History and the Written Word: Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins
Генри Бейнтон
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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.
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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…
Форма: документальное произведение
Оригинальное название: History and the Written Word: Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins
Первая публикация: 2020
Язык: Английский
Жанры: История
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