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Textual histories : readings in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle /

Any 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 ofte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bredehoft, Thomas A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2001]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Common Stock Genealogies
  • The Metrical Form of the Genealogies
  • The Manuscript Presentation of the Common Stock Genealogies
  • The Historiographic Function of the Common Stock Genealogies
  • Cynewulf and Cyneheard in the Context of the Common Stock
  • Variation and Innovation in Annal 755: Orality and Literate Practice
  • Structural Indicators and the Meaning of Annal 755 within the Common Stock
  • The Post-Alfredian Annals
  • The Dynastic Continuations
  • The Northern Recension
  • The Chronicle Poems
  • Manuscript Presentation and the Identification of the Chronicle Poems
  • Metre and the 'Poems of Irregular Meter'
  • The Place of Poetry in the Chronicle
  • Latin in the Chronicle
  • Latin in the Old English Chronicle
  • Asser and AEthelweard
  • The Ends of the Chronicle and the End of Anglo-Saxon History
  • Reading the Chronicle and Its Record.