04145nam 2200745 450 991045593130332120200520144314.01-282-03382-497866120338271-4426-8046-610.3138/9781442680463(CKB)2420000000004392(OCoLC)288106693(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219338(SSID)ssj0000311287(PQKBManifestationID)11276335(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000311287(PQKBWorkID)10332551(PQKB)10578465(CaBNvSL)thg00600712 (MiAaPQ)EBC3255430(MiAaPQ)EBC4672005(DE-B1597)464915(OCoLC)1013958047(OCoLC)944177552(DE-B1597)9781442680463(Au-PeEL)EBL4672005(CaPaEBR)ebr11257691(CaONFJC)MIL203382(OCoLC)958571741(EXLCZ)99242000000000439220160922h20012001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTextual Histories readings in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle /Thomas A. BredehoftToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2001.©20011 online resource (250 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-4850-1 0-8020-3758-5 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 IndexAny 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.English prose literatureOld English, ca. 450-1100Criticism, TextualTransmission of textsEnglandHistoryTo 1500Anglo-SaxonsHistoriographyGreat BritainHistoryAnglo-Saxon period, 449-1066HistoriographyGreat BritainHistoryNorman period, 1066-1154HistoriographyElectronic books.English prose literatureCriticism, Textual.Transmission of textsHistoryAnglo-SaxonsHistoriography.942.01Bredehoft Thomas A.770049MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455931303321Textual Histories2269429UNINA