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25 juin 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.psorbonne.24431
- isbn: 9782859443139
- eisbn: 9791035102296
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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historiographie mémoire collective légende connaissance historique mode de communication langage History HIS010000 HBJDSujets proches
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John Gillingham, « Gaimar, the Prose Brut and the Making of English History », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.24431
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Medieval England has been described by Bernard Guenée, and with good reason, as a country where the passion for history was "fort vive". But it had not always been so. As James Campbell observes, "The learned men of Anglo-Saxon England had left their country very ill-provided with histories... It is virtually certain that for large areas of Anglo-Saxon history the inquirer of c.1100 had no sources apart from Bede or the wretched annals of one or more versions of the [Anglo-Saxon] Chronicle". ...