AsChart: Anglo-Saxon Charters (AsChart )

The project aimed to provide historians with new ways of interrogating Anglo-Saxon charters and it resulted in the publication of charters written in Anglo-Saxon England before A.D. 900. The project explored the benefits of using an XML markup model based on the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines and specifically tailored to the requirements of historians or literary scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon charters. The model allowed certain types of information to be identified, recognised, and compared between charters: Names; Invocations; Proems; Dating clauses (organised by type); Dispositive words; Curses; and Places of Promulgation.
AsChart can be used to view indexes of different types of information found in Anglo-Saxon charters. Users can view and access this data in two different ways: by viewing a full interactive text of any one of the charters (accessible through the Charters index and each offering a range of options to visualise the underlying markup) which contain links to diplomatic indexes or other websites; by viewing the diplomatic indexes which link to full texts. Finally, contextual links wewre provided to the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) project, so that from a given Charter you can reference the appropriate source or witness information held in the PASE database.