LEADER 03198nam 2200421z- 450 001 9910586571603321 005 20231214133423.0 010 $a1-68571-031-X 035 $a(CKB)5580000000361909 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/91366 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000361909 100 $a20202208d2022 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVera Lex Historiae?$eConstructions of Truth in Medieval Historical Narrative 210 $cpunctum books$d2022 215 $a1 electronic resource (370 p.) 311 $a1-68571-030-1 330 $aIn his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (circa 731 CE), Bede says that he will write his account of the past of the English following only vera lex historiae (the true law of history). Whether explicitly or implicitly, historians narrate the past according to conceptions of what constitutes historical truth that emerge in the use of narrative strategies, formulae, and other textual forms, in establishing one?s ideological authority or that of one?s informants, and in faithfulness to a cultural, narrative, or poetic tradition. But what if we extend the scope of what we understand by history (especially in premodern settings) to include not just the writings of historians legitimated by the Latinate matrix of Christianized classical history writing, but also collective narratives, practices, rituals, oral poetry, liturgy, artistic representations, and acts of identity? In these genres of re-enacting the past as, or as representation of, the present, we find a plethora of modes of constructions of historical truth, narrative authority, and reliability. Vera Lex Historiae? comprises contributions that reveal the variety of evental strategies by which historical truth was constructed in late antiquity and the earlier Middle Ages, and the range of procedures by which such narratives were first established as being historical and then as ?true? histories. This is not only a matter of narrative strategies, but also of habitus ? ways of living and acting in the world that are deeply imbricated with the commemoration and re-enactment of the past by communities and by individuals. In doing this, Vera Lex Historiae? aims to recover something of the plurality of modes of preserving and reenacting the past available in late antiquity and the earlier middle ages which we often overlook because of preconceived notions of what constitutes history writing. 517 $aVera Lex Historiae? 606 $aEurope$2bicssc 606 $ac 500 CE to c 1000 CE$2bicssc 606 $aMedieval history$2bicssc 610 $aBede;Early Middle Ages;historiography;Medieval Studies;narratives;truth 615 7$aEurope 615 7$ac 500 CE to c 1000 CE 615 7$aMedieval history 700 $aTaranu$b Catalin$4edt$01292219 702 $aKelly$b Michael J$4edt 702 $aTaranu$b Catalin$4oth 702 $aKelly$b Michael J$4oth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910586571603321 996 $aVera Lex Historiae$93022150 997 $aUNINA