History and the Written Word - Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins

Drawing on the perspectives of modern and medieval narratology, medieval multilingualism, and cultural memory, History and the Written Word argues that members of an administrative elite demonstrated their mastery of the rules of literate political behavior by producing and consuming history-writing and its documents.

About the author

Henry Bainton is Honorary Fellow in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York and teaches English literature in the Department for English, Germanic, and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Summary

Drawing on the perspectives of modern and medieval narratology, medieval multilingualism, and cultural memory, History and the Written Word argues that members of an administrative elite demonstrated their mastery of the rules of literate political behavior by producing and consuming history-writing and its documents.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Bainton
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780812251906
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5190-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Middle Ages; The Middle Ages Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Frankreich, England, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Europäische Geschichte: Mittelalter