| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 269 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Writing History in the Middle Ages ; 6 |
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Writing history in the Middle Ages ; 6.
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| Contents |
Did the purpose of history change in England in the twelfth century? / Michael Staunton -- England's place within salvation history: an extended version of Peter of Poitiers' Compendium Historiae in London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII / Andrea Worm -- Computus and chronology in Anglo-Norman England / Anne Lawrence-Mathers -- A Saint Petersburg manuscript of Excerptio Roberti Herefordensis de Chronica Mariani Scotti / Gleb Schmidt -- Autograph history books in the twelfth century / Laura Cleaver -- Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum in Anglo-Norman England / Laura Pani -- Durham cathedral priory and its library of history, c. 1090 -- c. 1150 / Charlie Rozier -- King John's books and the interdict in England and Wales / Stephen D. Church -- Artistic patronage and the early Anglo-Norman Abbots of St Albans / Kathryn Gerry -- Matthew Paris, Cecilia de Sanford and the early readership of the Vie de Seint Auban / Laura Slater -- New readers, old history: Gerald of Wales and the Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ireland / Caoimhe Whelan |
| Summary |
History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled by the kings of England, particularly from the twelfth century, has long attracted the attention of historians and literary scholars, whilst editions of works by such writers as Orderic Vitalis, John of Worcester, Symeon of Durham, William of Malmesbury, Gerald of Wales, Roger of Howden, and Matthew Paris has made them well known. Yet the easy availability of modern editions obscures both the creation and circulation of histories in the Middle Ages.0This collection of essays returns to the processes involved in writing history, and in particular to the medieval manuscript sources in which the works of such historians survive. It explores the motivations of those writing about the past in the Middle Ages, and the evidence provided by manuscripts for the circumstances in which copies were made. It also addresses the selection of material for copying, combinations of text and imagery, and the demand for copies of particular works, shedding new light on how and why history was being read, reproduced, discussed, adapted, and written |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Manuscripts, English (Middle)
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Manuscripts, English (Old)
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Historiography
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Manuscripts, English (Middle)
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Manuscripts, English (Old)
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Great Britain -- History -- Norman period, 1066-1154 -- Sources
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Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Sources
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Great Britain -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cleaver, Laura, editor.
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Worm, Andrea, 1972- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781787442894 |
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1787442896 |
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