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Philippe de Commynes
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ISBN: 1442663235 9781442663237 9781442645622 1442645628 1442663243 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto

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Philippe de Commynes, a diplomat who specialized in clandestine operations, served King Louis XI during his campaign to undermine aristocratic resistance and consolidate the sovereignty of the French throne. He is credited with inventing the political memoir, but his reminiscence has also been described as 'the confessions of a traitor': Commynes had abandoned Louis' rival, the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold, before joining forces with the king.This study provides a literary re-evaluation of Commynes' text - a perennial subject of scandal and fascination - while questioning what the terms 'traitor' or 'betrayed' meant in the context of fifteenth-century France. Drawing on diplomatic letters and court transcripts, Irit Kleiman examines the mutual connections between writing and betrayal in Commynes' representation of Louis' reign, the relationship between the author and the king, and the emergence of the memoir as an autobiographical genre. This study significantly deepens our understanding of how historical narrative and diplomatic activities are intertwined in the work of this iconic, iconoclastic figure.


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Voice and voicelessness in mediëval Europa
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ISBN: 9781137397058 9781137397072 9781137397065 Year: 2015 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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Philippe de Commynes : memory, betrayal, text
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ISBN: 9781442645622 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London University of Toronto Press


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Images, Improvisations, Sound, and Silence from 1000 to 1800 - Degree Zero

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The act of drawing a line or uttering a word is often seen as integral to the process of making art. This is especially obvious in music and the visual arts, but applies to literature, performance, and other arts as well. These collected essays, written by scholars from diverse fields, take a historical view of the richness of creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo) in order to draw out debates, sometimes implicit and sometimes formally stated, about the production and reproduction of cultural meaning in a period of great change and novelty, between the beginnings of the medieval intellectual tradition and the imprint of the Enlightenment. The authors pose the following questions: Do tradition and creativity conflict with one another, or are they complementary? What are the tensions between composition and live performance? What is the role of the audience in perceiving the object of art? Are such objects fixed or flexible? What about the status of the event? Is the event part of creation, in the sense that it disturbs the still waters of historical continuity? These and other questions build on the foundation of Roland Barthes' concept of Degree Zero, offering new insights into what it means to create.


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Le Romanesque aux xive et xve siècles

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L’automne du Moyen Age est flamboyant : la richesse des productions artistiques, le nombre des manuscrits superbement illustrés, les rituels des cours et des villes, le foisonnement des textes littéraires, dans une synchronie embrassant les xive et xvie siècles jusqu’à l’aube de la Renaissance, témoignent d’un dynamisme remarquable. La passion des bibliophiles anime les commandes de livres, et les témoignages de leurs lectu­res révèlent des goûts et un souffle nouveaux. Face aux héritages des siècles passés, qu’en est-il du Romanesque à la fin du Moyen Age ? Ce volume rassemble les questions débattues, au cours d’une rencontre pluridisciplinaire, par des spécialistes du livre manuscrit et imprimé, par des historiens d’une littérature dont les richesses restent à découvrir. Idéal et émotions héroïques, imaginaire chevaleresque et modèles de comportement, emprises et pas d’armes puisent leurs schèmes dans l’écrit littéraire. Ainsi la vie se dessine-t-elle comme un roman. Faire resurgir des figu­res légendaires dans des contextes inattendus, allier l’épique et le roman, investir de nouveaux rêves : les normes culturelles engendrent leurs écarts, dans la dynamique d’un miroir et de la mémoire. La tradition remise en question démythifie l’héritage courtois, mais la littérature du passé est fécondée par une esthétique nouvelle et des remotivations surprenantes. L’image désormais s’inscrit puissamment dans le texte, dont la perception visuelle sollicite l’interprétation. Réécritu­res et mouvances littéraires témoignent d’un goût pour un style romanesque, qui remodèle l’espace social.

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