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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1993.
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| Serie: | New historicism ;
23. |
| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21369 |
Sommario:
- 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.