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Essays on the medieval chronicle tradition, shedding light on
history writing, manuscript studies and the history of the book,
and the post-medieval reception of such texts. The histories of
chronicles composed in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries and onwards, with a focus on texts belonging to or
engaging with the Prose Brut tradition, are the focus of this
volume. The contributors examine the composition, dissemination and
reception of historical texts written in Anglo-Norman, Latin and
English, including the Prose Brut chronicle (c. 1300 and later),
Castleford's Chronicle (c. 1327),and Nicholas Trevet's Les
Cronicles (c. 1334), looking at questions of the processes of
writing, rewriting, printing and editing history. They cross
traditional boundaries of subject and period, taking
multi-disciplinary approaches to their studies in order to
underscore the (shifting) historical, social and political contexts
in which medieval English chronicles were used and read from the
fourteenth century through to the present day. As such, the volume
honours the pioneering work of the late Professor Lister M.
Matheson, whose research in this area demonstrated that a full
understanding of medieval historical literature demands attention
to both the content of theworks in question and to the material
circumstances of producing those works. JACLYN RAJSIC is a Lecturer
in Medieval Literature in the School of English and Drama at Queen
Mary University of London; ERIK KOOPER taughtOld and Middle English
at Utrecht University until his retirement in 2007; DOMINIQUE HOCHE
Is an Associate Professor at West Liberty University in West
Virginia. Contributors: Elizabeth J. Bryan, Caroline D.
Eckhardt,A.S.G. Edwards, Dan Embree, Alexander L. Kaufman, Edward
Donald Kennedy, Erik Kooper, Julia Marvin, William Marx, Krista A.
Murchison, Heather Pagan, Jaclyn Rajsic, Christine M. Rose, Neil
Weijer
Essays reflecting the most recent research on the thirteenth
century, with a timely focus on the Treaty of Paris. Additional
editors: Karen Stoeber, Bjoern Weiler The articles collected here
bear witness to the continued and wide interest in England and its
neighbours in the "long" thirteenth century. The volume includes
papers on the high politics of the thirteenth century,
international relations, the administrative and governmental
structures of medieval England and aspects of the wider societal
and political context of the period. A particular theme of the
papers is Anglo-French political history, and especially the ways
in which that relationship was reflected in the diplomatic and
dynastic arrangements associated with the Treaty of Paris, the
750th anniversary of which fell during 2009, a fact celebrated in
this collection of essays and the Paris conference at which the
original papers were first delivered. Contributors: Caroline Burt,
Julie E. Kanter, Julia Barrow, Benjamin L. Wild, WilliamMarx,
Caroline Dunn, Adrian Jobson, Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks, Tony K.
Moore, David A. Trotter, William Chester Jordan, Daniel Power,
Florent Lenegre
In 1856 J.S. Davies edited for the Camden Society the continuation
of the Middle English prose Brut, from a manuscript in the Bodleian
(Lyell 34), that became known as the Davies ChronicleI/>.
Covering the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI,
it was at once recognised as an important vernacular historical
narrative. Unfortunately Lyell 34 is in places badly damaged, and
the narrative of the reign of Richard II has survived only in
fragments. This new edition of what are in fact two BrutI/>
continuations makes use of a full text recently discovered in the
National Library of Wales (MS 21608), providing a more
authoritative version. The narrative covers the periods 1377-1437
and 1440-1461, and includes previously unknown English-language
accounts of episodes of the reign of Richard II, such as the
Peasants' Revolt. Each continuation is the product of a different
political climate, and the introduction explores the narrative and
rhetorical structures that lie behind them. As a whole, the edition
offers particularly valuable insights into the growth of a highly
politicised vernacular historical narrative, and the way in which
two medieval compilers sought to represent the history of the late
fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. WILLIAM MARX is senior
lecturer in medieval literature at the University of Wales,
Lampeter
`The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a
monumental achievement.' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES This is the
first volume in the series to deal with a national library.
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, the National Library of Wales, was
founded with the expressed purpose of preserving the material of
the literary culture and history of Wales. The number of medieval
English language manuscripts, while substantial, does not form as
great a proportion of the holdings as in other libraries in
Britain, and a special feature of the collection is that the
manuscript context for some English texts is one in which Welsh is
the main language. The collection is thus relatively unexplored for
its Middle English holdings, and of the manuscripts indexed here
fewer than half are listed in the Index of Printed Middle English
Prose; they contain awealth of materials, most notably in
historical writings, scientific texts, and prophecies. The
introduction sets the wider context for the manuscripts by
discussing the history of the Library and the way in which its
major collections were brought together. WILLIAM MARXis Senior
Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Wales,
Lampeter.
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