Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century

Jacqueline M. Burek

doi:10.1017/9781800108745

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Jacqueline M. Burek

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: February 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781800108745
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800108745

Series:: Writing History in the Middle Ages
Subjects:: History, Regional History after 1500

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A survey of the different literary forms adopted by history writers after the Conquest, exploring why and for what effects they were used.

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Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Abbreviations
pp xi-xii

Introduction: Discontinuous History in the Long Twelfth Century
pp 1-20

Part I - Varietas in Latin
pp 21-22

1 - Varietas: From Roman Rhetoric to British History
pp 23-50

2 - ‘I take it that no one will object to some variety’: William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum Anglorum
pp 51-83

3 - ‘Since nothing endures here, pay attention’: Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum
pp 84-117

4 - ‘Continuously and in order’: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae
pp 118-150

Part II - Variety in Middle English
pp 151-152

5 - ‘Three texts into one’: Laʒamon's Brut
pp 153-185

6 - ‘Of diuers kynd’: Robert Mannyng's Story of Inglande
pp 186-221

Conclusion: The Rhetoric of Discontinuity
pp 222-246

Bibliography
pp 247-270

Index
pp 271-281

Writing History in the Middle Ages
pp 282-282

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