Telling Tales: Sources and Narration in Late Medieval England

by Joel Thomas Rosenthal and Joel T. Rosenthal

Book Overview

One of the great challenges facing historians of any era is to make the strangeness of the past comprehensible in the present. This task is especially difficult for scholars of the Middle Ages, a period that can seem particularly alien to modern sensibilities. In Telling Tales, Joel Rosenthal takes us on a journey through some familiar sources from fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England to show how memories and recollections can be used...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027105848X
• ISBN13: 9780271058481
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"