Beyond Positivism and Genre: “Hagiographical" Texts as Historical Narrative
Felice Lifshitz
"Beyond Positivism and Genre: 'Hagiographical' Texts as Historical Narrative." This essay argues that attempts to identify criteria by which distinguish a genre of "hagiography" from "historiography" are bound fail because there can be no single definition or is universally valid. narrative, in particular, must understood relation the political context it produced. The considers problem "genre hagiography" taking into account major changes conceptions historiography structures took place twelfth century again nineteenth century. It concludes concept an ideological tool generated serve nineteenth-century purposes; had function earlier centuries, therefore did not exist. particular construction should utilized analyses ninth-, tenth-, eleventh-century Francia.
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