Historiography in the Middle Ages (Brill's Paperback Collection) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 900422677X ISBN 13: 9789004226777

Publisher: Brill, 2012

Synopsis

This volume contains twelve essays that describe the writing of history in medieval Western Europe. Each chapter examines a type of subject matter about which medieval historians wrote, and discusses both the texts and the modern approaches to these texts. The authors include both historians and literary scholars.
There are four chapters on early medieval historiography (universal history, national/ethnic history, institutional history, and biography/hagiography) and eight on later medieval historiography (the same four, plus dynastic, urban, contemporary, and legendary history).
This comprehensive one-volume survey, in English, of medieval historiography can serve both as an introduction for students and the interested layperson, and as a handbook for the scholar.

Originally published in hardcover.

About this title

Review:

"...a wonderfully thought-provoking text which offers, I believe, the most comprehensive examination of medieval historiography to date ... a tremendous contribution to contemporary scholarship. It is rich, accessible, and informative, illuminating our understanding of how the past was understood and written in medieval contexts. It would make a valuable acquisition for any library." - Alicia Marchant, in: The Limina, 2005
"...an extremely valuable resource for anyone seeking to find their bearings in a vast and complex field." - Graeme Dunphy, in: MLR, 2005

About the Author:

Deborah M. Deliyannis, Ph.D. (1994) in the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, is Lecturer in History and Art History at Indiana University. She is preparing for publication an edition and translation of Agnellus of Ravenna's Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 900422677X
• ISBN 13: 9789004226777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472
• Editor: Deliyannis Deborah