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Author: Pauline Stafford (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, University of Liverpool)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.758kg
ISBN: 9780198859642
ISBN 10: 0198859643
Pages: 396
Publication Date: 05 June 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
In After Alfred, Pauline Stafford's superb new history of the several vernacular chronicles (emphasis on the plural) spawned by Alfred's, she shows how these copies and continuations were embellished and edited in different times and places over the following 250 years. Stafford has acquired a depth of knowledge that allows her artfully to fathom the dark waters that crash about her material. Hers is a reminder - of major significance - of how these unutterably complex manuscripts should be read: with caution and context in equal measure. * Alex Burghart, Times Literary Supplement *
Showing both depth of knowledge and fine analysis of the evidence, this book is unquestionably essential reading for anyone interested in chronicle-writing and its links with contemporary politics and ideologies. * SUSAN IRVINE, Early Medieval Europe * a book with potential to shape discourse in the field of early medieval English history. * Matthew Firth, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association * In After Alfred, Pauline Stafford's superb new history of the several vernacular chronicles (emphasis on the plural) spawned by Alfred's, she shows how these copies and continuations were embellished and edited in different times and places over the following 250 years. Stafford has acquired a depth of knowledge that allows her artfully to fathom the dark waters that crash about her material. Hers is a reminder -- of major significance -- of how these unutterably complex manuscripts should be read: with caution and context in equal measure. * Alex Burghart, Times Literary Supplement *
a book with potential to shape discourse in the field of early medieval English history. * Matthew Firth, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association * In After Alfred, Pauline Stafford's superb new history of the several vernacular chronicles (emphasis on the plural) spawned by Alfred's, she shows how these copies and continuations were embellished and edited in different times and places over the following 250 years. Stafford has acquired a depth of knowledge that allows her artfully to fathom the dark waters that crash about her material. Hers is a reminder - of major significance - of how these unutterably complex manuscripts should be read: with caution and context in equal measure. * Alex Burghart, Times Literary Supplement *
Author Information
Pauline Stafford studied at the University of Oxford. She taught medieval history at the University of Huddersfield, before becoming Professor of Medieval History at the University of Liverpool, where she remained until her retirement. She was also a visiting professor at the Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds, and is Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society. She is married with three children, and three grandchildren.
