Feudalism and kingship
James Simpson|Simon Gaunt|Sarah Kay
The aim of this section dealing with historical themes is to consider how medieval French texts invite or historicizing readings and in chapter the focus will be on feudalism kingship. Indeed, question what kind histories can written from literary evidence seems especially acute when we look representations political social structures. After all, a society’s sense its preoccupations does not invariably offer secure guide actual practices. Another difficulty texts, those dating earlier period (on which focus), that their presentation events very often either partial critical. Texts do merely advance claims accounts events, they also ways such are made legitimized.
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