Narrative and history in the early medieval West /

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Imprint:Turnhout : Brepols, c2006.
Description:265 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in the early Middle Ages ; v. 16.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6168057
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Other authors / contributors:Tyler, E. M. (Elizabeth M.), 1965-
Balzaretti, Ross.
International Congress on Medieval Studies (1999 : Kalamazoo, Michigan)
International Medieval Congress (1999 : Leeds, England)
ISBN:2503518281 (hbk.)
9782503518282 (hbk.)
Notes:"The papers gathered in this volume were are given in 1999--at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, and finally during a day conference in November held at York."--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Spoken Narratives in Ninth-Century Milanese Court Records
  • Reading Anglo-Saxon Charters: Memory, Record, or Story?
  • William of Malmesbury's Use of Charters
  • Mixed Modes in Historical Narrative
  • 'Sad stories of the death of kings': Narrative Patterns and Structures of Authority in Regino of Prum's Chronicle
  • Narrating the Life of Eusebius of Vercelli
  • Aelfric's Account of St Swithun: Literature of Reform and Reward
  • Folklore and Historiography: Oral Stories and the Writing of Anglo-Saxon History
  • Poetics and the Past: Making History with Old English Poetry
  • The 'Meaning of the Narrative Moment': Poets and History in the Late Viking Age