Richard of Devizes's Cronicon , Menippean Satire, and the Jews of Winchester

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12358366
AutoresHeather Blurton (0000-0001-7100-2159, University of California, Santa Barbara, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen22
Número4
Páginas265-284
Fecha de publicación2010-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaExemplaria (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1041-2573 • E-ISSN: 1753-3074
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1179/104125710x12730486676144
OpenAlexW2079264350
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas15

This article reconsiders the critical orthodoxy concerning the genre of Richard of Devizes's Cronicon Richardi Divisensis de Tempore Regis Richardi Primi, suggesting that in this chronicle Richard of Devizes engages with the tropes of Menippean satire. Drawing in particular on Bakhtin's analysis of Menippean satire, it further suggests that this new understanding of the genre of the Cronicon has important implications for understanding Richard of Devizes's historiography in general, but more specifically for understanding his account of the accusation in 1192 of ritual murder against the Jews of Winchester, for which he is the sole witness

Art · False accusation · Historiography · Linguistics · Literature · Orthodoxy · Theology · Witness · Byzantine Studies and History · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy