Writing Southern Italy Before the Renaissance

Trecento Historians of the Mezzogiorno
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-70251-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 618 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge

This volume traces the work of trecento historians of the Mezzogiorno, analyzing it through current methodological and theoretical frameworks. Questioning the current consensus, the book examines how the South as a cultural "other" began evolving over the fourteenth century, and reconsiders the nineteenth-century "Southern Question" concerning the Mezzogiorno’s history, culture and people and its lingering negative image in Europe and America. It also focuses on specific histories, authors and historiographical issues, and reviews how new understandings of the Mediterranean have begun to alter our perceptions of the South in a new global context and as the basis for new historical research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Musto, Ronald G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. The Historians: Their Lives and Works

3. Sources

4. Narrative Communities and Strategies

5. The Impact of Romance

6. Visual Evidence

7. Case Studies

8. Constructing Grand Narratives: The Black Legend of the Angevins

9. Medieval to Renaissance: The Historiographical Question

10. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald G. Musto is co-publisher of Italica Press, former co-director of ACLS Humanities E-Book, former Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America, and editor of Speculum. He has recently been appointed Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Bristol, UK.