L’Orient revisité : décapitations et rhétorique de la violence dans les enluminures et dans Richard Coer de Lyon au xve siècle
Beheading is a diffuse symbolic topos in medieval literature and iconography which presents to the collective sight the head of the defeated enemy. In three 15th c. illuminated manuscripts and in the 15th English romance Richard Coer de Lyon, beheadings in the Holy Land are illustrated by Saladin’s...
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| Language: | English |
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Université du Sud Toulon-Var
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Babel: Littératures Plurielles |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/babel/11646 |
| Summary: | Beheading is a diffuse symbolic topos in medieval literature and iconography which presents to the collective sight the head of the defeated enemy. In three 15th c. illuminated manuscripts and in the 15th English romance Richard Coer de Lyon, beheadings in the Holy Land are illustrated by Saladin’s beheading of Renaud de Châtillon, who is seen as both hero and martyr. But with Richard’s barbaric cannibalism, the arch-diabolical image of the Saracen is reversed, and serves the diffusion of an anti-Frankish, English nationalistic propaganda targeted against the French. |
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| ISSN: | 1277-7897 2263-4746 |