Historical Writing in England

550 - 1307 and 1307 to the Early Sixteenth Century

Antonia Gransden

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781136190285
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Using a variety of sources including chronicles, annals, secular and sacred biographies and monographs on local histories Historical Writing in England by Antonia Gransden offers a comprehensive critical survey of historical writing in England from the mid-sixth century to the early sixteenth century. Based on the study of the sources themselves, these volumes also offer a critical assessment of secondary sources and historiographical development.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1 Gildas and Nennius
• 2 Bede
• 3 Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• 4 Anglo-Saxon Secular Narrative History and Royal Biography
• 5 Anglo-Saxon Sacred Biography and Local History
• 6 Historians of the Norman Conquest
• 7 Anglo-Norman Sacred Biography and Local History
• 8 Anglo-Norman Historians
• 9 William of Malmesbury
• 10 Historians of King Stephen’s Reign
• 11 Historians of the Reigns of Henry II and Richard I: the ‘Seculars’
• 12 Historians of the Reigns of Henry II and Richard I: the ‘Religious’
• 13 Local History from the Reign of King Stephen to John
• 14 Sacred Biography from the Reign of Henry II to John
• 15 Historians of King John’s Reign
• 16 Matthew Paris and the St Albans School of Historiography
• 17 Historical Writing at Bury St Edmunds in the Thirteenth Century
• 18 Chronicles in the Reign of Henry III
• 19 Chronicles in the Reign of Edward I
• 20 Mendicant Chronicles
• 21 The Chronicle of London
• A Note on The Song of Dermot and the Earl and L’Histoire des Ducs de Normandie et des Rois d’Angleterre
• B Local History in the Thirteenth Century
• List of plates
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1 Chroniclers of the Reign of Edward II
• 2 Ranulf Higden
• 3 Chroniclers of the Reign of Edward III: the ‘Seculars’ and Laymen
• 4 Chroniclers of the Reign of Edward III: the ‘Religious’
• 5 Thomas Walsingham
• 6 Chroniclers of the Reign of Richard II
• 7 The Biographies of Henry V
• 8 The Brut Chronicles and the Chronicles of London in the Fifteenth Century
• 9 Chroniclers of the Wars of the Roses: English
• 10 Chroniclers of the Wars of the Roses: Foreign
• 11 The Antiquaries: John Rous and William Worcester
• 12 The End of the Monastic T radition of Historiography: Thomas Elmham, Thomas Burton, and John Whethamsted
• 13 The End of the Monastic Tradition of Historiography: Minor Works
• 14 The Humanist Historians: Thomas More and Polydore Vergil
• Epilogue
• Appendices
• B The Manuscripts of ‘The Arrival of Edward IV’
• C The Crowland Chronicle
• D Sources of Thomas Rudborne’s Historia Major
• E Tabulae
• F Rebellion in Holderness (? 1268)
• G Henry VI the ‘Simple’ King
• H Chronological Indices
• Select Bibliography
• Addenda and Corrigenda to Historical Writing
• Index