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Experimental histories : interpolation and the medieval British past / Hannah Weaver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weaver, Hannah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Great Britain--History.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Middle Ages--Historiography.
- Middle Ages.
- Time--History--To 1500.
- Time.
- Transmission of texts--Great Britain--History--To 1500.
- Transmission of texts.
- Great Britain--Historiography--History--To 1500.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : British Library, [2023]
- Summary:
- "This book focuses on interpolation in medieval manuscript histories of Britain, particularly the thirteenth-century Brut tradition, arguing that historians used this form to stage debates about how time worked and how it could be narrated"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Interpolation and the patchwork of history
- The rise of historical interpolation from antiquity to Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Prophecy and the prudent reader
- Finding fulfillment in the Roman de Brut
- Images and collapse in the Bayeux Embroidery and the Egerton Brut
- Coda. The afterlives of interpolation and timefulness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501776229
- 1501776223
- 9781501776212
- 1501776215
- OCLC:
- 1446129383
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