Chronicle of John of Worcester: Volume Iii: The Annals From 1067 to - 1140 With the Gloucester Interpolations and the Continuation to 114

Zusatztext medievalists have had to wait a long time for a scholarly edition. Klappentext The chronicle of John of Worcester is one of the most important sources of early English history. A complete edition and translation is being published for the first time. Volume II covered the annals from 450 to 1066: Volume III takes the story from 1067 to 1140. Patrick McGurk has used all available manuscript evidence, and also publishes the Gloucester interpolations made to one of the manuscripts. The latter are of the greatest interest for the first five years of King Stephen's reign. Zusammenfassung The chronicle of John of Worcester is one of the most important sources for earlier English history. Completed at Worcester by 1140, it is of considerable interest to historians of both the Anglo-Saxon period and the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its annals complement and add significantly to those in the surviving versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It has never been adequately translated and a modern edition has long been needed. In this volume, Dr McGurk uses all the available manuscript evidence, as well as the additions for 1122-41 made in a Gloucester continuation of a manuscript started in Johns own handwriting. Taken with these interpolations, the chronicle offers crucial evidence for the first five years of King Stephens reign. The Chronicle will be published in three volumes. Volume II covers the annals from 450 to 1066, and Volume III from 1067 to 1140. Volume I will be published last, and will contain a general introduction and supplementary material. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Plates. Abbreviations Introduction Sigla Text and Translation Appendices Index of Quotations and Allusions Concordance Index

Product details

• Authors: John of Worcester, Saint John VII
• Assisted by: P. McGurk (Editor), McGurk P. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.1998
• EAN: 9780198207023
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820702-3
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Oxford Medieval Texts; Oxford Medieval Texts; The Chronicle of John of Worcester
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, HISTORY / Essays, 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, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval