TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bredehoft,Thomas A.
TI  - Textual Histories: Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
SN  - 9781442680463
AV  - DA150 .B743 2001 
U1  - 942.01 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Anglo-Saxon chronicle
KW  - English prose literature-Old English, ca. 450-1100-Criticism, Textual
KW  - Transmission of texts-England-History-To 1500
KW  - Anglo-Saxons-Historiography
KW  - Great Britain-History-Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066-Historiography
KW  - Great Britain-History-Norman period, 1066-1154-Historiography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF PLATES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- 1: The Common Stock Genealogies -- 1.1 The Metrical Form of the Genealogies -- 1.2 The Manuscript Presentation of the Common Stock Genealogies -- 1.3 The Historiographic Function of the Common Stock Genealogies -- 2: Cynewulf and Cyneheard in the Context of the Common Stock -- 2.1 Variation and Innovation in Annal 755: Orality and Literate Practice -- 2.2 Structural Indicators and the Meaning of Annal 755 within the Common Stock -- 3: The Post-Alfredian Annals -- 3.1 The Dynastic Continuations -- 3.2 The Northern Recension -- 4: The Chronicle Poems -- 4.1 Manuscript Presentation and the Identification of the Chronicle Poems -- 4.2 Metre and the 'Poems of Irregular Meter' -- 4.3 The Place of Poetry in the Chronicle -- 5: Latin in the Chronicle -- 5.1 Latin in the Old English Chronicle -- 5.2 Asser and Æthelweard -- 6: Conclusions -- 6.1 The Ends of the Chronicle and the End of Anglo-Saxon History -- 6.2 Reading the Chronicle and Its Record -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF ANNALS AND MANUSCRIPTS -- SUBJECT INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations
N2  - What modern scholars have been too willing to dismiss as a scattershot collection of unrelated annals, is, Bredehoft argues, a tool created to forge, through linking literature and history, a patriotic Anglo Saxon national identity
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