Cordis Digitus: l'amour, la philologie, le Donnei des amants et son manuscrit

Diplôme Thèse Cordis Digitus: l'amour, la philologie, le Donnei des amants et son manuscrit fre 2016-01-29 author Heneveld Amy 586931 director Foehr-Janssens Yasmina 24117 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:81101 urn:nbn:ch:unige-811015 L. 843 This dissertation focuses on the relationship between the teaching of writing and the pedagogy of love in a 13th-century Anglo-Norman manuscript, the Bodmer 82. Starting from a critique of Gaston Paris' 1896 edition of the Donnei, a late 12th or early 13th-century lover's dialogue at the center of the Bodmer 82, I examine recent theoretical permutations of French medieval studies before analysing the medieval philological tradition. I then use this hermeneutical model, which relied on representations of female agency and saw love as an essential, creative force, to analyse the Donnei as a pedagogical treatise that taught simultaneously how to love and how to write. The lover's debate and the collection as a whole exemplify a typically medieval model of textual unity based on diversity, which teaches ethics through pleasure and thus confirms the role that love played in medieval education. I argue that the entire manuscript can be read as a didactic compilation on love most likely intended for a female audience, since at one time it belonged to Wilton Abbey, the wealthiest of medieval English nunneries where generations of noble women learned to read and write. Dewey 440/840 80 Département des langues et des littératures françaises et latines médiévales 37 false fc27cf9b-ed0e-4dc2-815b-a18747b3b01e Thesis Public ThèseAmyHeneveld2015.pdf 10206142 application/pdf Restricted 2018-02-24 8b892164b4a46cc54f70b940047a1a121bc5d24c102ea8520237c10f83ca68f5 openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département des langues et des littératures françaises et latines médiévales

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