LEADER 04145nam 2200745 450 001 9910455931303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-03382-4 010 $a9786612033827 010 $a1-4426-8046-6 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442680463 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004392 035 $a(OCoLC)288106693 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219338 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000311287 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11276335 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000311287 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10332551 035 $a(PQKB)10578465 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600712 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255430 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672005 035 $a(DE-B1597)464915 035 $a(OCoLC)1013958047 035 $a(OCoLC)944177552 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442680463 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672005 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257691 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL203382 035 $a(OCoLC)958571741 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004392 100 $a20160922h20012001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTextual Histories $ereadings in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle /$fThomas A. Bredehoft 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2001. 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-4850-1 311 $a0-8020-3758-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPlates -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 The Common Stock Genealogies -- $t2 Cynewulf and Cyneheard in the Context of the Common Stock -- $t3 The Post-Alfredian Annals -- $t4 The Chronicle Poems -- $t6 Conclusions -- $tAPPENDIX: The Texts of Annal 755 -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex of Annals and Manuscripts -- $tSubject Index 330 $aAny 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. 606 $aEnglish prose literature$yOld English, ca. 450-1100$xCriticism, Textual 606 $aTransmission of texts$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aAnglo-Saxons$xHistoriography 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yAnglo-Saxon period, 449-1066$xHistoriography 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yNorman period, 1066-1154$xHistoriography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish prose literature$xCriticism, Textual. 615 0$aTransmission of texts$xHistory 615 0$aAnglo-Saxons$xHistoriography. 676 $a942.01 700 $aBredehoft$b Thomas A.$0770049 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455931303321 996 $aTextual Histories$92269429 997 $aUNINA