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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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Auteur principal: Sheppard, Alice (Alice Juanita)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:"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 and a coherent approach to writing the secular history of invasion, conquest, and settlement."--Jacket.
"The annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are fundamental to the study of the language, literature, and culture of the Anglo-Saxon period. Ranging from the ninth to the twelfth century, the Chronicle's five primary manuscripts offer a virtually contemporary history of Anglo-Saxon England, contribute to the body of Old English prose and poetic texts, and enable scholars to document how the Old English language changed."
Description matérielle:1 online resource (380 pages).
ISBN:9781442674790