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Author Nyffenegger, Nicole.

Title Authorising history : gestures of authorship in fourteenth-century English historiography / by Nicole Nyffenegger.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The task of writing history -- History : the subject matter -- Empowering written texts -- Negotiating authority -- Inscribing authority -- Conclusion.
Summary ""This 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 ...
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Language In English; with some passages in Middle English.
Subject Robert, of Gloucester, active 1260-1300 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Robert, of Gloucester, active 1260-1300.
Criticism and interpretation.
Mannyng, Robert, active 1288-1338 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Mannyng, Robert, active 1288-1338.
Cursor mundi.
Cursor mundi.
Historical poetry, English -- History and criticism.
Historical poetry, English.
Historical poetry, English -- Authorship.
Authorship.
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
Historiography -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Historiography.
England.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Authorizing history
Other Form: Print version: Nyffenegger, Nicole. Authorising history 1443848190 (OCoLC)848162414
ISBN 9781443868419 (electronic book)
1443868418 (electronic book)
1322180539
9781322180533
1443848190
9781443848190