After Alfred: Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and Chroniclers, 900-1150

The vernacular Anglo-Saxon Chronicles cover the centuries which saw the making of England and its conquest by Scandinavians and Normans. After Alfred traces their development from their genesis at the court of King Alfred to the last surviving chronicle produced at the Fenland monastery ofPeterborough. These texts have long been part of the English national story. Pauline Stafford considers the impact of this on their study and editing since the sixteenth century, addressing all surviving manuscript chronicles, identifying key lost ones, and reconsidering these annalistic texts inthe light of wider European scholarship on medieval historiography.The study stresses the plural 'chronicles', whilst also identifying a tradition of writing vernacular history which links them. It argues that that tradition was an expression of the ideology of a southern elite engaged in the conquest and assimilation of old kingdoms north of the Thames, Trent, andHumber. Vernacular chronicling is seen, not as propaganda, but as engaged history-writing closely connected to the court, whose networks and personnel were central to the production and continuation of these chronicles. In particular, After Alfred connects many chronicles to bishops and especiallyto the Archbishops of York and Canterbury.The disappearance of the English-speaking elite after the Norman Conquest had profound impacts on these texts. It repositioned their authors in relation to the court and royal power, and ultimately resulted in the end of this tradition of vernacular chronicling.

History

Stafford, Pauline

Europe

Oxford University Press

The vernacular Anglo-Saxon Chronicles cover the centuries which saw the making of England and its conquest by Scandinavians and Normans. After Alfred traces their development from their genesis at the court of King Alfred to the last surviving chronicle produced at the Fenland monastery ofPeterborough. These texts have long been part of the English national story. Pauline Stafford considers the impact of this on their study and editing since the sixteenth century, addressing all surviving manuscript chronicles, identifying key lost ones, and reconsidering these annalistic texts inthe light of wider European scholarship on medieval historiography.The study stresses the plural "chronicles", whilst also identifying a tradition of writing vernacular history which links them. It argues that that tradition was an expression of the ideology of a southern elite engaged in the conquest and assimilation of old kingdoms north of the Thames, Trent, andHumber. Vernacular chronicling is seen, not as propaganda, but as engaged history-writing closely connected to the court, whose networks and personnel were central to the production and continuation of these chronicles. In particular, After Alfred connects many chronicles to bishops and especiallyto the Archbishops of York and Canterbury.The disappearance of the English-speaking elite after the Norman Conquest had profound impacts on these texts. It repositioned their authors in relation to the court and royal power, and ultimately resulted in the end of this tradition of vernacular chronicling.

Through detailed study of these women the author demonstrates the integral place of royal queens in the rule of the English kingdom and in the process of unification by which England was made.

Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Wiley/Blackwell

Through detailed study of these women the author demonstrates the integral place of royal queens in the rule of the English kingdom and in the process of unification by which England was made.

The focus of this book is the political and social repercussions of the unification of the English kingdoms under one ruler in the 10th century and the two conquests of the unified kingdom in the 11th. It provides a detailed survey of English history between the death of Alfred and that of William.

Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries

Children's Books

Hodder Education Publishers

Unification and conquest: A political and social history of England in the tenth and eleventh centuries

Americas

Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall

'Between the sixth and eleventh centuries, many women exercised a profound influence on the politics of Western Europe. The histories of Frankia, Italy, and England would have been different had it not been for queens such as Brunhild, Judith, Angelberga, Emma and others. This is a composite biography of the early queens and royal bedfellows and provides a fascinating picture of their political importance and the many factors that affected their personal lives. Woven with the political story of these women is the story of courtships, weddings, dowries; the anxieties of confinements, sterility and infant mortality; the tense relationships with in-laws; and the peaceful, if often involuntary, religious retirement of widowhood. A fascinating study of a period in world history that requires more illumination. Maps and charts are excellent. Highly recommended.' Genealogical Library Journal

Queens, Concubines and Dowagers: The King's Wife in the Early Middle Ages (Women, Power, and Politics)

Historical

UNKNO

A bibliography organized into three broad periods: c. 500-c. 1500 (Medieval); c. 1500-c. 1800 (Early Modern); and c. 1800 to the present (Modern). Some 50 subdivisions within each chronological period list material published in Britain before 1993 concerning such topics as women and the family, women's legal status, prostitution, witchcraft, and autobiography. Includes a methodological section at the beginning of the volume and a general section at the beginning of each chronological period. Cross-referenced, but not exhaustively. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

British Women's History: A Bibliographical Guide (History and Related Disciplines Select Bibliographies)

Reference

Hughes, Ann

Hannam, June

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Manchester Univ Pr

Queens, Concubines, and Dowagers: The King's Wife in the Early Middle Ages

Univ of Georgia Pr

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