Christine de Pizan et la répétition de l’histoire
In the first part of her Livre de l’Advision Cristine, Christine de Pizan uses the insertion of exempla so as to work out a prophetic discourse whose power of persuasion derives from a system of explicit and implicit analogies. Following the narratives, the exegesis tempts one to recognize in the ev...
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Cahiers de recherches médiévales
2011
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | In the first part of her Livre de l’Advision Cristine, Christine de Pizan uses the insertion of exempla so as to work out a prophetic discourse whose power of persuasion derives from a system of explicit and implicit analogies. Following the narratives, the exegesis tempts one to recognize in the events borrowed from the biblical texts the reflected image of the events lived by the Kingdom of France and the foreboding of its tragic fate. It links in a more complex pattern the Hebrew Kings to the French Princes, Libera’s allegoric figure to the biblical prophets, and especially Christine herself to the allegory which bestows the writer the role of a prophetess. But the strength of the political discourse owns as much to this mirror effect as to the author’s literary accomplishments which confer to the first book of the Advision the structure of the last evoked exemplum1. |
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