Narrative and history in the early medieval West
By: ed. by Elizabeth M. Tyler and Ross Balzaretti.
Contributors: Tyler, E. M. 1965-; Balzaretti, Ross.; International Congress on Medieval Studies (1999 : Kalamazoo, Michigan); International Medieval Congress (1999 : Leeds, England)
Series: Studies in the early Middle Ages -- v. 16
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9782503518282
Subjects: Middle Ages -- Sources -- Congresses; Middle Ages -- Historiography -- Congresses; Historiography -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: The papers gathered in this volume were all given in 1999 - at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds and during a day conference held at York. They agree that looking at the wide range of narrative forms available provides new ways of viewing the Middle Ages.
Notes: "The papers gathered in this volume were are given in 1999--at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, and finally during a day conference in November held at York."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Elizabeth M. Tyler and Ross Balzaretti; title: Spoken narratives in ninth-century Milanese court records / Ross Balzaretti; title: Reading Anglo-Saxon charters : memory, record, or strory? / Sarah Foot; title: William of Malmesbury's use of charters / Julia Barrow; title: Mixed modes in historical narrative / Joaquín Martínez Pizarro; title: "Sad stories of the death of kings" : narrative patterns and structures of authority in Regino of Prüm's Chronicle / Stuart Airlie; title: Narrating the life of Eusebius of Vercelli / Nick Everett; title: Ælfric's Account of St. Swithun : literature of reform and reward / Elaine Treharne; title: Folklore and historiography : oral stories and the writing of Anglo-Saxon history / Catherine Cubitt; title: Poetics and the past : making history with Old English poetry / Elizabeth M. Tyler; title: The "meaning of the narrative moment" : poets and history in the late Viking age / Judith Jesch.