The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_documents
history
gptkbp:citation scholarly works on English history
gptkbp:commissionedBy gptkb:Alfred_the_Great
gptkbp:conservationStatus incomplete in some manuscripts
gptkbp:contains history
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:England
gptkbp:coversPeriod from the birth of Christ to the mid-12th century
gptkbp:date late 9th century
gptkbp:digitizedBy gptkb:British_Library_website
gptkbp:firstPublished 17th century
gptkbp:format annalistic
gptkbp:genre history
gptkbp:heldBy gptkb:British_Library
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
gptkbp:importantFor key source for Anglo-Saxon period
gptkbp:influenced later English chronicles
gptkbp:language gptkb:Old_English
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Norman_Conquest
gptkb:Parker_Chronicle
gptkb:Peterborough_Chronicle
gptkb:Worcester_Chronicle
gptkb:death_of_Alfred_the_Great
gptkb:Battle_of_Hastings
gptkb:Abingdon_Chronicle
foundation of monasteries
arrival of the Vikings
eclipses and comets
plagues and famines
gptkbp:preservedIn monasteries
gptkbp:referencedIn gptkb:Florence_of_Worcester
gptkb:William_of_Malmesbury
gptkb:Henry_of_Huntingdon
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Alfredian_Renaissance
gptkbp:significance primary source for early English history
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Anglo-Saxon_England
gptkb:Viking_invasions
religious affairs
major battles
natural events
reigns of English kings
gptkbp:survivingWorks nine main manuscripts
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Modern_English
gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:updatedUntil 1154
gptkbp:usedBy historians
gptkbp:writtenBy various anonymous scribes
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Old_English_period
gptkb:Reginherus_(Ragnar_Lodbrok)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7