"The papers gathered in this volume were are given in 1999--at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, and finally during a day conference in November held at York."--Preface. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction / Elizabeth M. Tyler and Ross Balzaretti -- Spoken narratives in ninth-century Milanese court records / Ross Balzaretti -- Reading Anglo-Saxon charters : memory, record, or strory? / Sarah Foot -- William of Malmesbury's use of charters / Julia Barrow -- Mixed modes in historical narrative / Joaquín Martínez Pizarro -- "Sad stories of the death of kings" : narrative patterns and structures of authority in Regino of Prüm's Chronicle / Stuart Airlie -- Narrating the life of Eusebius of Vercelli / Nick Everett -- Ælfric's Account of St. Swithun : literature of reform and reward / Elaine Treharne -- Folklore and historiography : oral stories and the writing of Anglo-Saxon history / Catherine Cubitt -- Poetics and the past : making history with Old English poetry / Elizabeth M. Tyler -- The "meaning of the narrative moment" : poets and history in the late Viking age / Judith Jesch.
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