Two Travelers: Didactic Trajectories in two late medieval Dream Visions

Cette analyse porte sur le rapport entre le déplacement géographique et les leçons morales et politiques qu’on peut tirer des voyages allégoriques dans Le Songe du viel pelerin (1386-1389) de Philippe de Mézières et Le Livre du chemin de lonc estude de Christine de Pizan (1402). Tandis que Christine traverse le monde en touriste et ne nous donne des leçons politiques qu’au moment où elle et son guide arrivent aux cieux, le pèlerin dans le Songe nous offre des leçons à chaque arrêt sur terreThe relationship between geographical displacement and the dispensing of politico-moral lessons is at the center of this analysis Philippe de Mézières’ Songe du viel pelerin (1386-1389) and Christine de Pizan’s Livre du chemin de lonc estude (1402). While Christine in the Chemin travels through the world as a tourist and postpones her political didacticism until she and her guide reach the heavens, the pilgrim in the Songe uses each geographical location for explicit political discussion

Introduction

With her Livre du chemin de lonc estude of 1402-1403 Christine de Pizan created a work of political analysis and advice that participated in a number of popular genres: travel writing (both real and imaginary), allegory, mirrors of princes, and the kind of philosophical meditations and introspection popularized by Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy. One of her principal inspirations was of course Dante who supplied the title for Christine’s complex work. The three essays in this dossier look..

Introduction

With her Livre du chemin de lonc estude of 1402-1403 Christine de Pizan created a work of political analysis and advice that participated in a number of popular genres: travel writing (both real and imaginary), allegory, mirrors of princes, and the kind of philosophical meditations and introspection popularized by Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy. One of her principal inspirations was of course Dante who supplied the title for Christine’s complex work. The three essays in this dossier look..

Introduction

With her Livre du chemin de lonc estude of 1402-1403 Christine de Pizan created a work of political analysis and advice that participated in a number of popular genres: travel writing (both real and imaginary), allegory, mirrors of princes, and the kind of philosophical meditations and introspection popularized by Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy. One of her principal inspirations was of course Dante who supplied the title for Christine’s complex work. The three essays in this dossier look..

Miracles and Social Status in the Middle Ages

«Something was thought to have happened; the rest is interpretation.» With this succinct phrase Benedicta Ward circumscribes the complex problem of miracles in the Middle Ages. Both parts of the phrase emphasize the human agent over the supernatural: «thought» as well as «interpretation» are human actions applied to an inexplicable event, with the latter pointing into the direction of the written word. By the mere fact of being written down, the supernatural event was also interpreted: agents..

Two Travelers: Didactic Trajectories in two late medieval Dream Visions

Cette analyse porte sur le rapport entre le déplacement géographique et les leçons morales et politiques qu’on peut tirer des voyages allégoriques dans Le Songe du viel pelerin (1386-1389) de Philippe de Mézières et Le Livre du chemin de lonc estude de Christine de Pizan (1402). Tandis que Christine traverse le monde en touriste et ne nous donne des leçons politiques qu’au moment où elle et son guide arrivent aux cieux, le pèlerin dans le Songe nous offre des leçons à chaque arrêt sur terreThe relationship between geographical displacement and the dispensing of politico-moral lessons is at the center of this analysis Philippe de Mézières’ Songe du viel pelerin (1386-1389) and Christine de Pizan’s Livre du chemin de lonc estude (1402). While Christine in the Chemin travels through the world as a tourist and postpones her political didacticism until she and her guide reach the heavens, the pilgrim in the Songe uses each geographical location for explicit political discussion