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interpolation and the medieval British past
xiv, 232 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
"This book focuses on interpolation in medieval manuscript histories of Britain, particularly the thirteenth-century Brut tradition, arguing that historians used this form to stage debates about how time worked and how it could be narrated"--
Introduction: Interpolation and the patchwork of history -- The rise of historical interpolation from antiquity to Geoffrey of Monmouth -- Prophecy and the prudent reader -- Finding fulfillment in the Roman de Brut -- Images and collapse in the Bayeux Embroidery and the Egerton Brut -- Coda. The afterlives of interpolation and timefulness.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024