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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780668803321

Autore

Sheppard Alice (Alice Juanita)

Titolo

Families of the king : writing identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / / Alice Sheppard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-4875-0677-5

1-281-99276-3

9786611992767

1-4426-7479-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Toronto Old English Series

Disciplina

942.01

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.

"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."