La Josephina de Jean Gerson et la tradition médiévale du poème biblique narratif

Jean Gerson’s Josephina and the Medieval Tradition of Biblical Narrative PoetryThe Josephina, written by Jean Gerson at the beginning of the fifteenth century, is a Virgilian poem of biblical content. It was the first in a genre of which De partu Virginis by Jacopo Sannazzaro would be the most fa...

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Auteur principal: Roccati, Giovanni Matteo
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spelling cairn-RMA_223_0627RMALe Moyen Âge https://shs.cairn.info/revue-le-moyen-age-2016-3-page-627?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rma.223.0627 La Josephina de Jean Gerson et la tradition médiévale du poème biblique narratif Roccati, Giovanni Matteo2017 hagiographyhexameterhumanismPetrarchVirgilfre Le Moyen Âge | CXXII | 3 | 2017-07-07 | p. 627-641 | 0027-2841 RMA_22343 Jean Gerson’s Josephina and the Medieval Tradition of Biblical Narrative PoetryThe Josephina, written by Jean Gerson at the beginning of the fifteenth century, is a Virgilian poem of biblical content. It was the first in a genre of which De partu Virginis by Jacopo Sannazzaro would be the most famous example. To understand Gerson’s motivation and originality, it is necessary to clarify the cultural context in which he wrote. This paper reviews the ancient and medieval traditions that might have inspired him: hagiographic and historical narrative poems of scriptural discussion written in hexameter, devotional literature with subject matter from the Bible or the Apocrypha that grew out of the Devotio moderna. Two works – Petrarch’s Africa and the Dictamen de laudibus beati Joseph by Pierre Poquet – seem to have been particularly significant. This demonstrates that Gerson was both rooted in that tradition and sensitive to the newer cultural demands of the times.Cairn free access
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topic hagiography
hexameter
humanism
Petrarch
Virgil
spellingShingle hagiography
hexameter
humanism
Petrarch
Virgil
Roccati, Giovanni Matteo
La Josephina de Jean Gerson et la tradition médiévale du poème biblique narratif
topic_facet hagiography
hexameter
humanism
Petrarch
Virgil
description Jean Gerson’s Josephina and the Medieval Tradition of Biblical Narrative PoetryThe Josephina, written by Jean Gerson at the beginning of the fifteenth century, is a Virgilian poem of biblical content. It was the first in a genre of which De partu Virginis by Jacopo Sannazzaro would be the most famous example. To understand Gerson’s motivation and originality, it is necessary to clarify the cultural context in which he wrote. This paper reviews the ancient and medieval traditions that might have inspired him: hagiographic and historical narrative poems of scriptural discussion written in hexameter, devotional literature with subject matter from the Bible or the Apocrypha that grew out of the Devotio moderna. Two works – Petrarch’s Africa and the Dictamen de laudibus beati Joseph by Pierre Poquet – seem to have been particularly significant. This demonstrates that Gerson was both rooted in that tradition and sensitive to the newer cultural demands of the times.
author Roccati, Giovanni Matteo
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title La Josephina de Jean Gerson et la tradition médiévale du poème biblique narratif
title_short La Josephina de Jean Gerson et la tradition médiévale du poème biblique narratif
title_full La Josephina de Jean Gerson et la tradition médiévale du poème biblique narratif
title_fullStr La Josephina de Jean Gerson et la tradition médiévale du poème biblique narratif
title_full_unstemmed La Josephina de Jean Gerson et la tradition médiévale du poème biblique narratif
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