Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Language, Literature, History

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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is among the earliest vernacular chronicles of Western Europe and remains an essential source for scholars of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England. With the publication in 2004 of a new edition of the Peterborough text, all six major manuscript versions of the Chronicle are now available in the Collaborative Edition. Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle therefore presents a timely reassessment of current scholarly thinking on this most complex and most foundational of documents. This volume of collected essays examines the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle through four main aspects: the production of the text, its language, the literary character of the work, and the Chronicle as historical writing. The individual studies not only exemplify the different scholarly approaches to the Chronicle but they also cover the full chronological range of the text(s), as well as offering new contributions to well-established debates and exploring fresh avenues of research. The interdisciplinary and wide-ranging nature of the scholarship behind the volume allows Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to convey the immense complexity and variety of the Chronicle, a document that survives in multiple versions and was written in multiple places, times, and political contexts. Front matter (“Contents”, “Acknowledgements”, “List of Abbreviations”, “List of Illustrations”), p. i Free Access Introduction: Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 1 Alice Jorgensen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4447 Malcolm and Margaret: The Poem in Annal 1067D, p. 31 Thomas A. Bredehoft https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4448 The Production of the Peterborough Chronicle, p. 49 Susan Irvine https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4449 Double-Edged Déjà Vu: The Complexity of the Peterborough Chronicle, p. 67 Malasree Home https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4450 Sentence to Story: Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Formulary, p. 91 Jacqueline Stodnick https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4451 Rewriting the Æthelredian Chronicle: Narrative Style and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS F, p. 113 Alice Jorgensen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4452 The Representation of Early West Saxon History in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 141 Barbara Yorke https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4453 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Continental Annal-Writing, p. 161 Anton Scharer https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4454 Marking Boundaries: Charters and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 167 Scott Thompson Smith https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4455 Geographies of Power in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: The Royal Estates of Anglo-Saxon Wessex, p. 187 Ryan Lavelle https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4456 Reporting Scotland in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 221 Alex Woolf https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4457 Coins and the Chronicle: Mint-signatures, History, and Language, p. 243 Jayne Carroll https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4458 Norse-Derived Vocabulary in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 275 Sara M. Pons-Sanz https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.4459 Back matter (“Select Bibliography”, “Index of Annals”, “Subject Index”), p. 305