Moraliser les âges de la vie : l’exemple de l’Ovide moralisé et de ses antécédents latins
The division of human life into three, four, or seven ages remains the hallmark of scholarly discourse, and is linked to an analogical way of thinking (seven ages corresponding to the seven days of Creation, four ages to the four humours, etc.). The trend is toward bipartition, in other words, a sim...
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| Crynodeb: | The division of human life into three, four, or seven ages remains the hallmark of scholarly discourse, and is linked to an analogical way of thinking (seven ages corresponding to the seven days of Creation, four ages to the four humours, etc.). The trend is toward bipartition, in other words, a simple opposition between youth and old age, as though the Middle Ages struggled to identify and conceptualize a median age—adulthood. This binary opposition is evident, for example, in the Latin and French Ovide moralisé. They allegorize the Ovidian myths that depict youth and old age, or the processes of rejuvenation and senescence (such as those of Aeson, Iolaus, Hippolytus, and so on) from a dual perspective, but with a certain axiological flexibility that sometimes values old age as the age of wisdom, and at other times, youth as the age of novelty and brightness. |
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