Output details
30 - History
University of Oxford
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Book title
Rhetoric and the Writing of History, 400-1500
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Manchester Univ Pr
ISBN of book
9780719070303
Year of publication
2011
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
A systematic overview of 'medieval' historiography covering a period of more than one thousand years of western European historical writing necessarily required an analysis of a very considerable body, and range, of primary material. It also necessitated a detailed synthesis of the classical and patristic traditions by which this writing was informed, as well as the development of an overarching thesis about the relationship between language (rhetoric) and the representation of historical truth. Finally distilled into just over 200,000 words, the research took some ten years to complete and was supported by one year's sabbatical leave.
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No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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