Charters and Charter Scholarship in Britain and Ireland

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Charters and Historians of Britain and Ireland: Problems and Possibilities

   • David Bates

   Pages 1-14

3. Athelstan, Charters and the English in Cornwall

   • Charles Insley

   Pages 15-31

4. Address and Delivery in Anglo-Norman Royal Charters

   • Richard Sharpe

   Pages 32-52

5. ‘A Lasting Memorial’: The Charter of Liberties of Henry I

   • Judith A. Green

   Pages 53-69

6. Regional Variations in the Charters of King Henry II (1154–89)

   • Nicholas Vincent

   Pages 70-106

7. Before Charters? Property Records in Pre-Anglo-Norman Ireland

   • Máire Herbert

   Pages 107-119

8. Irish Royal Charters and the Cistercian order

   • Marie Therese Flanagan

   Pages 120-139

9. Laudabiliter: Text and Context

   • Michael Haren

   Pages 140-163

10. The Adoption of Brieves in Scotland

    • Dauvit Broun

    Pages 164-183

11. Culture, Power and the Charters of Welsh Rulers

    • Huw Pryce

    Pages 184-202

12. Back Matter

    Pages 203-234

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This book draws together a collection of essays looking at the ways in which charters and charter scholarship in different areas of Britain and Ireland, highlighting comparisons and contrasts in charter production and use. The book shows the crucial importance of charters as sources for understanding the history of royal administration and, more broadly, the perceptions and portrayals of kingly power, as well as developments in written culture.

• adoption
• Britain
• culture
• English
• essay
• Great Britain
• history
• history of literature
• Ireland
• knowledge
• Lighting
• perception
• Scotland
• understanding

• Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

  Marie Therese Flanagan, Judith A. Green

DAVID BATES Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK DAUVIT BROUN Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Glasgow University, UK MICHAEL HAREN Editor of the Calendars of Papal Registers for the Irish Manuscripts Commission MAIRE HERBERT Associate Professor, Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College, Cork, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND CHARLES INSLEY Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK HUW PRICE Reader in History, Department of History and Welsh History, University of Wales, Bangor, UK RICHARD SHARPE Professor of Diplomatic History, University of Oxford, UK NICHOLAS VINCENT Professor of Medieval History, School of History, University of East Anglia, UK

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