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》、男爵改革和反对王权。历史学家分析这些事件时，大多采用以帝王为中心的方法，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，以及地方机构是如何利用它们为自己的议程服务的。该项目旨在分析这一时期的一个关键来源，伯顿年鉴，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，揭示当地精英机构的自我塑造如何依赖于国家叙事中的插入。最近的历史学家已经用新的和令人兴奋的方法分析了编年史和cartularies，但我的论文将是第一个把这两者放在一起考虑并分析它们之间的关系的论文。在这个过程中，我希望对修道院如何理解和构建国家和地方的过去有新的认识，最终提供一个反思，在中世纪写历史意味着什么。

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.