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Author : Antonia Gransden
Publisher : London : Routledge and Kegan Paul
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004942853
Author : Antonia Gransden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136190216
Using a variety of sources including chronicles, annals, secular and sacred biographies and monographs on local histories Historical Writing in England by Antonia Gransden offers a comprehensive critical survey of historical writing in England from the mid-sixth century to the early sixteenth century. Based on the study of the sources themselves, these volumes also offer a critical assessment of secondary sources and historiographical development.
Author : Antonia Gransden
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0415151252
Author : Antonia Gransden
Publisher : London : Routledge and Kegan Paul
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039097030
Using a variety of sources including chronicles, annals, secular and sacred biographies and monographs on local histories, this text offers a critical survey of historical writing in England from the mid-6th century to the early 16th century. Based on the study of the sources themselves, these volumes also offer a critical assessment of secondary sources and historiographical development. The author discusses figures such as Bede, William Malmesbury and Matthew Paris, individually, concluding with a critical examination of their careers and work. The author details the influences and traditions which shaped each writer's attitudes and includes extensive footnotes to primary and secondary sources. The book also covers the historiographical achievements of medical England and outlines trends.
Author : José Rabasa,Masayuki Sato,Edoardo Tortarolo,Daniel Woolf
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191629440
Volume III of The Oxford History of Historical Writing contains essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from 1400 to 1800. The volume proceeds in geographic order from east to west, beginning in Asia and ending in the Americas. It aims at once to provide a selective but authoritative survey of the field and, where opportunity allows, to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is the third of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.
Author : Herbert Kessler,Hugh Doherty,Jay C. Rubenstein,Kirsten Fenton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838890
This volume of the Haskins Society Journal furthers the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research on the early and central Middle Ages, especially in the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds but also on the continent. The topics of the essays it contains range from the curious place of Francia in the historiography of medieval Europe to strategies of royal land distribution in tenth-century Anglo-Saxon England to the representation of men and masculinity in the works of Anglo-Norman historians. Essays on the place of polemical literature in Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, exploration of the relationship between chivalry and crusading in Baudry of Bourgeuil's History, and Cosmas of Prague's manipulation of historical memory in the service of ecclesiastical privilege and priority each extend the volume's engagement with medieval historiography, employing rich continental examples to do so. Investigations of comital personnel in Anjou and Henry II's management of royal forests and his foresters shed new light on the evolving nature of secular governance in the twelfth centuries and challenge and refine important aspects of our view of medieval rule in this period. The volume ends with a wide-ranging reflection on the continuing importance of the art object itself in medieval history and visual studies. Contributors: H.F. Doherty, Kathryn Dutton, Kirsten Fenton, Paul Fouracre, Herbert Kessler, Ryan Lavelle, Thomas J.H. McCarthy, Lisa Wolverton, Simon Yarrow.
Author : Everett U. Crosby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052152184X
This book is the first detailed examination on a comparative basis of the economic and political relations between the bishops and their cathedral clergy in England during the century and a half after the Conquest. In particular, it is a study of the structure and historical development of the mensal endowments and the redistribution of wealth which led, in the course of time, to the establishment of the chapter as a largely independent body with substantial political power. A description of the constitutional importance of the mensa and its treatment in recent scholarly writing is followed by a discussion of property rights and liberties in the church and the role of the bishop in ecclesiastical and civil government. The core of the book consists of an analysis based on contemporary sources of the episcopal and capitular organisation in each of the ten monastic and seven secular sees.
Author : Sarah Foot,Chase F. Robinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191636936
How was history written in Europe and Asia between 400-1400? How was the past understood in religious, social and political terms? And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The volume, which assembles 28 contributions from leading historians, tackles these and other questions. Part I provides comprehensive overviews of the development of historical writing in societies that range from the Korean Peninsula to north-west Europe, which together highlight regional and cultural distinctiveness. Part II complements the first part by taking a thematic and comparative approach; it includes essays on genre, warfare, and religion (amongst others) which address common concerns of historians working in this liminal period before the globalizing forces of the early modern world.
