The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State

Peter Haidu

The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Country
United States
Published
22 August 1993
Pages
272
ISBN
9780253305480

The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State

Peter Haidu

This book provides the reader with a new, challenging, and sophisticated critical analysis of the Song of Roland. -Choice

[Haidu’s] close reading of the Song of Roland is interesting, informative, and significant …
-American Historical Review

Probably the most sophisticated book ever written on the Song of Roland… . It is at once a work of linguistic analysis, of literary theory, of literary history, and, finally, of history. -R. Howard Bloch

Haidu 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.

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