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

Conner, Patrick W (EDT)

D.S. Brewer（1996/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 138 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780859914666
• DDC分類 942.01

基本説明

Edition with scholarly introduction, evaluating the relationship of the Abingdon Chronicle to other Chronicle manuscripts.

Full 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.

Contents

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".