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Royal Responsibility in Anglo-Norman Historical Writing (Hardcover)
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Royal Responsibility in Anglo-Norman Historical Writing (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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It has long been established that the crisis of 1066 generated a
florescence of historical writing in the first half of the twelfth
century. Emily A. Winkler presents a new perspective on previously
unqueried matters, investigating how historians' individual
motivations and assumptions produced changes in the kind of history
written across the Conquest. She argues that responses to the
Danish Conquest of 1016 and the Norman Conquest of 1066 changed
dramatically within two generations of the latter conquest.
Repeated conquest could signal repeated failures and sin across the
orders of society, yet early twelfth-century historians in England
not only extract English kings and people from a history of
failure, but also establish English kingship as a worthy office on
a European scale. Royal Responsibility in Anglo-Norman Historical
Writing illuminates the consistent historical agendas of four
historians: William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, John of
Worcester, and Geffrei Gaimar. In their narratives of England's
eleventh-century history, these twelfth-century historians expanded
their approach to historical explanation to include individual
responsibility and accountability within a framework of
providential history. In this regard, they made substantial
departures from their sources. These historians share a view of
royal responsibility independent both of their sources (primarily
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) and of any political agenda that placed
English and Norman allegiances in opposition. Although the accounts
diverge widely in the interpretation of character, all four are
concerned more with the effectiveness of England's kings than with
the legitimacy of their origins. Their new, shared view of royal
responsibility represents a distinct phenomenon in England's
twelfth-century historiography.
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