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-ranki ...

". He was the fifth son of Matthew Plummer of

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, 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 12t ...

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 ...

, 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 A ...

''. Plummer delivered the Ford Lectures 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.

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Irish texts
*''Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae'' (1910)
Vol. 1
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vol. 2
available from the Internet Archive.
''Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel'' (1892).
1851 births 1927 deaths 19th-century English historians 20th-century English historians {{UK-historian-stub