About this title: 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 anxiety as it faced social and economic change and political threats from the monarchy. Spiegel suggests that this turn to prose - the language of "truth" - is tied to the desire of a threatened elite to authenticate its claim to historical legitimacy. ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2-10-95
ISBN-13:9780520089358ISBN:0520089359
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean, unread paperback with light shelfwear/edgewear to the covers and a small publisher's mark to one side-NICE! 1.35 lbs. read more
Edition: 1st pb
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University Of California Press, Berkeley
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780520089358ISBN:0520089359
Description: 0520089359. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Tight, square; cover nice despite curling corners; neat text notes in pencil; 5 x 9 inches; xiii + 422 p. With index, bibliography, endnotes; New Historicism series; "poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts" read more
Edition: Text is Free of Markings
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780520077102ISBN:0520077105
Description: Very Good to Near Fine. Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 422 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. read more
Description: Like New. 1995 Paperback. A Centennial book"--p. [iii]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-411) and index. Commissioning organisation: Gabrielle M. Spiegel. xiii, 422 p. ill. 23 cm. Paperback. As new. " Keywords: "History-Europe-France, History-Other Historical Subjects-Historiography, Poetry, Drama & Criticism" Not a first edition copy. All books in stock. We ship daily from our warehouse. Over 200, 000 customers served online! Our feedback reflects our service...."Fast delivery, ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780520089358ISBN:0520089359
Description: "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 Spieg... read more
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