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Gillian Polack; Translated by Nikoletta Samoili
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R754
Discovery Miles 7 540
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Shortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or
Review Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and
transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can
play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This
book explores the nature of the author's relationship with history
and fiction - often using writers' own words - as well as the role
history plays in fiction. Focusing on genre fiction, this study
considers key issues in the relationship between history and
fiction, such as how writers contextualise the history they use in
their fiction and how they incorporate historical research. The
book also addresses the related topic of world building using
history, discussing the connections between the science fiction
writers' notion of world building and the scholarly understanding
of story space and explaining the mechanics of constructing the
world of the novel. This book places the writing of fiction into a
wider framework of history and writing and encourages dialogue
between writers and historians.
To our modern minds, the Middle Ages seem to mix the well-known and
familiar with wildly alien concepts and circumstances. The Middle
Ages Unlocked provides an invaluable introduction to this complex
and dynamic period in England. Exploring a wide range of topics
from law, religion and education to landscape, art and magic,
between the eleventh and early fourteenth centuries, the
structures, institutions and circumstances that formed the basis
for daily life and society are revealed. Drawing on their expertise
in history and archaeology, Dr Gillian Polack and Dr Katrin Kania
look at the tangible aspects of daily life - ranging from the raw
materials used for crafts, clothing and jewellery to housing and
food - in order to bring the Middle Ages to life. The Middle Ages
Unlocked dispels modern assumptions about this period to uncover
the complex tapestry of medieval England and the people who lived
there.
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