Legends, Traditions And History In Medieval England

By Antonia Gransden

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
1992
ISBN
9781472598974
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (37728456 bytes)
Pages
\407
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 19:47:15

Description

In this collection of essays, Antonia Gransden brings out the virtues of medieval writers and highlights their attitudes and habits of thought. She traces the continuing influence of Bede, the greatest of early medieval English historians, from his death to the sixteenth century. Bede’s clarity and authority were welcomed by generations of monastic historians. At the other end is a humble fourteenth-century chronicle produced at Lynn with little to add other than a few local references.

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