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Author Nyffenegger, Nicole

Title Authorising history : gestures of authorship in fourteenth-century English historiography / by Nicole Nyffenegger
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- The task of writing history -- History : the subject matter -- Empowering written texts -- Negotiating authority -- Inscribing authority -- Conclusion
Summary ""This book discusses the strategies and rhetorical means by which four authors of Middle English verse historiography seek to authorise their works and themselves. Paying careful attention to the texts, it traces the ways in which authors inscribe their fictional selves and seek to give authority to their constructions of history. It further investigates how the authors position themselves in relation to their task of writing history, their sources and their audiences. This study provides new ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index
Notes In English; with some passages in Middle English
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Subject Robert, of Gloucester, active 1260-1300 -- Criticism and interpretation
Mannyng, Robert, active 1288-1338 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Mannyng, Robert, active 1288-1338 fast
Robert, of Gloucester, active 1260-1300 fast
Cursor mundi. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98101781
Cursor mundi fast
Subject Historical poetry, English -- History and criticism
Historical poetry, English -- Authorship
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
Historiography -- England -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
English literature -- Middle English
Historical poetry, English
Historiography
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443868419
1443868418
1322180539
9781322180533
Other Titles Authorizing history