Charles Plummer was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 historian, best known for editing Sir John Fortescue

John Fortescue

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's The Governance of England, and for coining the term 'bastard feudalism

Bastard feudalism

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He is an editor of Bede

Bede

Bede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...

, 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

Richard Sharpe

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's Medieval Irish saints' lives: an introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae (Oxford, Clarendon 1991).

Plummer edited John Earle

John Earle (professor)

John Earle M.A., LL.D. was a British Anglo-Saxon language scholar. He was twice Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford. Earle wrote more than a dozen scholarly books. He is perhaps best known as the author of Two Saxon Chronicles Parallel , and Anglo-Saxon...

'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

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 Alfred the Great...

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He delivered the Ford Lectures

Ford Lectures

The Ford Lectures are a prestigious series of public lectures given annually in English or British History by a distinguished historian. Known commonly as "The Ford Lectures," they are properly titled "Ford's Lectures in British History" and they are given by a scholar elected to be "Ford's...

 at Oxford University in 1901.

External links

• Irish texts
• Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae (1910). Vol. 1 and vol. 2 available from the Internet Archive.
• Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel (1892).