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". He was the fifth son of Matthew Plummer of St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1869, graduating B.A. and S.C.L. in 1873 and becoming a Fellow.[1]
Works
editPlummer was an editor of Bede, 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.[2]
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.
Plummer delivered the Ford Lectures at Oxford University in 1901.
References
edit- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Sharpe, Richard (1991). Medieval Irish saints' lives: an introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821582-0.
External links
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- Works by or about Charles Plummer at the Internet Archive
- Bede (731), Plummer, Charles (ed.), Venerabilis Bede Historiam Ecclesiasticam Gentis Anglorum, Oxford: Clarendon Press (published 1896)
- Irish texts
- Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae (1910). Vol. 1 and vol. 2 available from the Internet Archive.
- Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel (1892).
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