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Dalle strutture del racconto al modello culturale del lignaggio nobiliare: la Vita Mathildis di Donizone in contesto

  • Eugenio Riversi

The famous dedication miniature of the Vita Mathildis by Donizo of Canossa and most of the programmatic paratexts of this historiographical work refer to a courtly space as communicative context: the entourage of the Marquise Matilda of Tuscany. However, the genesis of Donizo’s epic-historical poem is embedded in the socio-institutional context of the monastery of Sant’Apollonio of Canossa. The poem’s narrative structures and contents show the intersection of these social milieus. This intersection shapes the relationships of the poem to other text types, its pragmatic functions and also the particular representation of the dynasty of princes whose history the Vita Mathildis tells.

  • Keywords:
  • Middle Ages,
  • 12th century,
  • Canossa,
  • Matilda of Tuscany,
  • Donizone,
  • Vita Mathildis,
  • Gérard Genette,
  • paratexts,
  • narrative,
  • lineage,
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Eugenio Riversi

University of Bonn, Germany - ORCID: 0009-0000-3956-8494

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Chapter Information

Chapter Title

Dalle strutture del racconto al modello culturale del lignaggio nobiliare: la Vita Mathildis di Donizone in contesto

Authors

Eugenio Riversi

Language

Italian

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0403-3.04

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2024

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© 2024 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Bibliographic Information

Book Title

Storiografie italiane del XII secolo

Book Subtitle

Contesti di scrittura, elaborazione e uso in una prospettiva comparata

Editors

Alberto Cotza, Markus Krumm

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

354

Publication Year

2024

Copyright Information

© 2024 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0403-3

ISBN Print

979-12-215-0402-6

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979-12-215-0403-3

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979-12-215-0405-7

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Reti Medievali E-Book

Series ISSN

2704-6362

Series E-ISSN

2704-6079

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