History and the Written Word by Henry Bainton HARDBACK 9780812251906

History and the Written Word\nby Henry Bainton\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Henry Bainton\nTitle: History and the Written Word\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Historiography\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9780812251906\nISBN-10: 0812251903\nRRP: \u00A362.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nA thought-provoking look at the Angevin aristocracy''s literary practices and historical record\nComing upon the text of a document such as a charter or a letter inserted into the fabric of a medieval chronicle and quoted in full or at length, modern readers might well assume that the chronicler is simply doing what good historians have always done\u2014that is, citing his source a.