The Memoirs Of Philippe De Commynes
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The History of Comines
Author | : Philippe de Commynes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Authors, French |
ISBN | : |
"Philippe de Commines (or de Commynes or "Philippe de Comines", Latin Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 ? 18 October 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature). Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time."--Wikipedia.
Philippe de Commynes
Author | : Irit Ruth Kleiman |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442663243 |
Philippe de Commynes, a diplomat who specialized in clandestine operations, served King Louis XI during his campaign to undermine aristocratic resistance and consolidate the sovereignty of the French throne. He is credited with inventing the political memoir, but his reminiscence has also been described as ‘the confessions of a traitor’: Commynes had abandoned Louis’ rival, the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold, before joining forces with the king. This study provides a literary re-evaluation of Commynes’ text – a perennial subject of scandal and fascination – while questioning what the terms ‘traitor’ or ‘betrayed’ meant in the context of fifteenth-century France. Drawing on diplomatic letters and court transcripts, Irit Kleiman examines the mutual connections between writing and betrayal in Commynes’ representation of Louis’ reign, the relationship between the author and the king, and the emergence of the memoir as an autobiographical genre. This study significantly deepens our understanding of how historical narrative and diplomatic activities are intertwined in the work of this iconic, iconoclastic figure.
Olivier de La Marche and the Rhetoric of Fifteenth-century Historiography
Author | : Catherine Emerson |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843830528 |
How reliable are La Marche's Memoires of the fifteenth-century Burgundian court? Examination of key issues proves their validity.
Early Modern French Autobiography
Author | : Nicolae Alexandru Virastau |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004459553 |
In this book, Nicolae Alexandru Virastau offers an enlightening account of the origins of one of Europe’s most influential autobiographical traditions.