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Print Price: $390.00

Format:
Hardback
250 pp.
none, 138 mm x 216 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199297146

Publication date:
July 2008

Imprint: OUP UK


Chronicon Anonymi Cantuariensis

The Chronicle of Anonymous of Canterbury 1346-1365

Edited by Chris Given-Wilson and Charity Scott-Stokes

Series : Oxford Medieval Texts

This is the first complete edition of the Chronicon Anonymi Cantuariensis, a contemporary narrative that provides valuable insights into medieval war and diplomacy, written at Canterbury shortly after the mid-fourteenth century. The previous edition, published in 1914, was based on a manuscript from which the text for the years 1357 to 1364 was missing. Presented here in full with a modern English translation, the chronicle provides a key narrative of military and political events covering the years from 1346 to 1365.

Concentrating principally on the campaigns of the Hundred Years War and their impact upon the inhabitants of south-east England, the author took advantage of his position on the main news route between London and Paris to provide a detailed account of a crucial phase in British and European history.

Readership : Researchers and students of medieval history; those interested in military history

Abbreviated References
Introduction
1. The Manuscripts
2. The Chronicler's Sources
3. Subject-Matter and Approach
4. Dating, Structure and Location
5. Authorship
6. Historical Value and the Canterbury Context
7. Editorial Conventions
Sigla of Manuscripts
Text and Translation
Appendix: The Battle of Nájera, 1367
General Index

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Professor Chris Given-Wilson is Professor of Late Medieval History at the University of St Andrews. Dr Charity Scott-Stokes is Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

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Special Features

  • First complete edition of this contemporary medieval text
  • A key resource for students and researchers of medieval history
  • Newly edited and translated, with extensive introductory material and notes