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Author Rider, Jeff, 1954-

Title God's scribe : the historiographical art of Galbert of Bruges / Jeff Rider
Published Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 360 pages)
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Open Book -- 1. Ego Galbertus -- 2. “In the Midst of Such a Great Tumult� -- 3. The Comfort of History -- 4. The Art of History -- 5. God�s Scribe -- 6. The Tyrant -- 7. Sapiens -- Appendix I: Members of the Conventus of Saint Donatian and Clerics Active in the Count�s Administration in Bruges (1089�1135) -- Appendix II: Oral Sources -- Appendix III: Written Sources -- Appendix IV: Messages -- Appendix V: Parallel Passages from Walter of Thérouanne�s Vita Karoli and Galbert of Bruges�s De multro
Appendix VI: Passages in the Passio Karoli That May Have Been Revised or Added during the Transformation of the Descriptio Appendix VII: Allusions to Subsequent Events in Chapters 15�67, 72�85 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "Scholars have long considered the De multro to be a true journal, written hastily as events unfolded and never revised. In God's Scribe, the first book devoted to Galbert and his chronicle, Jeff Rider challenges that view. He argues that the De multro is not the transparent and objective testimony it has been taken to be; rather it is a complex and sophisticated work of astonishing originality that is an outstanding example of medieval historical writing." "Intended as a companion volume to the De multro, the book provides an outline of the Flemish crisis of 1127-28 and summarizes what is known about Galbert. It traces the elaboration of the multro from a set of wax notes to a nearly completed chronicle. Rider studies Galbert's sources, the way he took and organized his notes, the distinct stages in which the chronicle was written, its literary qualities, and the conceptual tools he used to comprehend the events he related in it. Rider concludes that Galbert's efforts to understand an extended series of events in a light of the theology of history and authority common in his day, and to apply that theology to the practice of historical writing, made the De multro one of the most intellectual and experimental histories of its time, while its style, form, and viewpoint made it one of the most popular ones."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-348) and index
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Subject Galbert, de Bruges, -1134. De multro, traditione, et occisione gloriosi Karoli comitis Flandriarum.
Charles, Count of Flanders, -1127 -- Assassination
SUBJECT Charles, Count of Flanders, -1127 fast
De multro, traditione, et occisione gloriosi Karoli comitis Flandriarum (Galbert, de Bruges) fast
Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
HISTORY -- Historiography.
Assassination
Kings and rulers -- Death and burial
De multro, traditione et occisione gloriosi Karoli comitis Flandriarum (Galbert van Brugge)
SUBJECT Flanders -- Historiography
Flanders -- Kings and rulers -- Death -- Sources
Subject Europe -- Flanders
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ISBN 9780813220840
081322084X