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Second‐rate Stories? Changing Approaches to the Anglo‐Saxon Chronicle
Author(s) -
Stodnick Jacqueline
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00380.x
Subject(s) - audience measurement , scholarship , narrative , literature , politics , history , anglo saxon , focus (optics) , field (mathematics) , sociology , classics , psychology , social science , art , political science , law , physics , mathematics , optics , pure mathematics
This essay analyzes broad trends in scholarship on the Anglo‐Saxon Chronicle . Examining the major contributions to the field, the author argues that a change may be observed from a more isolative situation (in which separate scholarly strands examined textual history, literary worth, and political import) concentrated on questions of origin and intent, to the more interdisciplinary focus of contemporary studies, for which readership and continuation are the primary concerns. The essay concludes by suggesting that future study of the Chronicle will be concentrated on the later manuscripts; its nature as a composite text; the manuscript contexts; and the text as narrative.