LEADER 03523nam 2200613 450 001 9910459861603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4438-6841-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000250923 035 $a(EBL)1810282 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001399934 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11820682 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001399934 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11469333 035 $a(PQKB)10695685 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1810282 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1810282 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10949450 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL649317 035 $a(OCoLC)892799116 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000250923 100 $a20141010d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAuthorising history $egestures of authorship in fourteenth-century English historiography /$fby Nicole Nyffenegger 210 1$aNewcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom :$cCambridge Scholars Publishing,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-18053-9 311 $a1-4438-4819-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTABLE 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 truth 327 $aBooks 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 330 $a""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... 606 $aHistorical poetry, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHistorical poetry, English$xAuthorship 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHistorical poetry, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHistorical poetry, English$xAuthorship. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a941.0072 676 $a942.037 700 $aNyffenegger$b Nicole$0879229 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459861603321 996 $aAuthorising history$91976800 997 $aUNINA