Devereaux Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature

Renewal and Utopia
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84615-858-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 25, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Gallica

An indepth examination of the presentation of Constantinople and its complex relationship with the west in medieval French texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Devereaux, Rima

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Making Sense of History: East-West Relations and the Idea of the City in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Renewal and Utopia: Two Paradigms for Understanding East-West Relations in Medieval French Texts
Aemulatio: The Limitations of East-West Alliance
Admiratio: Utopia as Social Critique
Translatio Embodied? Renewal, Truth and the Status of Constantinople in Thirteenth-Century Didactic Texts
Renovatio as Commemoration: Civic Loyalty and the Latin Empire of Constantinople as Venetian Historiography
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Original Latin Quotations
Appendix 2: References to Constantinople in Other Epics and Romances
Appendix 3: Outline of Events in the History of East-West Relations from the Second Crusade to the Palaeologan Reconquest
Bibliography