The Anglo-Saxon chronicleVol. 10: The Abingdon chronicle, A.D. 956-1066 (A collaborative ed)

This edition of BL MS Cotton Tiberius B i presents for the first time the textual source of several of the most important extant manuscripts in the Chronicle tradition (including MSS B, C, D and E), and shows the contribution ofAbingdon Abbey to its development.

In his full and detailed introduction, Professor Conner explains his choice of manuscript; he also offers a theory, arguing against current thinking, for the relationship between MSS B and C; and suggests that the phenomenon of poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle originated with Abingdon.

Professor PATRICK W. CONNERteaches in the Department of English, West Virginia University.