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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The Historical Setting | 11 |
| 2 | Pseudo-Turpin and the Problem of Prose | 55 |
| 3 | Past Politics and the Politics of the Past: Ancient History I | 99 |
| 4 | The Question of the Heroic in Translations of Lucan's Pharsalia: Ancient History II | 152 |
| 5 | Contemporary Chronicles: The Contest over the Past | 214 |
| 6 | Royal History: Disengagement and Reconciliation | 269 |
| Epilogue | 315 | |
| Appendix: The Continuation of Aimoin and the Sources of the Anonymous of Chantilly/Vatican | 321 | |
| Notes | 325 | |
| Bibliography | 393 | |
| Index | 413 |
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Thomas Tololi
reviewed Romancing the past on March 23, 2011
Romancing the past
History is a particularly effective tool for ideology because of its claims of impartiality and facticity. Spiegel argues that 13th-century French aristocrats invented histories which embedded ideologies in the past in order to redeem or mask present failures while promoting the continued relevance of values supposedly enshrined in the past. The documents thus produced reflect the needs of specific moments and are not literary or linguistic development.
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