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A consideration of the ways in which the past was framed and
remembered in the pre-modern world. The training and use of memory
was crucial in medieval culture, given the limited literacy at the
time, but to date, very little thought has been given to the
complex and disparate ways in which the theory and practices of
memoryinteracted with the inherently unstable concepts of time and
gender at the time. The essays in this volume, drawing on
approaches from applied poststructural and queer theory among
others, reassess those ideologies, meanings and responses generated
by the workings of memory within and over "time". Ultimately, they
argue for the inherent instability of the traditional
gender-time-memory matrix (within which men are configured as the
recorders of "history"and women as the repositories of a more
inchoate familial and communal knowledge), showing the Middle Ages
as a locus for a far more fluid conceptualization of time and
memory than has previously been considered. Elizabeth Cox is
Lecturer in Old English at Swansea University; Roberta Magnani is
Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University; Liz Herbert
McAvoy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Swansea University.
Contributors: Anne E. Bailey, Daisy Black, Elizabeth Cox, Fiona
Harris-Stoertz, Ayoush Lazikani, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Pamela E.
Morgan, William Rogers, Patricia Skinner, Victoria Turner.
A fresh look at William of Malmesbury which not only demonstrates
his real greatness as a historian and his European vision, but also
the breadth of his learning across a number of other disciplines.
In the past William of Malmesbury (1090-1143) has been seen as
first and foremost a historian of England, and little else. This
volume reveals not only William's real greatness as a historian and
his European vision, but also thebreadth and depth of his learning
across a number of other fields. Areas that receive particular
attention are William's historical writings, his historical vision
and interpretation of England's past; William and kingship;
William's language; William's medical knowledge; the influence of
Bede and other ancient writers on William's historiography; William
and chronology; William, Anselm of Canterbury and reform of the
English Church; William and the LatinClassics; William and the
Jews; and William as hagiographer. Overall, the volume offers a
broad coverage of William's learning, wide-ranging interests and
significance as revealed in his writings. Rodney M. Thomson is
Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of
Tasmania; Emily Dolmans is a lecturer in English Literature at
Jesus College and Oriel College, University of Oxford; Emily A.
Winkler is the John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in Medieval
History at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, and Departmental
Lecturer in Medieval History. Contributors: Anne E. Bailey, Emily
Dolmans, Daniel Gerrard, John Gillingham, Kati Ihnat, Ryan Kemp,
William Kynan-Wilson, Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Stanislav Mereminskiy,
Samu Niskanen, Joanna Phillips, Alheydis Plassmann, Sigbjorn
Sonnesyn, Rodney M. Thomson, Emily Joan Ward, Emily A. Winkler,
Michael Winterbottom.
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Discovering William of Malmesbury (Paperback)
Rodney M. Thomson, Emily Dolmans, Emily A. Winkler; Contributions by Alheydis Plassmann, Anne E. Bailey, …
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A fresh look at William of Malmesbury which not only demonstrates
his real greatness as a historian and his European vision, but also
the breadth of his learning across a number of other disciplines.
In the past William of Malmesbury (1090-1143) has been seen as
first and foremost a historian of England, and little else. This
volume reveals not only William's real greatness as a historian and
his European vision, but also the breadth and depth of his learning
across a number of other fields. Areas that receive particular
attention are William's historical writings, his historical vision
and interpretation of England's past; William and kingship;
William's language; William's medical knowledge; the influence of
Bede and other ancient writers on William's historiography; William
and chronology; William, Anselm of Canterbury and reform of the
English Church; William and the Latin Classics; William and the
Jews; and William as hagiographer. Overall, the volume offers a
broad coverage of William's learning, wide-ranging interests and
significance as revealed in his writings.
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