![]() ![]() (3) It was attributed to King Alfred by Gaimar, a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman historian, who wrote that the King had "'caused a book to be written in English about events and about laws and about battles in the land and about kings who made war.'" (4) ![]() The project probably originated as part of the revival of learning and of " English national awareness" during Alfred's reign. ![]() The commonly (though not universally) accepted view is that the Chronicle was maintained at the principal English churches, after they had received copies of the original from Alfred the Great's court, and that this explains why the various versions differ from one another. It suggests that the traditional philological approach is not as rewarding in this regard as the newer focus on interpreting the Chronicle's content. (2) This paper examines some of the issues in interpreting the Chronicle, evaluates trends in Chronicle scholarship, and concludes by examining what the text reveals of the environment in which it was produced. (1) The basic scholarly consensus is that the manuscripts are descended from a now-lost original, copies of which were sent to churches from a central point in the 890s. ![]() The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the collective name for a set of annals consisting of one fragment and seven manuscript versions, related to one another in intricate and hard-to-decipher ways. Approaches to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Comparison ![]()
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