Le document autographe, une « non-réalité » pour l'historien ?

Is the autographic document a “non-reality” for the historian? A few thoughts on the autographic trails written at the end of the Middle Ages and the dawn of Modern Times. The impetus for this article came as a result of a striking realization. Even though philologists truly – and justifiably – s...

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spelling cairn-RMA_182_0387RMALe Moyen Âge https://shs.cairn.info/revue-le-moyen-age-2012-2-page-387?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rma.182.0387 Le document autographe, une « non-réalité » pour l'historien ? Docquier, Gilles2012 authenticauthorautographhistoryphilologyfre Le Moyen Âge | CXVIII | 2 | 2012-08-28 | p. 387-410 | 0027-2841 RMA_18244 Is the autographic document a “non-reality” for the historian? A few thoughts on the autographic trails written at the end of the Middle Ages and the dawn of Modern Times. The impetus for this article came as a result of a striking realization. Even though philologists truly – and justifiably – sacralize the autographic source as the irrefutable testimony of an author’s thought, historians place (too) little emphasis on the medieval autographic phenomenon itself. Is the question of a document’s autographic character thus neglected, even discarded, by historians? Perhaps we should admit that this is not a problem at all. Several lines of thought are suggested in this article: How does each individual make use of the vocabulary at his/her disposal? Is the meaning of autograph “authentic” or “original?” What is the specific reality of an autograph? What are the concrete, inherent manifestations of an autograph? What is the status of its author (s)? How involved is the author in the execution of the written document? These are the questions that both the “autographophile” philologist and the “autographovore” historian must attend to since they drink from the same source, as each attempts to find a truth.Cairn free access
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description Is the autographic document a “non-reality” for the historian? A few thoughts on the autographic trails written at the end of the Middle Ages and the dawn of Modern Times. The impetus for this article came as a result of a striking realization. Even though philologists truly – and justifiably – sacralize the autographic source as the irrefutable testimony of an author’s thought, historians place (too) little emphasis on the medieval autographic phenomenon itself. Is the question of a document’s autographic character thus neglected, even discarded, by historians? Perhaps we should admit that this is not a problem at all. Several lines of thought are suggested in this article: How does each individual make use of the vocabulary at his/her disposal? Is the meaning of autograph “authentic” or “original?” What is the specific reality of an autograph? What are the concrete, inherent manifestations of an autograph? What is the status of its author (s)? How involved is the author in the execution of the written document? These are the questions that both the “autographophile” philologist and the “autographovore” historian must attend to since they drink from the same source, as each attempts to find a truth.
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title Le document autographe, une « non-réalité » pour l'historien ?
title_short Le document autographe, une « non-réalité » pour l'historien ?
title_full Le document autographe, une « non-réalité » pour l'historien ?
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