Alice Sheppard

Families of the King

Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781487506773
• ISBN-10: 1487506775
• Artikelnr.: 55922240

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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