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Chris Given-Wilson.
Chronicles: The Writing
of History in Medieval England.
London: Hambledon and London, 2004.
320pp.
Hardback.
ISBN 1852853581.
Publisher's
recommended price £25.00
The priorities of medieval
chroniclers and historians were not those of the modern historian, nor
was the way that they gathered, arranged and presented evidence. Yet if
we understand how they approached their task, and their assumption of
God's immanence in the world, much that they wrote becomes clear. Many
of them were men of high intelligence whose interpretation of events
sheds clear light on what happened. Chris Given-Wilson is one of the
leading authorities on medieval English historical writing. He examines
how medieval writers such as William of Malmesbury and Adam of Usk
treated chronology and geography, politics and warfare, heroes and
villains. He looks at the ways in which chronicles were used during the
middle ages, and at how the writing of history changed between the
twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
'God cannot alter the past, historians
can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect
that He tolerates their existence.' Samuel Butler
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