Charles Plummer
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Charles Plummer (1851-1927) was an English historian, best known for editing Sir John Fortescue's The Governance of England, and for coining the term 'bastard feudalism'.
He is the best-known editor of Bede, and also edited numerous Irish and Hiberno-Latin texts, including the two volume Vitae Sanctae Hiberniae (Oxford, 1922), a modern companion volume to which is Richard Sharpe's Medieval Irish saints' lives : an introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae (Oxford, Clarendon 1991).
Plummer delivered the Ford Lectures at Oxford University in 1901.
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