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The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance - Authorising History in the Vernacular Revolution (Hardcover)
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The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance - Authorising History in the Vernacular Revolution (Hardcover)
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Examination of the striking new style of writing history in the
twelfth century, by men such as Gaimar, Wace and Ambroise. The
mid-twelfth century saw the sudden appearance of a remarkable group
of writers: the "new historians", authors such as Geffrei Gaimar,
Benoit de Sainte-Maure, Wace, Jordan Fantosme and Ambroise, who
were the earliest historicalwriters to use French. Each had his own
style and authorial persona; yet together, despite their
considerable differences, they pioneered a common form of
historical writing which is quite distinct from the styles of
previous vernacular writers. 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 learnedand
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 romanceand by writers of prose history. Dr PETER
DAMIAN-GRINT teaches at Brasenose College, Oxford.
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