Medieval historical writing : Britain and Ireland, 500-1500 / edited by Jennifer Jahner, Emily Steiner, and Elizabeth M. Tyler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jahner, Jennifer, editor.

Steiner, Emily, editor.

Tyler, E. M. (Elizabeth M.), 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages--Historiography.

Middle Ages.

Historiography--Great Britain--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485.

Historiography.

Historiography--Ireland--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485.

Historiography--Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.

Historiography--Ireland--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.

Literature and history--Great Britain--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485.

Literature and history.

Literature and history--Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.

Great Britain--Historiography--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Historiography--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485.

Ireland.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 581 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Britain and Ireland, 500-1500

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

History writing in the Middle Ages did not belong to any particular genre, language or class of texts. Its remit was wide, embracing the events of antiquity; the deeds of saints, rulers and abbots; archival practices; and contemporary reportage. This volume addresses the challenges presented by medieval historiography by using the diverse methodologies of medieval studies: legal and literary history, art history, religious studies, codicology, the history of the emotions, gender studies and critical race theory. Spanning one thousand years of historiography in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, the essays map historical thinking across literary genres and expose the rich veins of national mythmaking tapped into by medieval writers. Additionally, they attend to the ways in which medieval histories crossed linguistic and geographical borders. Together, they trace multiple temporalities and productive anachronisms that fuelled some of the most innovative medieval writing.

Contents:

Pt. I TIME

1.Gildas / Magali Coumert

2.Monastic History and Memory / Thomas O'Donnell

3.Apocalypse and/as History / Richard K. Emmerson

4.The Brut. Legendary British History / Jaclyn Rajsic

5.Genealogies / Marie Turner

6.Anglo-Saxon Futures: Writing England's Ethical Past, Before and After 1066 / Cynthia Turner Camp

7.Pagan Histories/Pagan Fictions / Christine Chism

pt. II PLACE

8.Mental Maps: Sense of Place in Medieval British Historical Writing / Sarah Foot

9.Viking Armies and their Historical Legacy across England's North-South Divide, c-.790-c.1100 / Paul Gazzoli

10.Cross-Channel Networks of History Writing: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Elizabeth M. Tyler

11.Creating and Curating an Archive: Bury St Edmunds and its Anglo-Saxon Past / Kathryn A. Lowe

12.Historical Writing in Medieval Wales / Hum Pryce

13.Scodand and Anglo-Scottish Border Writing / Kate Ash-Irisarri

14.London Histories / George Shuffelton

15.History at the Universities: Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris / Charles F. Briggs

pt. III PRACTICE

16.The Professional Historians of Medieval Ireland / Katharine Simms

17.Gender and the Subjects of History in the Early Middle Ages / Clare A. Lees

18.Historical Writing in Medieval Britain: The Case of Matthew Paris / Bjorn Weiler

19.Vernacular Historiography / Matthew Fisher

20.Tall Tales from the Archive / Andrew Prescott

21.History in Print from Caxton to 1543 / A.S. G. Edwards

pt. IV GENRE

22.Chronicle and Romance / Robert Rouse

23.Forgery as Historiography / Alfred Hiatt

24.Hagiography / Catherine Sanok

25.Writing in the Tragic Mode / Thomas A. Prendergast

26.Crisis and Nation in Fourteenth-Century English Chronicles / Andrew Galloway

27.Polemical History and the Wars of the Roses / Sarah L. Peverley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-562) and index.

ISBN:

9781107163362

1107163366

OCLC:

1086556611