Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World
Laura Cleaver (Redaktør) Andrea Worm (Redaktør) Michael Staunton (Innledning) Andrea Worm (Innledning) Anne Lawrence-Mathers (Innledning) Gleb Schmidt (Innledning) Laura Cleaver (Innledning) Laura Pani (Innledning) Charles C. Rozier (Innledning) Stephen D. Church (Innledning) Kathryn Gerry (Innledning) Laura Slater (Innledning) Caoimhe Whelan (Innledning)
«This volume thus offers a rich variety of insights into the diversity and complexity of Anglo-Norman historical writing. . . . [It] achieves its goal of using manuscripts to add nuance to our understanding of Anglo-Norman historical writing.»
MANUSCRIPT STUDIES
Who wrote about the past in the Middle Ages, who read about it, and how were these works disseminated and used?
History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world.
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History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled by the kings of England, particularly from the 12th century, has long attracted the attention of historians and literary scholars. This collection of essays returns to the processes involved in writing history, and in particular to the medieval manuscript sources in which the works of such historians survive. It explores the motivations of those writing about the past in the Middle Ages (such as Orderic Vitalis, John of Worcester, Symeon of Durham, William of Malmesbury, Gerald of Wales, Roger of Howden, and Matthew Paris), and the evidence provided by manuscripts for the circumstances in which copies were made.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- York Medieval Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781914049118
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«This volume thus offers a rich variety of insights into the diversity and complexity of Anglo-Norman historical writing. . . . [It] achieves its goal of using manuscripts to add nuance to our understanding of Anglo-Norman historical writing.»
MANUSCRIPT STUDIES
«The quality of the essays, and the originality of many of their findings, should, if nothing else, serve to spur other researchers into action.»
FRANCIA