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Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages

Literary-Historical Analyses

Av Albrecht Classen

Del i serien Studies in Medieval Literature

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Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages: Literary-Historical Analyses, identifies and discusses the discourse focused on the criticism of the court, specifically of the king, across medieval Europe. Tracing its development from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, chapters examine Icelandic sagas, Old Spanish heroic epic poetry, courtly romances, early modern French and German prose novels, and late medieval short verse and prose narratives as well as the work of medieval critics such as John of Salisbury and Marsilius of Padua. Albrecht Classen explores how the writers used their craft creatively and covertly to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep distrust of kings and other authority figures during the Middle Ages.
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Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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An elegant apologia for the humanities and a reminder of why history is relevant for the present. Albrecht Classen sounds a warning about the consequences of incompetence in the corridors of power. The narrative is a shrewd and scholarly interpretation of medieval perceptions about leadership models that are deficient both in honor and in character. Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages is a sobering analysis of unstable and collapsing political structures that remains pertinent for the modern age everywhere.

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