This project seeks to provide a deeper look into theAnglo-Saxon Chronicle, a foundational text in the written history of England, by looking at the axes of space and time. While theChronicleis well-known among medievalists, it is not familiar to many broader audiences, despite its considerable...
TheAnglo-Saxon Chronicleis one of the most important artifacts of English history. As a text, it is a remarkable record of events that helps shine a light onto the so-called “Dark Ages.” However, theChronicleis more than just a record. In many ways, it is more than a mere annal of...
Text and Lat. Original. London, 1888. Poems = Grein-Wülker, 'Bibliothek der ags. Poesie'. 2 vols. Kassel, 1881 — 1888. Leipzig, 1894. Israel Gollancz, 'Cynewulf's Crist'. London, 1892. Psalms = Thorpe, 'Libri Psalmorum Versio antiqua Latina cum Paraphrasi Anglo-Saxonica'. Oxonii....
If the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is to be believed, the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which eventually merged to become England were founded when small fleets of three or five ships of invaders arrived at various points around the coast of England to fight the sub-Roman British, and conquered ...
The original authorities most largely consulted have been, first and above all, the "English Chronicle," and to an almost equal extent, Bæda's "Ecclesiastical History." These have been supplemented, where necessary, by Florence of Worcester and the other Latin writers of later date... Cont...
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,, chronological account of events in Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, a compilation of seven surviving interrelated manuscript records that is the primary source for the early history of England. The narrative was first assembled in the reign of King Alfred...
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, chronological account of events in Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, a compilation of seven surviving interrelated manuscript records that is the primary source for the early history of England. The narrative was first assembled in t