TY - JOUR
T1 - The settlement of England in Bede and the Chronicle
AU - Sims-Williams, Patrick
PY - 1983/12
Y1 - 1983/12
N2 - For the modern historian of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England, 1849 should be a more significant date than 449. In 1849 John Mitchell Kemble published The Saxons in England. Earlier historians, even critical ones like Sharon Turner and J. M. Lappenberg, had basically retold the narratives of Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, with picturesque details from Henry of Huntingdon and others. Kemble swept all that away: ‘I confess that the more I examine this question, the more completely I am convinced that the received accounts of our migrations, our subsequent fortunes, and ultimate settlement, are devoid of historical truth in every detail.’
AB - For the modern historian of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England, 1849 should be a more significant date than 449. In 1849 John Mitchell Kemble published The Saxons in England. Earlier historians, even critical ones like Sharon Turner and J. M. Lappenberg, had basically retold the narratives of Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, with picturesque details from Henry of Huntingdon and others. Kemble swept all that away: ‘I confess that the more I examine this question, the more completely I am convinced that the received accounts of our migrations, our subsequent fortunes, and ultimate settlement, are devoid of historical truth in every detail.’
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/35772
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84972158417&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0263675100003331
DO - 10.1017/S0263675100003331
M3 - Article
SN - 1474-0532
VL - 12
SP - 1
EP - 41
JO - Anglo-Saxon England
JF - Anglo-Saxon England
ER -