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'/neswitrin'. As William regarded this to be the British Celtic name for
Glastonbury, the charter has been used to proclaim a pre-Saxon foundation for
the Abbey. When the characteristics of the charter are considered, in particular
the use of a scribal attestation, it appears however that it is West Saxon in form
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<h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">The Early History of Glastonbury Abbey: A Hypothesis Regarding the 'British Charter"</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Grimmer, Martin</span> (2003) <xhtml:em>The Early History of Glastonbury Abbey: A Hypothesis Regarding the 'British Charter".</xhtml:em> Parergon: bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 20 (2). pp. 1-20.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_3194' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2440/1/The_early_history_of_Glastonbury_Abbey.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_3194' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_3194"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2440/thumbnails/1/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2440/1/The_early_history_of_Glastonbury_Abbey.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />616Kb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://www.parergon.arts.uwa.edu.au/">http://www.parergon.arts.uwa.edu.au/</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">The so-called 'British charter' of Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset, contained in
William of Malmesbury's De antiquitate Glastonte ecclesieof c.I 129, records a
grant made in AD 601 by an unnamed king of British Dumnonia of land at
'/neswitrin'. As William regarded this to be the British Celtic name for
Glastonbury, the charter has been used to proclaim a pre-Saxon foundation for
the Abbey. When the characteristics of the charter are considered, in particular
the use of a scribal attestation, it appears however that it is West Saxon in form
and should be dated to the later seventh century when Somerset was within West
Saxon control. The charter cannot therefore substantiate the Abbey's existence
before thistime, though it does imply somelevel of cooperation between the West
Saxon Church and the kingdom of Dumnonia.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/420201.html">420000 Language and Culture > 420200 Literature Studies > 420201 British and Irish</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/420200.html">420000 Language and Culture > 420200 Literature Studies</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/420000.html">420000 Language and Culture</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">2440</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Scholarly Publications Librarian</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">22 Nov 2007 13:31</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=2440;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=2440">item control page</a></p>
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