History and the Written Word : Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins /
Bainton, Henry
History and the Written Word : Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins / Henry Bainton. - 1 online resource (272 p.) : 2 illus. - The Middle Ages Series .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Orthography and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Defining Documents -- Chapter 2. Documentary Quotation -- Chapter 3. Literate Sociability -- Chapter 4. Literate Performances and Literate Government -- Chapter 5. Literate Languages -- Afterword -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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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 "ed 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812251906 9780812296761
10.9783/9780812296761 doi
English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
Literacy--History.--England
HISTORY / Medieval.
Cultural Studies. European History. History. Literature. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. World History.
DA205 / .B35 2020eb
942.03072
History and the Written Word : Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins / Henry Bainton. - 1 online resource (272 p.) : 2 illus. - The Middle Ages Series .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Orthography and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Defining Documents -- Chapter 2. Documentary Quotation -- Chapter 3. Literate Sociability -- Chapter 4. Literate Performances and Literate Government -- Chapter 5. Literate Languages -- Afterword -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Coming upon the text of a document such as a charter or a letter inserted into the fabric of a medieval chronicle and "ed 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812251906 9780812296761
10.9783/9780812296761 doi
English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
Literacy--History.--England
HISTORY / Medieval.
Cultural Studies. European History. History. Literature. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. World History.
DA205 / .B35 2020eb
942.03072