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Title Medieval historical writing : Britain and Ireland, 500-1500 / edited by Jennifer Jahner, Emily Steiner, and Elizabeth M. Tyler
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 581 pages) : illustrations
Contents Gildas / Magali Coumert -- Monastic history and memory / Thomas O'Donnell -- Apocalypse and/as history / Richard K. Emmerson -- The Brut: legendary British history / Jaclyn Rajsic -- Genealogies / Marie Turner -- Anglo-Saxon futures: writing England's ethical past, before and after 1066 / Cynthia Turner Camp -- Pagan histories/pagan fictions / Christine Chism -- Mental maps: sense of place in medieval British historical writing / Sarah Foot -- Viking armies and their historical legacy across England's North-South divide, c.790-c.1100 / Paul Gazzoli -- Cross-channel networks of history writing: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Elizabeth M. Tyler -- Creating and curating an archive: bury St. Edmunds and its Anglo-Saxon past / Kathryn A. Lowe -- Historical writing in medieval Wales / Owain Wyn Jones and Huw Pryce -- Scotland and Anglo-Scottish border writing / Kate Ash-Irisarri -- London histories / George Shuffelton -- History at the universities: Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris / Charles F. Briggs -- The professional historians of medieval Ireland / Katharine Simms -- Gender and the subjects of history in the early Middle Ages / Clare A. Lees -- Historical writing in medieval Britain: the case of Matthew Paris / Björn Weiler -- Vernacular historiography / Matthew Fisher -- Tall tales from the archive / Andrew Prescott -- History in print from Caxton to 1543 / A.S.G. Edwards -- Chronicle and romance / Robert Rowe -- Forgery as historiography / Alfred Hiatt -- Hagiography / Catherine Sanok -- Writing in the tragic mode / Thomas A. Prendergast -- Crisis and nation in fourteenth-century English chronicles / Andrew Galloway -- Polemical history and the Wars of the Roses / Sarah L. Peverley
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-562) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Middle Ages -- Historiography.
Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485
Historiography -- Ireland -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485
Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
Historiography -- Ireland -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485
Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
Historiography
Literature and history
Middle Ages -- Historiography
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Historiography -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
Great Britain -- Historiography -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485
Subject Great Britain
Ireland
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Jahner, Jennifer, editor
Steiner, Emily, editor
Tyler, E. M. (Elizabeth M.), 1965- editor.
ISBN 9781316681299
1316681297