Fama et les preux : nom et renom à la fin du Moyen Âge - article ; n°24 ; vol.12, pg 35-44

Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet

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Médiévales - Année 1993 - Volume 12 - Numéro 24 - Pages 35-44
Fama and the knights. Name and Fame at the End of the Middle Ages. - This essay examines the new relation created at the end of the Middle Ages by the following three terms : renown, memory and writing. Basing herself on the importance of the lists of names that present simultaneously lists of fame, the author focusses on nine knights in particular, and on nine muses, as well as on the play between these related lists. The author thus shows that literary fame can become a possible substitute for nobility of birth. This is clearly indicated by the literary tombs of writers in French. The author finds evidence for the above statements in the mutation of sensitivity demonstra ted in the change that the allegory of fame undergoes. Fama passes from the figure of a bird (which harks back to the aesthetics of the voice), to the figure of the horse : hence, Pegasus, an image that designates this new insistence advocated by the aesthetics of the imprint, and ultimately of the writing.
10 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Publié par: MEDIEVALES
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1993
• Nombre de lectures: 15
• Langue: Français

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Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet

Fama et les preux : nom et renom à la fin du Moyen Âge

In: Médiévales, N°24, 1993. pp. 35-44.

Abstract

Fama and the knights. Name and Fame at the End of the Middle Ages. - This essay examines the new relation created at the end

of the Middle Ages by the following three terms : renown, memory and writing. Basing herself on the importance of the lists of

names that present simultaneously lists of fame, the author focusses on nine knights in particular, and on nine muses, as well as

on the play between these related lists. The author thus shows that literary fame can become a possible substitute for nobility of

birth. This is clearly indicated by the literary tombs of writers in French. The author finds evidence for the above statements in the

mutation of sensitivity demonstra ted in the change that the allegory of fame undergoes. Fama passes from the figure of a bird

(which harks back to the aesthetics of the voice), to the figure of the horse : hence, Pegasus, an image that designates this new

insistence advocated by the aesthetics of the imprint, and ultimately of the writing.

Citer ce document / Cite this document :

Cerquiglini-Toulet Jacqueline. Fama et les preux : nom et renom à la fin du Moyen Âge. In: Médiévales, N°24, 1993. pp. 35-44.

doi : 10.3406/medi.1993.1268

http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/medi_0751-2708_1993_num_12_24_1268