128, although the seat itself remains undatable; publ. of Wetland Archaeol. Research Project] Malim, Tim, ‘Recent Waterlogged Wood Finds from Cambridgeshire’, NewsWARP (Exeter) 24 (1998), 16–20 [esp. on excavation of an AS well with wattle lining; publ. of Wetland Archaeol. Research Project] Underwood, Richard, ‘The Early Anglo-Saxon Shield: Reconstruction as an Aid to

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Bibliography for 2007 Interpretation’, The Cutting Edge: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Combat, [ed.] Barry Molloy (Stroud), pp. 134–43 [includes discussion of wooden, leather and iron constituents; also for Riddle 5 in the Exeter Book] iii. Bone [Anon.], ‘Selected Acquisitions: November 1990 to April 1991’, Brit. Museum Mag. 6 (1991), 26–8 [includes an AS ivory plaque depicting Christ in majesty] ‘Spoon Tops Important Anglo-Saxon Finds’, Brit. Archaeol. 90, 6 [a decorated bone spoon from Winchester] Ashby, Steven P., ‘Bone and Antler Combs: towards a Methodology for the Understanding of Trade and Identity in Viking Age England and Scotland’, From Hooves to Horns, from Mollusc to Mammoth. Manufacture and Use of Bone Artefacts from Prehistoric Times to the Present. Proceedings of the Fourth Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group at Tallinn, 26th–31st of August 2003, ed. H. Luik, A. Choyke, C. Batey and L. Lõugas, Muinasaja teadus 15 (Tallinn, 2005), pp. 255– 62 ‘Trade in Viking Age Britain: Identity and the Production and Distribution of Bone and Antler Combs’, Dynamics of Northern Societies: Proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology, Copenhagen, May 10th–14th, 2004, ed. Jette Arneborg and Bjarne Grønnow, PNM Stud. in Archaeol. and Hist. 10 (Copenhagen, 2006), pp. 273–9 [publ. of Nationalmuseet (Copenhagen), addressing work of the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization and the museum’s Greenland Research Centre (SILA)] Bone and Antler Combs, Finds Research Group Datasheet 40 ([n.p.]) Chapman, Andy, Medieval Stylised Chess Pieces, Finds Research Group Datasheet 35 ([n.p.], 2005) [examples, made from antler, bone or jet, date from the eleventh century to the fourteenth] Kopár, Lilla, ‘The Wings of Weland’, The Iconography of the Fantastic II, ed. Attila Kiss et al. (Szeged, 2002), pp. 39–48 [esp. for Franks Casket, and for pre-Conquest stone carvings; also on Deor] Laing, Lloyd, and David Longley, see sect. 9f [runic inscription on bone] Leaf, Helen, ‘Medieval Bone Flutes in England’, Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. Aleksander Pluskowski (Oxford), pp. 11–17 [includes early med.] Pearson, Trevor, ‘Bone Working Debris from Castle Road, Scarborough’, Trans. of the Scarborough Archaeol. and Hist. Soc. 37 (2001–2), 13–14 [perforated bone artefacts identified as blanks for the manufacture of bone beads, dating from the tenth century to the thirteenth] h. Metalwork Adams, Kurt, ‘Portable Antiquities Roundup for Gloucestershire and Avon’, Proc. of the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club 44.1 (2007 for 2006), 31–9 [includes an AS copper-alloy strap-end, a Viking copper-alloy spur and other early med. items]

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Bibliography for 2007 Ager, Barry, Amy Cooper and Gareth Williams, ‘The Harrogate Hoard: St Peter, Islam and Thor in the Melting Pot’, Brit. Archaeol. 97, 32–3 [a silver cup containing scrap metal from the Viking period] Allen, David, ‘Saxon Bowl Returns to Winchester’, Hampshire Field Club and Archaeol. Soc. Newsletter 48, 5–7 [an account of the discovery of the hanging-bowl, and its return by the British Museum] [Anon.], ‘The Winchester Purse Reliquary’, Rescue News 20 (1979), 8 Behr, Charlotte, ‘Using Bracteates as Evidence for Long-Distance Contacts’, Incipient Globalization? Long-Distance Contacts in the Sixth Century, ed. Anthea Harris, BAR International Ser. 1644 [= Reading Med. Stud. 32] (Oxford), pp. 15–25 [includes AS] Biggs, Norman, and Paul Withers, Lead Weights: the David Rogers Collection, Eng. Weights Ser. 6 (Powys, 2000) [includes AS, esp. in sect. b] Blackburn, Mark, see sect. 7 [gold and silver] Blackwell, Alice, ‘An Anglo-Saxon Figure-Decorated Plaque from Ayton (Scottish Borders), its Parallels and Implications’, MA 51, 165–72 Blakelock, Eleanor, and Gerry McDonnell, ‘A Review of Metallographic Analyses of Early Medieval Knives’, Hist. Metallurgy 41.1, 40–56 Bourke, Cormac, ‘The Pommel-Knop of an Early Medieval Sword from Ballyholland Lower, County Down’, Ulster Jnl of Archaeol. 64 (2005), 176–8 [found in a souterrain, and identified as a part of an AS sword of the late ninth or early tenth century] Brather, Sebastian, ‘Von der “Tracht” zur “Kleidung”: neue Fragestellungen und Konzepte in der Archäologie des Mittelalters’, Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters 35, 185–206 [interpreting social distinctions through metalwork providing evidence for clothing; includes AS] Brookes, Stuart, see sect. 9eii [first entry; fragments of nautical ironwork] Clegg, Pat, and Sonia O’Connor, ‘Head Start’, Conservation News 20 (1983), 9–11 [esp. on problems of mounting Coppergate helmet for display] Cooper, Amy, ‘The Harrogate Hoard’, CA 212, 26–30 [large Viking hoard, including a Carolingian cup, and AS and Anglo-Scandinavian coins] Department for Culture, Media and Sport [U.K.], Export of Objects of Cultural Interest, 2006–07: 1 May 2006–30 April 2007 (London) [AS items include a gilded mount with interlace decoration (Case 7); a great square-headed brooch (Case 8); and a silver-gilt zoomorphic mount (Case 26)] Edwards, Glynis, ‘The Conservation of Gilded Archaeological Artifacts: its Effects and Implications’, Gilding, Approaches to Treatment: a Joint Conference of English Heritage and the United Kingdom Institute for Conservation, 27–28 September 2000, ed. Jeremy Noel-Tod (London, 2001), pp. 7–12 [includes AS brooches from Appledown, Sussex, and Mucking, Essex, and attached textiles] Egan, Geoff, ‘Later Medieval Non-Ferrous Metalwork and Evidence for Metal Working, AD 1050–1100 to 1500–50’, David Griffiths et al., Meols, pp. 77–188 Ellis, Blanche M. A., Prick Spurs 700–1700, Finds Research Group, Datasheet 30 ([n.p.], 2002)

