1. See Nancy F. Partner, “Historicity in an Age of Reality-Fictions,” in Frank Ankersmit and Hans Kellner (eds.), A New Philosophy of History (Reaktion Books: London, 1995), pp. 21–39, here at pp. 23–5.
2. The classic text is Hayden White, Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1978)
3. Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending (Oxford University Press: New York, 1967), p. 36, who writes, “historiography has become a discipline more devious and dubious because of our recognition that its methods depend to an unsuspected degree on myths and fictions.”
4. Evelyn B. Vitz, Medieval Narrative and Modern Narratology (New York University Press: New York, 1989), p. 111.
5. For the text, see G.G. Coulton (ed.), Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation (Kegan Paul: London, 2004), pp. 537–8.