The Subject Medieval/Modern : Text and Governance in the Middle Ages Paperback / softback
by Peter Haidu
Part of the Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture series
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This ambitious book presents the most thorough historicist account to date of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation .
Presenting the essence of the modern subject as resting in its subjection to specific historical forms of state power, the author examines literary texts from the Middle Ages that participate in the cultural invention of the subject.
Overall, The Subject Medieval/Modern makes a remarkable case for the relevance of studying the Middle Ages to today's world. The book examines the constitution of subjects in literary texts as the result of the interplay of violence, ideology, and political structures as an integral part of the process of state-formation between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries.
Each text is considered a singular event, a unique, self-reflexive structure modifying conventions in ideological exploration to offer performative models of subjectivity.
Some texts line up with political evolution, others take a critical distance.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:12/12/2003
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- ISBN:9780804747448
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:12/12/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780804747448
