Rebel Barons - Resisting Royal Power in Medieval Culture

A volume that explores the rebel baron narrative defined as chansons de geste (medieval chronicles relating heroic deeds) from areas including Burgundy, England, Flanders, Occitania, and Italy.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Sovereignty


• 2: Revolt


• 3: Resistance


• 4: Charlemagne


• 5: Feud


• 6: Crusade


• Conclusion


• Appendix

About the author

Luke Sunderland is a scholar of medieval Francophone literature, especially in relation to ethical and political questions. He is the author of Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism between Ethics and Morality (2010) and many articles, particularly on medieval translation and textual geographies. He has held research fellowships at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge and at the Stanford Humanities Center, and is currently Senior Lecturer in French at Durham University.

Summary

A volume that explores the rebel baron narrative defined as chansons de geste (medieval chronicles relating heroic deeds) from areas including Burgundy, England, Flanders, Occitania, and Italy.

Additional text

It is this attention to the subtleties of the material at his disposal that most impresses and the willingness to see how ill-served the genre has been by an insistence on nationalizing paradigms. This is a masterful rehabilitation not only of a genre but also of political theory avant la lettre.

Product details

• Authors: Luke Sunderland, Luke (Senior Lecturer Sunderland, Sunderland Luke
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780198788485
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878848-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, European History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval