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Article: Ecriture et pouvoir a l'aube des temps modernes.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2004
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Ecriture et pouvoir a l'aube des temps modernes. By JOEL BLANCHARD and JEAN-CLAUDE MUHLETHALER. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2002. iv+230+vi pp. 19.50 [euro]. ISBN 2-13-052398-6.
The ambition and scope of this book can be judged by the chronology which it presents in an appendix, stretching from 1261 to 1521, and it is surely no coincidence that this period corresponds to that examined in Johan Huizinga's Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (Haarlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink, 1919), whose title is echoed in Joel Blanchard and Jean-Claude Muhlethaler's work. In contrast with Huizinga's overtly polemical work, this examination of medieval political writing lets its ...