{"product_id":"the-battle-of-brunanburh-9780859898638","title":"The Battle of Brunanburh","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduced by an international team of experts, the volume offers the sources in their language of origin - Old English, Old Norse, Welsh, Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Early Modern English - with facing-page translations and explanatory notes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This will be the definitive text.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFortean Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The concept of bringing together all available written materials relating to a single significant event in early English history, together with commentary by a range of experts, is extremely worthwhile.'\u003cbr\u003e Donald Scragg, University of Manchester\u003cbr\u003e'A massive and admirable volume on the Battle of Brunanburh. It is designed as a casebook – a teaching tool and a scholarly examination in one. It is as definitive as it is possible to be about the battle and succeeds admirable as a case study of how to examine an obscure medieval battle.'\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Morillo, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Military History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In short, the book is extremely useful ... valuable for beginning undergraduate students and established scholars alike, and the editor deserves recognition for bringing to fruition an ambitious and largely successful project.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of English and Germanic Philology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: The Shape of the Volume  Introduction: The Roads to Brunanburh (Michael Livingston)  Accounts of the Battle  (This section is the \"heart\" of the book: editions of the medieval sources central to studying Brunanburh, with facing-page translations.)  1. Armes Prydein Vawr  2. Carta dirige gressus  3. Rex pius Athelstan  4. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Versions A and B], Battle of Brunanburh  5. Glaswawt Taliessin  6. Annales Cambriae  7. AEthelweard, Chronicon  8. Wulfstan of Winchester, Vita S. Ethelwoldi  9. Aelfric of Eynsham, Epilogue to Judges  10. Athelstan's Prayer  11. Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita Odonis  12. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Version F]  13. Symeon of Durham, Libellus de exordio  14. Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita Oswaldi  15. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Version E]  16. John of Worcester, Chronicon  17. William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum  18. Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum  19. Geoffrey Gaimar, Estoire des Engleis  20. Symeon of Durham, Historia regum  21. Chronicle of Ramsey  22. Chronicle of Melrose  23. Gwynfardd Brycheiniog, Canu y Dewi  24. Roger of Howden, Chronicle  25. Egil's Saga  26. Roger Wendover, Flores historiarum  27. Matthew Paris, Chronica majora  28. Livere de Reis de Engleterre  29. Bartholomew of Cotton, Historia Anglicana  30. Annals of Winchester  31. John of Oxnead, Chronicle  32. Robert of Gloucester, Metrical Chronicle  33. Annals of Waverley  34. Brut y Tywysogion  35. Brenhinedd y Saesson  36. Peter of Langtoft, Chronicle  37. Stanzaic Guy of Warwick  38. Anonymous Short English Metrical Chronicle  39. Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon  40. Robert Mannyng of Brunne, Chronicle  41. Scottish Chronicle (alias Pictish Chronicle)  42. John of Fordun, Chronica gentis Scotorum  43. Eulogium historiarum  44. Brut y Saesson  45. Richard of Cirencester, Speculum historiale  46. Pseudo-Ingulf, Chronicle of Crowland  47. Prose Brut  48. Book of Hyde  49. Walter Bower, Scotichronicon  50. Annals of Ulster  51. Hector Boece, Historiae  52. Annals of Clonmacnoise  53. Annals of the Four Masters    Notes on the Sources  Essays on the Sources  The Welsh Sources Pertaining to the Battle (John K. Bollard, with Marged Haycock)  Preliorum maximum: The Latin Tradition (Scott Thompson Smith)  The Battle of Brunanburhin Old English Studies (Thomas A. Bredehoft)  The Battle of Brunanburhas a Poem (Robert P. Creed)  Truth and a Good Story: Egil's Saga and Brunanburh (A. Keith Kelly)  Romancing the Past: The Middle English Tradition (Robert Rouse)  Essays on the Battle  The Place-Name Debate (Paul Cavill)  Wirral: Folkore and Locations (Stephen Harding)  The Sociolinguistic Context of Brunanburh (Richard Coates)  Brunanburh and the Victorian Imagination (Joanne Parker)    Bibliography  Index","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406344724823,"sku":"9780859898638","price":33.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780859898638.jpg?v=1730495474","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-battle-of-brunanburh-9780859898638","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}