British Academy - Royal Historical Society

ANGLO-SAXON CHARTERS

ENGLAND AND ROME

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The purpose of these pages is to provide a checklist of papal letters and privileges for persons and religious houses in Anglo-Saxon England. It must be emphasised that this work is in process of compilation; and it is by no means in this form the product of systematic research. No attempt has been made to distinguish genuine documents from spurious documents. In the case of forgeries, the question arises whether they might have been fabricated before 1066, or after, and in what context. It is hoped that the list may develop, in time, into a complete register of papal involvement in Anglo-Saxon England, and vice versa, with a full apparatus of references; to be complemented by a register of recorded visits of Englishmen to Rome.

'We go on here at home in our usual jog trot way; I work very hard all the day, and then jump on my horse and take a gallop into the country, just to clear away the cobwebs. I am already devising another work for the Historical Society, viz. a complete collection of all the Papal Bulls relating to England from 600 to 1060; but I do not know whether the Council will adopt my plan.'

Letter from J. M. Kemble to Jakob Grimm, May 1839

• Provisional register of papal letters and privileges
  
• Provisional register of English visitors to Rome

   

Bibliography

General

• Kelly, J. N. D., The Oxford Dictionary of Popes (Oxford, 1986)
• Krautheimer, Richard, Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308 (Princeton, NJ, 1980)
• Llewellyn, Peter, Rome in the Dark Ages (London, 1971)
• Markus, R. A., Gregory the Great and his World (Cambridge, 1997)
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Papal letters and privileges

• Anton, H. H., Studien zu den Klosterprivilegien der Päpste im frühen Mittelalter, Beiträge zur Geschichte und Quellenurkunde des Mittelalters 4 (Berlin, 1975) <UL 532.01.c.23.4>
• Holtzmann, W., ed., Papsturkunden in England, 3 vols., Abhandlungen der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse, ns 25.1-2, and 3rd ser. 14-15 and 33 (Berlin and Göttingen, 1930-52) <UL P500.b.5.98/102/107> <Graves 1132 + 5550>
• Jakobs, Hermann, Germania Pontificia sive Repertorium Privilegiorum et Litterarum a Romanis Pontificibus ante Annum MCLXXXXVIII Germaniae Ecclesiis Monasteriis Civitatibus Singulisque Personis Consessorum IV.4, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum (Göttingen, 1978) [St Boniface, pp. 1-38]
• Jaffé, Philipp, and W. Wattenbach, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum ab condita ecclesia ad annum post Christum natum MCXCVIII, 2nd ed., 2 vols., ed. S. Loewenfeld, F. Kaltenbrunner and P. Ewald (Leipzig, 1885-8; reptd Graz, 1956) <UL R169.1> <Graves 1131> <JE/JK/JL>
• Kortüm, Hans-Henning, Zur päpstlichen Urkundensprache im frühen Mittelalter. Die päpstlichen Privilegien 896-1046 (Sigmaringen, 1995)
• von Sickel, T. E., ed., Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum (1889, reptd Darmstadt, 1969)
• Zimmermann, Harald, ed., Papsturkunden 896-1046, 3 vols., Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften 174, 177 and 198, Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission 3-5 (Vienna, 1988-9) <TC LL 246.Z.101-3>
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Liber Pontificalis

• Duchesne, L., ed., Le Liber Pontificalis, 2 vols. (Paris, 1886-92)
• Davis, Raymond, The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis): the Ancient Biographies of the First Ninety Roman Bishops to AD 715, Translated Texts for Historians Latin Series 5 (Liverpool, 1989)
• Davis, Raymond, The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liber Pontificalis): the Ancient Biographies of Nine Popes from AD 715 to AD 817, Translated Texts for Historians 13 (Liverpool, 1992)
• Davis, Raymond, The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes (Liber Pontificalis): the Ancient Biographies of Ten Popes from A.D. 817-891, Translated Texts for Historians 20 (Liverpool, 1995)
  

  England and Rome

• Bethurum, Dorothy, 'A Letter of Protest from the English Bishops to the Pope', Philologica: the Malone Anniversary Studies, pp. 97-104
• Clarke, M. L., 'English Visitors to Rome in the Middle Ages', History Today 28 (1978), pp. 643-9
• Graves, E. B., ed., A Bibliography of English History to 1485 (Oxford, 1975), pp. 145 and 751-4
• Keynes, Simon, 'Anglo-Saxon Entries in the Liber Vitae of Brescia', Alfred the Wise: Studies presented to Janet Bately, ed. J. Roberts and J. L. Nelson (Woodbridge, 1997), pp. 99-119
• Keynes, Simon, 'Papacy', The Blackwell Companion to Anglo-Saxon England, ed. M. Lapidge, J. Blair, S. Keynes, and D. Scragg (Oxford, forthcoming [1998 or 1999])
• Knowles, David, The Monastic Order in England: a History of its Development from the Times of St Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council 940-1216, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1963), pp. 575-80
• Levison, Wilhelm, England and the Continent in the Eighth Century (Oxford, 1946), pp. 22-33 and 255ff.
• Loyn, Henry, 'Peter's Pence'
• Lunt, William E., Financial Relations of the Papacy with England to 1327, Studies in Anglo-Papal Relations during the Middle Ages 1 (Cambridge, MA, 1939)
• Ortenberg, Veronica, 'Archbishop Sigeric's Journey to Rome in 990', ASE 19 (1990), 197-246
• Ortenberg, Veronica, The English Church and the Continent in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (Oxford, 1992), p. 8, n. 22
• Whitelock, Dorothy, ed., EHD I, pp. 620-3
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