Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- I.33 A Layman Grants Land to His Son-in-Law, Who Sells It to the Bishop ofSelsey for Silver and a Horse
- I.34 The Monastic Agreement of the Monks and Nuns of the English Nation(Regularis concordia)
- I.35 Literary Texts Associated with St Swithun
- I.36 Æthelweard, Chronicle
- I.37 A Treaty between King Æthelred II (‘the Unready’) and Three VikingLeaders
- I.38 Ælfric of Eynsham, Preface to the First Series of CatholicHomilies
- I.39 Ælfric of Eynsham and His School, Educational Writings
- I.40 Saints’ Lives from around the Millennium
- Eleventh Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
I.33 - A Layman Grants Land to His Son-in-Law, Who Sells It to the Bishop ofSelsey for Silver and a Horse
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- I.33 A Layman Grants Land to His Son-in-Law, Who Sells It to the Bishop ofSelsey for Silver and a Horse
- I.34 The Monastic Agreement of the Monks and Nuns of the English Nation(Regularis concordia)
- I.35 Literary Texts Associated with St Swithun
- I.36 Æthelweard, Chronicle
- I.37 A Treaty between King Æthelred II (‘the Unready’) and Three VikingLeaders
- I.38 Ælfric of Eynsham, Preface to the First Series of CatholicHomilies
- I.39 Ælfric of Eynsham and His School, Educational Writings
- I.40 Saints’ Lives from around the Millennium
- Eleventh Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
This late ninth-century charter provides an example of Latin with orthographical idiosyncrasies at a time when there had been a decline in educational standards, before the reforms of king Alfred took effect. Land is granted by the archbishop of Canterbury to a layman. Criticism of the standard of Latin is somewhat unfair, given that the changes made to Latin syntax and spelling are consistent.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 365 - 368Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024