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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 10

The Abingdon Chronicle AD 956-1066 (MS C with ref. to BDE)

Patrick W Conner editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published:7th Mar '96

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 10 cover

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.

A detailed and closely focused exercise in palaeography and text history. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *

ISBN: 9780859914666

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 374g

138 pages