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Article: The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Inventing Vernacular Authority.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2001
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Peter Damian-Grint, The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Inventing Vernacular Authority (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999), xii + 292 pp. ISBN 0-85115-760-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling].
The volume under review is a densely, at times repetitively argued book, packed with quotations from the works considered. This makes for often demanding reading, which pays off, however, for the light this work throws on twelfth-century historiography in Anglo-Norman England. Its wider implications are suggested by its title. The long-established view of a twelfth-century renaissance, recently called into doubt by Stephen Jaeger in favour of its eleventh-century ...