Enjeux et valeurs des processus et des productions autographes des textes littéraires en moyen français : l'exemple des manuscrits et des manufactures autographes de Christine de Pizan (1399-1418)
(2011)
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- Authors
- Supervisors
- Van Hemelryck, Tania
- Abstract
- (en) The problematic of this doctoral dissertation is the study of stakes and values of autograph processes and productions of literary texts in Middle French, from both the perspective of medieval readers and modern scholars. I have studied production’s operations (process), from the writing to the proof-reading, and the results of these processes (production), from the manuscript of the first draft to the corrections of the manuscript of publication. Of these autograph practices and documents, I identified the stakes, that is to say, what contributes to the autography of a document and what comes into play in the autograph process, but also values, that is to say, the qualities, functions and status of autograph processes and productions. These stakes and these values have both been considered from the point of view of the practices and imaginary, that is to say both in terms of modern knowledge of theses processes and medieval representations of them. The corpus studied in this thesis was limited to Parisian authors of the reign of Charles VI (1368-1422) and, in particular as regards the case study of the manuscripts themselves, the manuscripts of Christine de Pizan (50 original manuscripts, including 24 autographs). The doctoral dissertation was divided into three parts. In the Cadres (50 p.), I give methodological, terminological and typological tags for future linguistic and literary studies on the medieval autograph manuscripts. The terminology I developed structures Chapters I and II. In Chapter I (p. 186), I put in perspective the explicit testimony (textual and material) of medievals themselves on their practices and their autographs. For the first time, has been offered a coherent overview of the documents and autographs practices in Middle French. I was able to link the construction of an author’s figure during the late Middle Ages with the involvement of the author in the manuscripts of his writings. In Chapter II (424 p.), I highlighted the implicit testimony on the autography we can induce from the archaeological and philological study of the manuscripts themselves. In this context, I was led to develop my own archaeological and philological methodology to address these specific kind of manuscripts. This chapter includes, in addition, 240 p. of appendices. With this research, I demonstrated that : these manuscripts have specific stakes and values ; their contributions to studies in languages and humanities are fundamental ; they deserve special philological treatment. Autograph manuscripts in Middle French are not comparable to medieval manuscripts copied without an author’s control or to autograph manuscripts of other periods and other linguistic areas.
- Affiliations
UCLouvain LALE - Langues et lettres
Citations
Delsaux, O. (2011). Enjeux et valeurs des processus et des productions autographes des textes littéraires en moyen français : l’exemple des manuscrits et des manufactures autographes de Christine de Pizan (1399-1418). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/90825