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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2004.
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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.