Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World (Gallica, Volume 29)
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine bumped.
x, 210 pp. An examination of medieval historian 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.....