HIST 805 Sources of Medieval England
This research seminar is designed to introduce students to the narrative sources for medieval England between the late Anglo-Saxon period and the Wars of the Roses, including annals, chronicles, and hagiographic sources. We will look at the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and associated sources, the great Anglo-Norman historians of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the burgeoning number of chronicles in the later Middle Ages that were addressed to a secular audience. In addition to reading primary sources, we will be exploring some of the secondary literature on medieval English narrative.