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Families of the king : writing identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Alice Sheppard.
- Title
- Families of the king : writing identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Alice Sheppard.
- Author
- Sheppard, Alice (Alice Juanita)
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2004.
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Details
- Description
- x, 266 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are fundamental to the study of the language, literature, and culture of the Anglo-Saxon period. Ranging from the ninth to the twelfth century, the Chronicle's five primary manuscripts offer a virtually contemporary history of Anglo-Saxon England, contribute to the body of Old English prose and poetic texts, and enable scholars to document how the Old English language changed."
- "In Families of the King, Alice Sheppard explicitly addresses the larger interpretive question of how the manuscripts function as history. She shows that what has been read as a series of disparate entries and peculiar juxtapositions is in fact a compelling articulation of collective identity and a coherent approach to writing the secular history of invasion, conquest, and settlement."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Toronto Old English series ; 12
- Uniform Title
- Toronto Old English series 12.
- Subject
- Anglo-Saxon chronicle
- 449-1154
- 500-1000
- 1000-1300
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- Rois et souverains > Grande-Bretagne
- Great Britain > Kings and rulers
- Great Britain > History > Historiography. > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
- Great Britain > History > Historiography. > Norman period, 1066-1154
- Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > Historiographie. > 449-1066 (Période anglo-saxonne)
- Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > Historiographie. > 1066-1154 (Période normande)
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-250) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : reading the Chronicle's past -- 1. Writing identity in Chronicle history -- 2. Making Alfred king -- 3. Proclaiming Alfred's kingship -- 4. Undoing AEthelred -- 5. Unmaking AEthelred but making Cnut -- 6. Writing William's kingship -- 7. Conclusion : after lives.
- ISBN
- 0802089844
- LCCN
- ^^2005412931
- OCLC
- 55596193
- SCSB-11154844
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library