ENGLISH HISTORICAL WRITING UNDER THE EARLY ANGEVIN KINGS,1170-1210.
详细信息
- 作者：HULING ; RICHARD WAYNE.
- 学历：Doctor
- 年：1981
- 毕业院校：State University of New York
- CBH：8106316
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：10884843
- Pages：280
文摘
The reigns of the first three Angevin kings,Henry II,Richard I,and John 1154-1216),have long been considered crucial in English history. The events of this period were recorded by contemporary chroniclers who not only provide facts but also help to shape our understanding of the Angevin period. Little work,however,has been done in attempting to assess the relationships between these chroniclers and the world which produced them. This situation results largely from the fact that until recently medieval histories have been of interest primarily as documentary evidence. A recent trend in the study of medieval historiography,going beyond both pure intellectual history and source criticism,has focused on the intellectual world in which the medieval historian lived and worked and has attempted to draw more detailed connections between works of history and their social context. The present study extends this latter approach to the major chronicle sources of the early Angevin period by a comparison of three late-twelfth-century chroniclers and their works: Roger of Howden and his Chronica； Ralph de Diceto and his Abbreviationes chronicorum and Ymagines historiarum； and Gervase of Canterbury and his Chronica and Gesta regum. Uniting these texts is the chroniclers depiction of the movement,which they both experienced and recorded,toward political and ecclesiastical centralization under the early Angevin kings. The primary objective of this study is to examine the impact of this development on the chroniclers and their works of history. A second,closely related objective is to assess the place of this historiographical corpus in the English chronicle tradition--where the chroniclers used the historiographical traditions available to them and where they departed from these traditions. The study analyzes the social context,literary context,and themes of the chronicles under consideration. One chapter is devoted to each of the three chroniclers. Each chapter is divided into three parts. The first part considers the life and career of each chronicler. The second part of each chapter examines the chroniclers use of models and sources in the derivative parts of their works and of their peculiar ways of collecting data and reporting contemporary events. The third part analyzes the content and themes which dominate and shape the complete work. Building on the first two parts,this section examines the events which the chroniclers recorded and the principles which guided them in selecting and reporting on these events,all within the context of each chroniclers experience and literary art. These three late-twelfth-century chroniclers reveal certain changes in the historical tradition at this period as compared to historical writing in the past. Perhaps the most significant change,resulting to a large extent from the chroniclers experiences of political and ecclesiastical trends in the period,is the movement away from the Eusebian-Orosian pattern of national history characteristic of the early Middle Ages. This pattern of salvation history had placed theocratic kingship in the center of historical development,uniting the parallel histories of salvation and national destiny. By the late twelfth century,however,English government consisted of a great deal more than the king,and this fact was recognized in historical writing. Roger of Howden and Ralph de Diceto were beginning to build their narratives around the institutions and processes of government. Even Gervase of Canterbury,removed from and critical of the centers of secular power,distinguished between the king and royal institutions. Historical writing in this period represents a transitional stage between the earlier,patristic view and that dominant in the thirteenth century in which the king,the government,and the "community" were seen as distinct entities.