Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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Linguistic Analysis
Manuscripts
Vernacular Texts
Worcester
Product details
- ISBN 9780859914673
- Weight: 596g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Sep 1996
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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New evidence for the relationship between the manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Ranks among the best work on the vernacular texts undertaken this century. In its clarity of thought and expression it is a model to emulate. MEDIUM AEVUM
G.P. Cubbin's important introduction accompanying this editionargues for MS D having been created in about 1060 by copying two other Chronicle -manuscripts, thus reducing the number of versions of the Chronicle to three, and simplifying issues of interrelationship. Strong evidence is produced for the work being carriedout in or near Worcester; and another new and unexpected finding is that D itself became the source of other versions of the Chronicle for the mid-eleventh century. Linguistic analysis considers unusual features of the manuscript and supports the new history presented here.
Dr G.P. CUBBIN is Lecturer in German at the University of Cambridge.
