Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments ix
3. Contents xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Before the State
6. 1. The Peace Movement: A Crisis in Ideology 7
7. 2. War, Peasant Revolt, and the Saint Alexis 39
8. 3. Epic and the King’s Peace: The Song of Roland and Louis’ Coronation 57
9. 4. The Love-Lyric as Political Technology 79
10. 5. Chrétien de Troyes: The Perspectival Novel 95
11. 6. “Marie de France”: The Postcolonial lais 121
12. 7. Raoul de Cambrai: Haunting Violence 142
13. Part II. Governance
14. 8. Representation in State Governance I: Literacy 153
15. 9. Representation in State Governance II: Agency 180
16. Part III. In State
17. 10. Problematizing the Subject: Rose I 213
18. 11. Problematizing Identity: Silence 239
19. 12. Subject and Community: Adam’s “Congés” 266
20. 13. The Subject on the Subject: Philippe de Beaumanoir 281
21. 14. Ideologies of Subjectivity: Christine de Pizan and Alain Chartier 303
22. 15. “Love for Sale”: François Villon’s Textament of Solidarity 328
23. Conclusion: The Medieval Crucible 341
24. Notes 365
25. Index 437
26. Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture 447