Chronicle of John of Worcester: Volume Ii: The Annals From 450 to 1066

Zusatztext In completing a work which was left unfinished by R. R. Darlington on his death in 1977! Dr McGurk has produced the first comprehensive scholarly edition of the text. A detailed analysis of all aspects of the compilation of this highly anglocentric piece of world history will appear in Volume I! whose publication will complete this valuable enterprise. Zusammenfassung The chronicle, which was written at Worcester by 1140, is of considerable interest to historians of both the Anglo-Saxon period and of the late-11th and 12th centuries. Its backbone is a translation of an Anglo-Saxon chronicle with varied connections.

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• Authors: John of Worcester
• Assisted by: R. R. Darlington (Editor), P. McGurk (Editor), McGurk P. (Editor), Jennifer Bray (Translation), Bray Jennifer (Translation), P. McGurk (Translation), McGurk P. (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.1995
• EAN: 9780198222613
• ISBN: 978-0-19-822261-3
• No. of pages: 804
• Series: Oxford Medieval Texts; Oxford Medieval Texts; The Chronicle of John of Worcester
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; England, HISTORY / Essays, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), CE period up to c 1500, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary essays, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, BCE period – Protohistory