Research Catalog

Title

Textual histories : readings in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle / Thomas A. Bredehoft.

Author

Bredehoft, Thomas A.

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2001.

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Description

viii, 229 p., [8] plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Anglo-Saxon chronicle
• English prose literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Criticism, Textual
• Great Britain > Historiography. > Anglo Saxon period, 449-1066
• Great Britain > Historiography. > Norman period, 1066-1154

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Common Stock Genealogies -- The Metrical Form of the Genealogies -- The Manuscript Presentation of the Common Stock Genealogies -- The Historiographic Function of the Common Stock Genealogies -- Cynewulf and Cyneheard in the Context of the Common Stock -- Variation and Innovation in Annal 755: Orality and Literate Practice -- Structural Indicators and the Meaning of Annal 755 within the Common Stock -- The Post-Alfredian Annals -- The Dynastic Continuations -- The Northern Recension -- The Chronicle Poems -- Manuscript Presentation and the Identification of the Chronicle Poems -- Metre and the 'Poems of Irregular Meter' -- The Place of Poetry in the Chronicle -- Latin in the Chronicle -- Latin in the Old English Chronicle -- Asser and AEthelweard -- The Ends of the Chronicle and the End of Anglo-Saxon History -- Reading the Chronicle and Its Record.

ISBN

0802048501 :

OCLC

47270763

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library