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A survey both of medieval biographical writings, and the problems
of recovering medieval lives. Biography is one of the oldest, most
popular and most tenacious of literary forms. Perhaps the best
attested narrative form of the Middle Ages, it continues to draw
modern historians of the medieval period to its peculiar challenge
to explicate the general through the particular: the biographer's
decisions to impose or to resist the imposition of order on
biographical remnants raise issues which go to the heart of
historical method. This collection, compiled in honour of a
distinguished modern exponent of the art of biography, contains
sixteen essays by leading scholars which examine the limits and
possibilities of the genre for the period between 750AD and 1250AD.
Ranging from pivotal figures such as Charlemagne, William the
Conqueror and St Bernard, to the anonymous female skeleton in an
Anglo-Saxon grave, from kings and queens to clerks and saints, and
from individual to the collective biographies,this collection
investigates both medieval biographical writings, and the issues
surrounding the writing of medieval lives. Professor DAVID BATES is
Director of the Institute of Historical Research; Dr JULIA CRICK
and DrSARAH HAMILTON teach in the Department of History at the
University of Exeter. Contributors: JANET L. NELSON, ROBIN FLEMING,
BARBARA YORKE, RICHARD ABELS, SIMON KEYNES, PAULINE STAFFORD,
ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, DAVID BATES,JANE MARTINDALE, CHRISTOPHER
HOLDSWORTH, LINDY GRANT, MARJORIE CHIBNALL, EDMUND KING, JOHN
GILLINGHAM, DAVID CROUCH, NICHOLAS VINCENT
A fine research tool which has so many applications.' SPECULUM
The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in
Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling
populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and
bureaucratic monarchies. In England these developments were
complicated and accelerated by repeated episodes of invasion,
migration and changes of regime. In this book, scholars from
disciplines including history, archaeology and literature reflect
on the major trends which shaped English society in these years of
transition and select key themes which encapsulate the period. The
authors explore the landscape of England, its mineral wealth, its
towns and rural life, the health, behaviour and obligations of its
inhabitants, patterns of spiritual and intellectual life and the
polyglot nature of its population and culture. What emerges is an
insight into the complexity, diversity and richness of this
formative period of English history.
The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in
Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling
populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and
bureaucratic monarchies. In England these developments were
complicated and accelerated by repeated episodes of invasion,
migration and changes of regime. In this book, scholars from
disciplines including history, archaeology and literature reflect
on the major trends which shaped English society in these years of
transition and select key themes which encapsulate the period. The
authors explore the landscape of England, its mineral wealth, its
towns and rural life, the health, behaviour and obligations of its
inhabitants, patterns of spiritual and intellectual life and the
polyglot nature of its population and culture. What emerges is an
insight into the complexity, diversity and richness of this
formative period of English history.
This volume builds upon the widening interest in the connections
between culture and communication in medieval and early modern
Europe. Focusing on England, it takes a critical look at the
scholarly paradigm of the shift from script to print, exploring the
possibilities and limitations of these media as vehicles of
information and meaning. The essays examine how pen and the press
were used in the spheres of religion, law, scholarship, and
politics. They assess scribal activity both before and after the
advent of printing, illuminating its role in recording and
transmitting polemical, literary, antiquarian and utilitarian
texts. They also investigate script and print in relation to the
spoken word, emphasising the constant interaction and symbiosis of
these three media. In sum, this collection helped to refine the
boundaries between cultures of speech, manuscript and print, and to
reconsider the historical fissures which they have come to
represent.
In the course of this book Professor Cross presents the discovery
of the actual manuscript source for the Old English versions of two
biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of
the Saviour. In collaboration with four other scholars, Professor
Cross explores the implications of this discovery. Here, parallel
editions of the relevant Latin and Old English texts are given,
together with modern English translations, and detailed discussion
outlines the background to the Latin texts, and to the manuscript
which contains them. The assembled material provides an insight not
simply into the transmission of two apocryphal texts, but also into
the mind of the single Anglo-Saxon translator who, it is argued,
struggled in his own idiosyncratic fashion to make two badly spelt
and incomplete Latin originals his own.
This volume builds upon the widening interest in the connections
between culture and communication in medieval and early modern
Europe. Focusing on England, it takes a critical look at the
scholarly paradigm of the shift from script to print, exploring the
possibilities and limitations of these media as vehicles of
information and meaning. The essays examine how pen and the press
were used in the spheres of religion, law, scholarship, and
politics. They assess ascribal activity both before and after the
advent of printing, illuminating its role in recording and
transmitting polemical, literary, antiquarian and utilitarian
texts. They also investigate script and print in relation to the
spoken word, emphasising the constant interaction and symbiosis of
these three media. In sum, this collection will help to refine the
boundaries between cultures of speech, manuscript and print, and to
reconsider the historical fissures which they have come to
represent.
In the course of this work Professor Cross presents the discovery
of the actual manuscript source for the Old English versions of two
biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of
the Saviour. Together with four other scholars, Professor Cross
explores the implications of this discovery, in the field of
Anglo-Saxon studies. Here, parallel editions of the relevant Latin
and Old English texts are given, together with modern English
translations, and detailed discussion outlines the background to
the Latin texts, and to the manuscript which contains them. The
assembled material provides an insight not only into the
transmission of two apocryphal texts, but also into the mind of the
single Anglo-Saxon translator who, it is argued, struggled in his
own idiosyncratic fashion to make two badly spelt and incomplete
Latin originals his own.
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