The Subject of Violence

The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State

By: Peter Haidu

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Hardcover | 1 August 1993

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"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.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Violence: Modern Perspectives on the Medieval and the Modern	p. 1
The Semiotization of Death: Open Text Or Closed?	p. 17
The Gaze of the Other	p. 36
The Sociological Presentation of the Self	p. 36
The Intertextuality of the Peerage	p. 42
Excursus I: Aesthetics, Economics, Politics	p. 44
Beauty, Value, Violence	p. 44
The Noble, the Knight, the Peasant	p. 49
The Ideology of Knighthood	p. 53
The Subsystem of the Professional Warrior: Courage, Contradiction, Irascibility	p. 66
Ideological Value (I): The Constitution and Destitution of Subjects	p. 69
Ideological Value (II): From Subject to Traitor?	p. 76
Structure of Structures	p. 83
The Destinator's Multiple Roles: Syncretism Or Contradiction?	p. 85
The Culpable Guarantor	p. 85
From Individual to Role	p. 97
Excursus II: The Play of Absence and Presence in Medieval Kingship	p. 101
Carles li reis, . . .	p. 102
. . . nostre emperere magnes	p. 111
Reis and Emperere Textualized	p. 115
Funerary Rituals	p. 120
The Unreintegrated Mourner	p. 120
The Death of Aude, or the Refusal of Exchange	p. 128
The Transformative Performance	p. 133
Textual Coherence and the Dialectics of Ideology	p. 135
Textual Coherence: The Narrative	p. 137
Narrative Programs	p. 139
Actants	p. 143
Ganelon's Trial, Or the Monarch's Revolution	p. 152
The Actorial Level: Inexorable Structure	p. 155
The Actantial Distribution	p. 174
Conclusion	p. 178
The Chanson Ends with the Indeterminacy of Non-Exclusive Disjunction	p. 178
The Chanson Produces Limited and Specifiable Significations	p. 181
The Subject of Violence	p. 186
Nomadic Violence, Sedentary Economics, and the Birth of the State	p. 193
Notes	p. 211
Bibliography	p. 237
General Index	p. 248
Index of Proper Nouns	p. 253
Index of Foreign Terms and Phrases	p. 256
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