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OverviewThis 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 insights into the processes of the appropriation of history around 1300 by social groups whose lack of the relevant languages, before this 'anglicising' of the dominant Latin and French history constructions, prevented their access to the history of the British isles. -Wilhelm Busse University of Dusseldorf Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicole NyffeneggerPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781443848190ISBN 10: 1443848190 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 23 August 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis 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 insights into the processes of the appropriation of history around 1300 by social groups whose lack of the relevant languages, before this 'anglicising' of the dominant Latin and French history constructions, prevented their access to the history of the British isles. (Wilhelm Busse, University of Dusseldorf) Author InformationNicole Nyffenegger holds a degree in Medieval History and Medieval English Language and Literature from the University of Berne, Switzerland, where she also wrote her PhD. Presently, she is working on her habilitation, tentatively entitled Writing on Skin on the textuality of human skin in English literature. She is a Senior Assistant in Medieval English Studies at the English Department in Berne. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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