History and the written word: documents, literacy, and language in the Age of the Angevins

"This book is about how and why history-writers used-that is, invoked, cited, rewrote, or even performed-documents in the High Middle Ages. The author asks here, most basically, what those documents are, and he also asks what the documents mean and what they do. The book focuses on the historie...

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Main Author: Bainton, Henry ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press [2020]
Edition:1st edition
Series:The Middle Ages series
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Summary:"This book is about how and why history-writers used-that is, invoked, cited, rewrote, or even performed-documents in the High Middle Ages. The author asks here, most basically, what those documents are, and he also asks what the documents mean and what they do. The book focuses on the histories written in the second half of the twelfth century in the lands of the Angevin kings of England and the documents that those histories reproduce"--
Physical Description:200 Seiten Illustration 24 cm
ISBN:9780812251906

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