Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

255 + 272 S. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Originalleinen.

Bemerkung:

Aus dem Nachlass von Michael Richter. Mit Besitzvermerk auf Vorsatz. SU leicht berieben, sonst gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - BRUT y Tywysogyon or The Chronicle of the Princes was described by the late Sir J. E. Lloyd as 'the greatest monument of Welsh historiography in the Middle Ages.' It has long been recognized as a source of prime importance for the history of medieval Wales and as one which supplies some details of interest about contemporary events in England and elsewhere. Of the original thirteenth century Latin text no copy has survived, but three independent Welsh translations are extant. In this volume Professor Thomas Jones gives an English translation of the Peniarth MS. 20 version, which is the most complete of the three and which was published in full for the first time in 1941. Two volumes which are to follow will contain critical texts and translations of the other two versions. In his Introduction, Professor Jones surveys the work of earlier scholars. He discusses the contents, origin, and sources of the chronicle and describes the special characteristics of the Peniarth MS. 20 version. The detailed Notes show the many discrepancies in the three Welsh versions as compared with one another and, used in conjunction with the text, they supply the combined substantial evidence of the three Welsh versions and so of the lost Latin chronicle which underlies them. This volume and the two which are to follow will be indispensable to the student of the history of medieval Wales. They should also appeal to the wider circle of readers who are interested in contemporary records of events and personages of the past. (Verlagstext).