John Hardyng's Chronicle: An Edition of the Second Version

约翰·哈丁的诗歌编年史有两个明显不同的版本，这两个版本都是在激烈的内乱和政治不确定时期创作的，也就是通常所说的玫瑰战争。它描绘了从英国神话般的诞生到1437年英国和英国君主的继承，第一个版本于1457年提交给亨利六世；它有2674节和7对开本的散文，保存在一份手稿中。三年内，哈丁开始修改他的君主的政治对手约克公爵理查德的历史，以考虑到约克当选为亨利六世的继任者。虽然公爵在这项工作完成之前就去世了，但哈丁继续对约克的儿子爱德华四世进行修订，将《纪事报》的报道范围扩大到1464年。作为约克人宣传的关键部分，包含了爱德华有权登上英国、法国、西班牙、葡萄牙和耶路撒冷王位的系谱证据，以及将约克与亚瑟王和圣杯对齐的浪漫材料，这个较短的版本(1771节和12对开本散文)比原始版本更受欢迎，保存在12个手稿、3个片段和两个16世纪的印刷品中。它在1460-80年首都产生的大量亲约克主义文学中占有突出地位，那里是大多数手稿的生产地，它影响了后来的作家，如马洛里、罗斯、法比安、斯托乌、斯宾塞、莎士比亚和弥尔顿。尽管这两种形式的编年史都是研究中世纪和早期现代文学、15世纪历史和该书历史的学者的宝贵资源，但这两个版本都没有得到应有的考虑，因为复杂的社会政治背景导致了它的撰写和修订，它对中世纪晚期英国更广泛的史学写作做出了贡献(特别是考虑到它是用白话写的)，对哈丁对英国历史的独特概念，对现存手稿和印刷品中保存的中世纪书籍贸易的材料遗迹，或者对后来作者使用第二版的方式。虽然辛普森和佩弗利的学术版(2010/11)解决了第一版缺乏版本的问题，但到目前为止，还没有广泛可用的、适当的可读性或适当注释的第二版。除了1543年理查德·格拉夫顿印刷的两个版本外，学者们可用的唯一版本是亨利·埃利斯于1812年出版的版本。尽管埃利斯的版本在当时是值得称赞的，但现在已经不够用了。基于格拉夫顿的印刷品，它没有考虑到15份手稿和片段中的13份，并处理了它确实随意提供不同读物的两份手稿。这个项目的目的是制作第一个完全注释的第二版哈丁编年史的学术版，这本书汇集了目前已知的关于作品的文化、历史和物质背景的所有信息。该版本将由博伊德尔和布鲁尔出版，并由对中世纪晚期文学、历史和手稿生产感兴趣的学者和学生在国际上阅读。那些对中世纪国王、亚瑟王文学、苏格兰、纹章学、中世纪战争以及英格兰北部的人和地方的地方历史感兴趣的人也会对它感兴趣。更广泛地说，由此产生的持久的、可获得的资源将激发人们对中世纪晚期史学的功能和接受的新兴趣。为此，将在国际会议上提交两份研究论文，并将在出版该版本的同时举行中世纪历史写作研讨会。希望在Bodleian图书馆举办的中世纪和早期现代历史写作公开展览将支持这一点。

John Hardyng's verse Chronicle survives in two noticeably different versions, both of which were composed during a period of intense civil unrest and political uncertainty, commonly known as The Wars of the Roses. Charting the succession of British and English monarchs from Britain's mythical naissance to 1437, the first version was presented to Henry VI in 1457; at 2674 stanzas and 7 folios of prose long, it survives in a single manuscript. Within three years Hardyng began revising the history for his sovereign's political rival, Richard, duke of York, to take into account York's election as Henry VI's successor. Though the duke died before the work was completed, Hardyng continued his revision for York's son, Edward IV, extending the Chronicle's coverage to 1464. A crucial piece of Yorkist propaganda, incorporating genealogical evidence of Edward's entitlement to the thrones of Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and Jerusalem, and romance materials which align York with King Arthur and the Holy Grail, this shorter version (1771 stanzas and 12 folios of prose) enjoyed greater popularity than the original, surviving in twelve manuscripts, three fragments, and two sixteenth-century prints. It featured prominently in the glut of pro-Yorkist literature produced in the capital c. 1460-80, where the majority of the manuscripts were produced, and it influenced later writers, such as Malory, Rous, Fabyan, Stow, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton.Despite the fact that the Chronicle, in both forms, is a valuable resource for scholars of medieval and early modern literature, fifteenth-century history, and the history of the book, neither version has received the consideration it deserves with regard to the complex socio-political context which led to its composition and revision, to the contribution it makes to a wider body of historiographical writing in late medieval Britain (especially given that it is written in the vernacular), to Hardyng's idiosyncratic conception of British history, to the material remains of the medieval book trade preserved in the extant manuscripts and prints, or to the way in which the second version was used by later authors.Part of the reason for this neglect has been accessibility. Whilst Simpson and Peverley's scholarly edition (2010/11) has addressed the absence of an edition the first version, to date there is no widely accessible, suitably 'readable', or properly annotated edition of the second version. Aside from the two editions printed by Richard Grafton in 1543, the only edition available to scholars is that published by Henry Ellis in 1812. Though commendable in its day, Ellis's edition is now inadequate. Based on Grafton's prints, it fails to take into account thirteen of the fifteen manuscripts and fragments, and handles the two manuscripts that it does provide variant readings from haphazardly.The aim of this project is to produce the first fully annotated scholarly edition of the second version of Hardyng's Chronicle, which brings together all that is currently known about the work's cultural, historical and material contexts. The edition will be published by Boydell and Brewer and read internationally by scholars and students interested in late medieval literature, history, and manuscript production. It will also be of interest to those interested in medieval kings, Arthurian literature, Scotland, heraldry, medieval warfare, and the local history of people and places of Northern England.More broadly, the resulting long-lasting, accessible resource will stimulate new interest in the function and reception of late medieval historiography. To this end, two research papers will be presented at international conferences, and a symposium on medieval historical writing will be held to coincide with the publication of the edition. This will hopefully be supported by a public exhibition on historical writing in the medieval and early modern periods at the Bodleian Library.