| Author/Contributor(s): | Haidu, Peter |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Date: | 08/22/1993 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
[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.