Ebook: Du personnage au masque : le jongleur dans la littérature narrative des XIIe et XIIIe siècles
Author: Menegaldo Silvère
- Genre: Literature
- Tags: Jongleurs -- Dans la littérature -- Thèses et écrits académiques, Ménestrels -- Dans la littérature -- Thèses et écrits académiques, Littérature française -- Avant 1500 -- Thèmes motifs -- Thèses et écrits académiques, Littérature française -- Avant 1500 -- Personnages -- Thèses et écrits académiques
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Université de Paris IV Sorbonne
- City: Paris
- Language: French
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Unlike the previous studies devoted to the minstrel, this work's purpose is to deal with the figure of the minstrel exclusively from a literary point of view, that of the character, how it is represented, and what role it plays in the story. Working from a wide range of texts, mostly in old french, but also in old occitan, and notably including chansons de geste (particularly Daurel et Beton, whose main protagonist is a minstrel), romances, fabliaux and miracles, I more particularly focused on studying the following topics : the various representations of the minstrel and their links with the genres in which they appear ; the minstrel's functions in the story, dealing with both his relationship with other similar characters, and more generally with the knight and the nobility ; the light in which he is shown, positive (in most cases), or negative ; and finally his role as a mask, either of another character (a character disguised as a minstrel), or possibly of the author himself.