Vera Lex Historiae? Constructions of Truth in Medieval Historical Narrative
Imprint: Gracchi Books
FORTHCOMING Fall 2021
Writing circa 731 CE, Bede professes in the introduction to his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum that he will write his account of the past of the English following only vera lex historiae. Whether explicitly or (most often) implicitly, historians narrate the past according to a conception of what constitutes historical truth that emerges in the[…]