Writing history at Burton Abbey: national politics, local networks and the construction of the past in medieval England

13世纪，中世纪的英格兰进行了大胆的政府实验，包括大宪章、男爵改革和反对皇家权力。历史学家主要从以王朝为中心的方法分析这些事件，使用19世纪的印刷版本，这些版本掩盖了新闻是如何传播的，公共文件是如何传播的，以及地方机构如何利用它们来服务于他们的议程。该项目旨在分析这一时期的一个关键来源，伯顿编年史，以及同时产生的档案登记册，以揭示抄写员和手稿流通的网络，揭示地方精英机构的自我塑造如何依赖于国家叙事中的插入。最近的历史学家以新的和令人兴奋的方式分析了编年史和卡特尔，但我的论文将是第一次把两者放在一起考虑，并分析它们之间的关系。在这个过程中，我希望能对修道院如何理解和构建国家和地方的过去提供新的见解，最终反思在中世纪书写历史意味着什么。

The thirteenth century saw audacious governmental experiment in medieval England, including Magna Carta, baronial reforms and opposition to royal power. Historians have analysed these events mostly from a regnal-centric approach, using 19th-century printed editions, which conceal how news was spread, how public documents were disseminated and how local institutions co-opted them to serve their agendas. This project aims to analyse a key source for the period, the Annals of Burton, alongside archive registers produced simultaneously, to uncover networks of scribes and circulation of manuscripts, revealing how the self-fashioning of local elite institutions relied on an insertion within a national narrative.Recent historians have analysed both chronicles and cartularies in new and exciting ways, but my thesis will be the first to consider the two together and analyse how they are related. In the process, I hope to shed new light on how a monastery understood and constructed the past, both national and local, ultimately offering a reflection on what it means to write history in the Middle Ages.