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New perspectives on and interpretations of the popular medieval
genre of the universal chronicle. Found in pre-modern cultures of
every era and across the world, from the ancient Near East to
medieval Latin Christendom, the universal chronicle is
simultaneously one of the most ubiquitous pre-modern cultural forms
and one of the most overlooked. Universal chronicles narrate the
history of the whole world from the time of its creation up to the
then present day, treating the world's affairs as though they were
part of a single organic reality, and uniting various strands of
history into a unifed, coherent story. They reveal a great deal
about how the societies that produced them understood their world
and how historical narrative itself can work to produce that
understanding. The essays here offer new perspectives on the genre,
from a number of different disciplines, demonstrating their
vitality, flexibility and cultural importance, They reveal them to
be deeply political texts, which allowed history-writers and their
audiences to locate themselves in space, time and in the created
universe. Several chapters address the manuscript context, looking
at the innovative techniques of compilation, structure and layout
that placed them at the cutting edge of medieval book technology.
Others analyse the background of universal chronicles, and identify
their circulation amongst different social groups; there are also
investigations into their literary discourse, patronage, authorship
and diffusion. Michele Campopiano is Senior Lecturer in Medieval
Latin Literature at the University of York; Henry Bainton is
Lecturer in High Medieval Literature at the University of York.
Contributors:Tobias Andersson, Michele Campopiano, Cornelia Dreer,
Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Elena Koroleva, Keith Lilley, Andrew
Marsham, Rosa M. Rodriguez Porto, Christophe Thierry, Elizabeth M.
Tyler, Steven Vanderputten, Bjorn Weiler, Claudia Wittig.
A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History The
contributions collected in this volume demonstrate the full range
and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period in a
variety of disciplines. Subjects include the fables on the Bayeux
Tapestry, the piety of Earl Godwine, the feudal quota of the
pre-1066 Archbishops of Canterbury, Geoffrey Malaterra's treatment
of Roger the Great Count, mints and money in Anglo-Norman England,
the church of Lastingham, and a reappraisal of Lanfranc as
theologian. David Bates is Professorial Fellow, University of East
Anglia. Contributors: Martin Allen, Henry Bainton, Nicholas Brooks,
Jonathan Grove, Toivo Holopainen, Chris Lewis, Tom Licence,
Marie-Agnes Lucas-Avenel, Christopher Norton and Stuart Harrison,
Rebecca Slitt, Stephen D. White, Ann Williams.
A thought-provoking look at the Angevin aristocracy's literary
practices and historical record Coming upon the text of a document
such as a charter or a letter inserted into the fabric of a
medieval chronicle and quoted in full or at length, modern readers
might well assume that the chronicler is simply doing what good
historians have always done-that is, citing his source as evidence.
Such documentary insertions are not ubiquitous in medieval
historiography, however, and are in fact particularly
characteristic of the history-writing produced by the Angevins in
England and Northern France in the later twelfth century. In
History and the Written Word, Henry Bainton puts these documentary
gestures center stage in an attempt to understand what the
chroniclers were doing historiographically, socially, and
culturally when they transcribed a document into a work of history.
Where earlier scholars who have looked at the phenomenon have
explained this increased use of documents by considering the
growing bureaucratic state and an increasing historiographical
concern for documentary evidence, Bainton seeks to resituate these
histories, together with their authors and users, within literate
but sub-state networks of political power. Proposing a new category
he designates "literate lordship" to describe the form of power
with which documentary history-writing was especially concerned, he
shows how important the vernacular was in recording the social
lives of these literate lords and how they found it a particularly
appropriate medium through which to record their roles in history.
Drawing on the perspectives of modern and medieval narratology,
medieval multilingualism, and cultural memory, History and the
Written Word argues that members of an administrative elite
demonstrated their mastery of the rules of literate political
behavior by producing and consuming history-writing and its
documents.
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