Book Details
Orange Code:93040
Paperback:473 pages
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Sections:
1. Universal History 300–1000: Origins and Western Developments2. Ethnic and National History ca. 500–10003. Local and Institutional History (300–1000)4. Christian Biography: Foundation to Maturity5. World Historiography in the Late Middle Ages6. High and Late Medieval National Historiography7. Contemporary and ‘Eyewitness’ History8. Later Medieval Institutional History9. Medieval Urban Historiography in Western Europe (1100–1500)10. Biography 1000–135011. Legendary History: Historia and Fabula
Description:
This volume contains twelve essays that describe the writing of history in medieval Western Europe. Each chapter examines a type of subject matter about which medieval historians wrote, and discusses both the texts and the modern approaches to these texts. The authors include both historians and literary scholars. There are four chapters on early medieval historiography (universal history, national/ethnic history, institutional history, and biography/hagiography) and eight on later medieval historiography (the same four, plus dynastic, urban, contemporary, and legendary history). This comprehensive one-volume survey, in English, of medieval historiography can serve both as an introduction for students and the interested layperson, and as a handbook for the scholar.
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