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...
Philippe de Commynes, a diplomat who specialized in clandestine operations, served King Louis XI during his campaign to undermine aristocratic resi...
What does it mean to possess a voice - or to be without one? This is the question that twelve scholars of philosophy, literature, history, art history, musicology, religion, law, and classics address in Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe. For medieval thinkers, the categories of voice and voicelessness were deeply embedded in definitions of the human, the divine, and the bestial. This interdisciplinary collection of far-reaching yet closely intertwined essays engages with current debates surrounding historicist models of subjectivity, the poetics and aesthetics of marginality,...
What does it mean to possess a voice - or to be without one? This is the question that twelve scholars of philosophy, literature, history, art history...
