03819nam 2200853 450 991079711180332120200520144314.01-84779-897-71-84779-898-510.7765/9781847798985(CKB)3710000000431672(EBL)4083821(SSID)ssj0001514983(PQKBManifestationID)12498505(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001514983(PQKBWorkID)11480826(PQKB)10617472(OCoLC)989820487(MdBmJHUP)muse78076(Au-PeEL)EBL4083821(CaPaEBR)ebr11118945(CaONFJC)MIL845677(OCoLC)911180422(MiAaPQ)EBC4083821(DE-B1597)659896(DE-B1597)9781847798985(EXLCZ)99371000000043167220160202h20112011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRhetoric and the writing of history, 400-1500 /Matthew KempshallManchester, England ;New York, New York :Manchester University Press,2011.©20111 online resource (638 p.)Historical ApproachesDescription based upon print version of record.0-7190-7031-7 0-7190-7030-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 History and historiography; 2 Rhetoric and history; 3 Invention and narrative; 4 Verisimilitude and truth; 5 Historiography and history; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZThis book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.400 and c.1500. Concentrating on the general principles of classical rhetoric central to the language of this writing, alongside the more familiar traditions of ancient history, biblical exegesis and patristic theology, this survey introduces the conceptual sophistication and semantic rigour with which medieval authors could approach their narratives of past and present events, and the diversity of ends to which this history could then be put. By providing a close reading of some of the historians who put these linguistic principles and strategies into practice (from Augustine and Orosius through Otto of Freising and William of Malmesbury to Machiavelli and Guicciardini), it traces and questions some of the key methodological changes that characterise the function and purpose of the western historiographical tradition in this formative period of its development.Historical approaches.HistoriographyEuropeHistoryTo 1500Rhetoric, MedievalChristian historiography.Middle Ages.biblical tradition.chronographic tradition.classical tradition.deliberative rhetoric.disposition.elocution.epideictic rhetoric.judicial rhetoric.memoria.non-Christian historiography.pronuntiatio.truth.verisimilitude.western Europe.HistoriographyHistoryRhetoric, Medieval.907.204Kempshall M. S.1534180MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797111803321Rhetoric and the writing of history, 400-15003781514UNINA