from Part III - Practice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2019
Medieval historiography in Britain was written in all of the languages of the island. Latin and vernacular texts engaged in sophisticated intertextual dialogues throughout the period. This essay considers how vernacular history writing deployed its vernacularity to make political and imaginative interventions in the dominant traditions of historiography. The essay surveys how the Middle English chronicles of Robert of Gloucester, Robert Mannyng, and the Short Chronicle, and the Anglo-Norman chronicles of Piers Langtoft and Nicholas Trevet engaged with ideas of intertextuality, authority, citation, and translation in order to craft narratives of insular history often at odds with each other.
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