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Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180
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October 1, 2008
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ROBERT M. STEIN, Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 294 pp. isbn: 978-0-268-04120-5. $30.
Robert M. Stein's Reality Fictions begins with what has become by now a critical commonplace of twelfth century literary history: the observation that romance and secular history emerge simultaneously in the French speaking courts of the Norman and Capetian ruling families and that the historical fortunes of these two narrative genres that seem, to us, contradictory are inextricably entwined in ways that confound what, again for us, are foundational categories-the distinction between fantasy and reality. Hence ...
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