Chapter Dalle strutture del racconto al modello culturale del lignaggio nobiliare: la Vita Mathildis di Donizone in contesto

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Riversi, Eugenio cc
Language
Italian
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Abstract
The famous dedication miniature of the Vita Mathildis by Donizo of Canossa and most of the programmatic paratexts of this historiographical work refer to a courtly space as communicative context: the entourage of the Marquise Matilda of Tuscany. However, the genesis of Donizo’s epic-historical poem is embedded in the socio-institutional context of the monastery of Sant’Apollonio of Canossa. The poem’s narrative structures and contents show the intersection of these social milieus. This intersection shapes the relationships of the poem to other text types, its pragmatic functions and also the particular representation of the dynasty of princes whose history the Vita Mathildis tells.
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https://0-library-oapen-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12657/96542
Keywords
Middle Ages; 12th century; Canossa; Matilda of Tuscany; Donizone; Vita Mathildis; Gérard Genette; paratexts; narrative; lineage
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0403-3.04
ISBN
9791221504033, 9791221504033
Publisher
Firenze University Press
Publisher website
https://www.fupress.com/
Publication date and place
Florence, 2024
Series
Reti Medievali E-Book, 47
Classification
General and world history
Pages
24
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/