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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: Violence: Modern Perspectives on the Medieval and the Modern | 1 | |
1 | The Semiotization of Death: Open Text Or Closed? | 17 |
2 | The Gaze of the Other | 36 |
The Sociological Presentation of the Self | 36 | |
The Intertextuality of the Peerage | 42 | |
3 | Excursus I: Aesthetics, Economics, Politics | 44 |
Beauty, Value, Violence | 44 | |
The Noble, the Knight, the Peasant | 49 | |
The Ideology of Knighthood | 53 | |
4 | The Subsystem of the Professional Warrior: Courage, Contradiction, Irascibility | 66 |
Ideological Value (I): The Constitution and Destitution of Subjects | 69 | |
Ideological Value (II): From Subject to Traitor? | 76 | |
Structure of Structures | 83 | |
5 | The Destinator's Multiple Roles: Syncretism Or Contradiction? | 85 |
The Culpable Guarantor | 85 | |
From Individual to Role | 97 | |
6 | Excursus II: The Play of Absence and Presence in Medieval Kingship | 101 |
Carles li reis, . . . | 102 | |
. . . nostre emperere magnes | 111 | |
Reis and Emperere Textualized | 115 | |
7 | Funerary Rituals | 120 |
The Unreintegrated Mourner | 120 | |
The Death of Aude, or the Refusal of Exchange | 128 | |
The Transformative Performance | 133 | |
8 | Textual Coherence and the Dialectics of Ideology | 135 |
Textual Coherence: The Narrative | 137 | |
Narrative Programs | 139 | |
Actants | 143 | |
9 | Ganelon's Trial, Or the Monarch's Revolution | 152 |
The Actorial Level: Inexorable Structure | 155 | |
The Actantial Distribution | 174 | |
10 | Conclusion | 178 |
The Chanson Ends with the Indeterminacy of Non-Exclusive Disjunction | 178 | |
The Chanson Produces Limited and Specifiable Significations | 181 | |
The Subject of Violence | 186 | |
Nomadic Violence, Sedentary Economics, and the Birth of the State | 193 | |
Notes | 211 | |
Bibliography | 237 | |
General Index | 248 | |
Index of Proper Nouns | 253 | |
Index of Foreign Terms and Phrases | 256 |
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