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Authoring the past : history, autobiography, and politics in medieval Catalonia / Jaume Aurell.
LIBRA DP302.C619 A87 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aurell i Cardona, Jaume.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Spain--Catalonia--To 1500.
- Historiography.
- Catalan prose literature.
- Catalonia (Spain)--Historiography.
- Catalonia (Spain).
- Catalonia (Spain)--Kings and rulers--Biography--History and criticism.
- Catalan prose literature--To 1500--History and criticism.
- Gesta comitum Barcinonensium.
- James I, King of Aragon, 1208-1276. Llibre dels fets.
- James.
- Desclot, Bernat. Llibre del rei en Pere.
- Desclot, Bernat.
- Muntaner, Ramón, -1336. Crònica.
- Muntaner, Ramón.
- Pedro IV, King of Aragon, 1319?-1387. Cronica de Sant Joan de la Penya.
- Pedro.
- Spain--Catalonia.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 315 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1: Historical writings and historical authors
- Gesta Comitum Barchinonensium as genealogy
- King James I and his chivalric autobiography
- Bernat Desclot: the historian and his chronicle
- Ramon Muntaner: ruler, knight, and chronicler
- King Peter's Llibre and royal self-representation
- Part II: Theories and interpretations
- The shift in historical genres
- The dawn of Catalan autobiography as chronicle
- The authorial logic of the historical text
- Catalan chroniclers and poetic license: history, epic, fiction
- The emergence of political realism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226032320
- 0226032329
- OCLC:
- 747712943
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