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The dissertation examines royal biographies composed during the Hundred Years War—those of Hugh Capet (anonymous, c. 1358), Pierre I of Cyprus (Guillaume de Machaut, 1369–77), Edward, the Black Prince (Herald Chandos, c. 1385), and Charles V (Christine de Pizan, 1405)—and how th…

The post-colonial state, in much of the literature on the state, has been seen as an undifferentiated extension of the European nation-state---with a number of theorists promoting the emulation of the latter's formative experience in the Third World. Alongside, some theorists of…