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“KISALIK BİLGELİĞİN RUHUDUR”: ORTAÇAĞ TARİH ANLATILARINDA KISALIK YÖNTEMİ

Year 2018, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 618 - 631, 20.10.2018
https://doi.org/10.17497/tuhed.462325

Abstract

Tarihsel anlatıların
işlevsel biçimde okuyucuya sunulması ve verilmek istenen öğretici ve ahlaki
mesajın yerli yerince ifade edilebilmesi amacıyla retoriksel bir anlatı
stratejisi olarak antik dönemden beri kullanılan kısalık yöntemi Ortaçağ
Avrupa’sında yazılan tarih metinlerinin birçoğunda görülebilir. Okuyucuyu
etkilemek, anlaşılır bir dille ikna edebilmek ve eğlendirmek gibi amaçları
taşıyan anlatıda kısalık yöntemi hakikatin öz biçimde verilebilmesinin de etkin
bir yolu olarak görülmüştür. Bu çalışmada, Ortaçağ Avrupa tarihçiliğinde ihmal
edilen anlatıda kısalık konusu bir anlatı türü olan Ortaçağ Avrupa
kroniklerinden örneklerle tartışılacaktır. Ortaçağ tarihçileri anlatıda brevis yani kısalık/özlük sorununa neden
önem vermişlerdir? Bir başka deyişle, farklı tarihçilerin eserlerinde anlatının
kısa olması gerektiği vurgusu niye bu kadar öne çıkmıştır?  Bu sorular etrafında yapılacak tartışma,
Ortaçağ tarihçilerinin kısalık/özlük ilkesine dayanarak okuyucu kitlesini, her
ne kadar sınırlı bir kitleden bahsediyorsak da, dikkate aldıklarını, bu ilke
aracılığıyla geçmişte yaşanılan hakikati tarihsel gerçeklik alanında anlaşılır
biçimde sunmayı hedeflediklerini ve sıkıcı olacakları kaygısıyla okuyucuyu hem
keyif alarak okumaya hem de düşünmeye sevk etmek istediklerini ortaya
koyacaktır.  

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“BREVITY IS the SOUL of WIT”: The METHOD of BREVITY in MEDIEVAL HISTORICAL NARRATIVES

Year 2018, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 618 - 631, 20.10.2018
https://doi.org/10.17497/tuhed.462325

Abstract

The
method of brevity has been used as a rhetorical narrative strategy since the
Antiquity. Brevity method can also be detected in many Medieval European
historical narratives as an instrument of presenting the narrative to the
audience functionally and expressing the didactic and moral message properly.
Brevity method in medieval narratives was very helpful for the historians in
order to communicate truth very lucidly by influencing, convincing and
entertaining the reader. The purpose of this study is to examine the question
of brevity in the narratives through the analysis of the examples from medieval
chronicles. This subject is quite important but has been neglected by many
historians. The main question to be asked in this paper is: why did the
medieval chroniclers give utmost importance to the question of brevis in their works? In other words,
why did the chroniclers underline the use of brevis in narration process? By examining these questions, this
paper will hopefully display that the medieval chroniclers were considering the
concerns of their readers even though we mention relatively limited audience.
Additionally, this study will show how the medieval chroniclers as historians
aimed at representing truth very clearly on the plane of historical reality and
attempted to encourage their readers to think by reading and enjoying the text. 

References

  • Beer, J.M.A. (1981). Narrative conventions of truth in the Middle Ages. Géneve: Librairie Droz S.A.
  • Coulton, C.G. (2013). Social life in Britain from the conquest to the reformation. London: Routledge.
  • Curtius, E.R. (2013). European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, with a new introduction by Colin Burrow. Princeton: Princeton University.
  • George, C.W. ve Wright, W.A. (1866). The works of William Shakespeare: Vol VIII. London: MacMillan.
  • Goldstein, L. (2013). Introduction. L. Goldstein (Eds.), Brevity (s. 1-17). Oxford: Oxford University.
  • Gransden, A. (1992). Prologues in the historiography of twelfth-century England. A. Gransden. Legends, Traditions and History in Medieval England, (s. 125-151). London: The Hambledonı.
  • Gransden, A. (1982). Historical writing in England II: c. 1307 to the early sixteenth century. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  • Kempshall, M. (2011). Rhetoric and the writing of history. Manchester: Manchester University.
  • Lake, J. (Ed.). (2013). Prologues to ancient and medieval history: A reader. Ontario: University of Toronto.
  • Partner, N.F. (1977). Serious entertainments: The writing of history in twelfth-century England. Chicago: University of Chicago.
  • Pascal B. (1847). The provincial letters. (çev.). T. M’Crie. Edinburgh: J. Johnstone.
  • Ryding, W.W. (1971). Structure in medieval narrative. The Hague: De Gruyter.
  • Speake, J. (Ed.). (2015). Oxford dictionary of proverbs. Oxford: Oxford University.
  • Spence, J. (2013). Reimaging history in Anglo-Norman prose chronicles. Woodbridge: York Medieval.
  • Spiegel, G. (1999). The past as text: The theory and practice of medieval historiography. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University.
  • The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol: 1. (çev.) T. Johnes, ESQ. (1867). London: Geroge Routledge and His Sons.
  • The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. (çev.) S. A. Barney, W.J. Lewis, J.A. Beach, ve O. Berghof. (2006). Cambridge: Cambridge University.
  • White, H. (1990). The content of the form: Narrative discourse and historical representation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University.
  • White, H. (1973). The historical ımagination in nineteenth-century Europe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University.
  • Wood, J. (2012). The politics of ıdentity in Visigothic Spain: Religion and power in the histories of Isidore of Seville. Leiden: Brill.
  • Woolf, D. (2012). Tarihin küresel tarihi. M. Moralı (Çev.). İstanbul: Alfa.
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Primary Language Turkish
Journal Section Special Issue
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Fatih Durgun 0000-0001-6620-2359

Publication Date October 20, 2018
Submission Date September 21, 2018
Acceptance Date October 20, 2018
Published in Issue Year 2018 Volume: 7 Issue: 2

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APA Durgun, F. (2018). “KISALIK BİLGELİĞİN RUHUDUR”: ORTAÇAĞ TARİH ANLATILARINDA KISALIK YÖNTEMİ. Turkish History Education Journal, 7(2), 618-631. https://doi.org/10.17497/tuhed.462325



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