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An Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

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Michael J. Swanton
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Psychology Press, 1998 - Literary Criticism - 364 pages
The first continuous national history of any western people in their own language, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicletraces the history of early England from the migration of the Saxon war-lords, through Roman Britain, the onslaught of the Vikings, the Norman Conquest and on through the reign of Stephen (1135-54).
The text survives, in whole or in part, in eight separate manuscripts, each reflecting the concerns of the regions and institutions in which they were maintained. These texts have a similar core, but each has considerable local variations and its own intricate textual history.
Michael J. Swanton's translation of these histories is the most complete and faithful reading ever published. Extensive notes draw on the latest evidence of paleographers, archaeologists and textual and social historians to place these annals in the context of current knowledge. Fully indexed and complemented by maps and genealogical tables, this edition allows ready access to one of the prime sources of English national culture. The introduction provides all the information a first-time reader could need, cutting an easy route through often complicated matters. Also includes nine maps.
  

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As the first full translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle since 1953, Swanton's volume delivers an important text in a medium that is accessible for any reader. It is apparent that this work is the ... Read full review

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Contents

Frontis Swordhilts from the City of London and Fiskerton
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Dragon prow or sternpost from a Migrationperiod
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Acknowledgements
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English narrating the ... These manuscripts collectively are known as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. ...
en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle

JSTOR: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
In this book Michael Swanton offers a welcome, updated translation of that complex of texts known as "the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," one that supersedes in ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0038-7134(199807)73%3A3%3C905%3ATAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P

Vortigern in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Text & Translation
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entries that tell the story of Vortigern and the coming of the Germanic peoples to Britain.
www.library.rochester.edu/ camelot/ vorttxt.htm

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, Vol 10, the ...
For centuries now, the B and C texts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle have themselves been ..... (6) See further cr Hart, `The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at Ramsey, ...
www.questia.com/ PM.qst?a=o& se=gglsc& d=5000555077

1000 AD Resources
A site with many online texts, including the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ... The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, translated and edited by Michael Swanton (Dent, 1996), ...
www.channel4.com/ history/ microsites/ 0-9/ 1000ad/ links.html

the Anglo Saxon Chronicle
The text of this edition is based on that published as "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" (Everyman Press, London, 1912). This edition is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN in ...
www.celtic-twilight.com/ anglosaxon/ asc/ index.htm

Books about the Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Originally compiled on the orders of King Alfred the Great, approximately ad 890, and subsequently maintained and added to by ...
www.postroman.info/ Bookstore/ angbooks.htm

documentation
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a Revised Translation, ed. ... 1, and mj Swanton, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Dent, 1996) ...
www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/ currentstudents/ documentation/ reading-lists/ primary-p1.htm

Source: ASC
Go to The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition ... Swanton, Michael, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, London, 1996, 106-10, 112-14, 116, 118, 120, 122 ...
www.pase.ac.uk/ pase/ apps/ Sources/ DisplaySourcePersons.jsp?sourceKey=105

The Heroic Age:
For a translation of the various MSS of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle see Michael Swanton, ed., (1997) 'The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'. London: jm Dent. ...
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About the author (1998)

Michael J. Swanton is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Exeter. His extensive publications include translations of the epic poem Beowulf (1978) and a selection of Anglo Saxon Prose (1993).

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TitleAn Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
EditorMichael J. Swanton
Translated byMichael J. Swanton
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherPsychology Press, 1998
ISBN0415921295, 9780415921299
Length364 pages
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History / Europe / Great Britain
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
Social Science / Archaeology
  
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