Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 10: The Abingdon Chronicle Ad 956-1066 (MS C with Ref. to Bde) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780859914666)

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.

Author: Patrick W. Conner
ISBN-10: 0859914666
ISBN-13: 9780859914666
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Language: English
Published: 03/07/1996
Pages: 138
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.24w x 0.69d