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Article: Faire l'evenement au Moyen Age.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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Faire l'evenement au Moyen Age, ed. Claude Carozzi and Huguette Taviani-Carozzi, Le Temps de l'histoire (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 2007). 362 pp. ISBN 978-2-85399-672-3. 32.00 [euro]. The subject of the present volume has to do not so much with the event itself--the word evenement is a fifteenth-century coinage--as with the ways in which what the French might call a fait divers, a mete incident, becomes an event, an evenement, something of significance. Why do certain faits divers become noteworthy? What are the means by which writers endow the event with significance? How conscious indeed is the process of 'event-making'? It is ...