Imagining History in Medieval Britain

Dr Stephen Kelly (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2022
Continuum Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-4411-0522-6 (ISBN)

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Imagining History in Medieval Britain explores the historical imagination through medieval and early modern writers and texts, from Christian historians such as Bede to secular chronicles; from Geoffrey of Monmouth and other romancers of history, to late medieval historical fiction by Chaucer and Malory. The book deliberately moves away from a chronological approach to assess the writing of history thematically. Chapters are designed to be comprehensive in mapping the major texts of medieval historical writing but are also intended to challenge current understandings by juxtaposing texts with themes which are informed by the postmodern sense of crisis in historical representation. The book frames its exploration of medieval history writing with reference to key thinkers of contemporary historiographical theory including Foucault, de Certeau, Collingwood and Hayden White. The book introduces students to the main currents of medieval history writing but also challenges the strictures imposed by the discipline of History as it has emerged since the eighteenth century.
Sidebars will pose additional methodological and theoretical questions and each chapter will have suggestions for further reading.

Stephen Kelly is Lecturer in the School of English at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He is co-editor of Betwixt and Between: Place and Cultural Translation (2007) and co-editor of Imagining the Book (2005). He is currently writing Tears and Saints: Sanctity and the Politics of Enthusiasm.

1. Imagined Communitie: Inventing the Nation from Bede to the Tudors 2. Eternal Return: The Bible and Historical Imagination 3. Mythistories 4. Among ruins 5. Histories of interregnum? The Historian as Apologist 6. The Presence of the Dead 7. Prophetic History 8. 'Morbid symptoms': The Politics of Periodisation 9. The Historiography of Nature 10. The Tragedy of Historical Experience 11. Memory, History, Forgetting, or the Reformation of History Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.3.2022
Zusatzinfo	6
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4411-0522-0 / 1441105220
ISBN-13	978-1-4411-0522-6 / 9781441105226
Zustand	Neuware