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History and the Written Word - Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins (Hardcover)
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History and the Written Word - Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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A thought-provoking look at the Angevin aristocracy's literary
practices and historical record Coming 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 of history.
Where earlier scholars who have looked at the phenomenon have
explained this increased use of documents by considering the
growing bureaucratic state and an increasing historiographical
concern for documentary evidence, Bainton seeks to resituate these
histories, together with their authors and users, within literate
but sub-state networks of political power. Proposing a new category
he designates "literate lordship" to describe the form of power
with which documentary history-writing was especially concerned, he
shows how important the vernacular was in recording the social
lives of these literate lords and how they found it a particularly
appropriate medium through which to record their roles in history.
Drawing on the perspectives of modern and medieval narratology,
medieval multilingualism, and cultural memory, History and the
Written Word argues that members of an administrative elite
demonstrated their mastery of the rules of literate political
behavior by producing and consuming history-writing and its
documents.
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