The Peterborough Version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Rewriting Post-Conquest History

by Malasree Home

An examination of the linguistic and cultural construction of one of the texts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

In the twelfth century, a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was rewritten at Peterborough Abbey, welding local history into an established framework of national events. This text has usually been regarded as an exception, a vernacular Chronicle written in a period dominated by Latin histories. This study, however, breaks new ground...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783270012
• ISBN13: 9781783270019
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"