LEADER 04458nam 22006495 450 001 9910799226803321 005 20251009084944.0 010 $a9783031433528 010 $a3031433521 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-43352-8 035 $a(CKB)29449768500041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31051229 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31051229 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-43352-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929449768500041 100 $a20231220d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAuthors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England $eA Literature of Personal Ambition (12th?13th Century) /$fby Fabrizio De Falco 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (0 pages) 225 1 $aThe New Middle Ages,$x2945-5944 311 08$a9783031433511 311 08$a3031433513 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1 Introduction. But What is the Point of Courtly Writing? -- Part 1 The Hydra: The Court?s Body and Its Wandering Heads -- Chapter 2 Re-thinking Literature at the English Royal Court, Its Protagonists and Contexts -- Chapter 3 Starting at the Bottom: The Authors -- Part 2 The Messages Between the Lines. A Political Reading of Courtly Texts -- Chapter 4 An Accurate Curriculum: Walter Map?s De Nugis Curialium -- Chapter 5 A Family Business: Gerald of Wales? Topographia Hibernica -- Part 3 The Real World is Here. The Role of Courtly Literature between Factions and Crisis -- Chapter 6 Surviving in the Upside-Down. Henry II?s Courtiers under Richard I?s Reign (1189-1199) -- Chapter 7 Moving Text into Action. Local Careerism and International Crisis -- Conclusion: Contingently Situated Literature and Courts Dynamics. 330 $aAuthors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the personal aims, networks, and careers as the impetus for much of the period?s literature. The book takes two authors as case studies ? Gerald of Wales and Walter Map ? to show how authors not only built their own stories but also used popular narratives and the tools of propaganda to achieve their own, personal goals. The purpose of this study is to overturn the top-down model of political patronage, in which patrons ? and particularly royal patrons ? set the cultural agenda and dictate literary tastes. Rather, Fabrizio De Falco argues that authors were often representative of many different interests expressed by local groups. To pursue those interests, they targeted specific political factions in the changeable political scenario of Angevin England. Their texts reveal a polycentric view ofcultural production and its reception. The study aims to model a heuristic process which is applicable to other courtly texts besides the chosen case-studies. Fabrizio De Falco is Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Medieval History at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is a medievalist with a strong interest in cultural studies and their interconnection with politics. His work focuses on the use of literary themes and texts to promote personal ambitions and political aims, more specifically the literary production at the Plantagenet court. 410 0$aThe New Middle Ages,$x2945-5944 606 $aLiterature, Medieval 606 $aEurope$xHistory$x476-1492 606 $aPhilosophy, Medieval 606 $aArchaeology and history 606 $aMedieval Literature 606 $aHistory of Medieval Europe 606 $aMedieval Philosophy 606 $aHistoric-Post Medieval Archaeology 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory$x476-1492. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Medieval. 615 0$aArchaeology and history. 615 14$aMedieval Literature. 615 24$aHistory of Medieval Europe. 615 24$aMedieval Philosophy. 615 24$aHistoric-Post Medieval Archaeology. 676 $a850.9005 700 $aDe Falco$b Fabrizio$0280196 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910799226803321 996 $aAuthors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England$93872383 997 $aUNINA