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Families of the King : Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle /

"In Families of the King, Alice Sheppard explicitly addresses the larger interpretive question of how the manuscripts function as history. She shows that what has been read as a series of disparate entries and peculiar juxtapositions is in fact a compelling articulation of collective identity a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sheppard, Alice (Alice Juanita)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : reading the Chronicle's past
  • 1. Writing identity in Chronicle history
  • 2. Making Alfred king
  • 3. Proclaiming Alfred's kingship
  • 4. Undoing AEthelred
  • 5. Unmaking AEthelred but making Cnut
  • 6. Writing William's kingship
  • 7. Conclusion : after lives.