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Constantinople and the West in Medieval French literature : renewal and utopia /
An indepth examination of the presentation of Constantinople and its complex relationship with the west in medieval French texts.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer,
2012.
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| Colección: | Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) ;
25. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Note to the reader; Introduction; Part I: Renewal and Utopia: The Terms of the Debate; 1. Making Sense of History: East-West Relations and the Idea of the City in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries; 2. Renewal and Utopia: Two Paradigms for Understanding East-West Relations in Medieval French Texts; Part II: Constantinople Desired; 3. Aemulatio: The Limitations of East-West Alliance; 4. Admiratio: Utopia as Social Critique; Part III: The Renovatio of the West.
- 5. Translatio Embodied? Renewal, Truth and the Status of Constantinople in Thirteenth-Century Didactic Texts6. Renovatio as Commemoration: Civic Loyalty and the Latin Empire of Constantinople in Venetian Historiography; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Original Latin Quotations; Appendix 2: References to Constantinople in Other Epics and Romances; Appendix 3: Outline of Events in the History of East-West Relations from the Second Crusade to the Palaeologan Reconquest; Bibliography; Index; Backcover.