Peter Haidu

This work presents a thorough historicist account of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation.

Text and Governance in the Middle Ages

The Subject Medieval/Modern

Irony and Comedy in Cligès and Perceval

An Esthetic Distance in Chretien de Troyes

Douglas Kelly

A biography of the British boy, captured by raiding Irish warriors at age sixteen, who performed miracles, ended the power of the Druid priests over the Irish people, and converted the Irish kings and their people to Christianity.

Essays in Medieval Poetics

The Craft of Fiction

Irony and Comedy in Cliges and Perceval

Aesthetic Distance in Chretien de Troyes

André Hajdu

Howard BlochHaidu argues that the 12th-century Song of Roland played an essential role in the creation of the nation-state, in that the narrative transforms the independent and violent warriors of the feudal period into the subordinate instruments of the nation-state by enforcing on them the subjection to the rule of monarchy.

The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State

The Subject of Violence

Peter Haidu

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