Agnes Jane Robertson

This article is about the historian of Anglo-Saxon England. For other people called Agnes Robertson, see Agnes Robertson.

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]

  1. ^ Naismith, Rory (2016). "The Ely memoranda and the economy of the late Anglo-Saxon fenland". Anglo-Saxon England. 45: 336. doi:10.1017/S0263675100080327. S2CID 163878432.
  2. ^ Keynes, Simon (2011). "Introduction to the Paperback Edition". In Harmer, F. E. (ed.). Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. i. ISBN 978-1-107-40222-5.
  3. ^ '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), ISBN 9780955718298
  4. ^ Robertson, Agnes Jane, ed. (2009) [1956]. Anglo-Saxon Charters (2nd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Title page. ISBN 978-0-521-17832-7.
  5. ^ "News and Events, Centre for Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies, University of Aberdeen". Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  6. ^ Robertson, A.J., ed. (1925). The Laws of the Kings of England from Edmund to Henry I. Edited and translated by A.J. Robertson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 560461322.
  7. ^ Robertson, Anglo-Saxon Charters