The Faces of Time: Portrayal of the Past in Old French and Latin Historical Narrative of the Anglo-Norman Regnum 9780292769557

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Автор: Blacker Jean
Название: The Faces of Time: Portrayal of the Past in Old French and Latin Historical Narrative of the Anglo-Norman Regnum
ISBN: 9780292769557
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0292769555
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 279
Вес: 0.42 кг.
Дата издания: 01.10.2014
Язык: English
Размер: 22.91 x 15.19 x 1.63 cm
Поставляется из: Англии
Описание:

The twelfth century witnessed the sudden appearance and virtual disappearance of an important literary genre—the Old French verse chronicle. These poetic histories of the British kings, which today are treated as fiction, were written contemporaneously with Latin prose narratives, which are regarded as historical accounts. In this pathfinding study, however, Jean Blacker asserts that twelfth-century authors and readers viewed both genres as factual history.

Blacker examines four Old French verse chronicles—Gaimars Estoire des Engleis (c. 1135), Waces Roman de Brut (c. 1155) and Roman de Rou (c. 1160–1174), and Benoît de Sainte-Maures Chronique des Ducs de Normandie (c. 1174–1180) and four Latin narratives—William of Malmesburys Gesta Regum (c. 1118–1143) and Historia Novella (c. 1140–1143), Orderic Vitaliss Historia Ecclesiastica (c. 1118–1140), and Geoffrey of Monmouths Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1138). She compares their similarity in three areas—the authors stated intentions, their methods of characterization and narrative development, and the possible influences of patronage and audience expectation on the presentation of characters and events.

This exploration reveals remarkable similarity among the texts, including their idealization of historical and even legendary figures, such as King Arthur. It opens fruitful lines of inquiry into the role these writers played in the creation of the Anglo-Norman regnum and suggests that the Old French verse chronicles filled political, psychic, and aesthetic needs unaddressed by Latin historical writing of the period.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Task and Role of the Historian
- Conclusi

The Faces of Time: Portrayal of the Past in Old French and Latin Historical Narrative of the Anglo-Norman Regnum, Blacker Jean