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In the Middle Ages, rewriting history was a distinct activity within the larger sphere of historical writing. Rewriting started with existing historical accounts, recasting them into new forms as new stories about the past. Changes in circumstances drove rewriting, encouraging historically literate writers and their patrons to examine their histories anew, to jettison what no longer made sense or was useful, and to supply new material to fill gaps or expand ideas. Writers rewrote not only for the present and future, but also for the past. They curated the past and reorganized its intellectual artifacts, thereby revealing new facets of old history to future eyes.Rewriting was a defining characteristic of the central Middle Ages (900–1300), distinct both from earlier traditions of universal history and from later traditions of making continuations which left the narrative core intact. Reimagining the past by rewriting happened across genres, in the vernaculars as well as the universal languages of Latin and Greek, and across Europe, west and east. The chapters in this book explore the reasons and methods for rewriting, ranging across the Anglo-Norman realm, France and Flanders, Christian Iberia, Norman Italy and the Mediterranean, Byzantium, and Georgia and Armenia. Together, they show a set of rewriters who made themselves the authorities for their own age.

Historiographie médiévale --- Historians --- Historians. --- Historiographie. --- Historiography. --- Middle Ages --- Moyen Âge --- historiography. --- History --- To 1500.

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In the past William of Malmesbury (1090-1143) has been seen as first and foremost a historian of England, and little else. This volume reveals not only William's real greatness as a historian and his European vision, but also the breadth and depth of his learning across a number of other fields. Areas that receive particular attention are William's historical writings, his historical vision and interpretation of England's past; William and kingship; William's language; William's medical knowledge; the influence of Bede and other ancient writers on William's historiography; William and chronology; William, Anselm of Canterbury and reform of the English Church; William and the Latin Classics; William and the Jews; and William as hagiographer. Overall, the volume offers a broad coverage of William's learning, wide-ranging interests and significance as revealed in his writings. Rodney M. Thomson is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Tasmania; Emily Dolmans is a lecturer in English Literature at Jesus College and Oriel College, University of Oxford; Emily A. Winkler is the John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in Medieval History at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, and Departmental Lecturer in Medieval History. Contributors: Anne E. Bailey, Emily Dolmans, Daniel Gerrard, John Gillingham, Kati Ihnat, Ryan Kemp, William Kynan-Wilson, Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Stanislav Mereminskiy, Samu Niskanen, Joanna Phillips, Alheydis Plassmann, Sigbjørn Sønnesy, Rodney M. Thomson, Emily Joan Ward, Emily A. Winkler, Michael Winterbottom.

Historians --- Congresses --- William, --- Historiographers --- Scholars --- Guillermo, --- Gulielmus, --- Malmesbury, William of, --- Wilhelmus, --- Willelmus, --- William of Malmesbury, --- Conferentie --- Historians - England - Congresses --- Willelmus Malmesburiensis --- William, - of Malmesbury, - approximately 1090-1143 --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Anglo-Latin literature. --- Anglo-Norman Studies, medieval British Isles. --- Bede. --- Church of England. --- Early Norman England. --- Historiography. --- History of Anglo-Saxon. --- History writing. --- Medieval Europe. --- Medieval monasticism. --- Monastic learning. --- William of Malmesbury.

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Essays showing how the stuff of Norman Sicily, its mosaics, frescoes, art and architecture, was used to construct its history.

Normans --- Material culture --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- History --- Sicily (Italy) --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Byzantine. --- Greek. --- Lombard. --- Mediterranean. --- archaeology. --- architecture. --- art. --- medieval material culture. --- numismatics. --- patronage. --- sculpture. --- southern Italy. --- textile. --- visual media.