Avatars d'un griffonnage à succès : L'Epitaphe du duc Philippe de Bourgogne de Jean Molinet

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 chron...

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Autore principale: Armstrong, Adrian
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Français
Pubblicazione: 2007
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Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto: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.