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Meaning and Multi-Centeredness in (Postmodern) Medieval Historiography: the Foundation History of Fountains Abbey

A recent article appearing in this journal has revisited the issue of medieval studies' engagement with elements of contemporary literary theory. The article, John O. Ward's '"Chronicle" and "History": The Medieval Origins of Postmodern Historiographical Practice?', argues that medieval histories, chronicles and annals are examples of a pluralist and decentered approach to knowledge which is the hallmark of what w e know as 'postmodernism'. Ward presents medieval historiography in all its diversity—vernacular