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03441aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 6ECF0EDA580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170303t20172017enk b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2016963227 020 $a 0198788487 020 $a 9780198788485 035 $a (OCoLC)974846738 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d CDX $d OCLCF $d STF $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a e------ 050 4 $a PN690.T97 $b S86 2017 082 04 $a 809.1/02 $2 23 100 1 $a Sunderland, Luke, $e author. 245 10 $a Rebel barons : $b resisting royal power in medieval culture / $c Luke Sunderland. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a vi, 308 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-300) and index. 520 8 $a "Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is deep-seated in medieval culture: sovereigns might provide justice, but were always potential tyrants, who usurped power and 'stole' through taxation. Rebel barons writes the history of this ambivalence, which was especially acute in England, France, and Italy in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, when the modern ideology of sovereignty, arguing for monopolies on justice and the legitimate use of violence, was developed. Sovereign powers asserted themselves militarily and economically provoking complex phenomena of resistance by aristocrats. This volume argues that the chansons de geste, the key genre for disseminating models of violent noble opposition to sovereigns, offer a powerful way of understanding acts of resistance.Traditionally seen as France's epic literary monuments-the Chanson de Roland is often presented as foundational of French literature-chansons de geste in fact come from areas antagonistic to France, such as Burgundy, England, Flanders, Occitania, and Italy, where they were reworked repeatedly from the twelfth century to the fifteenth and recast into prose and chronicle forms. Rebel baron narratives were the principal vehicle for aristocratic concerns about tyranny, for models of violent opposition to sovereigns and for fantasies of escape from the Carolingian world via crusade and Oriental adventures. Rebel barons reads this corpus across its full range of historical and geographical relevance, and through changes in form, as well as placing it in dialogue with medieval political theory, to bring out the contributions of literary texts to political debates. Revealing the widespread and long-lived importance of these anti-royalist works supporting regional aristocratic rights to feud and revolt, Rebel barons reshapes our knowledge of reactions to changing political realities at a crux period in European history."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 00 $a Charlemagne, $c Emperor, $d 742-814 $x In literature. 600 07 $a Charlemagne, $c Emperor, $d 742-814. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00034181 650 0 $a Epic literature, European $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Poetry, Medieval $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Epic literature, European. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00913721 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Poetry, Medieval. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01067764 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710052537.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6ECF0EDA580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search