Families of the King.Families Of The King Alice Sheppard University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, Press 10 St. Mary Street, Suite 700, Toronto, ON, Canada, M4Y 2W8 0802089844 $70.00 1-800-565-9523 Families Of The King: Writing Identity In The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, collective name given several English monastic chronicles in Anglo-Saxon, all stemming from a compilation made from old annals and other sources c.891. by Alice Sheppard (Assistant Professor, Department of English Noun 1. department of English - the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature English department academic department - a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject , Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University, main campus at University Park, State College; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855, opened 1859 as Farmers' High School. ) directly addresses the central interpretative question with respect to the student of five primary manuscripts that together offer a contemporary history of Anglo-Saxon English ranging from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, and materially contribute to understanding the body of Old English prose and poetic texts which in turn, enabled scholars to document how the Old English language “Old English” redirects here. For other uses, see Old English (disambiguation). Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon[1], Englisc by its speakers) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what are now England and evolved and changed. The question is how those five manuscript function as history. Professor Sheppard shows just what has been read as a series of disparate entries and peculiar juxtapositions are upon closer scrutiny a compelling articulation of collective identity and provide academia with a coherent approach to writing the secular history of invasion, conquest, and settlement. The central theme for Families of the King is that the king's performance of his lordship obligations was recorded and transformed by annalists Annalists (from Latin annus, year; hence annales, sc. libri, annual records), is the name given to a class of writers on Roman history, the period of whose literary activity lasted from the time of the Second Punic War to that of Sulla. into literary representations of a political ethos offering insights and an understanding of the Anglo-Saxon aristocratic culture and the impact upon that culture by the Normans who conquered them. A work of impressively articulate scholarship, Families Of The King is an invaluable, core addition to academic library collections and will prove to be of immense interest to students of Medieval Studies. |
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