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An investigation into the hugely significant works produced by the Worcester foundation at a period of turmoil and change.
The Norman Conquest
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Pages: 344
Authors: Richard Huscroft
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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The Norman Conquest was one of the most significant events in European history. Over forty years from 1066, England was traumatised and transformed. The Anglo-S
Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century
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Pages: 295
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-10 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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Histories of Britain composed during the "twelfth-century renaissance" display a remarkable amount of literary variety (Latin varietas). Furthermore, British hi
The Construction of Vernacular History in the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle
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First full-length interpretive study of the prose Brut tradition, setting its manuscript context alongside textual analysis.
Abbatial Authority and the Writing of History in the Middle Ages
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Authors: Benjamin Pohl
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This book argues that abbatial authority was fundamental to monastic historical writing in the period c.500-1500. Writing history was a collaborative enterprise