Charters of Peterborough abbey

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This volume is the fourteenth to be published in the British Academy Anglo-Saxon Charters series and the ninth to be edited by Susan Kelly. The series editor describes the project as representing 'fundamental research', a claim that is fully justified and particularly appropriate, since the monastery was founded twice, first as Medeshamstede in the late seventh century and then as Burh (later Peterborough) in about 970. The thirty-one pre-Conquest charters, edited here, provide almost all of the evidence for the two foundations. They have attracted critical comment from the beginning. At the papal court in 1146...