Goujat et courtois: propos sur les femmes dans le corpus attribué à Philippe Bouton
(2021) Bien Dire et Bien Aprandre — Vol. 2021, n° 36, p. 39-64 (2021)
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- (en) The aim of the present study is two-fold: first, to explore the thematic coherence of the body of works attributed to the knight Ph. Bouton (1419-1515), some still without modern edition or with remaining doubts concerning the attribution; second, to deconstruct the discourse on women by a (former) Burgundian courtier. With his Mirror to the Ladies, he pretends to honour the good women, although by closer looks he does not subvert, and actually rather confirm, the current male supremacy. The Dialogue of a Man and a Woman, which includes a gender inversion, and the Year of the Seven Ladies, in the guise of a mock-calendar, are pieces of virtuosity full of literary ambiguity, ranging from courtly love and service to the ladies to assertive ribaldry, which also occurs in a series of smaller verse pieces, some indulging in mere obscenity. The Prayer to Our Lady focuses obsessively on the materiality of the Holy Virgin’s virginity and, as such, offers a climax to a body of works that testifies to the male supremacy and to its effects on bodies and behaviours.
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Bousmar, E. (2021). Goujat et courtois: propos sur les femmes dans le corpus attribué à Philippe Bouton. Bien Dire et Bien Aprandre, 2021(36), 39-64. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/246058 (Original work published 2021)