Charles Plummer,
FBA (1851–1927) was an English historian and cleric, best known as the editor of Sir
John Fortescue's ''The Governance of England'', and for coining the term "
bastard feudalism
"Bastard feudalism" is a somewhat controversial term invented by 19th century historians to characterise the form feudalism took in the Late Middle Ages, primarily in England in the Late Middle Ages. Its distinctive feature is that middle-rankin ...
". He was the fifth son of Matthew Plummer of
St Leonards-on-Sea
St Leonards-on-Sea (commonly known as St Leonards) is a town and seaside resort in the Borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. It has been part of the borough since the late 19th century and lies to the west of central Hastings. The origina ...
, Sussex. He matriculated at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College (formally, Corpus Christi College in the University of Oxford; informally abbreviated as Corpus or CCC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1517, it is the 12th ...
in 1869, graduating B.A. and S.C.L. in 1873 and becoming a Fellow.
Works
Plummer was an editor of
Bede
Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom o ...
, and also edited numerous Irish and Hiberno-Latin texts, including the two volume ''Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae'' (1910), a modern companion volume to which is
Richard Sharpe's ''Medieval Irish saints' lives: an introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae'.
Plummer edited
John Earle's ''Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel'' (1865), producing a ''Revised Text'' with notes, appendices, and glossary in 1892. This work presented the A and E texts of the ''
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the ''Chronicle'' was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alf ...
''.
Plummer delivered the
Ford Lectures
The Ford Lectures, technically the James Ford Lectures in British History, are an annual series of public lectures held at the University of Oxford on the subject of English or British history. They are usually devoted to a particular historical ...
at
Oxford University
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
in 1901.
References
External links
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*
Irish texts*''Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae'' (1910)
Vol. 1an
vol. 2available from the Internet Archive.
''Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel'' (1892).
1851 births
1927 deaths
19th-century English historians
20th-century English historians
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