Bøker i Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society-serien

Arguing for the "social logic of the text,Spiegel provides historians with a way to retrieve the social significance and conceptual claims produced by these medieval or any historical writings.

Considered in its full poetic and philosophical dimensions, the Romance of the Rose thus acquires an altogether new significance in the history of literature: it appears as a work that incessantly explores its own capacity to be other than it is.

Contributors: Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University; Rebecca W.

Throughout, Chartier keeps his focus on historians who have stressed the relations between the products of discourse and social practices.