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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading the Chronicle's Past
1 Writing Identity in Chronicle History
2 Making Alfred King
3 Proclaiming Alfred's Kingship
4 Undoing/Ethelred
5 Unmaking vEthelred but Making Cnut
6 Writing William's Kingship
7 Conclusion: After Lives
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Alice Sheppard is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Pennsylvania State University.

Summary

In Families of the King, Alice Sheppard explicitly addresses the larger interpretive question of how the manuscripts function as history.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Sheppard
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781487506773
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0677-3
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Toronto Old English Studies; Toronto Old English Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages