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Book SynopsisAn investigation into the hugely significant works produced by the Worcester foundation at a period of turmoil and change. From the mid-eleventh to the mid-twelfth century Worcester was a monastic community of unparalleled importance. Not only was it home to many of the most famous bishops and monks of the period, including Bishop Wulfstan II: it was also a centre of notable and ambitious scholarly production. Under Wulfstan's guidance, a number of Worcester brethren undertook historical research that resulted in the writing of such renowned texts as Hemming's Cartulary and the Worcester Chronica Chronicarum. Significantly, these historical endeavours spanned the political chasm of the Norman Conquest. The essays collected here aim to shed new light on different aspects of the Worcester "historical workshop", whose literary ouput was, in several respects, pioneering in contemporary European scholarship. Several chapters address the different ways in which the monks organised and updated their archives of documents, both via their sequence of cartularies, with a special focus on the narrative parts of Hemming's Cartulary, and via an interesting (and previously unedited) prose account of the foundation of the see. Others focus on the famous Worcester Chronica Chronicarum, attributed both to Florence and to John, investigating the major model for its composition and structure (the work of Marianus Scotus), the stages in which it was completed, and its connections with Welsh chronicles, as well as the related and fascinating abbreviated version, written mostly in the hand of John himself, and known as the Chronicula. The volume thus elucidates how the Worcester monks navigated the period across the Conquest through the composition of different genres of texts, and how these texts shaped their own institutional memory.Trade ReviewThe collection is a model of careful scholarship that is not afraid to be methodologically innovative... The essays could almost have been written by a single author. The collection contains only the bare minimum of repetition required to allow each essay to stand on its own. The editors have created a model that group studies of other centers of historical production would do well to follow. * SPECULUM *Table of Contents1 Framing the Past: Charters and Chronicles at Worcester, c.1050-c.1150 - Francesca Tinti and D. A. Woodman 2 Identities in Community: Literary Culture and Memory at Worcester - Thomas O'Donnell 3 Preserving Records and Writing History in Worcester's Conquest-Era Archives - Jonathan Herold 4 Constructing Narrative in the Closing Folios of Hemming's Cartulary - Francesca Tinti 5 Worcester's Own History: an Account of the Foundation of the See and a Summary of Benefactions, AD 680-1093 - Susan Kelly 6 Worcester and the English Reception of Marianus Scotus C. Philipp E. Nothaft 7 History Books at Worcester, c.1050-1150, and the Making of the Worcester Chronicle - Laura Cleaver 8 Poetry in the Worcester Chronicula (TCD MS 503) - D. A. Woodman 9 Networks of Chronicle Writing in Western Britain: the Case of Worcester and Wales - Georgia Henley

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