| Authorising History: Gestures of Authorship in Fourteenth-Century English Historiography Contributor(s): Nyffenegger, Nicole (Author) |
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ISBN: 1443848190 ISBN-13: 9781443848190 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $75.19 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - History | Historiography - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 942.037 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.2" (1.00 lbs) 230 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book discusses the strategies and rhetorical means by which four authors of Middle English verse historiography seek to authorise their works and themselves. Paying careful attention to the texts, it traces the ways in which authors inscribe their fictional selves and seek to give authority to their constructions of history. It further investigates how the authors position themselves in relation to their task of writing history, their sources and their audiences. This study provides new insights into the processes of the appropriation of history around 1300 by social groups whose lack of the relevant languages, before this 'anglicising' of the dominant Latin and French history constructions, prevented their access to the history of the British isles. -Wilhelm Busse, University of Dusseldorf |