{"product_id":"the-chronicle-of-john-of-worcester-volume-iv-chronicula-9780198916147","title":"The Chronicle of John of Worcester: Volume IV: Chronicula","description":"John of Worcester is celebrated for his work on the Worcester \u003cem\u003eChronica Chronicarum\u003c\/em\u003e, which was put together in stages in the first half of the twelfth century, and which became one of the most important historical texts to have survived from Britain of that period. A great deal of our understanding of early medieval British history, from before and after the Norman Conquest, depends upon it. At a late stage in the production of the \u003cem\u003eChronica Chronicarum\u003c\/em\u003e, John turned his hand to the writing of an abbreviated chronicle, which he called his \u003cem\u003eChronicula\u003c\/em\u003e, and which survives in a single, autograph manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin. The \u003cem\u003eChronicula\u003c\/em\u003e interacts with its parent text, the \u003cem\u003eChronica Chronicarum\u003c\/em\u003e, in interesting ways: it reassembles the \u003cem\u003eChronica\u003c\/em\u003e according to the reigns of the emperors, it splices together information from different annals and sometimes redrafts the \u003cem\u003eChronica\u003c\/em\u003e's entries, thus providing an altered emphasis. The \u003cem\u003eChronicula\u003c\/em\u003e also contains unique details (notably a set of poems and two long miracle episodes) and makes use of sources in ways that are not seen in the \u003cem\u003eChronica\u003c\/em\u003e. In editing, translating, and providing a full introduction and commentary to the \u003cem\u003eChronicula\u003c\/em\u003e for the first time, the volume provides both crucial access to twelfth-century historiographical material and unprecedented detail concerning the working methods of a twelfth-century monastic historian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e+P. McGurk, D. A. Woodman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Woodman\u003c\/strong\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick McGurk\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eGospel Books and Early Latin Manuscripts\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51580251013394,"sku":"9780198916147","price":177.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_75738c6e-13f0-4eb8-833a-454a145f60ea.jpg?v=1756212613","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-chronicle-of-john-of-worcester-volume-iv-chronicula-9780198916147","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}