Charters and Charter Scholarship in Britain and Ireland

MARIE THERESE FLANAGAN is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Queen's University, Belfast. Her publications include Irish Society, Anglo-Norman Settlers, Angevin Kingship: Interactions in Ireland in the Late Twelfth Century (Oxford, 1989) and Irish Royal Charters: Texts and Contexts (Oxford, 2005). JUDITH GREEN is Professor of Medieval History, Queen's University Belfast. Her publications include The Government of England Under Henry I (Cambridge, 1986) and The Aristocracy of Norman England (Cambridge, 1997).

This book draws together a collection of essays looking at the ways in which charters and charter scholarship in different areas of Britain and Ireland, highlighting comparisons and contrasts in charter production and use.This book draws together a collection of essays looking at the ways in which charters and charter scholarship in different areas of Britain and Ireland, highlighting comparisons and contrasts in charter production and use. The book shows the crucial importance of charters as sources for understanding the history of royal administration and, more broadly, the perceptions and portrayals of kingly power, as well as developments in written culture.