Etymologies and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages - Rilegato

Bloch, R. Howard

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ISBN 10: 0226059812 ISBN 13: 9780226059815

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1983

Riassunto

Mr. Bloch has attempted to establish what he calls a 'literary anthropology' The project is important and ambitious. It seems to me that Mr. Bloch has completely achieved this ambition -Michel Foucault"Bloch's Study is a genuinely interdisciplinary one, bringing together elements of history, ethnology, philology, philosophy, economics and literature, with the undoubted ambition of generating a new synthesis which will enable us to read the Middle Ages in a different light. Stated simply, and in terms which do justice neither to the density nor the subtlety of his argument, Bloch's thesis is this: that medieval society perceived itself in terms of a vertical mode of descent from origins. This model is articulated etymologically in medieval theories of grammar and language, and is consequently reflected in historical and theological writings; it is also latent in the genealogical structure of the aristocratic family as it began to be organized in France in the twelfth century, and is made manifest in such systems of signs as heraldry and the adoption of patronymns . . . It is an ingenious and compelling synthesis which no medievalist, even on this side of the Atlantic, can afford to ignore" -Nicholas Mann, Times Literary Supplement

Su questo libro

L'autore:

R. Howard Bloch, chairman of the French Department at the University of California Berkeley, is the author of The Scandal of the Fabliaux, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Product Description:

Book by Bloch R Howard

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0226059812
• ISBN 13: 9780226059815
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 296