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Authoring the Past

History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia

By: Jaume Aurell i Cardona

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Authoring the Past

History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia

By: Jaume Aurell i Cardona

Authoring the Past surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history and politics during the period. Jaume Aurell examines texts from the late twelfth to the late fourteenth century—including the Latin Gesta comitum Barcinonensium and four texts in medieval Catalan: James I’s Llibre dels fets, the Crònica of Bernat Desclot, the Crònica of Ramon Muntaner, and the Crònica of Peter the Ceremonious—and outlines the different motivations for the writing of each. For Aurell, these chronicles are not mere archaeological artifacts but rather documents that speak to their writers’ specific contemporary social and political purposes. He argues that these Catalonian counts and Aragonese kings were attempting to use their role as authors to legitimize their monarchical status, their growing political and economic power, and their aggressive expansionist policies in the Mediterranean. By analyzing these texts alongside one another, Aurell demonstrates the shifting contexts in which chronicles were conceived, written, and read throughout the Middle Ages. The first study of its kind to make medieval Catalonian writings available to English-speaking audiences, Authoring the Past will be of interest to scholars of history and comparative literature, students of Hispanic and Romance medieval studies, and medievalists who study the chronicle tradition in other languages.

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0226032329

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Medieval Self-Coronations

The History and Symbolism of a Ritual

By: Jaume Aurell i Cardona,Jaume Aurell

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Medieval Self-Coronations

The History and Symbolism of a Ritual

By: Jaume Aurell i Cardona,Jaume Aurell

The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108840248

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Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies

From Documentation to Intervention

By: Jaume Aurell

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Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies

From Documentation to Intervention

By: Jaume Aurell

E. H. Carr wrote, "study the historian before you begin to study the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates, and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical sources. Merging literary studies on autobiography with theories of history, it provides a systematic and detailed analysis of the autobiographies of the most outstanding historians, from the classic texts by Giambattista Vico, Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams, to the Annales historians such as Fernand Braudel, Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, to Marxist historians such as Eric Hobsbawm and Annie Kriegel, to postmodern historians such as Carolyn Steedman, Robert A. Rosenstone, Carlos Eire, Luisa Passerini, Elisabeth Roudinesco, Gerda Lerner and Sheila Fitzpatrick, and to "interventional" historians such as Geoff Eley, Jill Ker Conway, Natalie Davis and Gabrielle Spiegel. Using a comparative approach to these texts, this book identifies six historical-autobiographical styles: humanistic, biographic, ego-historical, monographic, postmodern, and interventional. By privileging historians' autobiographies, this book proposes a renewed history of historiography, one that engages the theoretical evolution of the discipline, the way history has been interpreted by historians, and the currents of thought and ideologies that have dominated and influenced its writing in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Routledge

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1317389972

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Authoring the Past

History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia

By: Jaume Aurell

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History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia

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What Is a Classic in History?

The Making of a Historical Canon

By: Jaume Aurell

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What Is a Classic in History?

The Making of a Historical Canon

By: Jaume Aurell

What is a classic in historical writing? How do we explain the continued interest in certain historical texts, even when their accounts and interpretations of particular periods have been displaced or revised by newer generations of historians? How do these texts help to maintain the historiographical canon? Jaume Aurell's innovative study ranges from the heroic writings of ancient Greek historians such as Herodotus to the twentieth century microhistories of Carlo Ginzburg. The book explores how certain texts have been able to stand the test of time, gain their status as historiographical classics, and capture the imaginations of readers across generations. Investigating the processes of permanence and change in both historiography and history, Aurell further examines the creation of historical genres and canons. Taking influence from methodologies including sociology, literary criticism, theology, and postcolonial studies, What Is a Classic in History? encourages readers to re-evaluate their ideas of history and historiography alike.

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1009469983

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Medieval Self-Coronations

The History and Symbolism of a Ritual

By: Jaume Aurell

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The History and Symbolism of a Ritual

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Based on narrative, iconographical, and liturgical sources, this is the first systematic study to trace the story of the ritual of royal self-coronations from Ancient Persia to the present. Exposing as myth the idea that Napoleon's act of self-coronation in 1804 was the first extraordinary event to break the secular tradition of kings being crowned by bishops, Jaume Aurell vividly demonstrates that self-coronations were not as transgressive or unconventional as has been imagined. Drawing on numerous examples of royal self-coronations, with a particular focus on European Kings of the Middle Ages, including Frederic II of Germany (1229), Alphonse XI of Castile (1328), Peter IV of Aragon (1332) and Charles III of Navarra (1390), Aurell draws on history, anthropology, ritual studies, liturgy and art history to explore royal self-coronations as privileged sites at which the frontiers and limits between the temporal and spiritual, politics and religion, tradition and innovation are encountered.

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1108889824

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Flanagan Flashback

By: Andreu Martín,Jaume Ribera

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Flanagan Flashback

By: Andreu Martín,Jaume Ribera

Una nova aventura del detectiu Flanagan! La Clara Longo, que va ser la primera nòvia del Flanagan, ha sigut detinguda per la policia a causa de la seva vinculació amb una banda que comercia amb objectes robats. Quan ell se n'assabenta, preocupat per la seva situació actual, decideix contactar amb ella, que ara viu a casa dels seus oncles. Al cap de dos dies de la seva primera trobada, el Flanagan rep una trucada de la policia: han assassinat la Margot, la tieta de la Clara, i la jove està retinguda com a imputada. Convençut de la seva innocència i ajudat per la Nines i el Xarxe, el Flanagan s'introdueix en un assumpte tèrbol i es converteix en l'únic que pot salvar la vida del seu primer amor.

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Authoring the Past

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Medieval Self-Coronations

Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies

Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies

Authoring the Past

Authoring the Past

What Is a Classic in History?

What Is a Classic in History?

Medieval Self-Coronations

Medieval Self-Coronations

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