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Rebel Barons - Resisting Royal Power in Medieval Culture (Hardcover)
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Rebel Barons - Resisting Royal Power in Medieval Culture (Hardcover)
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Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is
deep-seated in medieval culture: sovereigns might provide justice,
but were always potential tyrants, who usurped power and 'stole'
through taxation. Rebel Barons writes the history of this
ambivalence, which was especially acute in England, France, and
Italy in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, when the modern
ideology of sovereignty, arguing for monopolies on justice and the
legitimate use of violence, was developed. Sovereign powers
asserted themselves militarily and economically provoking complex
phenomena of resistance by aristocrats. This volume argues that the
chansons de geste, the key genre for disseminating models of
violent noble opposition to sovereigns, offer a powerful way of
understanding acts of resistance. Traditionally seen as France's
epic literary monuments - the Chanson de Roland is often presented
as foundational of French literature - chansons de geste in fact
come from areas antagonistic to France, such as Burgundy, England,
Flanders, Occitania, and Italy, where they were reworked repeatedly
from the twelfth century to the fifteenth and recast into prose and
chronicle forms. Rebel baron narratives were the principal vehicle
for aristocratic concerns about tyranny, for models of violent
opposition to sovereigns and for fantasies of escape from the
Carolingian world via crusade and Oriental adventures. Rebel Barons
reads this corpus across its full range of historical and
geographical relevance, and through changes in form, as well as
placing it in dialogue with medieval political theory, to bring out
the contributions of literary texts to political debates. Revealing
the widespread and long-lived importance of these anti-royalist
works supporting regional aristocratic rights to feud and revolt,
Rebel Barons reshapes our knowledge of reactions to changing
political realities at a crux period in European history.
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