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Theorizing the ideal sovereign : the rise of the French vernacular royal biography / Daisy Delogu.
LIBRA DC36.6 .D45 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delogu, Daisy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kings and rulers, Medieval--Biography--History and criticism.
- Kings and rulers, Medieval.
- Biography.
- Monarchy.
- History.
- French prose literature.
- Biography--Middle Ages.
- Kings and rulers.
- France--Kings and rulers--Biography--History and criticism.
- France.
- Biography--Middle Ages, 500-1500--History and criticism.
- Nobility of character.
- French prose literature--To 1500--History and criticism.
- Monarchy--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 300 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- 1 Models of Sanctity and Kingship in Joinville's Vie de saint Louis: Will the Real Louis IX Please Stand? 22
- 2 Hugh the Butcher: Lineage, Election, and Succession in the Chanson de Hugues Capet 58
- 3 The Crusading Ideal in Guillaume de Machaut's Prise d'Alixandre 92
- 4 The Herald Chandos's Vie du Prince Noir: A prince tres chretien 124
- 5 Reinventing Kingship: Christine de Pizan's Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V 153
- Appendix Genealogical Table - The Last Capetians, the First Valois, and Claimants to the French Throne 259.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Includes bibliographical references: pages [261]-292.
- ISBN:
- 9780802098078
- 080209807X
- OCLC:
- 222516860
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