Rhetoric and the Writing of History, 400-1500 (Paperback)

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.400 and c.1500. Concentrating on the general principles of classical rhetoric central to the language of this writing, alongside the more familiar traditions of ancient history, biblical exegesis and patristic theology, this survey introduces the conceptual sophistication and semantic rigour with which medieval authors could approach their narratives of past and present events, and the diversity of ends to which this history could then be put. By providing a close reading of some of the historians who put these linguistic principles and strategies into practice (from Augustine and Orosius through Otto of Freising and William of Malmesbury to Machiavelli and Guicciardini), it traces and questions some of the key methodological changes that characterise the function and purpose of the western historiographical tradition in this formative period of its development. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Historical Approaches
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	2011
Authors:	Matthew Kempshall
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	640
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-7031-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
LSN:	0-7190-7031-7
Barcode:	9780719070310

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