Subject of Violence

<p>This book provides the reader with a new challenging and sophisticated critical analysis of the Song of Roland. --Choice<br /><br />[Haidu's] close reading of the Song of Roland is interesting informative and significant . . . --American Historical Review<br /><br />Probably the most sophisticated book ever written on the Song of Roland. . . . It is at once a work of linguistic analysis of literary theory of literary history and finally of history. --R. Howard Bloch<br /><br />Haidu argues that the 12th-century Song of Roland played an essential role in the creation of the nation-state in that the narrative transforms the independent and violent warriors of the feudal period into the subordinate instruments of the nation-state by enforcing on them the subjection to the rule of monarchy.</p>