The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography (Parallax: Revisions of Culture and Society),Used

The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography (Parallax: Revisions of Culture and Society),Used

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"Spiegel, in elegant and thoughtful fashion, and with a deep understanding of the period, provides us with a skillful analysis of the sources, their interconnections, and the motives of their authors, which makes this a very useful and worthwhile book." Virginia Quarterly ReviewPostmodernism has challenged historians to look at historical texts in a new way and to be skeptical of the claim that one can confidently retrieve "fact" from historical writings. In The Past as Text, historian Gabrielle M. Spiegel sets out to read medieval histories and chronicles in light of the criticaltheoretical problems raised by postmodernism. At the same time she urges a method of analysis that enables the reader to recognize these texts simultaneously as artifice and as works deeply embedded in a historically determinate, knowable social world. Beginning with a theoretical basis for the study of medieval historiography, Spiegel demonstrates her theory in practice, offering readings of medieval histories and chronicles as literary, social, and political constructions. The study insightfully concludes that historians should be equally aware of the discursive nature, literary modes, and ideological investments of such texts and the social circumstances to which they were applied and by which they were generated. Arguing for the "social logic of the text," Spiegel provides historians with a way to retrieve the social significance and conceptual claims produced by these medieval or any historical writings." The Past as Text is successful in its entirety, as parts and as a whole. It is lucid, acute, deeply humane in the author's ongoing project of understanding the medieval past and the historymaking present. It is a readerfriendly book in the very best sense. It is good theory and good history: postmodernism without apocalyptic posing, exhilarating and humane."Nancy F. Partner, McGill University

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