Romancing the Past - The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth Century

"Reading Spiegel's book is like seeing the scattered pieces of a jigsaw puzzle of history and literature suddenly assembled in a dazzling new image, a picture that could not have been made without the master piece, the manuscript that Professor Spiegel was the first person in almost 800 years to read and interpret. Her effort is a tour de force of no mean proportion."—Stephen G. Nichols Jr., author of Romanesque Signs

About the author

Gabrielle M. Spiegel is Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Chronicle Tradition of Saint-Denis (1978).

Summary

In a post-structuralist study of 13th-century French historical texts, the author investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time.

Product details

• Authors: Gabrielle M. Spiegel, Spiegel Gabrielle M.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.02.1995
• EAN: 9780520089358
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08935-8
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: New Historicism; The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics; New Historicism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; French, History of Ideas, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Historiography, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Historiography, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval