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Aelred as a historian among historians
Citation
Freeman, E, Aelred as a historian among historians, A Companian to Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167), Brill, Dutton, ML (ed), Leiden and Boston, pp. 113-146. ISBN 9789004183551 (2017) [Research Book Chapter]
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Copyright 2017 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden
DOI: doi:10.1163/9789004337978_007
Abstract
The mid-12th century in England was a popular time for the writing of histories. The Norman Conquest of 1066 was sufficiently entrenched that its effects were now clear and inescapable. Benedictine monks in particular seem to have felt that an old world had gone forever, and in the mid-12th century they turned in ever-increasing numbers to the writing of history. National histories were common at this time; commencing their chronologies with the 5th-century arrival of the Angles and Saxons and then continuing up to contemporary times, these narrative histories carried clear political and moral agendas along with their chronological developments.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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| Keywords: | history, Aelred, benedictine |
| Research Division: | History and Archaeology |
| Research Group: | Historical Studies |
| Research Field: | British History |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology |
| Author: | Freeman, E (Dr Elizabeth Freeman) |
| ID Code: | 115354 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2017-03-20 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-06-18 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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