King Arthur and the myth of history /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Finke, Laurie.
Imprint:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004.
Description:	xiii, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Arthur, -- King. Arthur, -- King. Britons -- Kings and rulers -- Folklore. Mythology, Celtic -- Great Britain. Historiography -- Great Britain. Arthurian romances -- Sources. Britons -- Historiography. Mythology, British. Britons -- Historiography. Britons -- Kings and rulers -- Folklore. Historiography. Mythology, British. Mythology, Celtic. Great Britain -- History -- To 1066 -- Historiography. Great Britain. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5171511

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Other authors / contributors:	Shichtman, Martin B.
ISBN:	0813027330 (acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-254) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. "To mend the interrupted sequence of time" : the narrative logic of medieval history
2. Profiting from the past : history as symbolic capital
3. The romance of empire : vernacular history and the structuration of power
4. Discontinuous time : history in the eyes of its losers
5. Mapping ambition : imperialism, nationalism, and the logic of seriality in the Chronicle of John Hardyng
6. Patronage, printing, and symbolic economies of nationalism in Caxton's Morte Darthur
7. Paranoid history.

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