Agnes Jane Robertson Explained
Agnes Jane Robertson M.A. PhD (1893-1959)[1] was a historian of Anglo-Saxon England. She was a student of Hector Munro Chadwick in the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies at the University of Cambridge,[2] matriculating in about 1918. She was a Pfeiffer Research Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge and a lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies between 1932 and 1935.[3] [4] She was later a reader in English language at the University of Aberdeen, which gives the Agnes Jane Robertson Memorial Lecture in her honour.[5]
Robertson edited and translated two volumes of Anglo-Saxon documents, The Laws of the Kings of England from Edmund to Henry I, published in 1925,[6] and Anglo-Saxon Charters, in 1939, with a second edition in 1956. A facsimile reprint was published in 2009.[7]
Notes and References
- Naismith. Rory . Anglo-Saxon England . The Ely memoranda and the economy of the late Anglo-Saxon fenland. 45 . 2016 . 336. 10.1017/S0263675100080327 . 163878432 .
- Book: Keynes, Simon . Introduction to the Paperback Edition. i. Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. F. E.. Harmer . Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK. 2011. 978-1-107-40222-5.
- 'Appendix VIII', in H. M. Chadwick and the Study of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge, ed. by Michael Lapidge (Aberystwyth: Department of Welsh, Abersytwyth University, 2015),
- Book: Agnes Jane. Robertson . Anglo-Saxon Charters. Title page. yes. Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK . 2009. 1956. 2nd. 978-0-521-17832-7.
- Web site: News and Events, Centre for Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies, University of Aberdeen . 2021-08-26 . 2021-01-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210128130530/https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/research/news-and-events-437.php . live .
- Book: A.J.. Robertson . The Laws of the Kings of England from Edmund to Henry I. Edited and translated by A.J. Robertson. . Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK . 1925. 560461322.
- Robertson, Anglo-Saxon Charters
