James P Carley

Biographic Data

ID5687054
NAMEJames P Carley
GIVEN NAMESJames P
FAMILY NAMECarley
SIGNATURECARLEY J P
AFFILIATIONSYork University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX0

  • John Leland and Asser’s Vita Ælfredi regis

    Open AccessJames P CarleyARTICLEAnglo-Saxon England2021References: 1

    Before the sixteenth century the religious houses had been the chief repositories of learning in England. With the Henrician religious revolution, however, their stability became threatened and what survived and what was destroyed has greatly influenced our views of the intellectual culture of the English Middle Ages. It is for this reason that the writings of the royal agent John Leland are so important to our understanding of the crumbling worl…

  • Speculum Britanniae'. Regional Study, Antiquarianism, and Science in Britain to 1700

    Stan A E Mendyk, Stanley G Mendyk et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2009

    Local history has been studied in Britain for at least 500 years. In this comprehensive study Stan Mendyk examines many of the first county and regional histories compiled in Britain (focusing especially on England) up to about 1700. Mendyk considers first the precedent set by the ancients, such as Strabo and Ptolemy, in firmly establishing chronographical (i.e., topographical-historical) investigation, and then within that framework explores the…

  • Pre-Conquest manuscripts from Malmesbury Abbey and John Leland's letter to Beatus Rhenanus concerning a lost copy of Tertullian's works

    Open AccessJames P Carley, Pierre PetitmenginARTICLEAnglo-Saxon England2004

    According to the treatise which he presented as a New Year's Gift to King Henry VIII in January 1546, the English antiquary John Leland ( c. 1503-52) received ‘a moste gracyouse commyssion’ from the monarch in 1533 ‘to peruse and dylygentlye to searche all the lybraryes of Monasteryes and collegies of thys your noble realme’. As he travelled from monastery to monastery he compiled lists of books, some brief, some considerably more thorough. Lelan…

  • Arthurian Literature, XII

    P J C Field, James P Carley et al.ARTICLEThe Modern Language Review1996

  • More pre-Conquest manuscripts from Glastonbury Abbey

    Open AccessJames P CarleyARTICLEAnglo-Saxon England1994References: 4

    Although St Dunstan's earliest biographer gave the impression that there was a major collection of books at Glastonbury Abbey before 956 and although it seems that St Dunstan imported books from abroad while abbot and that he himself was actively involved in correcting and illuminating, there is remarkably little hard evidence concerning surviving pre-Conquest books from the monastery. Indeed, the only book which can be said with certainty to hav…

  • The Chronicle of Salimbene de Adam

    James P CarleyARTICLEManuscripta1987

  • Two pre-Conquest manuscripts from Glastonbury Abbey

    Open AccessJames P CarleyARTICLEAnglo-Saxon England1987References: 5

    The earliest identified surviving manuscripts from Glastonbury Abbey date from the ninth and tenth centuries, but there are reliable post-Conquest traditions claiming that valuable books were found at the monastery as early as the reign of Ine, king of the West Saxons (688–726). By the tenth century at the latest there are reports of an ‘Irish school’ at Glastonbury, famous for its learning and books, and St Dunstan's earliest biographer, the ano…

  • The Early History of Glastonbury

    James P CarleyARTICLESpeculum1983

  • Remains concerning Britain

    Wiliam Camden, Richard Dunn et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation1969