Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 10: The Abingdon Chronicle AD 956-1066 (MS C with ref. to BDE)

by Patrick W Conner (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780859914666
Publisher:	Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date:	03/07/1996
Series:	Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , #10
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

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