The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State.

Abstract

Acknowledgments Introduction Violence: Modern Perspectives on the Medieval and the Modern 1. The Semiotization of Death: Open Text or Closed? 2. THe Gaze of the Other The Sociological Presentation of the Self The Intertextuality of the Peerage 3. Excursus I: Aesthetics, Economics, Politics Beauty, Value, Violence The Noble, the Knight, the Peasant The Ideology of Knighthood 4. The Subsystem of the Professional Warrior: Courage, Contradiction, Irascibility Ideological Value (I): The Constitution and Destitution of Subjects Ideological Value (II): From Subject to Traitor? Structure of Structures 5. The DestinatorOs Multiple Roles: Syncretism or Contradiction? The Culpable Guarantor From Individual to Role 6. Excursus II: The Play of Absence and Presence in Medieval Kingship Carles li reis,... ...nostre emperere magnes Reis and Emperere Textualized 7. Funerary Rituals The Unreintegrated Mourner The Death of Aude, or the Refusal of Exchange The Transformative Performance 8. Textual Coherence and the Dialectics of Ideology Textual Coherence: The Narrative Narrative Programs Actants 9. GanelonOs Trial, or the MonarchOs Revolution The Actorial Level: Inexorable Structure The Actantial Distribution 10. Conclusion The Chanson Ends with the Indeterminacy of Non-Exclusive Disjunction The Chanson Produces Limited and Specifiable Significations The Subject of Violence Nomadic Violence, Sedentary Economics, and the Birth of the State Notes Bibliography General Index Index of Proper Nouns Index of Foreign Terms and Phrases