Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World: Manuscripts, Makers and Readers, c.1066-c.1250 (Writing History in the Middle Ages, 6)

Cleaver, Laura [Editor]; Worm, Andrea [Editor]; Worm, Andrea [Contributor]; Lawrence-Mathers, Anne [Contributor]; Whelan, Dr Caoimhe [Contributor]; Rozier, Charles C. [Contributor]; Schmidt, Gleb [Contributor]; Gerry, Dr. Kathryn [Contributor]; Cleaver, Laura [Contributor]; Pani, Laura [Contributor]; Slater, Laura [Contributor]; Staunton, Prof. Michael [Contributor]; Church, Professor Stephen D [Contributor];

ISBN 10: 1903153808 / ISBN 13: 9781903153802

Edité par York Medieval Press, 2018

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Synopsis :

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

History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled by the kings of England, particularly from the twelfth century, has long attracted the attention of historians and literary scholars, whilst editions of works by such writers as Orderic Vitalis, John of Worcester, Symeon of Durham, William of Malmesbury, Gerald of Wales, Roger of Howden, and Matthew Paris has made them well known. Yet the easy availability of modern editions obscures both the creation and circulation of histories in the Middle Ages.
This collection of essays returns to the processes involved in writing history, and in particular to the medieval manuscript sources in which the works of such historians survive. It explores the motivations of those writing about the past in the Middle Ages, and the evidence provided by manuscripts for the circumstances in which copies were made. It also addresses the selection of material for copying, combinations of text and imagery, and the demand for copies of particular works, shedding new light on how and why history was being read, reproduced, discussed, adapted, and written.

LAURA CLEAVER is Senior Lecturer in Manuscript Studies, Institute of English Studies, University of London; ANDREA WORM is Professor of Art History. Kunsthistorischen Institut, Eberhard Karls University, Tubingen.

Contributors: Stephen Church, Kathryn Gerry, Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Laura Pani, Charles C. Rozier, Gleb Schmidt, Laura Slater, Michael Staunton, Caoimhe Whelan, Andrea Worm

À propos des auteurs: Laura Cleaver is Senior Lecturer in Manuscript Studies at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research focuses on manuscripts made in England and France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and on the sale of pre-modern manuscripts in the early twentieth century.

ANDREA WORM is Professor of Art History. Kunsthistorischen Institut, Eberhard Karls University, Tubingen.

CHARLES C. ROZIER is Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

S.D. Church is Professor in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln.

Kathryn Gerry centres her research on the cult of saints and monastic culture in Anglo-Norman England. She has published on medieval manuscripts and the so-called minor arts, curated exhibitions at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and the Bowdoin College Museum of art, Brunswick, Maine, and has taught at several colleges and universities in the US; she is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College.

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Titre : Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World: ...
Éditeur : York Medieval Press
Date d'édition : 2018
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : As New