Reviews for Romancing the past

The average rating for Romancing the past based on 1 review is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-03-23 00:00:00 Thomas Tololi 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.