Grafton's Chronicle
Author : Richard Grafton
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 1809
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Richard Grafton
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 1809
Category : Great Britain
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Author : John Capgrave
Publisher :
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781852853587
The priorities of medieval chroniclers and historians were not those of the modern historian, nor was the way that they gathered, arranged and presented evidence. Yet if we understand how they approached their task, and their assumption of God's immanence in the world, much that they wrote becomes clear. Many of them were men of high intelligence whose interpretation of events sheds clear light on what happened. Christopher Given-Wilson is one of the leading authorities on medieval English historical writing. He examines how medieval writers such as Ranulf Higden and Adam Usk treated chronology and geography, politics and warfare, heroes and villains. He looks at the ways in which chronicles were used during the middle ages, and at how the writing of history changed between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
Author : Richard Grafton
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 1809
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Author : William (of Malmesbury)
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Great Britain
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Author : John Allen Giles
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Paulina Kewes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0199565759
The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.
Author : Annabel Patterson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 1994-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226649115
Reading Holinshed's Chronicles is the first major study of the greatest of the Elizabethan chronicles. Holinshed's Chronicles—a massive history of England, Scotland, and Ireland—has been traditionally read as the source material for many of Shakespeare's plays or as an archaic form of history-writing. Annabel Patterson insists that the Chronicles be read in their own right as an important and inventive cultural history. Although we know it by the name of Raphael Holinshed, editor and major compiler of the 1577 edition, the Chronicles was the work of a group, a collaboration between antiquarians, clergymen, members of parliament, poets, publishers, and booksellers. Through a detailed reading, Patterson argues that the Chronicles convey rich insights into the way the Elizabethan middle class understood their society. Responding to the crisis of disunity which resulted from the Reformation, the authors of the Chronicles embodied and encouraged an ideal of justice, what we would now call liberalism, that extended beyond the writing of history into the realms of politics, law, economics, citizenship, class, and gender. Also, since the second edition of 1587 was called in by the Privy Council and revised under supervision, the work constitutes an important test case for the history of early modern censorship. An essential book for all students of Tudor history and literature, Reading Holinshed's Chronicles brings into full view a long misunderstood masterpiece of sixteenth-century English culture.
Author : Raphael Holinshed
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Page : 752 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 1808
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Author : Clare A. Lees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131617509X
Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing.