William Of Malmesbury And The Ethics Of History
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William Of Malmesbury And The Ethics Of History
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Author : Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 2012
William Of Malmesbury And The Ethics Of History written by Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
"William of Malmesbury, arguably the greatest English historian of the twelfth century, repeatedly emphasises that the primary purpose of all literary and intellectual activities is to provide moral instruction for the reader, the most famous of his statements to this effect being found in his monumental work Gesta Regum Anglorum, where he categorises history as a sub-discipline of ethics. However, modern studies have chosen to focus on other aspects of William's oeuvre and tended to dismiss such claims as perfunctory nods to a pious commonplace. This book differs from recent orthodoxy by being based on the proposition that medieval professions of the moral aims of historiography are in fact genuine. It seeks to read William's celebrated historical works in the light of his devotional and didactic texts, and in the context of the religious, intellectual and literary traditions to which he expressed his allegiance. He also demonstrates how William's conception of ethics forms a constitutive element of his historical output. The resulting image of William shows a committed monk and man of his time, placing his extraordinary learning at the service of his culture, his society and his faith."--Publisher's website.
Ad Bonae Uitae Institutum
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Author : Sigbjørn Sønnesyn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Ad Bonae Uitae Institutum written by Sigbjørn Sønnesyn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Ethics categories.
Royal Responsibility In Anglo Norman Historical Writing
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Author : Emily A. Winkler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-13
Royal Responsibility In Anglo Norman Historical Writing written by Emily A. Winkler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-13 with History categories.
It has long been established that the crisis of 1066 generated a florescence of historical writing in the first half of the twelfth century. Emily A. Winkler presents a new perspective on previously unqueried matters, investigating how historians' individual motivations and assumptions produced changes in the kind of history written across the Conquest. She argues that responses to the Danish Conquest of 1016 and the Norman Conquest of 1066 changed dramatically within two generations of the latter conquest. Repeated conquest could signal repeated failures and sin across the orders of society, yet early twelfth-century historians in England not only extract English kings and people from a history of failure, but also establish English kingship as a worthy office on a European scale. Royal Responsibility in Anglo-Norman Historical Writing illuminates the consistent historical agendas of four historians: William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, John of Worcester, and Geffrei Gaimar. In their narratives of England's eleventh-century history, these twelfth-century historians expanded their approach to historical explanation to include individual responsibility and accountability within a framework of providential history. In this regard, they made substantial departures from their sources. These historians share a view of royal responsibility independent both of their sources (primarily the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) and of any political agenda that placed English and Norman allegiances in opposition. Although the accounts diverge widely in the interpretation of character, all four are concerned more with the effectiveness of England's kings than with the legitimacy of their origins. Their new, shared view of royal responsibility represents a distinct phenomenon in England's twelfth-century historiography.
Writing The North Of England In The Middle Ages
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Author : Joseph Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-22
Writing The North Of England In The Middle Ages written by Joseph Taylor and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages offers a literary history of the North-South divide, examining the complexities of the relationship – imaginative, material, and political – between North and South in a wide range of texts. Through sustained analysis of the North-South divide as it emerges in the literature of medieval England, this study illustrates the convoluted dynamic of desire and derision of the North by the rest of country. Joseph Taylor dissects England's problematic sense of nationhood as one which must be negotiated and renegotiated from within, rather than beyond, national borders. Providing fresh readings of texts such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the fifteenth-century Robin Hood ballads and the Towneley plays, this book argues for the North's vital contribution to processes of imagining nation in the Middle Ages and shows that that regionalism is both contained within and constitutive of its apparent opposite, nationalism.
Producing Christian Culture
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Author : Giles E. M. Gasper
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-06-26
Producing Christian Culture written by Giles E. M. Gasper and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-26 with Religion categories.
Producing Christian Culture takes as its thread the 'interpretative genres' within which medieval people engaged with the Bible. Contributors to the volume present specific material as a case study illustrative of a specific genre, whether devotional, homiletical, scholarly, or controversial. The chronological range moves from St Augustine to the use of gospel texts in polemical writing of the first two decades of the 1500s, with focal sections on early medieval Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian theology, the scholastic turn of the High Middle Ages, and the influence of vernacular writing in the later Middle Ages. The tremendous range and vitality of medieval responses to biblical texts are highlighted within the studies.
Baronial Reform And Revolution In England 1258 1267
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Author : Adrian Jobson
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2016
Baronial Reform And Revolution In England 1258 1267 written by Adrian Jobson and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
New investigations into a pivotal era of the thirteenth century.
Royal Rage And The Construction Of Anglo Norman Authority C 1000 1250
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Author : Kate McGrath
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-02-18
Royal Rage And The Construction Of Anglo Norman Authority C 1000 1250 written by Kate McGrath and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-18 with History categories.
This book explores how eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ecclesiastical authors attributed anger to kings in the exercise of their duties, and how such attributions related to larger expansions of royal authority. It argues that ecclesiastical writers used their works to legitimize certain displays of royal anger, often resulting in violence, while at the same time deploying a shared emotional language that also allowed them to condemn other types of displays. These texts are particularly concerned about displays of anger in regard to suppressing revolt, ensuring justice, protecting honor, and respecting the status of kingship. In all of these areas, the role of ecclesiastical and lay counsel forms an important limit on the growth and expansion of royal prerogatives.
Remembering The Medieval Present Generative Uses Of England S Pre Conquest Past 10th To 15th Centuries
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-09-16
Remembering The Medieval Present Generative Uses Of England S Pre Conquest Past 10th To 15th Centuries written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-16 with History categories.
By tapping into the vast reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, the collected studies explore how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons.
William Of Malmesbury S Chronicle Of The Kings Of England
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Author : William (of Malmesbury)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
William Of Malmesbury S Chronicle Of The Kings Of England written by William (of Malmesbury) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Great Britain categories.
Abbatial Authority And The Writing Of History In The Middle Ages
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Author : Benjamin Pohl
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-22
Abbatial Authority And The Writing Of History In The Middle Ages written by Benjamin Pohl and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-22 with History categories.
This book argues that abbatial authority was fundamental to monastic historical writing in the period c.500-1500. Writing history was a collaborative enterprise integral to the life and identity of medieval monastic communities, but it was not an activity for which time and resources were set aside routinely. Each act of historiographical production constituted an extraordinary event, one for which singular provision had to be made, workers and materials assigned, time carved out from the monastic routine, and licence granted. This allocation of human and material resources was the responsibility and prerogative of the monastic superior. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of primary evidence gathered from across the medieval Latin West, this book is the first to investigate systematically how and why abbots and abbesses exercised their official authority and resources to lay the foundations on which their communities' historiographical traditions were built by themselves and others. It showcases them as prolific authors, patrons, commissioners, project managers, and facilitators of historical narratives who not only regularly put pen to parchment personally, but also, and perhaps more importantly, enabled others inside and outside their communities by granting them the resources and licence to write. Revealing the intrinsic relationship between abbatial authority and the writing of history in the Middle Ages with unprecedented clarity, Benjamin Pohl urges us to revisit and revise our understanding of monastic historiography, its processes, and its protagonists in ways that require some radical rethinking of the medieval historian's craft in communal and institutional contexts.