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Event Narrative: Death to the Name of the King! Event Narrative: Death to the Name of the King!
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Narrative Event: Death of the Book of Kings Narrative Event: Death of the Book of Kings
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The Epochal Structure of Peruvian History The Epochal Structure of Peruvian History
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The Sun Also Rises in Peru The Sun Also Rises in Peru
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5 The Postcolonial Death of the Book of Kings
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Published:February 2011
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This chapter probes, via the pen of postcolonial Peru's “schoolmaster of history” Sebastián Lorente (1813–1884), the discursive means by which the rule of the Spanish monarchs and of the dynastic arts of history were displaced, under the republican sign of revolution, by the name of the people and the book of Peruvian civilization. In Peru's first college textbook of “contemporary history,” published in Lima in 1876, Lorente noted that it was not the crowd at the Bastille but rather the fiery Bishop de Blois who had delivered history's death sentence to the French king. Speaking before France's National Convention, the republican bishop noted that the “Name of the King” had been upheld by the “Book of Kings.” The time of that book and its king was about to end. For Lorente, de Blois' public sentencing of the Book announced the arrival of a worldwide “Contemporary Age of Revolutions.” Peru was at the forefront of this new age.
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