The Historians of Angevin England
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-876996-5 (ISBN)
The Historians of Angevin England is a study of the explosion of creativity in historical writing in England in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and what this tells us about the writing of history in the middle ages.
Many of those who wrote history under the Angevin kings of England chose as their subject the events of their own time, and explained that they did so simply because their own times were so interesting and eventful. This was the age of Henry II and Thomas Becket, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard the Lionheart, the invasion of Ireland and the Third Crusade, and our knowledge and impression of the period is to a great extent based on these contemporary histories. The writers in question - Roger of Howden, Ralph of Diceto, William of Newburgh, Gerald of Wales, and Gervase of Canterbury, to name a few - wrote history that is not quite like anything written in England before. Remarkable for its variety, its historical and literary quality, its use of evidence and its narrative power, this has been called a 'golden age' of historical writing in England. The Historians of Angevin England, the first volume to address the subject, sets out to illustrate the historiographical achievements of this period, and to provide a sense of how these writers wrote, and their idea of history. But it is also about how medieval intellectuals thought and wrote about a range of topics: the rise and fall of kings, victory and defeat in battle, church and government, and attitudes to women, heretics, and foreigners.
Michael Staunton, Associate Professor of History at University College Dublin, is a medieval historian, specializing in historical writing, biography, intellectual life, and the relationship between religion and politics in the middle ages. Educated at University College Cork and Cambridge University, he has written books and articles on the biographers of Thomas Becket, on historical writing in England, and on religion in Ireland. He has held a Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities, and visiting fellowships at Fordham University and Bard College, New York, and has received a number of teaching awards.
1: Introduction
2: Writing Contemporary History in Medieval England
3: Roger of Howden: A Historian in Government
4: Ralph of Diceto: Putting English History in its Place
5: William of Newburgh: History and Interpretation
6: Gerald of Wales: The Polymath as Historian
7: Gervase of Canterbury and Ralph of Coggeshall: the Scope of English History
8: Richard of Devizes, Walter Map and Richard de Templo: History and Literature
9: Henry II and Angevin Kingship
10: The Rise and Fall of Henry II
11: Rebellion
12: The Loss of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade
13: The Battles of God and King Richard
14: The Trials of the Lionheart
15: Church and Government from Becket to Longchamp
16: Outsiders: Women, the Poor, Heretics, and Jews
17: The English and their Neighbours
18: Conclusion
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.07.2017 |
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| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 784 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-876996-2 / 0198769962 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-876996-5 / 9780198769965 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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