Medievalists.net » Historiography http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 03:41:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Writing History in a Paperless World: Archives of the Future http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/05/writing-history-in-a-paperless-world-archives-of-the-future/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/05/writing-history-in-a-paperless-world-archives-of-the-future/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2015 01:09:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=63023 The question I want to pose here concerns the form of archives that will be available to the historians of the early twenty-first century. Or put differently – what will be left behind of the contemporary present in lieu of paper for the future historians?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/05/writing-history-in-a-paperless-world-archives-of-the-future/feed/ 0 The Duel between Guy of Steenvoorde and Iron Herman http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/29/the-duel-between-guy-of-steenvoorde-and-iron-herman/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/29/the-duel-between-guy-of-steenvoorde-and-iron-herman/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:09:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62867 ...both fought bitterly. But Guy knocked his adversary from his horse and kept him down easily with his lance as he was struggling to get up. Then his opponent, running nearer, ran Guy's horse through with his sword, disemboweling it.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/29/the-duel-between-guy-of-steenvoorde-and-iron-herman/feed/ 0 John Hardyng and his Chronicle http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/19/john-hardyng-and-his-chronicle/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/19/john-hardyng-and-his-chronicle/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2015 14:10:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62623 Hardyng, an ex-soldier and spy of Henry V, set about composing the work after he ‘retired’ to the Augustinian priory at South Kyme, Lincolnshire, in the 1440s or 1450s.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/19/john-hardyng-and-his-chronicle/feed/ 0 From Agincourt (1415) to Fornovo (1495): aspects of the writing of warfare in French and Burgundian 15th century historiographical literature http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/23/from-agincourt-1415-to-fornovo-1495-aspects-of-the-writing-of-warfare-in-french-and-burgundian-15th-century-historiographical-literature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/23/from-agincourt-1415-to-fornovo-1495-aspects-of-the-writing-of-warfare-in-french-and-burgundian-15th-century-historiographical-literature/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2015 04:21:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61969 The object of this thesis is to inquire into some major aspects of the historiographical writing of war in France and Burgundy, from Henry V's invasion of France in 1415 to the first wars of Italy.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/23/from-agincourt-1415-to-fornovo-1495-aspects-of-the-writing-of-warfare-in-french-and-burgundian-15th-century-historiographical-literature/feed/ 0 Anna Komnene and her Sources for Military Affairs in the Alexiad http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/21/anna-komnene-and-her-sources-for-military-affairs-in-the-alexiad/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/21/anna-komnene-and-her-sources-for-military-affairs-in-the-alexiad/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2015 00:56:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61922 Without discounting the contribution of oral traditions of storytelling to the Alexiad, the study favours the growing consensus that Anna was more reliant on written material, especially campaign dispatches and military memoirs.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/21/anna-komnene-and-her-sources-for-military-affairs-in-the-alexiad/feed/ 0 Teaching Historical Understanding with Christopher Columbus http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/11/teaching-historical-understanding-with-christopher-columbus/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/11/teaching-historical-understanding-with-christopher-columbus/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:14:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61735 I'm a big fan of Christopher Columbus. Not the man, the phenomenon.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/11/teaching-historical-understanding-with-christopher-columbus/feed/ 0 Senses of the Past: The Old English Vocabulary of History http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/26/senses-of-the-past-the-old-english-vocabulary-of-history/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/26/senses-of-the-past-the-old-english-vocabulary-of-history/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2015 02:57:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60650 How did the Anglo-Saxons think about history?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/26/senses-of-the-past-the-old-english-vocabulary-of-history/feed/ 0 Reporting Scotland in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/26/reporting-scotland-in-the-anglo-saxon-chronicle/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/26/reporting-scotland-in-the-anglo-saxon-chronicle/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:43:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60644 The aim of this paper is to explore the changing way in which the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports events in northern Britain, beyond the Anglo-Saxon territories, in the hope of gaining a better understanding both of events in that region and, perhaps more interestingly, the way in which the Chronicle was constructed.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/26/reporting-scotland-in-the-anglo-saxon-chronicle/feed/ 0 The Ghosts of Chroniclers Past: The Transmission and Legacy of the Chroniques of Jean Froissart in the Anchiennes Cronicques d’Engleterre compiled by Jean de Wavrin http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/20/the-ghosts-of-chroniclers-past-the-transmission-and-legacy-of-the-chroniques-of-jean-froissart-in-the-anchiennes-cronicques-dengleterre-compiled-by-jean-de-wavrin/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/20/the-ghosts-of-chroniclers-past-the-transmission-and-legacy-of-the-chroniques-of-jean-froissart-in-the-anchiennes-cronicques-dengleterre-compiled-by-jean-de-wavrin/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:12:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60505 This article investigates the transmission and the transformation of Froissart’s Chroniques into the Wavrin compilation through a close reading of an episode in manuscript context.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/20/the-ghosts-of-chroniclers-past-the-transmission-and-legacy-of-the-chroniques-of-jean-froissart-in-the-anchiennes-cronicques-dengleterre-compiled-by-jean-de-wavrin/feed/ 0 The Rewriting of History in Amin Maalouf’s The Crusades Through Arab Eyes http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/14/the-rewriting-of-history-in-amin-maaloufs-the-crusades-through-arab-eyes/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/14/the-rewriting-of-history-in-amin-maaloufs-the-crusades-through-arab-eyes/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2015 04:09:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60390 I argue that while Maalouf brilliantly deconstructs the Western image of the Crusades as a heroic time by documenting the barbarity of the Crusaders without falling into the pitfall of simply inverting the terms of the dichotomy, the agenda driving his rewriting of this historical period leads him to partially repeat what his book is supposed to undo

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