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Experimental Histories
- Interpolation and the Medieval British Past
Engelsk Hardback
Experimental Histories
- Interpolation and the Medieval British Past
Engelsk Hardback

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In Experimental Histories, Hannah Weaver examines the medieval practice of interpolation—inserting material from one text into another—which is often categorized as being a problematic, inauthentic phenomenon akin to forgery and pseudepigraphy. Instead, Weaver promotes interpolation as the signature form of medieval British historiography and a vehicle of historical theory, arguing that some of the most novel concepts of time in medieval historiography can be found in these altered narratives of the past. For Weaver, historiographical interpolation constitutes the traces of active experimentation with how best to write history, particularly the history of Britain. Historians in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Britain recognized the difficulty of enfolding complex events into a linear chronology and embraced innovative textual methods of creating history. Focusing on the Brut tradition but also analyzing the long history of interpolated historiography, including the Bayeux Embroidery, Experimental Histories offers a new interpretation of generic remixing in medieval writing about the past. Drawing on both manuscript studies and the new formalism, it shows that the practice of inserting materials from romance and hagiography allowed creative revisers to explore how lived events relate to passing time. By embracing interpolation, Weaver provides lively insights into the ways that time becomes history and human actors experience time.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781501776205
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1501776207
Udg. Dato:
15 aug 2024
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 aug 2024
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