دانلود کتاب Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature: Renewal and Utopia

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List of illustrations vi
Acknowledgements ix
List of abbreviations x
Note to the reader x
Introduction 1
Part I: Renewal and Utopia: The Terms of the Debate
1. Making Sense of History: East–West Relations and the Idea of the City in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 9
2. Renewal and Utopia: Two Paradigms for Understanding East–West Relations in Medieval French Texts 36
Part II: Constantinople Desired
3. Aemulatio: The Limitations of East–West Alliance 75
4. Admiratio: Utopia as Social Critique 105
Part III: The Renovatio of the West
5. Translatio Embodied? Renewal, Truth and the Status of Constantinople in Thirteenth-Century Didactic Texts 131
6. Renovatio as Commemoration: Civic Loyalty and the Latin Empire of Constantinople in Venetian Historiography 157
Conclusion 183
Appendix 1: Original Latin Quotations 189
Appendix 2: References to Constantinople in Other Epics and Romances 192
Appendix 3: Outline of Events in the History of East–West Relations from the Second Crusade to the Palaeologan Reconquest 198
Bibliography 203
Index 227