The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

by Baker, Peter S.

• ISBN13: 9780859914901
• ISBN10: 0859914909
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Ds Brewer

Summary

This edition presents a bilingual (Old English and Latin) version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, probably in the first decade of the twelfth century. Though the Old English and Latin texts have been printed separately, this is the first edition to present the text intended by its compiler, who also produced the Latin translation and wrote the single extant manuscript. The introduction demonstrates that same monk who was responsible for this bilingual chronicle also revised MS A (the Parker Chronicle) and an ancestor of MS E (the Peterborough Chronicle) and was a forger of documents: he thus is significant as an early Norman reviser of Anglo-Saxon history.PETER BAKER is Professor of English, University of Virginia.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	ix
The Manuscript	xi
Pre-Reformation history	ix
Post-Reformation history	xii
Marks of uncertain date	xiv
Post-Reformation transcripts and editions	xiv
Physical description	xv
Scribes	xvi
Ruling and layout	xxiv
Textual Relationships	xxviii
Sources	xxix
The relationship between the Old English and Latin texts	lxii
The Making of the F-Text	lxix
Date and Authorship	lxxvi
Date	lxxvi
Authorship	lxxix
Language	lxxxii
Orthography	lxxxiii
Phonology	lxxxiii
Morphology	xcii
Syntax	xcvii
Vocabulary	xcviii
Conventions of Editing	c
Abbreviations and Bibliography	cv
Text of MS F	1	(150)
APPENDIX
The Canterbury Annals in London, BL, Cotton Caligula A. xv	129	(6)
INDICES
Personal names
A. General	135	(2)
B. Insular	137	(12)
People-names	149	(2)
Place-names	151