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A short passage will deal with their backgrounds and the key features of their work, so far as they are relevant to their attitudes towards William Rufus. The main body will look at passages written about William Rufus, taking into account the rhetoric and language involved, comparing where they differ and where they have similarities.
The focus here will be a critical one, highlighting contradictions within and between the texts. Finally, the conclusion will again question both Eadmer's and Huntingdon's motives, and try evaluate the use of their accounts of Williams Rufus. Terry Jones' Medieval Lives. History in an Hour. The Book in the Renaissance. A Very Short Introduction. The Priory of Sion. Monks, the Pope, and the Origins of the Crusades. In the Wake of the Plague. Life in a Medieval Monastery.
All Things Made New. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary.
The Portrayal of William Rufus in the "Vita Anselmi" and Huntingdon's "Historia Anglorum" - Nicholas Williams - Term Paper - History Europe - Other Countries. The Portrayal of William Rufus in the Vita Anselmi and Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum (paperback). Seminar paper from the year in the subject History.
The Murder of William of Norwich. Discussion 15 of Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor. Ireland's Forgotten Philosopher, Scholar History and the Enlightenment. The Debate on the English Reformation. The King with a Pope in His Belly.
Skickas inom vardagar. De vita Claudii Caesaris. QTY Add to cart. Free Publication of your term paper, essay, interpretation, bachelor's thesis, master's thesis, dissertation or textbook - upload now! Would you like us to take another look at this review?
Royal Books and Holy Bones. Great Orders of the Catholic Church.
Mary I Penguin Monarchs. Patrick and the See of Rome. The Evolution of a Reputation. How profoundly changed was England through the Norman Conquest? Williams Rufus, the second Norman king in England, did not strike a chord with his contemporary chroniclers and writers of history. Instead, he was portrayed as just about everything a monarch should not be.
This changed in later centuries, but once his image had been set by eleventh and twelfth century writers, many others just drew on them, manifesting the negative picture that existed of William Rufus and reinterpreting it only in nuances. It is not the subject of this essay to retrace and follow this picture throughout the ages, although the conclusion will come back to this point. Instead, the focus here will be on two medieval writers who wrote about William Rufus, Eadmer and Henry of Huntingdon.
A short passage will deal with their backgrounds and the key features of their work, so far as they are relevant to their attitudes towards William Rufus.
The main body will look at passages written about William Rufus, taking into account the rhetoric and language involved, comparing where they differ and where they have similarities. The focus here will be a critical one, highlighting contradictions within and between the texts. Having thus taken certain liberties which others might or might not! In this case, appointing Anselm, whose reputation as a saint was already in the making, as archbishop would seem a wise move. Callahan, The Making of a monster: JMH 7 , English Language and Literature Studies - Literature.
Geschichte Europa - and. Romanistik - Italienische u.
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