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

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Book
Contributor:
Jahner, Jennifer, editor.
Steiner, Emily, editor.
Tyler, E. M. (Elizabeth M.), 1965- editor.
Cambridge University Press
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.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 581 pages) : illustrations
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019
Contents:
Gildas / Magali Coumert
Monastic history and memory / Thomas O'Donnell
Apocalypse and/as history / Richard K. Emmerson
The Brut: legendary British history / Jaclyn Rajsic
Genealogies / Marie Turner
Anglo-Saxon futures: writing England's ethical past, before and after 1066 / Cynthia Turner Camp
Pagan histories/pagan fictions / Christine Chism
Mental maps: sense of place in medieval British historical writing / Sarah Foot
Viking armies and their historical legacy across England's North-South divide, c.790-c.1100 / Paul Gazzoli
Cross-channel networks of history writing: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Elizabeth M. Tyler
Creating and curating an archive: bury St. Edmunds and its Anglo-Saxon past / Kathryn A. Lowe
Historical writing in medieval Wales / Owain Wyn Jones and Huw Pryce
Scotland and Anglo-Scottish border writing / Kate Ash-Irisarri
London histories / George Shuffelton
History at the universities: Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris / Charles F. Briggs
The professional historians of medieval Ireland / Katharine Simms
Gender and the subjects of history in the early Middle Ages / Clare A. Lees
Historical writing in medieval Britain: the case of Matthew Paris / Björn Weiler
Vernacular historiography / Matthew Fisher
Tall tales from the archive / Andrew Prescott
History in print from Caxton to 1543 / A.S.G. Edwards
Chronicle and romance / Robert Rowe
Forgery as historiography / Alfred Hiatt
Hagiography / Catherine Sanok
Writing in the tragic mode / Thomas A. Prendergast
Crisis and nation in fourteenth-century English chronicles / Andrew Galloway
Polemical history and the Wars of the Roses / Sarah L. Peverley
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-562) and index
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record
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Print version: Medieval historical writing.
ISBN:
9781316681299
1316681297
Publisher Number:
99992477375
Access Restriction:
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