03659nam 2200637 450 991078716120332120230803035424.01-4438-6841-8(CKB)3710000000250923(EBL)1810282(SSID)ssj0001399934(PQKBManifestationID)11820682(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001399934(PQKBWorkID)11469333(PQKB)10695685(MiAaPQ)EBC1810282(Au-PeEL)EBL1810282(CaPaEBR)ebr10949450(CaONFJC)MIL649317(OCoLC)892799116(OCoLC)892430243(FINmELB)ELB132642(EXLCZ)99371000000025092320141010d2013 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAuthorising history gestures of authorship in fourteenth-century English historiography /by Nicole NyffeneggerNewcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2013.1 online resource (230 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-18053-9 1-4438-4819-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; The four works; Robert Mannyng of Brunne's chronicle; Robert of Gloucester's chronicle; The Northern and the Southern versions of the Cursor Mundi; CHAPTER ONE; The historiographer as mediator; The "unlearned" audience; The written text and aural prelection; Material metaphors for the writing of history; CHAPTER TWO; Time matters: past, present and the authorial persona; Space in time: "land" as epoch marker and motif; Conquerors, kings, and the Virgin Mary; CHAPTER THREE; The power of the book to preserve the truthBooks as the exclusive domain of the literatusLetters of liberation; Robert Mannyng's emphasis on letters of liberation; CHAPTER FOUR; Robert Mannyng's evaluation of his sources; Appropriating the sources' authority; Eluding the control exerted by the authoritative sources; Criticising and challenging the sources; CHAPTER FIVE; Framing the text with the authorial persona; The functions of "here" and "now"; Mannyng's reaction to Wace's gestures of authorship; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX""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...Authorising history :gestures of authorship in 14th-century English historiographyHistorical poetry, EnglishHistory and criticismHistorical poetry, EnglishAuthorshipEnglish literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismHistorical poetry, EnglishHistory and criticism.Historical poetry, EnglishAuthorship.English literatureHistory and criticism.941.0072942.037Nyffenegger Nicole1478126MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787161203321Authorising history3693725UNINA