| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Catherine Emerson. Olivier de La Marche and the Rhetoric of Fifteenth-Century Historiography. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell. 2004. Pp. viii, 247. $75.00.

The Mémoires of Olivier de la Marche, whose standard edition was published during the 1880s by the Société de l'Histoire de France, have long been viewed simply as a "resource for historians" (p. 32). In this valuable corrective, Catherine Emerson shows how the narrative can be read as literature. She avoids any pointed criticism of historians who have exploited the Mémoires as a source without a sufficient appreciation of the text as text. However, it is clear from the results of this meticulous study of "why La Marche wrote history in the way that he did" (p. 32) that historical reconstructions that have relied on naïve readings of La Marche will have to be rethought. Moreover, the conclusions of previous studies of La Marche, not based on the manuscript evidence for his Mémoires (surveyed pp. 16–20), are now thrown into question.

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