Prelude to forgery: Baldwin of Bury meets Pope Alexander II
This article argues that we can only understand Bury St Edmunds’ post-Conquest dossier of forged Anglo-Saxon royal diplomas by viewing it alongside that house’s earlier acquisition of an authentic papal privilege from Alexander II (Oct. 1071). That is, the hitherto overlooked failure of that the gen...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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