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Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England
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ISBN: 9780814211984 0814211984 9780814292990 0814292992 081427031X Year: 2012 Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press,

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Based on new readings of some of the least-read texts by some of the best-known scribes of later medieval England, Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England reconceptualizes medieval scribes as authors, and the texts surviving in medieval manuscripts as authored. Culling evidence from history writing in later medieval England, Matthew Fisher concludes that we must reject the axiomatic division between scribe and author. Using the peculiarities of authority and intertextuality unique to medieval historiography, Fisher exposes the rich ambiguities of what it means for medieval scribes to "write" books. He thus frames the composition, transmission, and reception--indeed, the authorship--of some medieval texts as scribal phenomena. History writing is an inherently intertextual genre: in order to write about the past, texts must draw upon other texts. Scribal Authorship demonstrates that medieval historiography relies upon quotation, translation, and adaptation in such a way that the very idea that there is some line that divides author from scribe is an unsustainable and modern critical imposition. Given the reality that a scribe's work was far more nuanced than the simplistic binary of error and accuracy would suggest, Fisher completely overturns many of our assumptions about the processes through which manuscripts were assembled and texts (both canonical literature and the less obviously literary) were composed.


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Die historischen und philosophischen Handschriften der Codices Palatini Latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek (Cod. Pal. Lat. 921-1078)
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ISBN: 3895000469 9783895000461 Year: 1999 Volume: 3 Publisher: Wiesbaden Reichert


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Books of knowledge in late Medieval Europe : circulation and reception of popular texts
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ISBN: 9782503594637 2503594638 9782503594644 Year: 2021 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

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This book provides a series of studies concerning unique medieval texts that can be defined as ‘books of knowledge’, such as medieval chronicles, bestiaries, or catechetic handbooks. Thus far, scholarship of intellectual history has focused on concepts of knowledge to describe a specific community, or to delimit intellectuals in society. However, the specific textual tool for the transmission of knowledge has been missing. Besides oral tradition, books and other written texts were the only sources of knowledge, and they were thus invaluable in efforts to receive or transfer knowledge. That is one reason why texts that proclaim to introduce a specific field of expertise or promise to present a summary of wisdom were so popular. These texts discussed cosmology, theology, philosophy, the natural sciences, history, and other fields. They often did so in an accessible way to maintain the potential to also attract a non-specialised public. The basic form was usually a narrative, chronologically or thematically structured, and clearly ordered to appeal to readers. Books of this kind could be disseminated in dozens or even hundreds of copies, and were often available (by translation or adaptation) in various languages, including the vernacular. In exploring these widely-disseminated and highly popular texts that offered a precise segment of knowledge that could be accessed by readers outside the intellectual and social elite, this volume intends to introduce books of knowledge as a new category within the study of medieval literacy.


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Manuscripta historica
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ISBN: 3447043202 9783447043205 Year: 2000 Volume: 4/3 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz

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World history --- Manuscripts --- Sources --- 091 <43 KASSEL> --- 091:930 --- -World history --- -Universal history --- History --- Codices --- Books --- Nonbook materials --- Archival materials --- Charters --- Codicology --- Diplomatics --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Paleography --- Transmission of texts --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989--KASSEL --- Handschriften i.v.m. geschiedenis --- Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse --- -Library --- Gesamthochschul-Bibliothek Kassel --- Hesse (Germany). --- Gesamthochschulbibliothek Kassel --- Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel und Landesbibliothek --- Universitätsbibliothek Kassel --- -Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989--KASSEL --- 091:930 Handschriften i.v.m. geschiedenis --- 091 <43 KASSEL> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989--KASSEL --- -091:930 Handschriften i.v.m. geschiedenis --- Universal history --- Wilhelm --- Wilhelm, --- Wilhelmus, --- Gulielmus, --- Library --- Universitätsbibliothek Kassel - Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel --- Guillaume --- Cassel, Guillaume de Hesse-, --- Hesse-Cassel, Guillaume de, --- Hessen, Guillaume de, --- Hessen-Kassel, Wilhelm von, --- Kassel, Wilhelm von Hessen-, --- William --- World history - Manuscripts - Catalogs. --- World history - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs. --- Manuscripts - Germany - Kassel - Catalogs. --- Mss Kassel --- Mss histoire --- Catalogue de manuscrits --- Universitäts-Bibliothek --- Landesbibliothek --- Murhardsche Bibliothek --- Kassel

