Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- II.1 The Battle of Hastings and Its Aftermath
- II.2 Two Charters of William the Conqueror
- II.3 Goscelin of Canterbury, The Book of Consolation
- II.4 The Domesday Book of 1086
- II.5 The Life of St Swithun: the Miracle of the Broken Eggs
- II.6 The Life of St Birinus
- II.7 St Anselm of Canterbury
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
II.2 - Two Charters of William the Conqueror
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- II.1 The Battle of Hastings and Its Aftermath
- II.2 Two Charters of William the Conqueror
- II.3 Goscelin of Canterbury, The Book of Consolation
- II.4 The Domesday Book of 1086
- II.5 The Life of St Swithun: the Miracle of the Broken Eggs
- II.6 The Life of St Birinus
- II.7 St Anselm of Canterbury
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
Two short writs granting land to the Church show how in the early years of William the Conqueror’s reign the use of Latin was gradually adopted where Old English had been used in pre-Conquest times for royal writs, though Latin was used for charters.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 44 - 47Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024