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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2000. The writings of the major twelfth-century historians are interpreted in this important collection.
Full Description
Defining essays on questions of newly-emerging English nationalism and the political importance of chivalric values and knightly obligations, as perceived by contemporary historians.
Six of the greatest twelfth-century historians - William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Geoffrey Gaimar, Roger of Howden, and Gerald of Wales - are analysed in this collection of essays, focusing on their attitudesto three inter-related aspects of English history. The first theme is the rise of the new and condescending perception which regarded the Irish, Scots and Welsh as barbarians; set against the background of socio-economic and cultural change in England, it is argued that this imperialist perception created a fundamental divide in the history of the British Isles, one to which Geoffrey of Monmouth responded immediately and brilliantly. The secondtheme treats chivalry not as a mere gloss upon the brutal realities of life, but as an important development in political morality; and it reconsiders some of the old questions associated with chivalric values and knightly obligations -home-grown products or imports from France? The third themeis the emergence of a new sense of Englishness after the traumas of the Norman Conquest, looking at the English invasion of Ireland and the making of English history.
John Gillingham is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, London School of Economics.
Contents
Introduction - the English in the 12th century. Part 1 Imperialism: the beginnings of English imperialism; the context and purposes of Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain"; conquering the barbarians - war and chivalry in Britain and Ireland; Henry II, Richard I and the Lord Rhys; the travels of Roger of Howden and his views of the Irish, Scots and Welsh; the foundations of a disunited Kingdom. Part 2 National identity: Gaimar, the prose "Brut", and the making of English history; Henry of Huntingdon and the 12th-century revival of the English nation; the English invasion of Ireland. Part 3 Values and structures: thegns and knights in 11th-century England - who was then the gentleman?; the introduction of knight service into England; 1066 and the introduction of chivalry into England; kingship, chivalry and love - political and cultural values in the earliest history written in French, Geoffrey Gaimar's "Estoire des Engleis"; some observations on social mobility in England between the Norman Conquest and the early-13th century.
