Authorising history : gestures of authorship in fourteenth-century English historiography / by Nicole Nyffenegger.
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- Authorizing history
- Robert, of Gloucester, active 1260-1300 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Mannyng, Robert, active 1288-1338 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Cursor mundi
- Mannyng, Robert, active 1288-1338
- Robert, of Gloucester, active 1260-1300
- Cursor mundi
- Historical poetry, English -- History and criticism
- Historical poetry, English -- Authorship
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- Historiography -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Poésie historique anglaise -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature anglaise -- 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) -- Histoire et critique
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
- English literature -- Middle English
- Historical poetry, English
- Historiography
- England
- To 1500
- 941/.0072 23
- PR317.H56 N94 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.
Introduction -- The task of writing history -- History : the subject matter -- Empowering written texts -- Negotiating authority -- Inscribing authority -- Conclusion.
In English; with some passages in Middle English.
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""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 ...
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