The Battle of Brunanburh A Casebook
by Livingston, MichaelEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2011-06-15
Publisher(s): Liverpool University Press
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Summary
The Battle of Brunanburh, which has been called by many the birthplace of Englishness, is one of the most important conflicts in the history of the West. Yet it is also one of the least understood: for centuries, scholars have been vexed by some of the most vital questions about Brunanburh, including its location. The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook is the most comprehensive collection of historical and literary primary sources devoted to this important event. This book sheds new light on a pivotal moment in British history that has been little understood until now-and identifies the long-lost battle site.
Author Biography
Michael Livingston is Assistant Professor of English at The Military College of South Carolina and author of scholarly editions of 'Siege of Jerusalem' (2004), 'In Praise of Peace' (2005), and 'The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase' of the Old Testament (2011).
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. viii |
| Preface: The Shape of The Volume | p. ix |
| Contributors | p. xiii |
| Abbreviations | p. xv |
| Map of the British Isles | p. xvi |
| Introduction | |
| The Roads to Brunanburh | p. 1 |
| Accounts of the Battle | |
| Armes Prydein Vawr | p. 28 |
| Carta dirige gressus | p. 36 |
| Rex pius Athelstan | p. 38 |
| Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Version A], Battle of Brunanburh | p. 40 |
| Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Version B], Battle of Brunanburh | p. 44 |
| Glaswawt Taliessin | p. 46 |
| Annates Cambriae | p. 48 |
| Aethelweard, Chronicon | p. 48 |
| Wulfstan of Winchester, Vita S. Ethelwoldi | p. 50 |
| Aelfric of Eynsham, Epilogue to Judges | p. 50 |
| Athelstan's Prayer | p. 50 |
| Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita Odonis | p. 50 |
| Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Version F] | p. 52 |
| Symeon of Durham, Libellus de exordia | p. 54 |
| Eadmer of Canterbury | p. 54 |
| Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Version E] | p. 54 |
| John of Worcester, Chronicon | p. 56 |
| William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum | p. 56 |
| Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum | p. 60 |
| Geoffrey Gaimar, Estoire des Engleis | p. 64 |
| Symeon of Durham, Historia regum | p. 64 |
| Chronicle of Ramsey | p. 66 |
| Chronicle of Melrose | p. 66 |
| Gwynfardd Brycheiniog, Canuy Dewi | p. 66 |
| Roger of Howden, Chronicle | |
| Egil's Saga | p. 68 |
| Roger Wendover, Flores historiarum | |
| Matthew Paris, Chronica majora | |
| Livere de Reis de Engleterre | p. 82 |
| Bartholomew of Cotton, Historia Anglicana | p. 82 |
| Annals of Winchester | p. 82 |
| John of Oxnead, Chronicle | p. 84 |
| Robert of Gloucester, Metrical Chronicle | p. 84 |
| Annals of Waverley | p. 88 |
| Bruty Tywysogion | p. 88 |
| Brenhinedd y Saesson | p. 88 |
| Peter of Langtoft, Chronicle | p. 90 |
| Stanzaic Guy of Warwick | p. 96 |
| Anonymous Short English Metrical Chronicle | p. 122 |
| Ranulf Higden | |
| Robert Mannyng of Brunne, Chronicle | p. 126 |
| Scottish Chronicle (alias Pictish Chronicle) | p. 132 |
| John of Fordun, Chronica gentis Scotorum | |
| Eulogium historiarum | p. 132 |
| Brut y Saesson | p. 134 |
| Richard of Cirencester, Speculum historiale | |
| Pseudo-Ingulf, Chronicle of Crowland | p. 134 |
| Prose Brut | p. 138 |
| Book of Hyde | |
| Walter Bower, Scotichronicon | p. 138 |
| Annals of Ulster | p. 144 |
| Hector Boece | p. 146 |
| Annals of Clonmacnoise | p. 152 |
| Annals of the Four Masters | p. 152 |
| Notes to The Texts | p. 155 |
| Essays on the Sources | p. 243 |
| The Welsh Sources Pertaining to the Battle | p. 245 |
| Preliorum maximum: The Latin Tradition | p. 269 |
| The Battle of Brunanburh in Old English Studies | p. 285 |
| The Battle of Brunanburh as a Poem | p. 295 |
| Truth and a Good Story: Egil's Saga and Brunanburh | p. 305 |
| Romancing the Past: The Middle English Tradition | p. 315 |
| Essays on The Battle | p. 325 |
| The Place-Name Debate | p. 325 |
| Wirral: Folkore and Locations | p. 351 |
| The Sociolinguistic Context of Brunanburh | p. 355 |
| Brunanburh and the Victorian Imagination | p. 385 |
| Bibliography | p. 409 |
| Index | p. 427 |
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