INTRODUCTION
1: The History of Chertsey Abbey
2: The History of the Archive
3: The Manuscripts
4: The Authenticity of the Charters
5: The Estates of Chertsey Abbey
6: Gazetteer of Chertsey Estates mentioned in the Charters and in
Domesday Book
7: The Abbots of Chertsey
LIST OF CHARTERS
CONCORDANCE
SIGLA
NOTE ON THE METHOD OF EDITING
THE CHARTERS
APPENDIXES
Dr Kelly is a former Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. She has studied and taught in Cambridge and Oxford, and was a visiting fellow at All Soul's College in 2008. Her career has been dedicated to working on the British Academy/Royal Historical Society Anglo-Saxon Charters Project, of which she was Co-ordinating Editor 2001-12.
Kelly provides thorough notes on the contexts of the charters,
their genuine or forged status, and their relation to other
charters in this volume. These notes follow on from the text of
each charter individually. A wealth of information is also included
before and after the charters. ... Kelly also provides appendices
and indexes, including an index of personal names, place-names, the
words and names in boundary clauses, a Latin glossary, and a
diplomatic index. Th is volume will be of use to anyone studying
the history of Chertsey Abbey, or early medieval Surrey.
*Editions *
Kelly proposes a cautious but plausible reconstruction of
Chertsey's early history, bearing in mind the minster's frontier
position between the Mercian and West Saxon polities as well as the
shifting political situation of the eighth and ninth centuries. The
editor must therefore be congratulated for making available to
scholars and students a particularly difficult section of the
corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters.
*Francesca Tinti, English Historical Review*
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