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OverviewAn 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 Gaunt Full Product DetailsAuthor: Noah D Guynn (Customer) , Zrinka Stahuljak (Contributor) , Zrinka Stahuljak (Contributor) , Noah D Guynn (Customer)Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: D.S. Brewer Volume: v. 29 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781843843375ISBN 10: 1843843374 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 21 February 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Historicity, Violence, and the Medieval Francophone World: Mémoire Hystérisée - Noah D. Guynn Historicity, Violence, and the Medieval Francophone World: Mémoire Hystérisée - Zrinka Stahuljak Violence, History, and the Old French Epic of Revolt - Andrew Cowell Rhetoric, Providence, and Violence in Villehardouin's La conquête de Constantinople - Noah D. Guynn Vice, Tyranny, Violence, and the Usurpation of Flanders (1071) in Flemish Historiography from 1093 to 1294 - Jeff Rider Marvelous Feats: Humor, Trickery, and Violence in the History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres of Lambert of Ardres - Leah Shopkow Dismembered Borders and Treasonous Bodies in Anglo-Norman Historiography - Matthew Fisher The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Violence in the Canso de la Crozada - Karen Sullivan Political Violence and Sexual Violation in the Work of Benoît de Sainte-Maure - David Rollo The Sexuality of History: The Demise of Hugh Despenser, Roger Mortimer, and Richard II in Jean Le Bel, Jean Froissart, and Jean d'Outremeuse - Zrinka Stahuljak ""Guerre ne sert que de tourment"": Remembering War in the Poetic Correspondence of Charles d'Orléans - Deborah McGrady Commemorating the Chivalric Hero: Text, Image, Violence, and Memory in the Livre des faits de messire Jacques de Lalaing - Rosalind Brown-Grant Coming Communities in Medieval Francophone Writing about the Orient - Simon Gaunt"Reviews(This) rich and varied collection...will be a useful resource both for undergraduate teaching and for further research in medieval literature, linguistics, history, and cultural studies. FRENCH STUDIES Author InformationNOAH D. GUYNN is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. NOAH D. GUYNN is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. Rosalind Brown-Grant is Professor of Late Medieval French Literature at the University of Leeds. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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