History and the Written Word
History and the Written Word A thought-provoking look at the Angevin aristocracy's literary practices and historical recordComing upon the text of a document such as a charter or a letter inserted…
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History and the Written Word
A thought-provoking look at the Angevin aristocracy's literary practices and historical recordComing upon the text of a document such as a charter or a letter inserted into the fabric of a medieval chronicle and quoted in full or at length, modern readers might well assume that the chronicler is simply doing what good historians have always done--that is, citing his source as evidence. Such documentary insertions are not ubiquitous in medieval historiography, however, and are in fact particularly characteristic of the history-writing produced by the Angevins in England and Northern France in the later twelfth century.In History and the Written Word, Henry Bainton puts these documentary gestures center stage in an attempt to understand what the chroniclers were doing historiographically, socially, and culturally when they transcribed a document into a work
History and the Written Word
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