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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.

Old English literature --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- Historical linguistics --- English language --- English prose literature --- Anglo-Saxons --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon --- Transmission of texts --- Criticism, Textual. --- Historiography. --- Sources. --- History --- Anglo-Saxon chronicle. --- Anglo-Saxon chronicle --- Language. --- Great Britain --- Angelsaksische kroniek --- Chronique anglo-saxonne --- 091 =20 --- 930.21 <41> --- 930.21 <41> Historiografie. Geschiedenis van de geschiedwetenschap--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Historiografie. Geschiedenis van de geschiedwetenschap--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Prose anglaise --- Civilisation anglo-saxonne --- Transmission de textes --- History and criticism --- Sources --- ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) --- Histoire et critique --- Historiographie --- Histoire --- Grande-Bretagne --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- English literature --- Anglo-Saxon civilization --- Saxons --- Historiography --- Civilization --- Saxon chronicle --- Peterborough chronicle (Text) --- Angelsächsische Chronik --- Language --- Old English, ca. 450-1100 --- Criticism [Textual ] --- England --- Civilization [Anglo-Saxon ] --- To 1500 --- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 --- Norman period, 1066-1154