Practices of Quotation in Early Medieval History-Writing
by
Jeanette Beer
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In Their Own Words examines early medieval history-writing through quotation practices in five works, each in some way the first of its kind. Nithard’s Historiae de dissensionibus filiorum Ludovici Pii is extraordinary for its quotation of vernacular oaths, the first recorded piece of French. The...