The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France

by Andrea Frisch

In an examination of eyewitness travel writing in thirteenth- through sixteenth-century France, Andrea Frisch studies the figure of the witness at a historical juncture and in a cultural context in which that figure is generally thought to have begun to assume a recognizably modern form and function. Whereas most accounts of early modern travel literature tend to read modern presuppositions about witnessing and testimony back into the material, Frisch...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807892831
• ISBN13: 9780807892831
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"