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Introduction -- Part 1: Historical writings and historical authors -- Gesta Comitum Barchinonensium as genealogy -- King James I and his chivalric autobiography -- Bernat Desclot: the historian and his chronicle -- Ramon Muntaner: ruler, knight, and...
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Introduction -- Part 1: Historical writings and historical authors -- Gesta Comitum Barchinonensium as genealogy -- King James I and his chivalric autobiography -- Bernat Desclot: the historian and his chronicle -- Ramon Muntaner: ruler, knight, and chronicler -- King Peter's Llibre and royal self-representation -- Part II: Theories and interpretations -- The shift in historical genres -- The dawn of Catalan autobiography as chronicle -- The authorial logic of the historical text -- Catalan chroniclers and poetic license: history, epic, fiction -- The emergence of political realism
Introduction -- Part 1: Historical writings and historical authors -- Gesta Comitum Barchinonensium as genealogy -- King James I and his chivalric autobiography -- Bernat Desclot: the historian and his chronicle -- Ramon Muntaner: ruler, knight, and chronicler -- King Peter's Llibre and royal self-representation -- Part II: Theories and interpretations -- The shift in historical genres -- The dawn of Catalan autobiography as chronicle -- The authorial logic of the historical text -- Catalan chroniclers and poetic license: history, epic, fiction -- The emergence of political realism.
