 | Textual Histories: Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Subjects: Anglo-Saxon chronicle; English prose literature -- Old English ca. 450–1100 -- Criticism Textual; Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period 449–1066 -- Historiography; Great Britain -- History -- Norman period 1066–1154 -- Historiography; What modern scholars have been too willing to dismiss as a scattershot collection of unrelated annals, is, Bredehoft argues, a tool created to forge, through linking literature and history, a patriotic Anglo Saxon national identity. Bredehoft Thomas A. : Thomas A. Bredehoft is a teaching assistant professor in the Department of English at West Virginia University. |
