In a poststructuralist study of 13th-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 ...
This essential new collection of key articles offers a re-evaluation of where history is now in terms of theory and practice. In light of current debates, critical thinkers and practicing historians present their writings, along with clear and thorough editorial material, to examine the complex ideas at the forefront of historical practice. The ...
Postmodernism has challenged historians to look at historical texts in a new way, and to be skeptical of the claim that one can confidently retrieve "fact" from historical writings. In "The Past as Text" historian Gabrielle M. Spiegel sets out to read long-familiar mediaeval histories and chronicles in light of the critical-theoretical problems ...
Ernst Kantorowicz was a complex figure whose long incident-filled life seemed to embody many of the contradictions of the 20th century. A Jew from a disputed area between Germany and Poland who fought on the German side in World War I, he first achieved academic success with "Frederick II" (1927), a work whose language, in Gabrielle Spiegel's ...
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