The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State by Haidu, Peter - Hardcover

Indiana University Press, 1993-08-22. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. x, 257pp.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1993. HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN AND BRIGHT UNMARKED COPY OF THIS BOOK~REMAINDER MARK BOTTOM EDGE

Indiana University Press, 1993-08-22. Hardcover. Very Good. 98x10x147. Pages clean, binding tight, dust jacket still glossy after all these years..

Indiana University Press, 1993-08-22. Hardcover. Like New.

Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993. x, 257p., dj,

Indiana University Press, 1993-08-22. Hardcover. New.

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New. "This book provides the reader with a new, challenging, and sophisticated critical analysis of the Song of Roland." -Choice "[Haidu's] close reading of the Song of Roland is interesting, informative, and significant... " -American Historical Review "Probably the most sophisticated book ever written on the Song of Roland.... It is at once a work of linguistic analysis, of literary theory, of literary history, and, finally, of history." -R. Howard Bloch Haidu argues that the 12th-century Song of Roland played an essential role in the creation of the nation-state, in that the narrative transforms the independent and violent warriors of the feudal period into the subordinate instruments of the nation-state by enforcing on them the subjection to the rule of monarchy.

Hardback. New. Proposes a provocative new reading of the medieval French Song of Roland and its role in changing a world of violent independent warriors into the more contemporary world of citizens subjugated to the state. A study of signal importance to literary and historical scholarship of the Song and of the birth of modern Europe.

Indiana Univ Pr, 1993. Hardcover. New. 272 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches.