{"product_id":"violence-and-the-writing-of-history-in-the-medieval-francophone-world-9781843843375","title":"Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn examination of medieval historican writings through the prism of violence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concept of medieval historiography as \"usable past\" is here challenged and reassessed. The contributors' shared claim is that the value of medieval historiographical texts lies not only in the factual information the texts contain but also in the methods and styles they use to represent and interpret the past and make it ideologically productive. Violence is used as the key term that best demonstrates the making of historical meaning in the Middle Ages, through the transformation of acts of physical aggression and destruction into a memorable and usable past.\u003cbr\u003e The twelve chapters assembled here explore a wide range of texts emanating from throughout the francophone world. They cover a range of genres (\u003ci\u003echansons de geste\u003c\/i\u003e, histories, chronicles, travel writing, and lyric poetry), and range from the late eleventh to the fifteenth century. Through examination of topics as varied as rhetoric, imagery, humor, gender, sexuality, trauma, subversion, and community formation, each chapter strives to demonstrate how knowledge of the medieval past can be enhanced by approaching medieval modes of historical representation and consciousness on their own terms, and by acknowledging - and resisting - the desire to subject them to modern conceptions of historical intelligibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Noah D. Guynn is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis; Zrinka Stahuljak is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Contributors: Noah D. Guynn, Zrinka Stahuljak, James Andrew Cowell, Jeff Rider,Leah Shopkow, Matthew Fisher, Karen Sullivan, David Rollo, Deborah McGrady, Rosalind Brown-Grant, Simon Gaunt","brand":"Noah D Guynn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280802656507,"sku":"9781843843375","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781843843375_1eacf835-86a9-43f3-b74f-5469f51ba11a.jpg?v=1772487508","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/violence-and-the-writing-of-history-in-the-medieval-francophone-world-9781843843375","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}