Artikel
Christine de Pizan, France's memorialist : persona, performance, memory
Verfasst von:
Walters, Lori J.
in:
Journal of European studies
Thousand Oaks:
2005
,
29 - 45 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Walters, Lori J. |
| In: | Journal of European studies |
| Jahr: | 2005 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| This study deals with the ways that Christine de Pizan (c.1365-1430) transformed her personal memories of king Charles V into an enduring form of antional memory by allying her 1404 biography of Chalrs with official French history. To legitimize her role as royal biographer, Christine created a double-gendered persona evocative of Mary and chrsit and Mary and David. Her persona allowed her (1) to give birth metaphorically to the idea of a wise king capable of guidings the nascent nation of France mentioned in the official history and (2) to unite symbolically the kingdom's male and female subjects behind present and future monarchs. Pierre Nora, Mary Carruthers, Aleida Assmann and Susan Crane provide conceptual models that enable me to connect ideas of nationahood, memory and performance. I conclude that Christine became a link between individual and national memory, thus exemplifying Nora's idea of the historian as living "lieu de mémoire" | |
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