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Authoring the past : history, autobiography, and politics in medieval Catalonia
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Authoring the past : history, autobiography, and politics in medieval Catalonia

Jaume Aurell i Cardona

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Introduction
Part 1: Historical writings and historical authors
Gesta Comitum Barchinonensium as genealogy
King James I and his chivalric autobiography
Bernat Desclot: the historian and his chronicle
Ramon Muntaner: ruler, knight, and chronicler
King Peter's Llibre and royal self-representation
Part II: Theories and interpretations
The shift in historical genres
The dawn of Catalan autobiography as chronicle
The authorial logic of the historical text
Catalan chroniclers and poetic license: history, epic, fiction
The emergence of political realism.

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Authoring the past : history, autobiography, and politics in medieval Catalonia by Jaume Aurell i Cardona. ISBN 9780226032320. Published by The University of Chicago Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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