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List of contents
1. Introduction
2. The Historians: Their Lives and Works
3. Sources
4. Narrative Communities and Strategies
5. The Impact of Romance
6. Visual Evidence
7. Case Studies
8. Constructing Grand Narratives: The Black Legend of the Angevins
9. Medieval to Renaissance: The Historiographical Question
10. Conclusions
About the author
Ronald G. Musto is co-publisher of Italica Press, former co-director of ACLS Humanities E-Book, former Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America, and editor of Speculum. He has recently been appointed Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Bristol, UK.
Summary
This book traces the work of trecento historians of the Mezzogiorno, using current methodological and theoretical frameworks to analyze them and to examine how they created the South as a cultural "other" and laid the groundwork for the "Southern Question" and its lingering negative image.
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‘This book ... is informed, full of new insights, and brings together a body of knowledge about some less familiar but superb texts in a new way. The integration of the South of Italy, particularly Naples, with the center/North is very welcome. Overall, Musto makes the case that history is literature and indeed, that historians do well to take account of the approaches of literary scholars’ - Speculum 95/4 (October 2020)
