In Families of the King, Alice Sheppard explicitly addresses the larger interpretive question of how the manuscripts function as history.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reading the Chronicle's Past
1 Writing Identity in Chronicle History
2 Making Alfred King
3 Proclaiming Alfred's Kingship
4 Undoing/Ethelred
5 Unmaking vEthelred but Making Cnut
6 Writing William's Kingship
7 Conclusion: After Lives

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Alice Sheppard is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Pennsylvania State University.