Book contents
- Medieval Historical Writing
- Medieval Historical Writing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- General Introduction
- Part I Time
- Part II Place
- Part III Practice
- Chapter 16 The Professional Historians of Medieval Ireland
- Chapter 17 Gender and the Subjects of History in the Early Middle Ages
- Chapter 18 Historical Writing in Medieval Britain: The Case of Matthew Paris
- Chapter 19 Vernacular Historiography
- Chapter 20 Tall Tales from the Archive
- Chapter 21 History in Print from Caxton to 1543
- Part IV Genre
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 19 - Vernacular Historiography
from Part III - Practice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2019
- Medieval Historical Writing
- Medieval Historical Writing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- General Introduction
- Part I Time
- Part II Place
- Part III Practice
- Chapter 16 The Professional Historians of Medieval Ireland
- Chapter 17 Gender and the Subjects of History in the Early Middle Ages
- Chapter 18 Historical Writing in Medieval Britain: The Case of Matthew Paris
- Chapter 19 Vernacular Historiography
- Chapter 20 Tall Tales from the Archive
- Chapter 21 History in Print from Caxton to 1543
- Part IV Genre
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Medieval historiography in Britain was written in all of the languages of the island. Latin and vernacular texts engaged in sophisticated intertextual dialogues throughout the period. This essay considers how vernacular history writing deployed its vernacularity to make political and imaginative interventions in the dominant traditions of historiography. The essay surveys how the Middle English chronicles of Robert of Gloucester, Robert Mannyng, and the Short Chronicle, and the Anglo-Norman chronicles of Piers Langtoft and Nicholas Trevet engaged with ideas of intertextuality, authority, citation, and translation in order to craft narratives of insular history often at odds with each other.
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- Medieval Historical WritingBritain and Ireland, 500–1500, pp. 339 - 355Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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