Royal Responsibility in Anglo-Norman Historical Writing

ISBN-13: 9780198812388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str.

Emily A. Winkler

Opis

This book examines how eleventh-century kings were portrayed in the writing of twelfth-century historians. Winkler employs a modern literary critical approach to demonstrate how much of our understanding of eleventh-century history stems from authorial strategies of later writers rather than from contemporary sources.

Recenzje

an impressive and original first book that has important implications for how we think about historical writing in twelfth-century England, about kingship, and about how medieval intellectuals explained disaster.

O autorze

Emily A. Winkler is the John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in Medieval History at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, and Departmental Lecturer in Medieval History at the Faculty of History and Balliol College, University of Oxford. She has published articles on historical writing, political thought, and the reception of the classics in the early and central Middle Ages, with particular reference to the British Isles, the North Sea zone, and the Anglo-Norman world. Dr Winkler is also a Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at University College London.