McGurk, D A Woodman

Gebundenes Buch

The Chronicle of John of Worcester

Volume IV: Chronicula

Beschreibung

The first edition, translation, introduction, and commentary to the Chronicula, written by one of the most important British historians of the twelfth century, John of Worcester. It provides crucial access to twelfth-century historiographical material and unprecedented detail of the working methods of a twelfth-century monastic historian.

Autor

David Woodman is Associate Professor in History at Robinson College, Cambridge, and Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. He has held visiting research positions at Harvard, Trinity College, Dublin, and, most recently, New York University. Woodman has published extensively in the field of early medieval British history, with a particular focus on manuscripts, historiography, Latin literature, and documentary practices. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Secretary of the British Academy Anglo-Saxon Charters Committee. Patrick McGurk, formerly Reader in Medieval History at Birkbeck College, University of London, was a leading palaeographer and historian of the early medieval period. As well as his important work on volumes two and three of the Worcester Chronicle, he specialised in the study of early medieval gospel books. In 1998 a number of his articles were published under the title Gospel Books and Early Latin Manuscripts.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Medieval Texts
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 147mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780198916147
• ISBN-10: 0198916140
• Artikelnr.: 71266297