IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1228: New Directions in Charter Studies, III: Insular Charters in the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Periods
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies / Haskins Society for Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Angevin & Viking History / Centre Michel de Boüard (CRAHAM - UMR 6273), Université de Caen Basse-Normandie |
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| Organiser: | Charles Insley, Department of History & American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Chris Lewis, Department of History, King's College London / Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
| Paper 1228-a | Variation in the Charters of 'Æthelstan A' (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1228-b | Regional Diplomatic in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1228-c | Norman Engagement with Church and Society in Cornwall through a Henry I Charter for Exeter (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session addresses aspects of English charters pre- and post-1066. Diplomatic variations in the charters of 'Æthelstan A' are shown to suggest that this scribe had an unprecedented vision for the rhetorical possibilities of the charter. Diplomatic variations are also examined from a regional perspective, contextualised in debates over power and identity, and the evidence for the survival of regional traditions after 1066 surveyed. A royal charter of c.1123 is shown to demonstrate the wholesale appropriation by Exeter's Norman bishops of major Cornish churches and saints, occasioned by episcopal understanding of the 'Celtic' past through their charter archive. |