Subject of Violence: "Song of Roland" and the Birth of the State: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State

by PeterHaidu (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $57.12

  Proposes a provocative new reading of the medieval French Song of Roland and its role in changing a world of violent independent warriors into the more contemporary world of citizens subjugated to the state. A study of signal importance to literary and historical scholarship of the Song and of the birth of modern Europe.