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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0859914666 ISBN 13: 9780859914666

Publisher: D.S.Brewer, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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

Synopsis

Scholars have long recognized that the earliest texts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle have not survived, but 'The Abingdon Chronicle', edited here from British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius B.i, represents the first published attempt to reconstruct the textual source of several of the most important extant manuscripts in the Chronicle tradition (including MSS B, C, D and E) and to define as clearly as possible the contribution of Abingdon Abbey to its development. In his extensive, detailed introduction, Professor Conner explains why MS Cotton Tiberius B.i provides the best base text for this reconstruction, and breaks into logical groupings or 'fragments' the series of annals he find there. He then develops the textual history of each fragment separately, and from that work creates an edition of Abingdon's contribution to the most significant historiographical enterprise in pre-Conquest England.He also offers an alternative theory, arguing against current thinking, for the relationship between MSS B and C; locates evidence for a lost Abingdon 'house tradition' in the Abbey's twelfth-century cartularies; and suggests that the phenomenon of poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle owes its origin and development to the efforts of Abingdon's tenth- and eleventh-century chroniclers.

Professor PATRICK W. CONNER teaches in the Department of English, West Virginia University.

Edition details

• Publisher: D.S.Brewer
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859914666
• ISBN 13: 9780859914666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 138
• Editor: Conner Patrick W