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Reality Fictions - Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180 (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Reality Fictions - Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180 (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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It has long been a commonplace of literary history that in the
twelfth century, first in the French-speaking territories
controlled by the Anglo-Norman and Capetian ruling families, and
especially within the milieu of the English royal court, antique
and chivalric romances appear simultaneously with a new kind of
historical chronicle driven by contemporary affairs. In short
order, historiography and romance, whether written in Latin or in
the vernaculars, became culturally dominant kinds of narrative
expression throughout the rest of Europe. Why did this happen? Why
did these two new kinds of writing appear simultaneously and spread
so rapidly within the same cultural milieu? In Reality Fictions,
Robert M. Stein argues that the emergence of historiography and
romance was linked to large-scale transformations in the structure
of power attendant on Capetian and Anglo-Norman state-making. He
maintains that an understanding of the changes in the
twelfth-century literary constellation requires us to consider the
structure of literary production as a whole and in its relation to
the world from which it emerges and to which it responds. Stein
argues that romance and history writing grew out of the same
cultural need and were intended to perform the same cultural tasks,
thus determining their simultaneous appearance, rapid development,
and formal affinities. In the rearrangements of power that were
part of the state-making designs of Capetian and Anglo-Norman
ruling families, new imaginative and conceptual entities became
matters demanding serious representation, often in new discursive
configurations, and often for the first time-the boundaries between
self and other, the experience of eros, the differentiation of
public from private life all took on new contours. A brilliant
study of literary innovation, Reality Fictions provides a new
understanding of the large variety of overlapping institutional,
epistemological, and practical structures of power that the
European Middle Ages presents to us and the ways that dislocations
and transformations of power are registered in the consciousness of
those who live through them.
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