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Rhetoric and the Writing of History, 400-1500

2011 Matthew Kempshall ;ISBN: 9781847798985 ;ISBN: 1847798985 ;ISBN: 9780719070303 ;ISBN: 0719070309 ;ISBN: 9781847798978 ;ISBN: 1847798977 ;EISBN: 9781847798985 ;EISBN: 1847798985 ;EISBN: 9781847798978 ;EISBN: 1847798977 ;OCLC: 911180422 ;LCCallNum: D13.5.E85

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  • Title:
    Rhetoric and the Writing of History, 400-1500
  • Author: Kempshall, Matthew
  • Subjects: Europe ; General history of Europe ; Great Britain ; Historiography ; Historiography - Europe - History - To 1500 ; HISTORY ; Medieval ; Rhetoric, Medieval
  • Description: This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.400 and c.1500. Concentrating on the general principles of classical rhetoric central to the language of this writing, alongside the more familiar traditions of ancient history, biblical exegesis and patristic theology, this survey introduces the conceptual sophistication and semantic rigour with which medieval authors could approach their narratives of past and present events, and the diversity of ends to which this history could then be put. By providing a close reading of some of the historians who put these linguistic principles and strategies into practice (from Augustine and Orosius through Otto of Freising and William of Malmesbury to Machiavelli and Guicciardini), it traces and questions some of the key methodological changes that characterise the function and purpose of the western historiographical tradition in this formative period of its development.
  • Publisher: United Kingdom: Manchester University Press
  • Creation Date: 2013
  • Format: 638
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9781847798985
    ISBN: 1847798985
    ISBN: 9780719070303
    ISBN: 0719070309
    ISBN: 9781847798978
    ISBN: 1847798977
    EISBN: 9781847798985
    EISBN: 1847798985
    EISBN: 9781847798978
    EISBN: 1847798977
    OCLC: 911180422
    LCCallNum: D13.5.E85
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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