| 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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Print version record |
| Subject |
Robert, of Gloucester, active 1260-1300 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Mannyng, Robert, active 1288-1338 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Mannyng, Robert, active 1288-1338. |
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Robert, of Gloucester, active 1260-1300. |
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Cursor mundi.
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Cursor mundi. |
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Historical poetry, English -- History and criticism
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Historical poetry, English -- Authorship
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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Historiography -- England -- History -- To 1500
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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English literature -- Middle English.
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Historical poetry, English.
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Historiography.
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England.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443868419 |
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1443868418 |
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1322180539 |
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9781322180533 |
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