This study of familiar medieval histories and chronicles argues that the historian should be aware of the discursive nature, literary modes, and ideological inv

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"Stock has opened up lines of thinking about the medieval world--and our modern one too--which lead in fascinating directions."--

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of