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Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature: Renewal and Utopia
Rima Devereaux
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Description for Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature: Renewal and Utopia
Hardback. An indepth examination of the presentation of Constantinople and its complex relationship with the west in medieval French texts. Series: Gallica. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6, 5 black and white, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 2ADF; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 588.
An indepth examination of the presentation of Constantinople and its complex relationship with the west in medieval French texts. Medieval France saw Constantinople as something of a quintessential ideal city. Aspects of Byzantine life were imitated in and assimilated to the West in a movement of political and cultural renewal, but the Byzantine capital wasalso celebrated as the locus of a categorical and inimitable difference. This book analyses the debate between renewal and utopia in Western attitudes to Constantinople as it evolved through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in a series of vernacular (Old French, Occitan and Franco-Italian) ... Read more
An indepth examination of the presentation of Constantinople and its complex relationship with the west in medieval French texts. Medieval France saw Constantinople as something of a quintessential ideal city. Aspects of Byzantine life were imitated in and assimilated to the West in a movement of political and cultural renewal, but the Byzantine capital wasalso celebrated as the locus of a categorical and inimitable difference. This book analyses the debate between renewal and utopia in Western attitudes to Constantinople as it evolved through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in a series of vernacular (Old French, Occitan and Franco-Italian) ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843843023
SKU
V9781843843023
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Reviews for Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature: Renewal and Utopia
Rima Devereaux's study is simultaneously broad yet detailed, drawing together people, places, and peregrinations to explore the literary representation of the Byzantine capital in ten Old French and Franco-Italian works of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. [A] thought-provoking and accessible study of Eastern and Western 'sites of power' [...], in which Constantinople is seen to be a function or process ... Read more