Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Medievalist Survivals in Modern Catalan Literature

Medievalist Survivals in Modern Catalan Literature MEDIEVALIST SURVIVALS/97 tanized Catalan) for the writing of verse in the fifteenth century that Catalan poetry gained its own identity. With Romanticism came a number of historians who, in the words of Jaume Vicens Vives, did not escape their time’s “defecte d’óptica” or defective vision (108). An idealized, romantic view of history by such writers as Víctor Balaguer renewed the Catalan interest in medieval literature and history, which had shown only sporadic signs of life previously.3 In the romantic historians’ view, medieval Catalonia embodied a number of virtues, which not surprisingly were shared by other nations’ rosy views of their past. Prime among them was the notion of a fierce, independent, authority-challenging spirit—indeed a defiance toward royalty. Catalonia’s only medieval epics, if any existed at all, were diluted into the Chronicles of Jaume I, Bernat Desclot, Ramon Muntaner, and Pere el Cerimoniós; thus, Romantic historians looked to historiography for a nation-affirming past for modern Catalonia. Vicens, writing in the 1950s, was critical of such energetically misguided readings of history, but he still saw the crafting of compromises between the monarchy, on the one hand, and the nobility, Church, and an emerging bourgeoisie, on the other, as definitive of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

Medievalist Survivals in Modern Catalan Literature

SOBRER, JOSEP MIQUEL
Comparative Literature , Volume 60 (1) – Jan 1, 2008
Download PDF
11 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/duke-university-press/medievalist-survivals-in-modern-catalan-literature-rD5Dcz0JcU
Publisher
Duke University Press
Copyright
Copyright 2008 by University of Oregon
ISSN
0010-4124
eISSN
1945-8517
DOI
10.1215/-60-1-96
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

MEDIEVALIST SURVIVALS/97 tanized Catalan) for the writing of verse in the fifteenth century that Catalan poetry gained its own identity. With Romanticism came a number of historians who, in the words of Jaume Vicens Vives, did not escape their time’s “defecte d’óptica” or defective vision (108). An idealized, romantic view of history by such writers as Víctor Balaguer renewed the Catalan interest in medieval literature and history, which had shown only sporadic signs of life previously.3 In the romantic historians’ view, medieval Catalonia embodied a number of virtues, which not surprisingly were shared by other nations’ rosy views of their past. Prime among them was the notion of a fierce, independent, authority-challenging spirit—indeed a defiance toward royalty. Catalonia’s only medieval epics, if any existed at all, were diluted into the Chronicles of Jaume I, Bernat Desclot, Ramon Muntaner, and Pere el Cerimoniós; thus, Romantic historians looked to historiography for a nation-affirming past for modern Catalonia. Vicens, writing in the 1950s, was critical of such energetically misguided readings of history, but he still saw the crafting of compromises between the monarchy, on the one hand, and the nobility, Church, and an emerging bourgeoisie, on the other, as definitive of

Journal

Comparative Literature – Duke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 2008

There are no references for this article.