Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Historia Regum - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael LapidgeSeries:Oxford Medieval TextsTheme:Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.), Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) StudiesPublish date:12/19/2022Pages:304
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192849700ISBN-10:0192849700UPC:9780192849700Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Europe, Ancient and ClassicalBook Topic:MedievalSize:8.75 x 5.86 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.504Product ID:SCB0Y59N7M
During the past generation, Byrhtferth of Ramsey (c. 970 - c. 1020) has emerged as one of the principal authors of late Anglo-Saxon England, whose writings - in both Latin and Old English - are among the most important sources for our understanding of early English history. This work, the Historia regum, is transmitted anonymously in the single manuscript which preserves it; but Byrhtferth's idiosyncratic and individual Latin style allows certain identification of Byrhtferth as its author. The work is in four parts, and treats the history of the major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (Kent, Northumbria, Mercia, and Wessex) during the period 560 to 887. The Latin text is accompanied by facing-page English translation, and provided with extensive annotation intended to explain the many references to historical events (many of them unrecorded elsewhere) in the text. The Introduction treats the sources on which Byrhtferth drew in compiling this work, and provides full analysis of Byrhtferth's idiosyncratic Latin style. The edition is intended to be a companion volume to Byrhtferth of Ramsey: the Lives of St Oswald and St Ecgwine, published as an Oxford Medieval Text edition in 2009.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192849700ISBN-10:0192849700UPC:9780192849700Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Europe, Ancient and ClassicalBook Topic:MedievalSize:8.75 x 5.86 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.504Product ID:SCB0Y59N7M
Michael Lapidge is emeritus professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge and former Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He has written or edited more than forty books and published more than 200 articles, on subjects ranging from Greek cosmology and Classical Latin literature, to medieval palaeography and textual criticism, and especially the literature of Anglo-Saxon England, in both Latin and Old English. Lapidge was awarded the 2009 Sir Israel Gollancz Prize from the British Academy for his work as 'a world authority on Anglo-Saxon literature'.
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