Fonthill Letter

The 'Fonthill Letter', preserved among the muniments of Christ Church, Canterbury, at Canterbury Cathedral. <Content to be developed.>

 

A reading-list for the 'Fonthill Letter'

  • Text and translation
    • ​KCD 328; BCS 591 (text)
    • Earle, Hand-Book, pp. 162-5
    • Harmer, SEHD, no. 18 (text, translation, and notes)
    • Wyatt 1919, pp. 112-15
    • EHD i, no. 102 (translation)
    • S 1445 (CantCC 104) (text, translation, and commentary)
    • Marsden
  • Commentary
    • Simon Keynes, 'The Fonthill Letter', Words, Texts and Manuscripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture presented to Helmut Gneuss on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. M. Korhammer, with K. Reichl and H. Sauer (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 53-97
    • Mechthild Gretsch, 'The Language of the Fonthill Letter', ASE 23 (1994), 57-102
    • M. Boynton and S. Reynolds, 'The Author of the Fonthill Letter', ASE 25 (1996), 91-5
    • Wormald, Making of English Law (1999), pp. 120, 144-8
    • Carole Hough, 'Cattle Tracking in the Fonthill Letter', EHR 115 (2000), 864-92
    • Mechthild Gretsch, 'The Fonthill Letter: Language, Law, and the Discourse of Disciplines', Anglia 123 (2005), 667-86
    • S. Smith, 'Of Kings and Cattle-Thieves: the Rhetorical Work of the Fonthill Letter', JEGP 106 (2007), 446-67
    • Pratt, Political Thought of Alfred (2007), pp. 37-8, 101-2, 237
    • Nicholas Brooks, 'The Fonthill Letter, Ealdorman Ordlaf and Anglo-Saxon Law in Practice', Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. S. Baxter, et al. (Farnham, 2009), pp. 301-17
    • J. Niles, <to be added>

 

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