Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-254) and index.
Contents
"To mend the interrupted sequence of time": the narrative logic of medieval history -- Profiting from the past: history as symbolic capital -- The romance of empire: vernacular history and the structuration of power -- Discontinuous time: history in the eyes of its losers -- Mapping ambition: imperialism, nationalism, and the logic of seriality in the Chronicle of John Hardyng -- Patronage, printing, and symbolic economies of nationalism in Caxton's Morte Darthur -- Paranoid history.
