Description: Further DetailsTitle: Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone WorldCondition: NewEAN: 9781843843375ISBN: 9781843843375Publisher: D.S. BrewerFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/21/2013Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1843843374Description: An examination of medieval historican writings through the prism of violence.The concept of medieval historiography as "usable past" is here challenged and reassessed. The contributors' shared claim is that the value of medieval historiographical texts lies not only in the factual information the texts contain but also in the methods and styles they use to represent and interpret the past and make it ideologically productive. Violence is used as the key term that best demonstrates the making of historical meaning in the Middle Ages, through the transformation of acts of physical aggression and destruction into a memorable and usable past. The twelve chapters assembled here explore a wide range of texts emanating from throughout the francophone world. They cover a range of genres (chansons de geste, histories, chronicles, travel writing, and lyric poetry), and range from the late eleventh to the fifteenth century. Through examination of topics as varied as rhetoric, imagery, humor, gender, sexuality, trauma, subversion, and community formation, each chapter strives to demonstrate how knowledge of the medieval past can be enhanced by approaching medieval modes of historical representation and consciousness on their own terms, and by acknowledging - and resisting - the desire to subject them to modern conceptions of historical intelligibility. Noah D. Guynn is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis; Zrinka Stahuljak is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Contributors: Noah D. Guynn, Zrinka Stahuljak, James Andrew Cowell, Jeff Rider,Leah Shopkow, Matthew Fisher, Karen Sullivan, David Rollo, Deborah McGrady, Rosalind Brown-Grant, Simon GauntCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBContributor: Zrinka Stahuljak (Contributions by), Jeff Rider (Contributions by), Karen Sullivan (Contributions by), Rosalind Brown-Grant (Contributions by), Matthew Fisher (Contributions by), Deborah McGrady (Contributions by), Zrinka Stahuljak (Edited by), Andrew Cowell (Contributions by), Leah Shopkow (Contributions by), Simon Gaunt (Contributions by), David Rollo (Contributions by), Noah D Guynn (Edited by), Noah D Guynn (Contributions by)Genre: Literary CriticismBook Series: GallicaItem Weight: 1gTopic: HistoryAuthor: Zrinka StahuljakRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone W
Title: Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone W
EAN: 9781843843375
ISBN: 9781843843375
Release Date: 02/21/2013
Release Year: 2013
ISBN-10: 1843843374
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Noah D Guynn (Contributions by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Subject: Historiography, Medieval, European / French, Europe / Medieval, Subjects & Themes / General
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2013
Item Weight: 18.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Author: Andrew Cowell
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Gallica Ser.
Format: Hardcover
