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Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England

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?Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the personal aims, networks, and careers as the impetus for much of the period's literature. The book takes two authors as case studies - Gerald of Wales and Walter Map - to show how authors not only built their own stories but also used popular narratives and the tools of propaganda to achieve their own, personal goals. The purpose of this study is to overturn the top-down model of political patronage, in which patrons - and particularly royal patrons - set the cultural agenda and dictate literary tastes. Rather, Fabrizio De Falco argues that authors were often representative of many different interests expressed by local groups. To pursue those interests, they targeted specific political factions in the changeable political scenario of Angevin England. Their texts reveal a polycentric view of cultural production and its reception. The study aims to model a heuristic process which is applicable to other courtly texts besides the chosen case-studies.

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ISBN: 9783031433511
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Author: Fabrizio De Falco
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 270 pages
Series: The New Middle Ages
Genres: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
European history: medieval period, middle ages
Medieval Western philosophy
Archaeology