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Sheppard Alice (Alice Juanita) |
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Titolo |
Families of the king : writing identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / / Alice Sheppard |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004 |
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©2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-4875-0677-5 |
1-281-99276-3 |
9786611992767 |
1-4426-7479-2 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Collana |
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Toronto Old English Series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Geschichtsbild |
König |
HISTORY / Medieval |
History |
Electronic books. |
Great Britain Kings and rulers |
Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 Historiography |
Great Britain History Norman period, 1066-1154 Historiography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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 |
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