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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 actually products of the aristocracy, reflecting its anxiety as it faced social and economic change and political threats from the monarchy.

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title:Romancing the Past : The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-century France New Historicism ; 23
author:Spiegel, Gabrielle M.
publisher:University of California Press
isbn10 | asin:0520077105
print isbn13:9780520077102
ebook isbn13:9780585231198
language:English
subjectFrench prose literature--To 1500--History and criticism, French prose literature--Roman influences, Romances--History and criticism, Literature and history, Historiography--France, France--History--Medieval period, 987-1515--Historiography, France--Histor
publication date:1993
lcc:PQ221.S66 1993eb
ddc:848/.10809
subject:French prose literature--To 1500--History and criticism, French prose literature--Roman influences, Romances--History and criticism, Literature and history, Historiography--France, France--History--Medieval period, 987-1515--Historiography, France--Histor
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Romancing the Past
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THE NEW HISTORICISM: STUDIES IN CULTURAL POETICS
Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor
1. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, by Caroline Walker Bynum
2. The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century, by Walter Benn Michaels
3. Nationalism and Minor Literature: James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism, by David Lloyd
4. Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, by Stephen Greenblatt
5. The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History, by Francois Hartog, translated by Janet Lloyd
6. Puzzling Shakespeare: Local Reading and Its Discontents, by Leah S. Marcus
7. The Rites of Knighthood: The Literature and Politics of Elizabethan Chivalry, by Richard C. McCoy
8. Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530, edited by Lee Patterson
9. Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare, by Jonathan Crewe
10. Rabelais's Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext, by Samuel Kinser
11. Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre, by Adrian Frazier
12. Literature, Politics, and Culture in Postwar Britain, by Alan Sinfield
13. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture, by Debora Kuller Shuger
14. Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America, by Gillian Brown
15. The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700, by David Harris Sacks
16. An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from "Utopia" to "The Tempest," by Jeffrey Knapp
17. Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetics, by Jos E. Limn
18. The Eloquence of Color: Rhetoric and Painting in the French Classical Age, by Jacqueline Lichtenstein, translated by Emily McVarish
19. Arts of Power: Three Halls of State in Italy, 1300-1600, by Randolph Starn and Loren Partridge
20. Expositions: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France, by Philippe Hamon, translated by Katia Sainson-Frank and Lisa Maguire
21. The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life, by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse
22. Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements, by T. V. Reed
23. Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France, by Gabrielle M. Spiegel
24. Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family, by T. Walter Herbert
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A CENTENNIAL BOOK
One hundred books published between 1990 and 1995 bear this special imprint of the University of California Press. We have chosen each Centennial Book as an example of the Press's finest publishing and bookmaking traditions as we celebrate the beginning of our second century.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Founded in 1893
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Alexander the Great does battle with King Porrus. From Histoire
ancienne jusqu' Csar
, Bibliothque Nationale, fr. 20125, fol. 235.
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Romancing the Past
The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France
Gabrielle M. Spiegel
University of California Press
BERKELEY LOS ANGELES OXFORD
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The publisher gratefully acknowledges the contribution provided by the General Endowment Fund of the Associates of the University of California Press.
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
Oxford, England
1993 by
The Regents of the University of California
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