Last week, Professor Simon Keynes (Cambridge) delivered a lecture at UPV in Vitoria on ‘Anglo-Saxon charters in the vernacular’, offering a thoughtful overview of the development of the use of Old English in the documentary culture of early medieval England. Professor Keynes is one of the leading historians of the Anglo-Saxon world (and of charters in particular), so it was a great pleasure to hear him speak about the singularity of Anglo-Saxon documentary tradition and the remarkable variety in documentary form. And to everyone’s delight, he even brought his ‘personal copies’ of several Anglo-Saxon charters with him!
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