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Studies on the influence of the middle ages, and in particular the
Arthurian legends, on the culture of North America. Fifteen essays
trace North America's enthusiastic engagement with the middle ages
from the Revolution to Disney. There are eight studies of the
American reception of Arthur: in art (Abbey, Rosenthal), literature
(Canadian writers,John Ciardi), scholarship (R.S. Loomis), politics
(JFK), and popular culture (Arthurian youth groups, Disneyland, the
Excalibur Casino). Other topics include Tom Paine, Elbertus
Hubbard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, C.B. DeMille, popular treatments of
Villon, the roots of the New Mexican cuento, and the rhetoric of
the Gulf War. Contributors: ROGER WOOD, KYMBERLEY N. PINDER, ERICA
E. HIRSHLER, ALAN LUPACK, CHARLOTTE OBERG, RAYMOND H. THOMPSON,STAN
GALLOWAY, ROBIN BLAETZ, ROBERT D. PECKHAM, JEFF RIDER, KLAUS P.
JANKOFSKY, MARY MORSE, PAMELA S. MORGAN, SUSAN ARONSTEIN, NANCY
COINER, JONATHAN M. ELUKIN
Galbert of Bruges' ""The Murder, Betrayal and Assassination of the
Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders"" is one of the most widely
read books of the Middle Ages. It recounts the assassination of
Charles, Count of Flanders, and the events leading up to and
following the murder. Galbert was a resident of Bruges and had
served in the count's administration for at least thirteen years by
the time of the assassination in 1127. He was well-acquainted with
Charles and many of the other actors in this drama, an eyewitness
to many of the events he relates, and exceptionally well positioned
to gather information about others. Galbert's chronicle takes the
form of a journal, the only one that exists from northwestern
Europe in the twelfth century. Edited by two of the world's most
prominent specialists on Galbert today, Jeff Rider and Alan V.
Murray, this book brings together essays by established scholars
who have been largely responsible for the radical changes in the
understanding of Galbert and his work that have occurred over the
last thirty years and essays by younger scholars. The essays are
written by British, Belgian, Dutch, German, Canadian, and American
scholars of literature and history, and are divided into four
sections - Galbert of Bruges at Work, Galbert of Bruges and the
Development of Institutions, Galbert of Bruges and the Politics of
Gender, and The Meanings of History. The book includes an extensive
bibliography of editions, translations, and studies of Galbert's
chronicle, and of works devoted to the reign of Charles the Good
and the Flemish Crisis of 1127-28, to the government and
institutions of Flanders in the age of Galbert, and to the
topography and history of medieval Bruges.
An examination of medieval historican writings through the prism of
violence. The 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. The
twelve chapters assembled here explore a wide range of texts
emanating from throughout the francophone world. They cover a range
of genres (chansons de geste, 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. 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. 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
Galbert of Bruges's De multro, traditione, et occisione gloriosi
Karoli comitis Flandriarum (The Murder of Charles the Good) has
been studied extensively over the last hundred years. Considered
one of the most important and original works of medieval
historiography, the De multro is an eyewitness account of the
assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders, in 1127 and
of the ensuing civil war. It is written in the form of a journal,
the only work of its kind from Europe in the twelfth century, and
provides a continuous, detailed account of events in Flanders from
March 1127 to July 1128. Scholars have long considered the De
multro to be a true journal, written hastily as events unfolded and
never revised. In God's Scribe, the first book devoted to Galbert
and his chronicle, Jeff Rider challenges that view. He argues that
the De multro is not the transparent and objective testimony it has
been taken to be; rather it is a complex and sophisticated work of
astonishing originality that is an outstanding example of medieval
historical writing. Intended as a companion volume to the De
multro, the book provides an outline of the Flemish crisis of
1127-28 and summarizes what is known about Galbert. It traces the
elaboration of the De multro from a set of wax notes to a nearly
completed chronicle. Rider studies Galbert's sources, the way he
took and organized his notes, the distinct stages in which the
chronicle was written, its literary qualities, and the conceptual
tools he used to comprehend the events he related in it. Rider
concludes that Galbert's efforts to understand an extended series
of events in light of the theology of history and authority common
in his day, and to apply that theology to the practice of
historical writing, made the De multro one of the most intellectual
and experimental histories of its time, while its style, form, and
viewpoint made it one of the most popular ones.
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