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100 1 $aScott, Walter,$d1771-1832.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095541
245 10 $aTales of a grandfather :$bthe history of France (second series) /$cWalter Scott ; edited by William Baker and J.H. Alexander.
260 $aDeKalb :$bNorthern Illinois University Press,$c1996.
300 $axxxiii, 251 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aTwo volumes in one.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231]-237) and indexes.
520 $aAn example of pre-professional history, the Tales of a Grandfather chronicles the French royalty's dynastic concerns and principal military-political engagements with foreign powers from 1412 to 1512. Scott's narrative opens with Henry V's preparations for war with France and an account of the persisting rivalry between the houses of Orleans and of Burgundy.
520 8 $aOf particular interest is Scott's description of the murder of John the Fearless at Montereau in 1419 and his tracing of that event's disastrous effects through the fifteenth century.
520 8 $aScott drew on standard sources, but the interpretation of the material and the historical vision are his own. Modern readers will be especially engaged by his interpretation of the character of Joan of Arc. Readers will also be interested to compare Scott's treatment of history and its leading figures with his novels set in the same period and country, namely, Quentin Durward and Anne of Geierstein.
651 0 $aFrance$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051256
651 0 $aFrance$xKings and rulers.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051443
700 1 $aBaker, William,$d1944-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50015974
700 1 $aAlexander, J. H.$q(John H.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82158512
852 00 $bglx$hDC61$i.S43 1996