| Titre | Avatars d'un griffonnage à succès : L'Epitaphe du duc Philippe de Bourgogne de Jean Molinet | |
|---|---|---|
| Auteur | Adrian Armstrong | |
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Revue | Le Moyen Age |
| Numéro | tome 113, no 1, 2007 | |
| Page | 25-44 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Misadventures of a successfull griffonnage : Jean Molinet's Epitaphe du
duc Philippe de Bourgogne.
The Epitaphe du duc Philippe de Bourgogne, a short poem commemorating Philip
the Good of Burgundy, is the most widely transmitted work of Jean Molinet, the
offi cial Burgundian court poet and chronicler between 1475 and 1507. Analysis of
the Epitaphe's reception, on the basis of manuscript and printed witnesses, indicates
not only how Molinet's contemporaries read the poem, but also how its versifi cation
produces particular effects. Most manuscript witnesses are devoted primarily to
recent history, especially Burgundian history, or produced in a Burgundian milieu;
in many cases, the Epitaphe has been copied into an already complete volume. These
contexts highlight the poem's documentary and propagandistic value. However, the
Epitaphe's formal features also prove signifi cant: variant layouts indicate that its use
of alexandrines, relatively unusual for the period, confuses several scribes. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
