Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Jahner, Jennifer
• Steiner, Emily
• Tyler, E. M. (Elizabeth M.), 1965-

Description

xvi, 581 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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.

Subjects

• Great Britain
• Historiography
• Literature and history
• History
• Great Britain > Historiography > History > Medieval period, 1066-1485
• Historiography > Ireland > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
• Literature and history > Great Britain > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
• Historiography > Great Britain > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
• Historiography > Ireland > History > Medieval period, 1066-1485
• Middle Ages > Historiography
• Literature and history > Great Britain > History > Medieval period, 1066-1485
• Ireland
• 449-1485
• Great Britain > Historiography > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
• Historiography > Great Britain > History > Medieval period, 1066-1485

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

JFE 20-5683

ISBN

• 9781107163362
• 1107163366

LCCN

2019010368

OCLC

1086556611

Title

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

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

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

Chronological Term

449-1485

Added Author

Jahner, Jennifer, editor.

Steiner, Emily, editor.

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

Research Call Number

JFE 20-5683