"This book provides the reader with a new, challenging, and sophisticated critical analysis of the Song of Roland." —Choice
"[Haidu's] close reading of the Song of Roland is interesting, informative, and significant . . . " —American Historical Review
"Probably the most sophisticated book ever written on the Song of Roland. . . . It is at once a work of linguistic analysis, of literary theory, of literary history, and, finally, of history." —R. Howard Bloch
Haidu argues that the 12th-century Song of Roland played an essential role in the creation of the nation-state, in that the narrative transforms the independent and violent warriors of the feudal period into the subordinate instruments of the nation-state by enforcing on them the subjection to the rule of monarchy.
- ISBN10 0253305489
- ISBN13 9780253305480
- Publish Date 22 August 1993
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English