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.

Numéro

Vol. 8 No 1 (2014): Parler du Moyen Age aujourd'hui: Médiévalismes français et francophones

Rubrique

Articles – dossier thématique

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