This is the first scholarly edition of the surviving Anglo-Saxon charters of Glastonbury Abbey, with a study of the records of lost charters, and a comprehensive introduction synthesising the evidence for the history of this important ...

Discussion of site and buildings, books and manuscripts, cultural life and traditions, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon period to the later middle ages.

LESLEY ABRAMS is Lecturer in History, Brasenose College, and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University.

... the Great Cartulary was assembled . In his view , the organization of the cartulary reflects the contents of the Glastonbury archives : These were apparently kept in one or more vaulted chambers and were stored probably in compartments ...

... Glastonbury Abbey C.1135-1201 , Records of Social and Economic History New Series 33 , Oxford : British Academy . Glastonbury Chartulary Watkin , A. , ed . ( 1947-56 ) , The Great Chartulary of Glastonbury , 3 volumes , Somerset Record ...