Aengus Ward, Ph.D. (1995, Birmingham) is a senior lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of multiple works on medieval Iberian historiography including critical editions of 3 late medieval chronicles and is the Iberian chronicles editor of the Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (Brill, 2010).

"...The methodology is meticulously explained, and involves a number of steps, which are marked by chapter-divisions....Chapter Four is most probably that which will be most useful to a wider range of scholars interested in medieval historiography, not just late medieval or Iberian, but in general. It is a valuable and purposeful text in and of itself....It should by now be apparent that I consider this book to be one of the singularly most important contributions to the study of medieval Iberian historiography in recent years. Its broad scope and methodological efficacy have definitely given us new insights into the poetics of these texts. I applaud the effort and look forward to the future research that the present study will no doubt give rise to." - Kim Bergqvist, Stockholm University, in: La corónica, Volume 41, Number 2 (Spring 2013), pp. 265-270

• Acknowledgements ... viiIntroduction ... 11. Time. Past, present and future ... 102. Truth, trustworthiness and legitimation ...133. Representation and the content of chronicles ... 154. Narrative ...181: Context of Composition: Wamba in context(s) … 21Chronicon Mundi ...22Historia Gothica, (1243/47) ... 27Estoria de Espanna (primitiva 1270) ... 31Estoria de Espanna (enmendada 1274) ...37Estoria de Espanna (version critica 1282) ... 38Liber Regum ... 40Libro de las Generaciones ... 43Estoria delos godos ... 46Sumario analístico de la Historia Gothica ... 50Toledano romanzado (1400?) ... 53Estoria del fecho de los godos ...54Crónica de Espanha de 1344a ... 56Crónica de Espanha de 1344b ... 59Arreglo toledano de la Crónica de 1344 ...62Grant Crónica de Espayna de Juan Fernandez de Heredia . 65Crónica d’Espayña de García de Eugui ... 68Textual relations: ... 702: Wamba in history, the history of Wamba. I. Narration and compilation ... 733: Wamba in history, the history of Wamba. II.The detail of history ... 107Lucas de Tuy, Chronicon Mundi ...108Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, Historia Gothica ... 117Alfonso X el Sabio, Estoria de Espanna ...124The Navarrese tradition: the Liber Regum and the Libro de las generaciones ... 135Translations of the Historia Gothica ...139Wamba in Portugual ... 146Crónica de Espanha de 1344a ...146Crónica de Espanha de 1344b ...148Navarre and Aragon: Wamba reclaimed ... 155Crónica d’Espayña de Garcia de Eugui ... 1554: History in the making: Text, context and the dynamics of medieval chronicles ... 161The past in the present, the present in the past ... 162Re-writing the past: 1. Loci of historiographical action .. 174Origins of Wamba and his right to rule ... 174The relationship between king, people and patria: the nature of kingship ... 175Law giving ... 176Papal authority, divine inspiration and the role of the Church ... 178Re-writing the past: 2. Techniques ... 179Appropriation and naturalisation ...179Abbreviation, imbrication, substitution, displacement, suppression and addition ... 180Direct Speech ... 181Textual organization ... 183Wamba and the discourse of medieval chronicles ...183Genealogies of texts ... 186Structuring devices. Time past, present and future: ... 187Truth, trustworthiness and authenticity; representation, legitimation and content ... 191Language, prose and narrative ... 195Conclusion ...198Bibliography ... 209Index... 215