Textual Histories
Subtitle: readings in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle
By: Thomas A. Bredehoft.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Anglo-Saxon chronicle.; English prose literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Criticism, Textual.; Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Anglo-Saxons -- Historiography.; Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Historiography.; Great Britain -- History -- Norman period, 1066-1154 -- Historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1: The Common Stock Genealogies 14; title: 1.1 The Metrical Form of the Genealogies i5; title: 1.2 The Manuscript Presentation of the Common Stock Genealogies 23; title: 1.3 The Historiographic Function of the Common Stock Genealogies 30; title: 2: Cynewulf and Cyneheard in the Context of the Common Stock 39; title: 2.1 Variation and Innovation in Annal 755: Orality and Literate; title: Practice 41; title: 2.2 Structural Indicators and the Meaning of Annal 755 within the; title: Common Stock 53; title: 3: The Post-Alfredian Annals 61; title: 3.1 The Dynastic Continuations 63; title: 3.2 The Northern Recension 67; title: 4: The Chronicle Poems 72; title: 4.1 Manuscript Presentation and the Identification of the Chronicle; title: Poems 73; title: 4.2 Metre and the 'Poems of Irregular Meter' 91; title: 4.3 The Place of Poetry in the Chronicle 99; title: 5: Latin in the Chronicle 119; title: 5.1 Latin in the Old English Chronicle 120; title: 5.2 Asser and IEthelweard 126; title: 6: Conclusions 137; title: 6.1 The Ends of the Chronicle and the End of Anglo-Saxon History 138; title: 6.2 Reading the Chronicle and Its Record 147.