Author : Paulina Kewes,Ian W. Archer,Felicity Heal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199565757
The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.
Author : W. B. Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192512406
Long considered a highly distinctive English writer, Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) has not been treated as the significant historian he was. Fuller's The Church-History of Britain (1655) was the first comprehensive history of Christianity from antiquity to the upheavals of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the tumultuous events of the English civil wars. His numerous publications outside the genre of history—sermons, meditations, pamphlets on current thought and events—reflected and helped to shape public opinion during the revolutionary era in which he lived. Thomas Fuller: Discovering England's Religious Past highlights the fact that Fuller was a major contributor to the flowering of historical writing in early modern England. W. B. Patterson provides both a biography of Thomas Fuller's life and career in the midst of the most wrenching changes his country had ever experienced and a critical account of the origins, growth, and achievements of a new kind of history in England, a process to which he made a significant and original contribution. The volume begins with a substantial introduction dealing with memory, uses of the past, and the new history of England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Fuller was moved by the changes in Church and state that came during the civil wars that led to the trial and execution of King Charles I and to the Interregnum that followed. He sought to revive the memory of the English past, recalling the successes and failures of both distant and recent events. The book illuminates Fuller's focus on history as a means of understanding the present as well as the past, and on religion and its important place in English culture and society.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004488519
In the summer of 1996 the first international conference was held on the medieval chronicle, a genre which until then had received but scant attention from historians or specialists in literary history or art history. There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of an international conference. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions. It is the aim of the present volume to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.
Author : Karen A. Winstead,Alan Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198707035
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages' explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Anglo-Latin lives of missionaries, prelates, and princes to high medieval lives of scholars and visionaries to late medieval lives of authors and laypeople.
Author : Karen A. Winstead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191016936
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life-writing from late Antiquity to the threshold of the Renaissance. During the Middle Ages, writers from Bede to Chaucer were thinking about life and experimenting with ways to translate lives, their own and others', into literature. Their subjects included career religious, saints, celebrities, visionaries, pilgrims, princes, philosophers, poets, and even a few 'ordinary people.' They relay life stories not only in chronological narratives, but also in debates, dialogues, visions, and letters. Many medieval biographers relied on the reader's trust in their authority, but some espoused standards of evidence that seem distinctly modern, drawing on reliable written sources, interviewing eyewitnesses, and cross-checking their facts wherever possible. Others still professed allegiance to evidence but nonetheless freely embellished and invented not only events and dialogue but the sources to support them. The first book devoted to life-writing in medieval England, The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages covers major life stories in Old and Middle English, Latin, and French, along with such Continental classics as the letters of Abelard and Heloise and the autobiographical Vision of Christine de Pizan. In addition to the life stories of historical figures, it treats accounts of fictional heroes, from Beowulf to King Arthur to Queen Katherine of Alexandria, which show medieval authors experimenting with, adapting, and expanding the conventions of life writing. Though Medieval life writings can be challenging to read, we encounter in them the antecedents of many of our own diverse biographical forms-tabloid lives, literary lives, brief lives, revisionist lives; lives of political figures, memoirs, fictional lives, and psychologically-oriented accounts that register the inner lives of their subjects.
Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2648 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195169218
A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.
Author : Alastair J. Macdonald
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857907745
Scottish military offensives against England from 1369 were largely the product of government policy, were launched with careful timing and, in the reign of Robert II, involved close co-operation with France. They succeeded militarily, encouraging the Scots to the point where they were willing to engage in attacks on England beyond the ambition of their French allies. However, diplomatic gains fell well short of forcing English recognition of Scottish independence. Hopes of achieving this by military means were ended in the reign of Robert III when the Scots were heavily defeated in 1402. War was not solely fought with political objectives in mind or other 'rational' factors such as the quest for financial gain. The Scots went to war for emotive reasons too, such as hatred of the English, the search for renown and the sheer enjoyment of fighting. All these factors inspired the Scots to launch a series of bloody, brutal and ultimately futile offensives against England.
