Announcements

This page is for announcements relating to forthcoming publications, upcoming lectures, and conferences. 

Recently published volumes in the BA/RHS 'Anglo-Saxon Charters' series:

• Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury, ed. N. P. Brooks and S. E. Kelly, 2 vols., Anglo-Saxon Charters 17-18
• Charters of Chertsey Abbey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 19
• Charters of Barking Abbey and Waltham Holy Cross, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 20

Forthcoming volumes:

• Charters of Bury St Edmunds, ed. S. Foot and K. Lowe
• Charters of the Old Minster, Winchester, ed. A. R. Rumble
• Charters of Wilton, ed. R. Rushforth
• Charters of Midland Archives, ed. S. E. Kelly
• Charters of Worcester, ed. S. E. Kelly

Reprints in paperback of some standard editions (Anglo-Saxon charters):

• Kemble's Codex Diplomaticus, 6 vols. (London, 1839-48), with a new introduction on its context in the 1830s and 1840s. Published in the Cambridge Library Collection, by the Cambridge University Press. Kemble's Saxons in England is also available in the same series.
• Birch's Cartularium Saxonicum, 3 vols. (London, 1885-93), is forthcoming in the same series.
• <The Crawford Collection of Early Charters and Documents now in the Bodleian Library, ed. A. S. Napier and W. H. Stevenson (Oxford, 1895).>
• Harmer's Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (1914), Whitelock's Anglo-Saxon Wills, and Robertson's Anglo-Saxon Charters. For details of the CUP reprints published in 2011 of these standard editions of Anglo-Saxon charters in the vernacular charters, see this flysheet (PDF).

Recent publications (general):

• L. Roach, Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium (Princeton, 2021)
• Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. R. Naismith and D. A. Woodman (Cambridge, 2017)
• Scott T. Smith, Land and Book: Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto, 2012)
• The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. I: c. 400-1100, ed. Richard Gameson (Cambridge, 2012)
• Sarah Foot, Æthelstan: the First King of England (London and Yale, 2011)
• Linda Tollerton, Wills and Will-making in Anglo-Saxon England (York, 2011)
• Rory Naismith, Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: the Southern English Kingdoms, 757-865 (Cambridge, 2012 [already published]), esp. pp. 267-73, on payments in charters
• Rory Naismith, The Coinage of Southern England 796-865, 2 vols., British Numismatic Society Special Publication 8 (London, 2011)
• Yann Coz, Rome en Angleterre: l'image de la Rome antique dans l'Angleterre anglo-saxonne, du VIIe siècle à 1066 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2011) - Aldhelm, Boniface, Bede, Alfredian translations, 'Rome and England in 10th & 11th centuries, with discussion of kings (pp. 336-47), and the imperial idea [in charters, etc.], pp. 347-69

Upcoming conferences and lectures