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The Subject Medieval/Modern - Text and Governance in the Middle Ages (Paperback, New)
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The Subject Medieval/Modern - Text and Governance in the Middle Ages (Paperback, New)
Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
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This ambitious book presents the most thorough historicist account
to date of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period,
as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation .
Presenting the essence of the modern subject as resting in its
subjection to specific historical forms of state power, the author
examines literary texts from the Middle Ages that participate in
the cultural invention of the subject. Overall, The Subject
Medieval/Modern makes a remarkable case for the relevance of
studying the Middle Ages to today's world. The book examines the
constitution of subjects in literary texts as the result of the
interplay of violence, ideology, and political structures as an
integral part of the process of state-formation between the ninth
and the fifteenth centuries. Each text is considered a singular
event, a unique, self-reflexive structure modifying conventions in
ideological exploration to offer performative models of
subjectivity. Some texts line up with political evolution, others
take a critical distance.
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