A Study and Edition of The Chronicle Richard Fox from Richard II to Henry VI

该项目旨在提供一个研究和圣奥尔本斯的理查德福克斯1448年编年史的版本，发现在沃本修道院MS 181。在大约180，000字，编年史涵盖了五个多世纪的历史，从阿尔弗雷德大帝（871-899）到亨利六世（1422-61）。然而，这是最后一个季度，从理查德二世统治时期开始，福克斯可能有机会获得他所叙述事件的目击者描述，使其成为历史学家的宝贵来源。福克斯的作品和他的原始资料之间的比较也阐明了历史在扩大我们对中世纪晚期的知识方面所做出的独特贡献。正是这一部分包含了一些独特的轶事，这些轶事揭示了重要事件，例如农民起义的潜在起源和英国历史上迄今未知的故事，包括理查德二世的早产。其中一些轶事在19世纪后期的历史上仍然有影响力。研究与福克斯有关的其他文件，包括他的遗嘱，列出了他所有的书籍和他的文学杂录，展示了他与其他作家的联系，以及与圣奥尔本斯有关的历史记录，将建立福克斯的社会和知识环境的更清晰的画面。我的论文将在15世纪作者的更广泛的框架内讨论他的编年史的生产。主要产出将是一篇博士论文，包括对福克斯、他的手稿、他的社会和知识背景的研究，以及福克斯编年史最后四分之一的版本，涵盖了理查德二世到亨利六世的统治。该版本将伴随着完整的文本和关键设备上下文的叙述。

This project aims to provide a study and edition of the 1448 Chronicle of Richard Fox of St Albans, found in Woburn Abbey MS 181. In approximately 180,000 words, the Chronicle covers over five centuries of history, from Alfred the Great (871-899) to Henry VI (1422-61). However, it is the final quarter, from the reign of Richard II, where Fox may have had access to eyewitness accounts of the events he narrates making it a valuable source for historians. Comparisons between Fox's work and his source material also illuminate the unique contribution that the history makes in expanding our knowledge of the late medieval era. It is this section that contains several unique anecdotes which shed light on important events such as the potential origins of the peasants' revolt and hitherto unknown stories from British history, including Richard II's premature birth. Some of these anecdotes remained influential in histories into the late nineteenth-century.Examining other documents associated with Fox, including his will listing all his books and his literary miscellany exhibiting his connections with other authors, as well as the historical records associated with St Albans will build a clearer picture of Fox's social and intellectual environment. My thesis will situate the production of his Chronicle within the broader framework of fifteenth-century authorship. The main output will be a PhD thesis comprising a study of what is known about Fox, his manuscript, and his social and intellectual milieux, and an edition of the final quarter of Fox's Chronicle, covering the reign of Richard II to that of Henry VI. The edition will be accompanied by full textual and critical apparatus contextualising the narrative.