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- Romance and History
- Series page
- Romance and History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- I Opening perspectives
- II The matter of Rome (and realms to the east): approaches to antiquity
- Chapter 2 Fearful histories: the past contained in the romances of antiquity
- Chapter 3 Troy and Rome, two narrative presentations of history in the thirteenth century: the Roman de Troie en prose and the Faits des Romains
- III The matter of Britain: social and spiritual drives
- IV The matters of France and Italy: acts of recollection and invention
- V Matters of fabulation and fact: shifting registers
- VI Closing reference points
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Troy and Rome, two narrative presentations of history in the thirteenth century: the Roman de Troie en prose and the Faits des Romains
from II - The matter of Rome (and realms to the east): approaches to antiquity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
- Romance and History
- Series page
- Romance and History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- I Opening perspectives
- II The matter of Rome (and realms to the east): approaches to antiquity
- Chapter 2 Fearful histories: the past contained in the romances of antiquity
- Chapter 3 Troy and Rome, two narrative presentations of history in the thirteenth century: the Roman de Troie en prose and the Faits des Romains
- III The matter of Britain: social and spiritual drives
- IV The matters of France and Italy: acts of recollection and invention
- V Matters of fabulation and fact: shifting registers
- VI Closing reference points
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Romance and HistoryImagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period, pp. 40 - 52Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015