Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction: Discontinuous History in the Long Twelfth Century 1
6. Part I: Varietas in Latin
7. 1 Varietas: From Roman Rhetoric to British History 23
8. 2 ‘I take it that no one will object to some variety’: William of Malmesbury’s Gesta regum Anglorum 51
9. 3 ‘Since nothing endures here, pay attention’: Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum 84
10. 4 ‘Continuously and in order’: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae 118
11. Part II: Variety in Middle English
12. 5 ‘Three texts into one’: Laʒamon’s Brut 153
13. 6 ‘Of diuers kynd’: Robert Mannyng’s Story of Inglande 186
14. Conclusion: The Rhetoric of Discontinuity? 222
15. Bibliography 247
16. Index 271
17. Writing History in the Middle Ages 282