Richer's prologue -- Rewriting history : Richer and his written sources -- Narratio probabilis and the techniques of dramatization -- Rhetoric and the historia -- Authorial intention and authorial ambition
Summary
Building upon, but also moving beyond, previous scholarship that has focused on Richer's political allegiances and his views of kingship, this study provides a comprehensive synthesis of the History, examining Richer's use and abuse of his sources, his relationship to Gerbert, and the motives that led him to write
