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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816604803321

Autore

Gransden Antonia

Titolo

Legends, traditions, and history in medieval England / / Antonia Gransden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Rio Grande, Ohio : , : Hambledon Press, , 1992

ISBN

1-4725-9897-0

1-282-70990-9

9786612709906

0-8264-3946-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 p.)

Disciplina

942.03

Soggetti

Legends - England

Monasteries - England - Historiography

Oral tradition - England - History - To 1500

England Civilization 1066-1485

England Historiography

Great Britain History Medieval period, 1066-1485 Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Illustrations; 1 Bede's Reputation as an Historian in Medieval England; 2 Traditionalism and Continuity during the Last Century of Anglo-Saxon Monasticism; 3 Legends and Traditions concerning the Origins of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds; 4 Cultural Transition at Worcester in the Anglo-Norman Period; 5 Prologues in the Historiography of Twelfth-Century England; 6 The Growth of the Glastonbury Traditions and Legends in the Twelfth Century; 7 Realistic Observation in Twelfth-Century England; 8 The Chronicles of Medieval England and Scotland

9 The Cronica Buriensis and the Abbey of St Benet of Hulme10 The Continuations of the Flores Historiarum from 1265 to 1327; 11 The Alleged Rape by Edward III of the Countess of Salisbury; 12 A Fourteenth-Century Chronicle from the Grey Friars at Lynn; 13 The Date and Authorship of John of Glastonbury's Cronica sive Antiquitates Glastoniensis Ecclesie; 14 Antiquarian Studies in Fifteenth-Century



England; Additional Notes to Chapters 6, 8 and 10; Index; Index of Manuscripts

Sommario/riassunto

"In this collection of essays, Antonia Gransden brings out the virtues of medieval writers and highlights their attitudes and habits of thought. She traces the continuing influence of Bede, the greatest of early medieval English historians, from his death to the sixteenth century. Bede's clarity and authority were welcomed by generations of monastic historians. At the other end is a humble fourteenth-century chronicle produced at Lynn with little to add other than a few local references."--Bloomsbury Publishing.