Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past
In Experimental Histories, Hannah Weaver examines the medieval practice of interpolation—inserting material from one text into another—which is often categorized as being a problematic, inauthentic phenomenon akin to forgery and pseudepigraphy. Instead, Weaver promotes interpolation as the signature form of medieval British historiography and a vehicle of historical theory, arguing that some of the most novel concepts of time in medieval historiography can be found in these altered narratives of the past.
Hannah Weaver
- Cornell University Press
- 9781501776205
- 246 pages
- €47.50
- Hardback
- United States
- Literary studies: classical, early & medieval