Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World - Manuscripts, Makers and Readers, c.1066-c.1250

The contexts for the works of eleventh and twelfth-century historians are here brought to the fore.

List of contents

Introduction: Making and Reading History Books in the Anglo-Norman World
Did the Purpose of History Change in England in the Twelfth Century? - Michael Staunton
England's Place within Salvation History: An Extended Version of Peter of Poitiers' Compendium Historiae in London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII - Andrea Worm
Computus and Chronology in Anglo-Norman England - Anne Lawrence-Mathers
A Saint Petersburg Manuscript of Excerptio Roberti Herefordensis de Chronica Mariani Scotti - Gleb Schmidt
Autograph History Books in the Twelfth Century - Laura Cleaver
Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum in Anglo-Norman England - Laura Pani
Durham Cathedral Priory and its Library of History, c. 1090 - c. 1150 - Charles C. Rozier
King John's Books and the Interdict in England and Wales - Stephen D. Church
Artistic Patronage and the Early Anglo-Norman Abbots of St Albans - Kathryn Gerry
Matthew Paris, Cecilia de Sanford and the Early Readership of the Vie de Seint Auban - Laura Slater
New Readers, Old History: Gerald of Wales and the Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ireland - Caoimhe Whelan
Bibliography

About the author

Edited by Laura Cleaver and Andrea Worm

Summary

The contexts for the works of eleventh and twelfth-century historians are here brought to the fore.

Product details

• Assisted by: Laura Cleaver (Editor), Andrea Worm (Editor), Andrea (Author) Worm (Editor)
• Publisher: York Medieval Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2018
• EAN: 9781903153802
• ISBN: 978-1-903153-80-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 162 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 660 g
• Illustrations: 5 colour, 31 b/w illus.
• Series: Writing History in the Middle; Writing History in the Middle Ages
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics