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About the Author
Luke Sunderland is a scholar of medieval Francophone literature, especially in relation to ethical and political questions. He is the author of Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism between Ethics and Morality (2010) and many articles, particularly on medieval translation and textual geographies. He has held research fellowships at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge and at the Stanford Humanities Center, and is currently Senior Lecturer in French at Durham University.
Reviews
The sheer number of sources used by Sunderland speaks to the ambitious scope of his study, which includes thematical studies of revolt, resistance, feud, and crusade. By approaching literary texts from a principally historical perspective, asking questions about the political and ideological implications of the production, reception, and consumption of these texts, Sunderland manages rewardingly to discuss them from an interdisciplinary standpoint. * Kim Bergqvist, Royal Studies Journal *
is of great interest to historians of the medieval and early modern nobility ... This will certainly act as a stimulus for the reappreciation of noble revolts. * Loek Luiten, Virtus *
Luke Sunderland's new book is based on a reading of an impressive corpus of chansons de geste ... He is to be congratulated for demonstrating the contribution that a reading of these texts can make to our understanding of later medieval political culture ... [he] makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of late medieval political mentalities. * Christopher Fletcher, Medieval Review *
It is this attention to the subtleties of the material at his disposal that most impresses and the willingness to see how ill-served the genre has been by an insistence on nationalizing paradigms. This is a masterful rehabilitation not only of a genre but also of political theory avant la lettre. * Bill Burgwinkle, French Studies *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198788485
Author Luke Sunderland
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 167mm * 25mm