| Titre | La condicion de l'hystoriographe : enquête sur une figure et un statut dans l'œuvre de George Chastelain | |
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| Auteur | Estelle Doudet | |
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Revue | Le Moyen Age |
| Numéro | tome 112, no 3, 2006 | |
| Page | 545-556 | |
| Résumé anglais |
La condicion de l'hystoriographe: an inquiry into a position and a status in the
work of George Chastelain.
In 1455 the duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, entrusted George Chastelain with
the writing of an official chronicle of his reign. This mission, which the writer carried
out alongside similar tasks, was intended to compete with the Dionysian tradition of
the Grandes Chroniques de France. As he tried to please his client, Chastelain invented
a new position for the historian, namely that of the hystoriographe, which broke away
from French traditions. Choosing this title rather than that of croniqueur, the writer
subtly interpreted the new historiography he was inventing: he claimed for the
historian a non-clerical status, and the right to a carefully worked-out understanding
with the prince; his writing alternated between reported facts and their
interpretation; he introduced oratorical genres into his Chronique. While he was
working on this ambitious project (1455 to 1470), the first indiciaire turned the
medieval status of French chronicler into that of Burgundian rhetorician, a status that
was as problematic as it was original. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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