Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2022.2104471
Jan Rybak
should now be read in conjunction with an associated article by Elizabeth Eva Leach: ‘The Provenance, Date and Patron of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308’, Speculum 97, no. 2 [2022]). The works by the knightly classes for the knightly classes offer the perspectives of the protagonists themselves; while one-sided and self-serving, they are at least a counterweight to ecclesiastical versions of what chivalry should be. They clearly illuminate the desired projected image of the chivalric elites while simultaneously offering not only fascinating details of their world, but also of the wars they fought in it.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2022.2099612
S. McGlynn
Knights, Lords and Ladies: in Search of Aristocrats in the Paris Region, 1180–1220, by John W. Baldwin, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, xvii + 347 pp., £48, ISBN 0822296280 Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War, by Philip J. Caudrey, Woodbridge, Boydell, 2019, xii + 227 pp., £60, ISBN 1 783 273277 5 (hardback); 1 783 27695 0 (paperback) The Chivalric Turn: Conduct and Hegemony in Europe before 1300, by David Crouch, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xvi + 345 pp., £83, ISBN 0 197 82490 (hardback); 0 198 83034 4 (paperback) The Tournaments at Le Hem and Chauvency, by Sarrasin and Jacques Bretel, trans. Nigel Bryant, Woodbridge, Boydell, 2020, xxxii + 128 pp., £60, ISBN 1 78327 459 8 (hardback); 1 783 27710 0 (paperback) The Song of Bertrand du Guesclin, by Cuvelier, trans. Nigel Bryant, Woodbridge, Boydell, 2019, x + 432 pp., £60, ISBN 1 78327 227 3 (hardback); 1 78327 696 7 (paperback) The Black Prince and the Grand Chevauchée of 1355, by Mollie M. Madden, Woodbridge, Boydell, 2018, xii + 248 pp., £60, ISBN 1 78327 356 0 A Virtuous Knight: Defending Marshal Boucicaut (Jean II le Meingre, 1377–1421), by Craig Taylor, Woodbridge, Boydell and York Medieval Press, 2019, xiii + 203 pp., £60, ISBN 1 903153 91 The Book of Geoffroi de Charny with the Livre Charny, ed. and trans. Ian Wilson and Nigel Bryant, Woodbridge, Boydell, 2021, x + 200 pp., £60, ISBN 1 78327 585 4
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Pub Date : 2022-07-18DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2022.2096202
Panagiotis Karagkounis
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Pub Date : 2022-06-07DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2022.2069698
Kacie Harris
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Pub Date : 2022-05-23DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2022.2055998
Stewart McCain
ABSTRACT This article offers a new interpretation of the Académie celtique. Active between 1804 and 1813, the Académie sought out megaliths and collected popular customs, songs and stories, which they understood as the vestiges of the ancient Celtic inhabitants of Gaul. The Académie has often been associated with nation-building projects, either as a manifestation of concern with the cultural diversity of the French population, or as a search for the nation’s glorious ancestors. Based on close reading of the Académie’s publications, manuscript correspondence and minute books, this article argues that the Académie was also a vehicle for the enthusiasm of its members for a vision of the Druids as Deist Philosophes, an aspect hitherto overlooked in the literature. In doing so it demonstrates the complexities of French nation-building projects, revealing both the crucial role of religion in debates over popular culture in France during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, and the contested place of the Gauls in the memory culture of the period.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2022.2061700
Michael Carter-Sinclair
This
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Pub Date : 2022-05-05DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2021.2010896
Vedran Duančić
Central European memory studies. It will make engaging reading for our students who will find all the important information here to start their own research. For more established researchers, the book offers a comprehensive overview of the development in subfields adjacent to their own. Moreover, while the book is not designed to present new research, it is nevertheless interesting to see Blacker’s stance in the major debates in the field. For example, in Chapter 4, he weighs the potential and limitations of engagement with the contentious past via kitsch café culture and expresses his moderate optimism about such endeavours. While it is clear that the book is meticulously researched and that Blacker is an expert in the field, I am not sure about some of the choices that were made in the text. Naturally, each book has limitations: some topics have to go unmentioned, some will be mentioned only in passing. Blacker makes a very valid choice to divorce the chronology of changes in the cityand culturescapes from politics. While I agree with this stance – political thresholds are not cultural thresholds – politics often disappears from the book completely. Offering some more background on the political developments that affected cultural life would be useful. After all, heritage preservationists often rely on government funding and instructions, and authors react to political changes in their novels. Another limitation of the book is a rather declarative interest in the doers of memory, in the activists, authors and curators who challenge (or realize) governmental visions, create new heritage sites, write new books and open new cafes. While the authors and creators are always credited with their work, we very rarely learn anything about them. The environments of their work and the relationships they have with other activists and governments are rarely analysed. Having listed some limitations of Blacker’s book, I want to conclude by saying that Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe is a meticulously researched and thought-provoking book. Blacker has endeavoured to connect perspectives from multiple different fields and has done it successfully. His book will serve our students (and us) well.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2021.1971626
Kostis Kornetis
ABSTRACT This article focuses on armed organizations of the extreme left during and after the fall of Southern European dictatorships in the mid-1970s. It explores the transnational connections between revolutionary terrorist organizations of diverse background in Spain, Portugal, and Greece, looking at the ways in which political violence and its semantics ‘travelled’ across borders and beyond national characteristics and specificities. The article explores solidarity campaigns for so-called political prisoners of said organizations and the transnational impact of certain key texts, such as ‘Ogro’, the infamous record of the assassination of Franco’s right-hand man Carrero Blanco by ETA in 1973. Looking at how the latter’s translation was received in Greece and Portugal, the article traces elements of transnational circulation beyond borders, making a point about how the space of revolutionary knowledge dissemination operated. By focusing on both sympathizers and militants of groupings involved in revolutionary violence and their perceptions, the article attempts to highlight the existence of both imaginary and actual transnational links between the three countries, and the occasional lack thereof. While it demonstrates a lack of direct transnational channels of communication, the article argues that young people belonging to the far left across the post-authoritarian European South in the mid-1970s imagined themselves as parts of the same contour. In terms of actual spaces, the very revolutionary situation Portugal was going through, turned Lisbon into a very specific locus of both imaginary and actual revolutionary potential, including Spanish activists who finally crossed the border to militate.
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