The Subject of Violence"This book provides the reader with a new, challenging, and sophisticated critical analysis of the Song of Roland." Choice "[Haidu's] close reading of the Song of Roland is interesting, informative, and significant . . . " American Historical Review "Probably the most sophisticated book ever written on the Song of Roland. . . . It is at once a work of linguistic analysis, of literary theory, of literary history, and, finally, of history." R. Howard