Royalist medievalisms in the age of revolution : From Robert de Lézardière to Chateaubriand, 1792-1831

Auteurs

  • Carolina Armenteros

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.883

Mots-clés :

royalism, Robert de Lézardière, Jacques-Maximilien Bins de Saint-Victor, François-Dominique de Reynaud de Montlosier, Chateaubriand

Résumé

This essay examines the histories of the French monarchy composed by French royalists of the period 1787-1831 with a threefold aim: to develop a model of how French royalist medievalisms evolved from Revolution to Restoration; to investigate whether the French Revolution altered perceptions of the Middle Ages; and to elaborate a theory of the relationship between medievalism and politics. The exercise is especially revelatory when studying periods of severe press censorship like the one that occupies us, and political groups inimical – like our monarchists – to the theoretical expression of political ideals.

Biographie de l'auteur

  • Carolina Armenteros

    Carolina Armenteros was educated at Stanford and Cambridge, and is now Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. She is the author of The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs (Cornell, 2011). With Richard Lebrun, she is also the co-editor of Joseph de Maistre and the Legacy of Enlightenment (Voltaire Foundation, 2011), Joseph de Maistre and his European Readers: From Friedrich von Gentz to Isaiah Berlin (Brill, 2011), and The New enfant du siècle: Joseph de Maistre as a Writer (2010). 

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Publiée

29-09-2014

Comment citer

Armenteros, C. (2014) « Royalist medievalisms in the age of revolution : From Robert de Lézardière to Chateaubriand, 1792-1831 », RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 8(1), p. 20–47. doi:10.18352/relief.883.