A July 2004 conference at the University of York, England, witnessed the first airing of the 12 essays here. Medievalists from the anglophone Atlantic offer younger or less specialized scholars an entry to the most crucial historical document for England from the Anglo-Saxon invasion to the Angevin period. Considering it first as literature then as history, they discuss such matters as the poem in Annal 1067D, narrative style and identify in manuscript F, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and continental annal writing, reporting Scotland, coins, and Norse-derived vocabulary in the Chronicle. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)