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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Tinti, Francesca (1971-....)
Titre(s) : Constructing history across the Norman Conquest [Texte imprimé] : Worcester, c.1050-c.1150 / edited by Francesca Tinti, David A. Woodman
Publication : York : York Medieval Press, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (305 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Writing history in the Middle Ages ; 9
Lien à la collection : Writing history in the Middle Ages (Print)
Note(s) : Textes en anglais, en latin. - Bibliogr. p. 271-294, index
From the mid-eleventh to the mid-twelfth century Worcester was a monastic community
of unparalleled importance. Not only was it home to many of the most famous bishops
and monks of the period, including Bishop Wulfstan II: it was also a centre of notable
and ambitious scholarly production. Under Wulfstan's guidance, a number of Worcester
brethren undertook historical research that resulted in the writing of such renowned
texts as Hemming's Cartulary and the Worcester Chronica Chronicarum. Significantly,
these historical endeavours spanned the political chasm of the Norman Conquest.0The
essays collected here aim to shed new light on different aspects of the Worcester
"historical workshop", whose literary ouput was, in several respects, pioneering in
contemporary European scholarship. Several chapters address the different ways in
which the monks organised and updated their archives of documents, both via their
sequence of cartularies, with a special focus on the narrative parts of Hemming's
Cartulary, and via an interesting (and previously unedited) prose account of the foundation
of the see. Others focus on the famous Worcester Chronica Chronicarum, attributed
both to Florence and to John, investigating the major model for its composition and
structure (the work of Marianus Scotus), the stages in which it was completed, and
its connections with Welsh chronicles, as well as the related and fascinating abbreviated
version, written mostly in the hand of John himself, and known as the Chronicula.
The volume thus elucidates how the Worcester monks navigated the period across the
Conquest through the composition of different genres of texts, and how these texts
shaped their own institutional memory
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Woodman, David Anthony (1981-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Ordres monastiques et religieux -- Angleterre (GB) -- Moyen âge
Histoire religieuse -- Worcester (GB) -- Moyen âge
Église catholique. Diocese (Worcester, GB) -- Moyen âge
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781914049040 (Br.). - ISBN 1914049047
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47036371v
Notice n° :
FRBNF47036371
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