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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Boulton, Maureen Barry McCann (1948-....)
Titre(s) : Sacred fictions of medieval France [Texte imprimé] : narrative theology in the lives of Christ and the virgin, 1150-1500 / Maureen Barry McCann Boulton
Publication : Woodbridge : D.S. Brewer, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-380 p.) ; 25 cm
Collection : Gallica, ISSN 1749-091x ; volume 38
Lien à la collection : Gallica
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-363) and index. - Bibliogr. p. 329-363. - Index
"The story of the life of Christ and his mother was told in many texts in various
French vernaculars (Anglo-Norman and Old Occitan, as well as Old and Middle French)
between the middle of the twelfth century and the end of the fifteenth; there are
more than a hundred such texts, extant in at least 400 manuscripts. These "sacred
fictions" are the subject of this book. Given that the principal events in the lives
of Mary and Jesus were well known to potential audiences, the choice of genre was
the most important decision facing a medieval author. The writers of these works made
deliberate formal choices which their audiences recognized and which provided one
frame of reference for reading them. Professor Boulton here classifies the different
lives of Mary and Jesus according to the various narrative forms they take: epic,
romance, allegory, chronicle, and meditative text. In addition, because a text's embodiment
in its codex reflects how it was encountered by medieval readers, each chapter considers
the transmission of the texts, as well as their often radical alteration in different
manuscripts when they survive in multiple copies."--Back cover
Sujet(s) : Jésus-Christ -- Dans la littérature
Marie (sainte ; personnage du Nouveau Testament) -- Dans la littérature
Littérature française -- Avant 1500
Théologie narrative
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1843844141. - ISBN 9781843844143
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb443814685
Notice n° :
FRBNF44381468
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