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Narratives of Death and Emotional Affect in Late Medieval Chronicles
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Marchant, A, Narratives of Death and Emotional Affect in Late Medieval Chronicles, Parergon, 31, (2) pp. 81-98. ISSN 0313-6221 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2014 Alicia Marchant
DOI: doi:10.1353/pgn.2014.0127
Abstract
Despite their ostensibly unemotive tone, medieval chronicle narratives communicate
an intricate range of emotions, particularly fear and hope, associated with death
and the posthumous fate of human beings, both as individuals and in relation to
the broader narrative of Christian salvation. The numerous records of deaths of
individuals narrated in chronicles are intrinsically emotive events, and privileged
loci both for the depiction of emotion and for the manipulation of readers’ emotional
responses to the narrative. The supposedly relentless sequential ordering of chronicles
is often varied on these occasions for emotive effect. Following Roland Barthes’s
suggestive essay ‘Tacitus and the Funerary Baroque’, and taking the example of
the execution of the Archbishop of York, Richard Scrope, in 1405, I argue that the
reiteration of death is itself central to the chronicle texts’ significance.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
| Research Group: | Historical studies |
| Research Field: | British history |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology |
| UTAS Author: | Marchant, A (Dr Alicia Marchant) |
| ID Code: | 96538 |
| Year Published: | 2014 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 3 |
| Deposited By: | School of Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2014-11-10 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-03-13 |
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