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An expert survey of historical writing in medieval Britain and Ireland, introducing readers to a rich subfield of medieval literature.
List of contents
Introduction Jennifer Jahner, Emily Steiner and Elizabeth M. Tyler; Part 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; Part 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 Owain Wyn Jones and Huw Pryce; 13. Scotland 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; Part III. Practice: 16. The professional historians of medieval Ireland Katherine 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 Björn 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; Part 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.
About the author
Jennifer Jahner is Assistant Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology.Emily Steiner is Professor of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.Elizabeth M. Tyler is Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of York.
Summary
This expert survey of historical writing in medieval Britain and Ireland introduces readers to a rich subfield of medieval literature. It will appeal to scholars and students of the literature, culture and history of medieval Britain and Ireland, manuscript studies and the history of the book.
