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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Gesta Stephani"”.
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Contested identities in discourses of colonialism and civil war: Race, gender, and the human/animal in twelfth-century England and Wales
… as exemplified in William of Malmesbury’s Gesta regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings), finished in 1127, and the anonymous Gesta Stephani (Deeds of Stephen). Indeed, each chapter illuminates how the historiographical genre seeks to rhetorically create an ethnically unified, …
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FORGETTING THE WEAKNESS OF HER SEX AND A WOMAN'S SOFTNESS':HISTORIANS OF THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD AND THEIR FEMALE SUBJECT'
… Malmesbury, Orderic Vitalis, the author of the Gesta Stephani, and Robert of Torigny comprise the category of liminal historians. William of Poitiers, Henry of Huntingdon, and John of Salisbury will represent the scholastic historians. The Mercian lady \xc6thelfl\xe6d, the Norman Adela of Blois, …
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Julius Caesar, Fortune, and Latin Historiography in Twelfth-Century England
… and Robert of Lewes (as probable author of the Gesta Stephani) – believed that they had identified a schema that could determine who and what was culpable for engendering events that had been unexpected or whose outcomes defied expectation. These historians were amongst the first writers of the …