Etymologies and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle AgesUniversity of Chicago Press, 1986 - 282 páginas "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 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abelard according anthropology Arthurian articulation Aucassin Aucassin et Nicolette Augustine autem Béroul bien biopolitics canso chanson de geste Chrétien's Cligés constitutes culture defined desire difference discourse disruption Duby early medieval grammar economic epic estoire Etym etymology example fact fait father feudal fief function genealogy Graal Grail grammarians High Middle Ages Huth Ibid individual inheritance Isidore John of Salisbury king kinship knights Lancelot language Latin Lévi-Strauss lineage linguistic literary locus logical lyric Mâcon Marcabru marriage meaning Merlin metaphor mode modistae narrative nature Nicolette noble family notion original Paris paternal Perceval Perceval's pere Perlesvaus poem poetic poetry principle Priscian proper qu'il question quod relation represents rhetoric Roland romance Round Table Saint semantic sexual siècle signify social Speculative Grammars speech status structure sunt textual things tion tree Tree of Jesse Tristan trobar clus twelfth century University Press verbal words writing
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