By Simon Keynes
The reign of 'thelred 'the Unready' (978-1016) is understood to us quite often from a sequence of annals within the Anglo-Saxon Chrolicle, written at or after its shut and as a result conveying an impact of amassing doom as Viking armies ravaged the rustic and at last, less than the management of Swein Forkbeard and Cnut, led to its conquest. Dr Keynes is right here involved to set up what mild the royal diplomas issued in King 'thelred's identify throw in this unsatisfied and infamous interval. He first considers the final concerns that undergo without delay at the price of royal diplomas as old facts for all sessions of Anglo-Saxon background, discussing the situations below which those records were preserved, the thoughts to be had for his or her feedback, and the preparations that existed for his or her construction. He then demonstrates how an in depth research of 'thelred's diplomas can remodel our knowing of this reign. On a pragmatic point they supply helpful proof at the operation of royal govt, and on a private point they find the money for a amazing perception into the relatives among the king and his councillors, suggesting an image of political manoeuvring and court docket intrigue which compensates for the chronicler's emphasis at the fight opposed to the marauding Vikings. via putting the well-known account of incessant conflict within the context of those household affairs it turns into attainable for the 1st time to determine the reign in its real point of view.
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935: the bishops of Winchester and London were named first amongst the bishops in the witness lists and were identified b y the names of their sees. N o t e also that the endorsement o n S 449 is of the same type as that in S 447. T h e type in question, distinguished b y the opening clause *>J< pis is [place-name in genitive] landboc . ', was current between 937 and 939 (S 438, 441, 446-7 and 449); a variation, with 'boc' for 'landboc', was employed in 940 and 943 (S 463-4, 467-8, 470 and 492).
33 30 81 32 33 Brooks, 'Anglo-Saxon Charters', p . 218. See Parkes, 'Parker Manuscript', p . 158. Also, Whitelock, Bishops of London, p p . , draws attention to a n e w diplomatic practice which began c. 935: the bishops of Winchester and London were named first amongst the bishops in the witness lists and were identified b y the names of their sees. N o t e also that the endorsement o n S 449 is of the same type as that in S 447. T h e type in question, distinguished b y the opening clause *>J< pis is [place-name in genitive] landboc .
Ibid. pp. 45-6. See also Chaplais, 'Diplomas o n Single Sheets', p . 85. Chaplais, 'Diplomas of Exeter', p . 33. D r Chaplais's arguments are restated and in some respects refined in his article 'La chancellerie royale anglaise des origines au regne de J ean sans terre', which h e has kindly allowed m e t o see in advance of publication. See also Brooks, 'Anglo-Saxon Charters', p p . 217-20, and Sawyer, 'Worcester Archive', pp. 84-5. Hart, Charters of Northern England, p p . 17-41, attempts t o distinguish the w o r k of various ecclesiastical scriptoria as centres for the production of royal diplomas in the tenth and eleventh centuries.