Medieval Narratives Between History and Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Narratives Between History and Fiction write by Panagiotis A. Agapitos. This book was released on 2012. Medieval Narratives Between History and Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The rise of literary fiction in medieval Europe has been a hotly debated topic among scholars for at least two decades, but until now that debate has come with severe limitations, focusing on ‘modern’ French and German romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Attempting to find common ground among scholars from various disciplines and regions, Medieval Narratives between History and Fiction seeks to clarify the subject by including a wide range of medieval narratives irrespective of their modern label and affiliation to certain disciplines. The chapters collected here broaden the discussion by moving beyond the canonical French and German romances, focusing mainly on texts in Greek, Latin and Old Norse (and also some in Serbian), and by opting for a ‘peripheral’ and a long-term view of the subject. The chapters take us from Graeco-Roman antiquity to medieval France, then to the Scandinavian lands and from there to south-eastern Europe and Byzantium as the link back to the Graeco-Roman world. This disposition also follows a spiral motion in time, leading us from antiquity to late antiquity and from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. By expanding the linguistic as well as the geographical and chronological scope of the debate, the book shows that we should not think of a ‘rise of fiction’ per se; rather, we should see fiction as a potential always imbued in and related to historical narratives – and recognize that non-fictional and non-vernacular writing are important for a modern understanding of medieval fiction."--
Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West
Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West write by Elizabeth M. Tyler. This book was released on 2006. Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The papers gathered in this volume were all given in 1999 - at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds and during a day conference held at York. They agree that looking at the wide range of narrative forms available provides new ways of viewing the Middle Ages.
Medieval Narrative
Medieval Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Narrative write by Margaret Schlauch. This book was released on 1928. Medieval Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Inventiones
Inventiones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventiones write by Monika Otter. This book was released on 2000-11-09. Inventiones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Combining literary theory and historiography, Monika Otter explores the relationship between history and fiction in the Latin literature of twelfth-century England. The beginnings of fiction have commonly been associated with vernacular romance, but Otter demonstrates that writers of Latin historical narratives also employed the self-referential techniques characteristic of fiction. Beginning with inventiones, a genre dealing with the discovery of saints' relics, Otter reveals how exploring the fundamental problems of writing history and the nature of truth itself leads monastic or clerical Latin writers to a budding awareness of fictionality. According to Otter, accounts of conquests, treasure hunts, descents into underground worlds, and efforts (usually unsuccessful) to retrieve subterranean objects serve as self-referential metaphors for the problems of accessing and retrieving the past; they are thus designed to shake the reader's faith in historical representation and highlight the textuality of the historical account. Otter traces this self-conscious use of fictional elements within historical narrative through the works of William of Malmesbury, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Gerald of Wales, Walter Map, and William of Newburgh. Originally published in 1996. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Fantastic histories
Fantastic histories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fantastic histories write by Victoria Flood. This book was released on 2024-05-28. Fantastic histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance. It traces the uses of the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality in the histories of Gerald of Wales and Walter Map, the continental mirabilia of Gervase of Tilbury, and the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century French Mélusine romances and their early English reception. Working across insular and continental source material, Fantastic Histories explores the practices of history-writing, fiction-making, and the culturally determined boundaries of wonder that defined the limits of medieval history.
