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024 7 _a10.3138/9781442689381
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442689381
035 _a(DE-B1597)465359
035 _a(OCoLC)944176604
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072 7 _aLIT011000
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082 0 4 _a321/.60940902
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDelogu, Daisy
_eautore
245 1 0 _aTheorizing the Ideal Sovereign :
_bThe Rise of the French Vernacular Royal Biography /
_cDaisy Delogu.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2008]
264 4 _c©2008
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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520 _aTheorizing the Ideal Sovereign, examines the ways in which vernacular biographies of kings from the later French Middle Ages reflected and contributed to transformations in late-medieval political and philosophical thought. Using a lens of literary analysis for works that have more often been read as historical source documents, Daisy Delogu demonstrates how theories of kingship evolved in the period of the "rediscovery" of Aristotle, the rise of the vernacular as a language of ethics and philosophy, and the Hundred Years' War. By means of a series of close readings of Jean de Joinville's Vie de Saint Louis, Guillaume de Machaut's Prise d'Alixandre, and Christine de Pizan's biography of Charles V, Delogu examines the ways in which biographical writings on kings could advance precise political aims. She also shows how these texts contributed to nascent ideas of nationhood, exerted pressure upon traditional ideals of kingship, and ultimately redefined the theoretical and practical bases of medieval kingship. This study of vernacular kings's lives illuminates the important role that literary works played in shaping ideas more traditionally discussed in legal, historical, or institutional terms. Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign restores late medieval kings's lives to ethical and political conversations of which they were an integral part, and revives the lively interaction between texts and readers that formed the basis for medieval reading experiences.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442689381
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