Romancing the past : the rise of vernacular prose historiography in thirteenth-century France /

In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were act...

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מחבר ראשי: Spiegel, Gabrielle M.
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
סדרה:New historicism ; 23.
גישה מקוונת:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21369
תוכן הענינים:
  • The historical setting
  • Pseudo-turpin and the problem of prose
  • Past politics and the politics of the past: ancient history I
  • The question of the heroic in translations of Lucan's Pharsalia: ancient history II
  • Contemporary chronicles: the contest over the past
  • Royal history: disengagement and reconciliation
  • Appendix: The continuation of Aimoin and the sources of the anonymous of Chantilly/Vatican.