The Chronicle of John of Worcester: Volume III: The Annals from 1067 to 1140 with the Gloucester Interpolations and the Continuation to 1141 by John of Worcester; McGurk, P.;

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Edition number and title :Volume III: The Annals from 1067 to 1140 with the Gloucester Interpolations and the Continuation to 1141
Publisher Clarendon Press
Date of Publication 15 October 1998

ISBN 9780198207023
Binding Hardback
No. of pages408 pages
Size 223x144x27 mm
Weight 644 g
Language English
Illustrations 4 plates

Short description:

The chronicle of John of Worcester is one of the most important sources of early English history. A complete edition and translation is being published for the first time. Volume II covered the annals from 450 to 1066: Volume III takes the story from 1067 to 1140. Patrick McGurk has used all available manuscript evidence, and also publishes the Gloucester interpolations made to one of the manuscripts. The latter are of the greatest interest for the first five years of King Stephen's reign.

Long description:

The chronicle of John of Worcester is one of the most important sources for earlier English history. Completed at Worcester by 1140, it is of considerable interest to historians of both the Anglo-Saxon period and the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its annals complement and add significantly to those in the surviving versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It has never been adequately translated and a modern edition has long been needed. In this volume, Dr McGurk uses all the available manuscript evidence, as well as the additions for 1122-41 made in a Gloucester continuation of a manuscript started in Johns own handwriting. Taken with these interpolations, the chronicle offers crucial evidence for the first five years of King Stephens reign.

The Chronicle will be published in three volumes. Volume II covers the annals from 450 to 1066, and Volume III from 1067 to 1140. Volume I will be published last, and will contain a general introduction and supplementary material.

this volume conforms to the high standards of Oxford Medieval Texts, and has a clear and helpful layout, notably to represent what are very substantial differences between the manuscripts ... a lucid introduction.