The historical setting -- Pseudo-turpin and the problem of prose -- Past politics and the politics of the past: ancient history I -- The question of the heroic in translations of Lucan's Pharsalia: ancient history II -- Contemporary chronicles: the contest over the past -- Royal history: disengagement and reconciliation -- Appendix: The continuation of Aimoin and the sources of the anonymous of Chantilly/Vatican
Summary
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
Notes
"A Centennial book"--Page iii
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-411) and index
