New evidence for the relationship between the manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Ranks among the best work on the vernacular texts undertaken this century. In its clarity of thought and expression it is a model to emulate. MEDIUM AEVUM
G.P. Cubbin's important introduction accompanying this editionargues for MS D having been created in about 1060 by copying two other Chronicle -manuscripts, thus reducing the number of versions of the Chronicle to three, and simplifying issues of interrelationship. Strong evidence is produced for the work being carriedout in or near Worcester; and another new and unexpected finding is that D itself became the source of other versions of the Chronicle for the mid-eleventh century. Linguistic analysis considers unusual features of the manuscript and supports the new history presented here.
Dr G.P. CUBBIN is Lecturer in German at the University of Cambridge.
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Ranks among the best work on the vernacular texts undertaken this century. In its clarity of thought and expression it is a model to emulate. * MEDIUM AEVUM *
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Höhe: 240 mm
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978-0-85991-467-3 (9780859914673)
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Part 1 The manuscript: history; physical description; text; scribes to 1054; stages of compilation; scribes from 1054; accents; colour; blank annals; lost, missing and duplicated annals. Part 2 Textual relationships: the Alfredian origins; the first continuation; mid-10th century; the period 983-1016; Scribes Three and Four; D as a conflation. Part 3 Place of composition: the northern chronicle; Worcester; summary of entries treated. Part 4 Language: aims and material considered; Scribe One; Scribe Two 793-890; Scribe Two in the early-10th century; Scribe Two in 10th-century northern annals; Scribe Two 983-1016; retentions in Scribe Two; Scribes Three and Four; Scribe Fifteen; Scribe Five; Scribe Eighteen; other scribes. Part 5 Text of MS D.
