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Violence and the writing of history in the medieval francophone world /
An examination of medieval historican writings through the prism of violence.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
D.S. Brewer,
2013.
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| Colección: | Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) ;
v. 29. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Historicity, Violence, and the Medieval Francophone World: Mémoire Hystérisée; Part I. Theorizing Violence; 2. Violence, History, and the Old French Epic of Revolt; 3. Rhetoric, Providence, and Violence in Villehardouin's La conquête de Constantinople; Part II. Institutions and Subversions; 4. Vice, Tyranny, Violence, and the Usurpation of Flanders (1071) in Flemish Historiography from 1093 to 1294.
- 5. Marvelous Feats: Humor, Trickery, and Violence in the History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres of Lambert of Ardres; 6. Dismembered Borders and Treasonous Bodies in Anglo-Norman Historiography; 7. The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Violence in the Canso de la Crozada; Part III. Gender and Sexuality; 8. Political Violence and Sexual Violation in the Work of Benoît de Sainte-Maure; 9. The Sexuality of History: The Demise of Hugh Despenser, Roger Mortimer, and Richard II in Jean Le Bel, Jean Froissart, and Jean d'Outremeuse; Part IV. Trauma, Memory and Healing.
- 10. "Guerre ne sert que de tourment": Remembering War in the Poetic Correspondence of Charles d'Orléans; 11. Commemorating the Chivalric Hero: Text, Image, Violence, and Memory in the Livre des faits de messire Jacques de Lalaing; Fig 1. Paris, BnF fr. 16830, fol. 1r. The author depicted as Toison d'Or, Jean Le Fèvre de Saint-Rémy, king of arms of the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece; Fig. 2. Paris, BnF fr. 16830, fol. 31r. Lalaing displays his arms before combat begins at the Nancy joust.
- Fig. 3. Paris, BnF fr. 16830, fol. 157v. Lalaing among the ranks of Burgundian knights pitted against their Ghentish foe in the battle for the Pont d'Espierres. Fig. 4. Paris, BnF fr. 16830, fol. 202r. The death of Lalaing at the siege of Poeke in the Ghent War; 12. Coming Communities in Medieval Francophone Writing about the Orient; Index; Backcover.