Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Title Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle PDF eBook
Author Alice Jorgensen
Publisher Brepols Publishers
Total Pages 370
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN

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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is among the earliest vernacular chronicles of Western Europe and remains an essential source for scholars of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England. With the publication in 2004 of a new edition of the Peterborough text, all six major manuscript versions of the Chronicle are now available in the Collaborative Edition. Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle therefore presents a timely reassessment of current scholarly thinking on this most complex and most foundational of documents. This volume of collected essays examines the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle through four main aspects: the production of the text, its language, the literary character of the work, and the Chronicle as historical writing. The individual studies not only exemplify the different scholarly approaches to the Chronicle but they also cover the full chronological range of the text(s), as well as offering new contributions to well-established debates and exploring fresh avenues of research. The interdisciplinary and wide-ranging nature of the scholarship behind the volume allows Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to convey the immense complexity and variety of the Chronicle, a document that survives in multiple versions and was written in multiple places, times, and political contexts.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Title The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle PDF eBook
Author Michael Swanton
Publisher Psychology Press
Total Pages 412
Release 1998
Genre History
ISBN 9780415921299

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The first continuous national history of any western people in their own language, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicletraces the history of early England from the migration of the Saxon war-lords, through Roman Britain, the onslaught of the Vikings, the Norman Conquest and on through the reign of Stephen. Michael Swanton's translation is the most complete and faithful reading ever published. Extensive notes draw on the latest evidence of paleographers, archaeologists and textual and social historians to place these annals in the context of current knowledge. Fully indexed and complemented by maps and genealogical tables, this edition allows ready access to one of the prime sources of English national culture. The introduction provides all the information a first-time reader could need, cutting an easy route through often complicated matters. Also includes nine maps.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Title The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle PDF eBook
Author Anglo-Saxon chronicle
Publisher
Total Pages 282
Release 1912
Genre Anglo-Saxons
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Title The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle PDF eBook
Author Bob Carruthers
Publisher Pen and Sword
Total Pages 279
Release 2013-03-18
Genre History
ISBN 1473838339

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The essential primary-source history of the British Isles through the early Middle Ages, fully annotated and illustrated with paintings and engravings. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important sets of historical documents concerning the history of the British Isles. These vital accounts, thought to be first set down in the late ninth century by a scribe in Wessex, illuminate events through the Dark Ages that would otherwise be lost to history. Without this chronicle, it would be impossible to write the history of the English from the Romans to the Norman Conquest. The compilers of this chronicle included contemporary events they themselves witnessed, as well as those recorded by earlier annalists whose work is in many cases preserved nowhere else. With nine known versions of the Chronicle in existence, this translated edition presents a conflation of passages from different versions. Relying heavily on Rev. James Ingram’s 1828 translation, the footnotes provided are all those of Rev. Ingram. This edition also includes the complete Parker Manuscript.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Title The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles PDF eBook
Author Anne Savage
Publisher Gramercy Books
Total Pages 288
Release 1995-09-01
Genre Great Britain
ISBN 9780517140796

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Chronicles life in England from the Roman invasion through the middle of the twelfth century.

Families of the King

Families of the King
Title Families of the King PDF eBook
Author Alice Juanita Sheppard
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Total Pages 286
Release 2004-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780802089847

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In Families of the King, Alice Sheppard explicitly addresses the larger interpretive question of how the manuscripts function as history.

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
Title The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain PDF eBook
Author Lotte Hellinga
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Total Pages 846
Release 1999-12-09
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780521573467

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This volume of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain presents an overview of the century-and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557. The profound changes during that time in social, political and religious conditions are reflected in the dissemination and reception of the written word. The manuscript culture of Chaucer's day was replaced by an ambience in which printed books would become the norm. The emphasis in this collection of essays is on the demand and use of books. Patterns of ownership are identified as well as patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand. The book trade receives special attention, with emphasis on the large part played by imports and on links with printers in other countries, which were decisive for the development of printing and publishing in Britain.