Chronicles : the writing of history in medieval England
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Chronicles : the writing of history in medieval England
Hambledon and London, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-274) and index
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Description
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 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 the leading authority on medieval English historical writing. He examines how medieval writers such as William of Malmesbury and Adam of Usk treated chronology and geography, politics and warfare, heroes and villains. He also shows how the writing of history changed in the three hundred years between 1250 and 1550.
Table of Contents
- Telling the truth
- Godwitness testimony
- memory and usefulness
- genealogy and institutional history
- the deeds of warriors
- time and place
- language, form and identity
- English history in the late Middle Ages.
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