Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 10
The Abingdon Chronicle AD 956-1066 (MS C with ref. to BDE)
Published on 7. March 1996
Book
Hardback
138 pages
978-0-85991-466-6 (ISBN)
Description
Two further editions bring the number of published volumes of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicleseries to Edition with scholarly introduction, evaluating the relationship of the Abingdon Chronicle to other Chronicle manuscripts.
This edition of BL MS Cotton Tiberius B i presents for the first time the textual source of several of the most important extant manuscripts in the Chronicle tradition (including MSS B, C, D and E), and showsthe contribution ofAbingdon Abbey to its development. In his full and detailed introduction, Professor Conner explains his choice of manuscript; he also offers a theory, arguing against current thinking, for the relationship between MSS B and C; and suggests that the phenomenon of poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle originated with Abingdon.
Professor PATRICK W. CONNERteaches in the Department of English, West Virginia University.
This edition of BL MS Cotton Tiberius B i presents for the first time the textual source of several of the most important extant manuscripts in the Chronicle tradition (including MSS B, C, D and E), and showsthe contribution ofAbingdon Abbey to its development. In his full and detailed introduction, Professor Conner explains his choice of manuscript; he also offers a theory, arguing against current thinking, for the relationship between MSS B and C; and suggests that the phenomenon of poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle originated with Abingdon.
Professor PATRICK W. CONNERteaches in the Department of English, West Virginia University.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
1 b/w, 2 line illus.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
382 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85991-466-6 (9780859914666)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Content
Part 1 Abingdon Abbey. Part 2 Materials: MS B; MS D; MS E; MS C - the codicology of the MS C codex, the segmentation of MS C - the manuscript evidence; the Abingdon cartularies. Part 3 Text-history of "The Abingdon Chronicle": introduction; 956-1018; 977-1018; 983-1044; 1043-1048; 1049-1056; 1065-1066. Part 4 Summaries: component texts contributing to the text-history; the dates of the stages of compilation; evidence for Abingdon origins for the stages of compilation; Abingdon and the Chronicle poems. Part 5 Conventions of editing. Part 6 Reconstructed text of "The Abingdon Chronicle".