Families of the King
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ISBN: 0802089844 0802026885 9786611992767 1442674792 1281992763 9781442674790 9780802089847 1487506775 9781487506773 Year: 2004 Publisher: Toronto

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"In Families of the King, Alice Sheppard explicitly addresses the larger interpretive question of how the manuscripts function as history. She shows that what has been read as a series of disparate entries and peculiar juxtapositions is in fact a compelling articulation of collective identity and a coherent approach to writing the secular history of invasion, conquest, and settlement."--Jacket. "The annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are fundamental to the study of the language, literature, and culture of the Anglo-Saxon period. Ranging from the ninth to the twelfth century, the Chronicle's five primary manuscripts offer a virtually contemporary history of Anglo-Saxon England, contribute to the body of Old English prose and poetic texts, and enable scholars to document how the Old English language changed."


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Writing history in the Anglo-Norman world : manuscripts, makers and readers, c.1066-c.1250
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ISBN: 9781903153802 9781787442894 1903153808 1787442896 Year: 2018 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled by the kings of England, particularly from the twelfth century, has long attracted the attention of historians and literary scholars, whilst editions of works by such writers as Orderic Vitalis, John of Worcester, Symeon of Durham, William of Malmesbury, Gerald of Wales, Roger of Howden, and Matthew Paris has made them well known. Yet the easy availability of modern editions obscures both the creation and circulation of histories in the Middle Ages. This collection of essays returns to the processes involved in writing history, and in particular to the medieval manuscript sources in which the works of such historians survive. It explores the motivations of those writing about the past in the Middle Ages, and the evidence provided by manuscripts for the circumstances in which copies were made. It also addresses the selection of material for copying, combinations of text and imagery, and the demand for copies of particular works, shedding new light on how and why history was being read, reproduced, discussed, adapted, and written. Laura Cleaver is the Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Art, Trinity College Dublin; Andrea Worm is an Assistant Professor at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz. Contributors: Stephen Church, Kathryn Gerry, Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Laura Pani, Charles C. Rozier, Gleb Schmidt, Laura Slater, Michael Staunton, Caoimhe Whelan


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History and the Written Word
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ISBN: 9780812251906 9780812296761 0812296761 Year: 2019 Publisher: Philadelphia

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Coming upon the text of a document such as a charter or a letter inserted into the fabric of a medieval chronicle and quoted in full or at length, modern readers might well assume that the chronicler is simply doing what good historians have always done—that is, citing his source as evidence. Such documentary insertions are not ubiquitous in medieval historiography, however, and are in fact particularly characteristic of the history-writing produced by the Angevins in England and Northern France in the later twelfth century.In History and the Written Word, Henry Bainton puts these documentary gestures center stage in an attempt to understand what the chroniclers were doing historiographically, socially, and culturally when they transcribed a document into a work of history. Where earlier scholars who have looked at the phenomenon have explained this increased use of documents by considering the growing bureaucratic state and an increasing historiographical concern for documentary evidence, Bainton seeks to resituate these histories, together with their authors and users, within literate but sub-state networks of political power. Proposing a new category he designates'literate lordship'to describe the form of power with which documentary history-writing was especially concerned, he shows how important the vernacular was in recording the social lives of these literate lords and how they found it a particularly appropriate medium through which to record their roles in history.Drawing on the perspectives of modern and medieval narratology, medieval multilingualism, and cultural memory, History and the Written Word argues that members of an administrative elite demonstrated their mastery of the rules of literate political behavior by producing and consuming history-writing and its documents.


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The Book of Llandaf as a historical source
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ISBN: 9781783274185 1783274182 9781787445376 1787445372 Year: 2019 Publisher: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer

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