Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. History and Historiography
2. Rhetoric and History
3. Invention and Narrative
4. Verisimilitude and Truth
5. Historiography and History
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Matthew Kempshall is Fellow and Tutor in History at Wadham College, University of Oxford

Reviews

A dense, meticulously researched "handbook" that is designed to guide students through the methodological thickets connecting medieval historiography and rhetoric.

There are few, if any, other works that provide such an introduction to the learning that shaped the world in which fi gures such as Hugh of St Victor, John of Salisbury, and Otto of Freising wrote.

'A magisterial, synthetic introduction to the subject, aimed principally at students and scholars new to the field and encompassing some 550 pages of elegantly written, exhaustively supported argumentation.'
Cam Grey, University of Pennsylvania, Rhetorica, July 2016
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