ANGLO-SAXON WOMEN
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PRIMARY SOURCES
A: Narrative, annalistic and biographical texts
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Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Plummer, C. (1896) (ed.) Bede. Venerabilis Baedae Opera Historica, 2 vols Oxford
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Historia Brittonum
Morris, J. (ed.) (1980), Nennius, British History and the Welsh Annals The 'Historia
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Plummer, C. (ed.), 2 vols. (1892-9) Oxford; translated Garmonsway, G.N. (1972),
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The Chronicle of Æthelweard
Campbell, A. (ed.) (1962), The Chronicle of Æthelweard London
John of Worcester's Chronicle
Florentii Wigorniensis monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis, Thorpe, B. (ed.) 2 vols.
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(1853), Florence of Worcester A History of the Kings of England Preface, translation
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Hearne, T. (ed.) (1723), Oxford
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Bond, E.A. (1878), 4 vols London
Cartularium Saxonicum
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