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After Alfred deals with the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, tracing the development of this group of texts, linking them to a southern court elite who were deeply engaged in kingdom-building.
List of contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The Study and Editing of the Vernacular Chronicles
- Chapter 3 Alfred's Chronicle and the First Continuations
- Chapter 4 Chronicle A and the Early Tenth Century
- Chapter 5 BC, B, and the Mid Tenth Century
- Chapter 6 The 'Northern Recension'
- Chapter 7 The Lost Worcester Chronicle
- Chapter 8 Vernacular Chronicles c 1000
- Chapter 9 The Annals of Æthelred and the early years of Cnut
- Chapter 10 The Making of Chronicle C and Mid Eleventh-Century Chronicling
- Chapter 11 The Continuations of Chronicle C and the Development of Chronicles in the Mid Eleventh Century
- Chapter 12 Chronicle D, Crossing Conquest
- Chapter 13 Chronicle F and Canterbury post 1066
- Chapter 14 Chronicle E, /E and H: the End of the Tradition?
About the author
Pauline Stafford studied at the University of Oxford. She taught medieval history at the University of Huddersfield, before becoming Professor of Medieval History at the University of Liverpool, where she remained until her retirement. She was also a visiting professor at the Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds, and is Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society.
Summary
After Alfred deals with the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, tracing the development of this group of texts, linking them to a southern court elite who were deeply engaged in kingdom-building.
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In After Alfred, Pauline Stafford's superb new history of the several vernacular chronicles (emphasis on the plural) spawned by Alfred's, she shows how these copies and continuations were embellished and edited in different times and places over the following 250 years. Stafford has acquired a depth of knowledge that allows her artfully to fathom the dark waters that crash about her material. Hers is a reminder -- of major significance -- of how these unutterably complex manuscripts should be read: with caution and context in equal measure.
