Historical Writing in England: 550 - 1307 and 1307 to the Early Sixteenth Century

by Gransden,Antonia

• ISBN13: 9780415152372
• ISBN10: 0415152372
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this work, Antonia Gransden offers a comprehensive critical survey of historical writing and historiographical achievements in mid-6th century through early 16th century England. While studying an extensive variety of primary sources--including chronicles, annals, secular and sacred biographers and monographs on local histories--these volumes also provide a critical evaluation of secondary sources and historiographical development. Discussions of important figures such as Bede, William Malmesbury and Matthew Paris include a critical examination of their careers and work, and detail the influences and traditions which shaped each writer's attitudes. This standard reference work for English history has been updated with textual corrections and includes an extensive bibliography as well as detailed references.

Table of Contents

List of plates	ix
Introduction	xi
Acknowledgments	xvi
Abbreviations	xviii
Chroniclers of the Reign of Edward II	1	(42)
Ranulf Higden	43	(15)
Chroniclers of the Reign of Edward III: the `Seculars' and Laymen	58	(43)
Chroniclers of the Reign of Edward III: the `Religious'	101	(17)
Thomas Walsingham	118	(39)
Chroniclers of the Reign of Richard II	157	(37)
The Biographies of Henry V	194	(26)
The Brut Chronicles and the Chronicles of London in the Fifteenth Century	220	(29)
Chroniclers of the Wars of the Roses: English	249	(39)
Chroniclers of the Wars of the Roses: Foreign	288	(20)
The Antiquaries: John Rous and William Worcester	308	(34)
The End of the Monastic Tradition of Historiography: Thomas Elmham, Thomas Burton, and John Whethamsted	342	(45)
The End of the Monastic Tradition of Historiography: Minor Works	387	(38)
The Humanist Historians: Thomas More and Polydore Vergil	425	(29)
Epilogue	454	(50)
Appendices
A The Chronicle of John Tiptoft	480	(1)
B The Manuscripts of `The Arrival of Edward IV'	481	(9)
C The Crowland Chronicle	490	(3)
D Sources of Thomas Rudborne's Historia Major	493	(2)
E Tabulae	495	(1)
F Rebellion in Holderness (?1268)	496	(1)
G Henry VI the `Simple' King	497	(2)
H Chronological Indices	499	(5)
1 The Principal Literary Sources for English History, arranged under Reigns 1307-1485	499	(3)
2 Annals (combining Local and General History) of the Fifteenth Century and the First Half of the Sixteenth Century	502	(1)
3 Local Histories from the Late Fourteenth Century to the Early Sixteenth Century	502	(1)
4 Antiquarian Works of the Fifteenth Century	503	(1)
Select Bibliography	504	(12)
1 Texts	504	(2)
2 Secondary Sources	506	(6)
3 Supplement to the Bibliographical Apparatus of Historical Writing, i	512	(4)
Addenda and Corrigenda to Historical Writing, i	516	(3)
Index	519