Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. History and Historiography
2. Rhetoric and History
3. Invention and Narrative
4. Verisimilitude and Truth
5. Historiography and History
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Matthew Kempshall is Fellow and Tutor in History at Wadham College, University of Oxford
A dense, meticulously researched "handbook" that is designed to
guide students through the methodological thickets connecting
medieval historiography and rhetoric.
There are few, if any, other works that provide such an
introduction to the learning that shaped the world in which fi
gures such as Hugh of St Victor, John of Salisbury, and Otto of
Freising wrote.
'A magisterial, synthetic introduction to the subject, aimed
principally at students and scholars new to the field and
encompassing some 550 pages of elegantly written, exhaustively
supported argumentation.'
Cam Grey, University of Pennsylvania, Rhetorica, July 2016
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