Anglo-Saxon Wills

This 1930 volume contains the original texts of the great majority of surviving Anglo-Saxon wills drawn up in the tenth and eleventh centuries.

Dorothy Whitelock (Edited and translated by)

9781107402218, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 November 2011

302 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.39 kg

This 1930 volume contains the original texts, with translations and commentaries, of the great majority of surviving Anglo-Saxon wills drawn up in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The documents are of special interest for the light they cast on the families and connections of those who made the wills, and on the ways in which the testators managed the disposition of their lands and other possessions. The reissue of Professor Whitelock's book is complemented by reissues of Florence Harmer's Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (1914), and of Agnes Jane Robertson's Anglo-Saxon Charters (1939, 2nd edition 1956). Between them, the three volumes represent the surviving corpus of Anglo-Saxon documents in the vernacular, to set beside the corpus of royal diplomas (in Latin), and the corpus of Anglo-Saxon legislation, and to serve at the same time as evidence of the uses of written English in the Anglo-Saxon period.

General preface H. D. Hazeltine
Preface
List of abbreviations
Addenda
1. The will of Bishop Theodred
2. The will of Ælfgar
3. The will of Wynaflæd
4. The will of Bishop Ælfsige
5. The bequest of Ordnoth and his wife to Winchester Cathedral
6. Æthelgeard's bequest to the New Minster, Winchester
7. Brihtric Grim's bequest to Winchester Cathedral
8. The will of Ælfgifu
9. The will of the Ealdorman Ælfheah
10. The will of the Ealdorman Æthelmær
11. The will of Brihtric and Æfswith
12. The will of Æthelwold
13. The will of Ælfhelm
14. The will of Æthelflæd
15. The will of Ælfflæd
16i. The will of Æthelric
16ii. King Ethelred's confirmation of Æthelric's will
17. The will of Wulfric
18. The will of Archbishop Ælfric
19. The will of wulfgeat
20. The will of the Ætheling Æthelstan
21. The will of Wulfwaru
22. Æthelflæd's bequest to St Paul's
23. The will of Mantat the Anchorite
24. The will of the Thurketel of Palgrave
25. The will of Thurketel Heyng
26. The will of Bishop Ælfric
27. The will of Wulfsige
28. The will of Ælfric Modercope
29. The will of Leofgifu
30. Thurstan's bequest to Christchurch
31. The will of Thurstan
32. The will of wulfgyth
33. The will of Edwin
34. The will of Ketel
35. Bishop Æthelmær's bequest to Bury
36. The bequest of Thurkil and Æthelglyth to Bury
37. The will of Siflæd
38. Another will of Siflæd
39. The will of Ulf and Madselin
Notes
Index nominum
Index locorum
Index rerum.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]