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The Anglo-Norman Pseudo-Turpin chronicle of William de Briane
Text in Anglo-Norman; editor's notes in English.
Arthur Push-And-Run Rowe
Arthur Rowe was an innovator at a time when English soccer was wedded to the tactics of Arsenal's Herbert Chapman, whose style bypassed the midfield and much-depended on expensively imported talent. When other clubs who lacked similar spending power adopted Chapman's approach, the English game morphed into a heavy dependence on longball football, beef-and-muscle, luck, and the defensive frailties of opponents. Rowe's approach, with which he gained instant success wherever he coached, depended instead on short, first-time passing to feet. Before injury ended Rowe's Spurs playing career he had captained the club into the First Division and was also capped by England. Then, on the eve of the Se...
Dick Turpin
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The Past as Text
This study of familiar medieval histories and chronicles argues that the historian should be aware of the discursive nature, literary modes, and ideological investments of such texts as well as the social circumstances to which they were applied and by which they were generated. Postmodernism has challenged historians to look at historical texts in a new way and to be skeptical of the claim that one can confidently retrieve "fact" from historical writings. In The Past as Text historian Gabrielle M. Spiegel sets out to read medieval histories and chronicles in light of the critical-theoretical problems raised by postmodernism. At the same time she urges a method of analysis that enables the r...
