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- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Entwined Lives and Multiple Identities
- Part II Historians, Lawyers and Exegetes: Writing Lives and Identities
- 9 Ademar of Chabannes and the Normans:
- 10 Lives, Identities and the Historians of the Normans
- 11 Ruth in the Twelfth Century:
- 12 Jacob and Esau and the Interplay of Jewish and Christian Identities in the Middle Ages
- 13 Identity, Gender and History in Wace’s Roman de Rou and Roman de Brut
- 14 Glanvill:
- 15 Dunstan, Edgar and the History of Not-So-Recent Events
- Index
14 - Glanvill:
Law, Language and Identity
from Part II - Historians, Lawyers and Exegetes: Writing Lives and Identities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2021
- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Entwined Lives and Multiple Identities
- Part II Historians, Lawyers and Exegetes: Writing Lives and Identities
- 9 Ademar of Chabannes and the Normans:
- 10 Lives, Identities and the Historians of the Normans
- 11 Ruth in the Twelfth Century:
- 12 Jacob and Esau and the Interplay of Jewish and Christian Identities in the Middle Ages
- 13 Identity, Gender and History in Wace’s Roman de Rou and Roman de Brut
- 14 Glanvill:
- 15 Dunstan, Edgar and the History of Not-So-Recent Events
- Index
Summary
The chapter concentrates on the intellectual and social identity of the author of the late twelfth-century English law book known as Glanvill, by examining his context, formation and outlook. The method is twofold: first, close engagement with the text, not just what it says, but also how it says it, not just content, but also form and language; secondly, comparison, especially with Richard fitzNigel’s Dialogue of the Exchequer, but also with works from the learned law tradition, in particular the procedural manuals known as Ordines. The chapter explores the processes of composition of the treatise; the significance of its form and style as a means of establishing authority; the ways in which the author identifies with particular courts and particular sources of law; the standing given by specialist knowledge and legal authority; and finally the possible audiences, imagined and real.
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- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages , pp. 264 - 281Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021