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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 1 MS F
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'The F-Chronicle' is an important part of a complex body of chronicle-literature kept and augmented at Canterbury in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. Drawn from an unusual range of sources, it is a witness - in languge and script - to the impact of the Norman régime on the ecclesiastical culture of England and particularly its most important church. The evidence which it provides for the history of the Kentish dialect attests at the same time to the breakdown at Canterbury of the late West Saxon literary standard. In view of its importance in various contexts, one must express surprise that it has never been edited as a whole.
MS.Cotton Domitian A.viii, folios 30-70, is a palaeographically difficult manuscript, with many alterations and additions in various hands. It shows an authorial text - a chronicle in the making, one different in conception from the other surviving witnesses. As a preliminary to a new edition in this series, the publisher and general editors have decided to issue a complete facsimile of this interesting book, partly to encourage further study and discussion of its problems and partly as a record of the present state of the manuscript, whose legibility has deteriorated over the past two decades and whose evidence therefore needs to be conserved for scholars' future use. Dr.DAVID DUMVILLE who discusses all aspects of the manuscript in his introduction, is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.
Product details
Number of Pages:
110
Release Date:
1995-09-01
Publication Date:
2003-05-01
Publisher:
D.S.Brewer
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
085991125X
ISBN13:
9780859911252
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
338 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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