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Bibliography for 2007 Gannon, Anna, ‘Pushing Boundaries: Anglo-Saxon Zoomorphic Pins’, Making and Meaning in Insular Art, ed. Rachel Moss, pp. 40–9 Gilmour, Brian, ‘Swords, seaxes and Saxons: Pattern-Welding and Edged Weapon Technology from Late Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England’, ‘Collectanea Antiqua’, ed. Martin Henig and Tyler Jo Smith, pp. 91–109 Griffiths, David, ‘Early Medieval Material, AD 400–450 to 1050–1100’, Griffiths et al., Meols, pp. 58–77 Griffiths, David, Robert A. Philpott and Geoff Egan, Meols, the Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast: Discoveries and Observations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with a Catalogue of Collections, with contributions by Janet Axworthy et al., Oxford Univ. School of Archaeol., Monograph 68 (Oxford) Gurney, David, ed., ‘Archaeological Finds in Norfolk in 2005’, Norfolk Archaeol. 45.1 (2006), 112–23 [AS finds are all metalwork] Harris, Anthea, ‘Britain and China at Opposite Ends of the World? Archaeological Methodology and Long-Distance Contacts in the Sixth Century’, Incipient Globalization? Long-Distance Contacts in the Sixth Century, ed. Anthea Harris, BAR International Ser. 1644 [= Reading Med. Stud. 32] (Oxford), pp. 91–104 [comparing finds of Byzantine coinage in the two countries] Henig, Martin, and Tyler Jo Smith, ed., see sect. 9a Hindman, Sandra, with Ilaria Fatone and Angélique Laurent-di Mantova, Toward an Art History of Medieval Rings: a Private Collection (London) [the private collection of Sandra Hindman, including an AS gold and garnet ring of unstated provenance, and a braided-gold Viking ring, possibly from England] Hinds, Katie, ‘Highlights from the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) in Wiltshire in 2005’, Wiltshire Archaeol. and Nat. Hist. Mag. 100, 238–9 [includes an AngloScandinavian buckle and a penny of Offa] Hines, John, see sect. 10 [inscribed lead plaque] Howard-Davies, Chris, see sect. 9ii, with [Various] [Beds.] Kendrick, David, ‘News from the County Museum’, Worcestershire Recorder 76, 6–8 [includes an AS silver-gilt roundel with spiral ornament] Laing, Lloyd, ‘Romano-British Metalworking and the Anglo-Saxons’, Britons in AngloSaxon England, ed. Nick Higham [see sect. 6b], pp. 42–56 Leahy, Kevin, ‘Soldiers and Settlers in Britain, Fourth to Fifth Century – Revisited’, ‘Collectanea Antiqua’, ed. Martin Henig and Tyler Jo Smith, pp. 133–43 [reconsideration of metalwork associated with Late Roman Germanic foederati in Britain; includes appendix on the continental background by Barry Ager] Lewis, A. S., ‘The Cuerdale Hoard’, Contrebis 2.2 (1974), 38–40 Lewis, Michael, ‘A New Date for “Class A, Type IIA” Stirrup-Strap Mounts and Some Observations on Their Distribution’, MA 51, 178–84 [previously thought to be AS, this type is now dated to between c. 1070 and c. 1140; discussion includes Late Saxon motifs] Lowe, Jennifer, ed., ‘News from the Portable Antiquities Scheme’, CBA, Wessex News April 2007, 22–4 [includes seventh- to eighth-century skillet, possibly for baptismal use, found near Shalfleet, Isle of Wight]

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