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- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Entwined Lives and Multiple Identities
- Part II Historians, Lawyers and Exegetes: Writing Lives and Identities
- 9 Ademar of Chabannes and the Normans:
- 10 Lives, Identities and the Historians of the Normans
- 11 Ruth in the Twelfth Century:
- 12 Jacob and Esau and the Interplay of Jewish and Christian Identities in the Middle Ages
- 13 Identity, Gender and History in Wace’s Roman de Rou and Roman de Brut
- 14 Glanvill:
- 15 Dunstan, Edgar and the History of Not-So-Recent Events
- Index
9 - Ademar of Chabannes and the Normans:
An Outline of a New Reading
from Part II - Historians, Lawyers and Exegetes: Writing Lives and Identities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2021
- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Entwined Lives and Multiple Identities
- Part II Historians, Lawyers and Exegetes: Writing Lives and Identities
- 9 Ademar of Chabannes and the Normans:
- 10 Lives, Identities and the Historians of the Normans
- 11 Ruth in the Twelfth Century:
- 12 Jacob and Esau and the Interplay of Jewish and Christian Identities in the Middle Ages
- 13 Identity, Gender and History in Wace’s Roman de Rou and Roman de Brut
- 14 Glanvill:
- 15 Dunstan, Edgar and the History of Not-So-Recent Events
- Index
Summary
The chapter analyses some of the informations about the first generations of Norman dukes given byAdemar of Chabannes in his Chronicle,which had been often considered as spurious or doubtful. It first gives an outline of Ademar’s career and the composition of his work in order to clarify the changes and additions made by him across versions of his chronicle and to shed light on his sources, influences and intentions. Several passages were reworked, sometimes substantially, in ways that bring up questions about the information Ademar had at his disposal and how he used it in the fabric of his narrative. Despite a bad reputation, one can see author’s efforts to bring coherence and credibility to his narrative, to amend his text as new information reached him and to create a credible version of the beginnings of Norman history. The chapter explores what kind of information he was given at different stages of the composition of the chronicle, and examines possibilities of identifying persons who possibly may have help him to modify his version of the Norman past.
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- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages , pp. 161 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021