Anglo-Saxon Chronicle According to the Several Original Authorities

Name: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle According to the Several Original Authorities
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ISBN: 9781108042840

ISBN-10: 1108042848

ISBN-13: 9781108042840

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Authors: Benjamin Thorpe

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Benjamin Thorpe (1781/2-1870) was a scholar of Old English and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Munich. Through his work, he sought to promote the study of the old vernacular, against the trend of scholarly apathy towards Anglo-Saxon literature. One of his greatest contributions was this two-volume edition, published as part of the Rolls Series in 1861, of the oldest and most important chronological accounts of Anglo-Saxon affairs. Covering the period from Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain to around the accession of Henry II in 1154, this volume brings together seven manuscripts in their entirety, arranged in columns to illustrate variation, and given in the original Old English…

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List price: $61.95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 468
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface


The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle