In Their Own Words – Practices of Quotation in Early Medieval History–Writing

Name: In Their Own Words – Practices of Quotation in Early Medieval History–Writing
Brand: University of Toronto Press

University of Toronto Press

In Their Own WordsPractices of Quotation in Early Medieval History-Writing\nAuthor(s): Jeanette Beer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442647541, 978-1442647541\nSynopsis\nIn Their Own Words examines early medieval history-writing through quotation practices in five works, each in some way the first of its kind. Nithards Historiae de dissensionibus filiorum Ludovici Pii is extraordinary for its quotation of vernacular oaths, the first recorded piece of French. The Gesta Francorum is the first eye-witness account of the First Crusade. Geoffrey of Villehardouins La Conqute de Constantinople, written by a leader and negotiator of the Fourth Crusade, and Robert de Claris La Conqute de Constantinople, written by a common soldier in the same crusade, are the first extant French prose histories. Li Fet des Romains, a translation and compilation of all the classical texts about Julius Caesar (including Caesar.