The Writing of History in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to William Southern

1981 Oxford University Press hardcover edition. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition. From the dustjacket: Sir Richard Southern was a fellow and tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, from 1937 to 1961, Chichele Professor of Modern History from 1961 to 1969, and since 1969 has been President of St. John’s College, Oxford. In this book will be found seventeen essays by his old pupils on various aspects of a subject which he made particularly his own, The Writing of History in the Middle Ages. Ranging from the eighth century to the fifteenth, and from Scotland to Byzantium, the essays illustrate both the unity and the breadth of Sir Richard’s teaching. Norman and Anglo-Norman historians (from Worcester to Bec-Hellouin, and Bec-Hellouin to Salerno) receive special attention, but there are also studies of confession and sermons as historical sources; of legal history and chivalrous history; of German town chroniclers; and of the biographer of King Henry VI. All these essays are original contributions to their subject, containing new material, and in several cases preparing the ground for new editions. In some measure they illustrate the combination of profound scholarship, sympathetic understanding, and literary form which are the hallmarks of Sir Richard’s own work. Contents: List of plates List of abbreviations Bede, Iona, and the Picts by Archibald A. M. Duncan History in the mind of Archbishop Hincmar by J. M. Wallace-Hadrill William of Poitiers and his History of William the Conqueror by R. H. C. Davis John of Worcester and his contemporaries by Martin Brett The historical content of William of Malmesbury’s Miracles of the Virgin Mary by Peter Carter History at Bec in the twelfth century by Margaret Gibson St. Anselm and sacred history by Gillian Evans World history in the early twelfth century: the Imago Mundi of Honorius Augustodunensis by Valerie Flint The Chronicle of Romuald of Salerno by D. J. A. Matthew Confession as a historical source in the thirteenth century by A. Murray English chroniclers and the affairs of Scotland, 1286-1296 by Lionel Stones History and action in the sermons of a medieval archbishop by The Bishop of Chichester (E. W. Kemp) Andrew Horn: law and history in fourteenth-century England by Jeremy Catto Chivalry, heralds, and history by Maurice Keen John Blacman: biographer of Henry VI by Roger Lovatt The German town chroniclers by F. R. H. Du Boulay Greek historians on the Turks: the case of the first Byzantine-Ottoman marriage by Anthony Bryer List of the published writings of Richard William Southern.…