Textual Histories : : Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / / Thomas A. Bredehoft.
Any scholar determined to provide the academic community with a comprehensive reading of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles has set themselves a Herculean task. The Chronicles are a recording of historical events in England from the beginning of the Christian Era to 1154. The inspiration to compile and ofte...
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Bredehoft, Thomas A., author. Textual Histories : Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Thomas A. Bredehoft. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©2001 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Plates -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Common Stock Genealogies -- 2 Cynewulf and Cyneheard in the Context of the Common Stock -- 3 The Post-Alfredian Annals -- 4 The Chronicle Poems -- 6 Conclusions -- APPENDIX: The Texts of Annal 755 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Annals and Manuscripts -- Subject Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Any scholar determined to provide the academic community with a comprehensive reading of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles has set themselves a Herculean task. The Chronicles are a recording of historical events in England from the beginning of the Christian Era to 1154. The inspiration to compile and often translate to the vernacular brief entries from church annals, and then progressively longer historical accounts, poems and genealogies, is thought to come from Alfred, King of West Saxons (848-99) as part of his drive to revive learning and literature in England. After Alfred's death, scribes carried on amassing prose narratives, poems and genealogies, as well as transcribing the existing entries. Such a massive historical project leaves us now with a set of documents so complex that a planned edition is likely to consist of over 20 volumes.In this remarkable study Thomas Bredehoft asks: what was the cultural force of such a singular document? Who might have been reading it, who was steering its formation at various periods, and to what end? What modern scholars have been too willing to dismiss as a scattershot collection of unrelated annals, is, Bredehoft convincingly argues, a powerful and consciously driven tool to forge, through linking literature and history, a patriotic Anglo Saxon national identity. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) English prose literature Old English, ca. 450-1100 Criticism, Textual. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110667691 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 print 9780802048509 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442680463 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442680463.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Plates -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Common Stock Genealogies -- 2 Cynewulf and Cyneheard in the Context of the Common Stock -- 3 The Post-Alfredian Annals -- 4 The Chronicle Poems -- 6 Conclusions -- APPENDIX: The Texts of Annal 755 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Annals and Manuscripts -- Subject Index |
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