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Rhetoric and the writing of history, 400-1500 / / Matthew Kempshall



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Autore: Kempshall M. S. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Rhetoric and the writing of history, 400-1500 / / Matthew Kempshall Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2011
©2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (638 p.)
Disciplina: 907.204
Soggetto topico: Historiography - Europe - History - To 1500
Rhetoric, Medieval
Soggetto non controllato: Christian 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Z
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Rhetoric and the writing of history, 400-1500  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-84779-897-7
1-84779-898-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797111803321
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Serie: Historical approaches.