Abraham Wheelock’s first edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle appeared at the height of the First English Civil War in 1643, and it is often treated by modern critics as an appendix to the Old English Historia Ecclesiastica to which it is attached. This paper argues that the Chronicle participated in a larger royalist campaign to establish the West Saxons as the institutional forbears of the first two Stuart kings. The West Saxon genealogies authorize a seventeenth-century conception of patriarchal, divine kingship when they trace Alfred to the biblical Adam. Alternatively, the medieval Chronicle presents the advisory body of the Anglo-Saxons, the witan, as a potentially restrictive force upon the monarchy—an image incompatible with a royalist agenda. Wheelock mediates the contradictory presence of the powerful witan by diminishing its historical importance through excision, substitution, and inconsistent translation so that the Chronicle may more easily conform to early modern perceptions of absolutist kingship.

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纠正矛盾编年史：亚伯拉罕·会德洛克 1643 年盎格鲁-撒克逊编年史的政治背景

亚伯拉罕·会德洛克 (Abraham Wheelock) 的第一版盎格鲁撒克逊编年史出现在 1643 年第一次英国内战的高潮时期，现代评论家经常将其视为其所附的旧英国教会史的附录。本文认为，《编年史》参与了一场更大的保皇运动，旨在将西撒克逊人确立为前两位斯图亚特国王的制度祖先。西撒克逊族谱在将阿尔弗雷德追溯到圣经中的亚当时，认可了 17 世纪的父权制、神圣王权概念。或者，中世纪的编年史将盎格鲁撒克逊人的顾问机构 Witan 描述为对君主制的潜在限制力量——这种形象与保皇党议程不相容。