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Author Spiegel, Gabrielle M.

Title Romancing the past : the rise of vernacular prose historiography in thirteenth-century France / Gabrielle M. Spiegel.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 422 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The New historicism ; 23
New historicism ; 23.
Note "A Centennial book"--Page [iii].
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-411) and index.
Contents The historical setting -- Pseudo-turpin and the problem of prose -- Past politics and the politics of the past: ancient history I -- The question of the heroic in translations of Lucan's Pharsalia: ancient history II -- Contemporary chronicles: the contest over the past -- Royal history: disengagement and reconciliation -- Appendix: The continuation of Aimoin and the sources of the anonymous of Chantilly/Vatican.
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Subject French prose literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
French prose literature.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject French prose literature -- Roman influences.
Romances -- History and criticism.
Romances.
Literature and history.
Literature and history.
Historiography -- France.
Historiography.
France.
France -- History -- Medieval period, 987-1515 -- Historiography.
France -- History -- To 987 -- Historiography.
History.
Chronological Term To 987
Subject Historiography -- Rome.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Spiegel, Gabrielle M. Romancing the past. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993 0520077105 (DLC) 91042979 (OCoLC)25050855
ISBN 9780520915565 (electronic book)
0520915569 (electronic book)
0585231192 (electronic book)
9780585231198 (electronic book)
0520077105 (alkaline paper)
9780520077102 (alkaline paper)