Authoring the past
Subtitle: history, autobiography, and politics in medieval Catalonia
By: Jaume Aurell
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226032320
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Historiography; Kings and rulers; History and criticism; Gesta comitum Barcinonensium; Catalan prose literature; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part 1: Historical writings and historical authors; title: Gesta Comitum Barchinonensium as genealogy; title: King James I and his chivalric autobiography; title: Bernat Desclot: the historian and his chronicle; title: Ramon Muntaner: ruler, knight, and chronicler; title: King Peter's Llibre and royal self-representation; title: Part II: Theories and interpretations; title: The shift in historical genres; title: The dawn of Catalan autobiography as chronicle; title: The authorial logic of the historical text; title: Catalan chroniclers and poetic license: history, epic, fiction; title: The emergence of political realism.