Alfred, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Prose

    On The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in General:
  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Trans. G.N. Garmonsway. Rev. ed. London: Dent, 1954.
  • Smith, A.H., ed. The Parker Chronicle (832-900). 3rd ed. London: Methuen, 1951. Rev. ed. with bibliography by M.J. Swanton. Exeter: U of Exeter P, 1980.
  • Dumville, David and Simon Keynes, gen. ed. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a collaborative edition. Totowa, NJ: Brewer, 1983 - (in progress). Note especially Volume 3, MS A: A semi-diplomatic edition with introduction and indices. Ed. Janet M. Bately. 1986.
  • Flower, Robin and Hugh Smith. The Parker chronicle and laws (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ms. 173): a facsimile. EETS 208. London: Oxford UP, 1941.
  • Whitelock, Dorothy. English Historical Documents c. 500-1042. London, 1955. [Translations and introductory discussions.]
  • Hill, David, An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England, esp. pages 32 ff.
  • Campbell, James, The Anglo-Saxons, esp. pages 144 ff.
  • Loyn, H.R. The Vikings in Britain. London, 1977.
    On Cynewulf and Cyneheard
  • Wright, C.E. The Cultivation of Saga in Anglo-Saxon England. Edinburgh, 1939. [On Cynewulf and Cyneheard see 26-7.]
  • Woolf, Rosemary. "The ideal of men dying with their lord in the Germania and in The Battle of Maldon." ASE 5 (1976): 63-81.
    On Alfred and Alfred's Prose:
  • Asser, John [d. ca. 909]. Asser's Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources. Trans. with an introduction and notes by Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983. DA153 .A8213 1983
  • ___________. De Rebus gestis Aelfredi. Asser's Life of King Alfred: together with the Annals of Saint Neots, erroneously ascribed to Asser. Edited with introd. and commentary by William Henry Stevenson. New impression, with article on recent work on Asser's Life of Alfred / by Dorothy Whitelock.Clarendon Press, 1959. DA153 .A84 1959
  • Bately, Janet. The literary prose of King Alfred's reign: translation or transformation? Inaugural Lecture in the Chair of English Language and Medieval Literature, University of London King's College 4 March 1980. Binghamton: CEMERS, 1984.
  • Sisam, Kenneth. "The Publication of Alfred's Pastoral Care." Studies in the History of Old English Literature. Oxford: Clarendon, 1953. 140-47.
  • Whitelock, Dorothy. "The Prose of Alfred's Reign." In Continuations and Beginnings.
    On Old English Prose in General
  • Swanton, Michael, ed. and trans. Anglo-Saxon Prose. London: Dent, 1975. [Selections from laws, documents, Alfred, Life of Guthlac, Blickling Homilies, Aelfric, Wulfstan, Gospel of Nicodemus, Apollonius of Tyre, Proverbs, Bald's "Leechbook" (medical treatise), Byrhtferth's "Manual."]

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