Experimental histories : interpolation and the medieval British past / Hannah Weaver.

Author/creator Weaver, Hannah author.
Format Book
PublicationIthaca New York : Cornell University Press, 2024.
Copyright Date©2024
Descriptionxiv, 232 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Portion of title Interpolation and the medieval British past
Contents Introduction: Interpolation and the patchwork of history -- The rise of historical interpolation from antiquity to Geoffrey of Monmouth -- Prophecy and the prudent reader -- Finding fulfillment in the Roman de Brut -- Images and collapse in the Bayeux Embroidery and the Egerton Brut -- Coda. The afterlives of interpolation and timefulness.
Abstract "This book focuses on interpolation in medieval manuscript histories of Britain, particularly the thirteenth-century Brut tradition, arguing that historians used this form to stage debates about how time worked and how it could be narrated"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Weaver, Hannah. Experimental histories. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024 9781501776212
LCCN 2023054051
ISBN9781501776205
ISBN1501776207 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic publication

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