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The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
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Description
This book studies some of the more characteristic elements of the common style used by the vernacular historians. Their detached and `self-conscious' authorial presentation is particularly notable: it is seen both in the prologues and epilogues to their works, where they present their source materials as reliable, themselves as serious scholars, and their works as worthy of belief, and constantly throughout the text as the historians direct audience response to their work. The author shows how this `historical' style fits into both the vernacular and the Latin literature current in the period: the vernacular historians borrowed elements from both the learned and the popular traditions to produce their own successful and vigorous hybrid, one which was still producing new shoots as late as the fifteenth century and which was widely copied and imitated by both writers of courtly romance and by writers of prose history.
Dr PETER DAMIAN-GRINT teaches at Brasenose College, Oxford.
Product details
- Number of Pages:
- 308
- Release Date:
- 1999-11-01
- Publication Date:
- 1999-12-23
- Publisher:
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 0851157602
- ISBN13:
- 9780851157603
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 628 g
- Height:
- 161 cm
- Width:
- 240 cm
- Thickness:
- 21 cm
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