Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury: Church and Endowment.

The pre-Conquest history of Glastonbury Abbey has been largely ignored by scholars, partly due to the paucity of Anglo-Saxon material, and partly due to the unreliability of much of the post-Conquest hagiographical material. Lesley Abrams, in Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury. Church and Endowment (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1996; pp. xix + 380. 55 [pounds sterling]), takes a new approach to the thorny problem of Glastonbury's Anglo-Saxon past by using the substantial number of pre-Conquest charters in its archive to reconstruct the pre-Conquest endowment of the Abbey. She examines the main sources for Glastonbury's estates, the Liber Terrarum, the Index Chartarum, the Secretum Domini and …