Remarks On The Mediæval Writers Of English History

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Remarks on the Mediaeval Writers of English History

Author : William Sidney Gibson
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1347776710

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Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England

Author : Matthew Fisher
Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0814211984

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Based on new readings of some of the least-read texts by some of the best-known scribes of later medieval England, Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England reconceptualizes medieval scribes as authors, and the texts surviving in medieval manuscripts as authored. Culling evidence from history writing in later medieval England, Matthew Fisher concludes that we must reject the axiomatic division between scribe and author. Using the peculiarities of authority and intertextuality unique to medieval historiography, Fisher exposes the rich ambiguities of what it means for medieval scribes to "write" books. He thus frames the composition, transmission, and reception--indeed, the authorship--of some medieval texts as scribal phenomena. History writing is an inherently intertextual genre: in order to write about the past, texts must draw upon other texts. Scribal Authorship demonstrates that medieval historiography relies upon quotation, translation, and adaptation in such a way that the very idea that there is some line that divides author from scribe is an unsustainable and modern critical imposition. Given the reality that a scribe's work was far more nuanced than the simplistic binary of error and accuracy would suggest, Fisher completely overturns many of our assumptions about the processes through which manuscripts were assembled and texts (both canonical literature and the less obviously literary) were composed.

Chronicles

Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1852853581

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The priorities of medieval chroniclers and historians were not those of the modern historian, nor was the way that they gathered, arranged and presented evidence. Yet if we understand how they approached their task, and their assumption of God's immanence in the world, much that they wrote becomes clear. Many of them were men of high intelligence whose interpretation of events sheds clear light on what happened. Christopher Given-Wilson is one of the leading authorities on medieval English historical writing. He examines how medieval writers such as Ranulf Higden and Adam Usk treated chronology and geography, politics and warfare, heroes and villains. He looks at the ways in which chronicles were used during the middle ages, and at how the writing of history changed between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

Medieval Historical Writing

Author : Jennifer Jahner,Emily Steiner,Elizabeth M. Tyler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107163366

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Medieval Historical Writing by Jennifer Jahner,Emily Steiner,Elizabeth M. Tyler Pdf

History writing in the Middle Ages did not belong to any particular genre, language or class of texts. Its remit was wide, embracing the events of antiquity; the deeds of saints, rulers and abbots; archival practices; and contemporary reportage. This volume addresses the challenges presented by medieval historiography by using the diverse methodologies of medieval studies: legal and literary history, art history, religious studies, codicology, the history of the emotions, gender studies and critical race theory. Spanning one thousand years of historiography in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, the essays map historical thinking across literary genres and expose the rich veins of national mythmaking tapped into by medieval writers. Additionally, they attend to the ways in which medieval histories crossed linguistic and geographical borders. Together, they trace multiple temporalities and productive anachronisms that fuelled some of the most innovative medieval writing.

Anglo-Saxon Saints Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England

Author : Cynthia Turner Camp
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844020

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Anglo-Saxon Saints Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England by Cynthia Turner Camp Pdf

A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages

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

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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages by Karen A. Winstead Pdf

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.

Historical Writing in England: c. 500 to c. 1307

Author : Antonia Gransden
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education, Medieval
ISBN : 9780415151245

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Historical Writing in England: c. 500 to c. 1307 by Antonia Gransden Pdf

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Medieval Historical Writing

Author : Jennifer Jahner,Emily Steiner,Elizabeth M. Tyler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316732205

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Medieval Historical Writing by Jennifer Jahner,Emily Steiner,Elizabeth M. Tyler Pdf

History writing in the Middle Ages did not belong to any particular genre, language or class of texts. Its remit was wide, embracing the events of antiquity; the deeds of saints, rulers and abbots; archival practices; and contemporary reportage. This volume addresses the challenges presented by medieval historiography by using the diverse methodologies of medieval studies: legal and literary history, art history, religious studies, codicology, the history of the emotions, gender studies and critical race theory. Spanning one thousand years of historiography in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, the essays map historical thinking across literary genres and expose the rich veins of national mythmaking tapped into by medieval writers. Additionally, they attend to the ways in which medieval histories crossed linguistic and geographical borders. Together, they trace multiple temporalities and productive anachronisms that fuelled some of the most innovative medieval writing.

Abbatial Authority and the Writing of History in the Middle Ages

Author : Benjamin Pohl,Pohl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198795377

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Abbatial Authority and the Writing of History in the Middle Ages by Benjamin Pohl,Pohl Pdf

This book argues that abbatial authority was fundamental to monastic historical writing in the period c.500-1500. Writing history was a collaborative enterprise integral to the life and identity of medieval monastic communities, but it was not an activity for which time and resources were set aside routinely. Each act of historiographical production constituted an extraordinary event, one for which singular provision had to be made, workers and materials assigned, time carved out from the monastic routine, and licence granted. This allocation of human and material resources was the responsibility and prerogative of the monastic superior. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of primary evidence gathered from across the medieval Latin West, this book is the first to investigate systematically how and why abbots and abbesses exercised their official authority and resources to lay the foundations on which their communities' historiographical traditions were built by themselves and others. It showcases them as prolific authors, patrons, commissioners, project managers, and facilitators of historical narratives who not only regularly put pen to parchment personally, but also, and perhaps more importantly, enabled others inside and outside their communities by granting them the resources and licence to write. Revealing the intrinsic relationship between abbatial authority and the writing of history in the Middle Ages with unprecedented clarity, Benjamin Pohl urges us to revisit and revise our understanding of monastic historiography, its processes, and its protagonists in ways that require some radical rethinking of the medieval historian's craft in communal and institutional contexts.

Legends, Tradition and History in Medieval England

Author : Antonia Gransden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826439468

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Legends, Tradition and History in Medieval England by Antonia Gransden Pdf

In this collection of essays, Antonia Gransden brings out the virtues of medieval writers and highlights their attitudes and habits of thought. She traces the continuing influence of Bede, the greatest of early medieval English historians, from his death to the 16th century. Bede's clarity and authority were welcomed by generations of monastic historians. At the other end is a humble 14th-century chronicle produced at Lynn with little to add other than a few local references.

Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World

Author : Fozia Bora
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786726056

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Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World by Fozia Bora Pdf

In the 'encyclopaedic' fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, including that of the Fatimids (969–1171CE). For in two centuries of rule over Egypt and North Africa, the Isma'ili Fatimids had left few self-generated historiographical records. Instead, it fell to Ayyubid and Mamluk historians to represent the dynasty to posterity. This monograph sets out to explain how later historians preserved, interpreted and re-organised earlier textual sources. Mamluk historians engaged in a sophisticated archival practice within historiography, rather than uncritically reproducing earlier reports. In a new diplomatic edition, translation and analysis of Mamluk historian Ibn al-Furat's account of late Fatimid rule in The History of Dynasties and Kings, a widely known but barely copied universal chronicle of Islamic history, Fozia Bora traces the survival of historiographical narratives from Fatimid Egypt. Through Ibn al-Furat's text, Bora demonstrates archivality as the heuristic key to Mamluk historical writing. This book is essential for all scholars working on the written culture and history of the medieval Islamic world, and paves the way for a more nuanced reading of pre-modern Arabic chronicles and of the epistemic environment in which they were produced.

The Oxford History of Life-writing

Author : Karen A. Winstead,Alan Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198707035

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The Oxford History of Life-writing by Karen A. Winstead,Alan Stewart Pdf

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.