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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Imaging dreams in the Middle Ages : the Roman de la Rose and artistic vision, c.1275-1540

Owen, Jennifer Elizabeth Lyle January 2016 (has links)
This thesis constitutes an investigation into the depiction of dreams in imagery accompanying the late-medieval manuscripts and printed editions of the Roman de la Rose. It reflects on the changing approaches to depicting dreams during the 250 years of the Rose’s popularity in central France, as well as discussing the historical theoretical understanding of the concept of dreams, and its expression in a specific Rose context. It examines the representation of dreams in a number of Rose manuscripts – in particular their prominent dreamer incipits – alongside other relevant miniatures of both a secular and religious nature. Furthermore, the alteration of trends for depicting the dream space in Rose manuscripts during the fifteenth century are also considered, as well as a case-study of the luxurious Valencia manuscript, which contains a variety of dream subjects. This is followed by a discussion of the methodology of manuscript production in the medieval period, gleaned from a number of extant Roses. This chapter underscores the important role played by artistic originality and intention in the processes of manuscript making – addressing the ‘artistic vision’ indicated in the title of this thesis. An outline of the printed editions of the Rose and their resurrection of earlier tropes of dream depiction is also included. Finally, the appendix contains a Catalogue of the Rose manuscripts studied in preparation for and throughout the production of the thesis.
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Symbolisme et senefiance dans le Roman de la Rose de G. de Lorris

Dicaire, Francine. January 1998 (has links)
In his Roman de la Rose, Guillaume de Lorris promises several times the revelation of the significance of his work, the senefiance. If the use of allegory by Guillaume does not elucidate the mystery of this senefiance, symbolic interpretation opens a gate in accordance with the time and the text. / The dream as a framework signals a symbolic content and provides unity. In an orchard of geometrical proportions, truly edenic garden, the fountain of Narcisus, transformed in a fountain of Love by Cupido, is a mirror perilous, where the Rose will appear. It will confront the dreamer, the future Lover who happens to be the poet himself, to the myth of self-knowledge, sparing him, however, the faith of Narcisus. After a kiss stolen from the Rose too soon by the Lover, Jealousy will command the construction of a castle and a tower to protect the Rose. All these adventures, in this magical setting, will confirm a highly symbolic content and will contribute in enhancing and throwing light on the work of Guillaume de Lorris, although never exhausting its senefiance. / The symbolism and the senefiance we deduce from it, will help in understanding the didactic reach of this work, its universal character and in refuting the incompletion of the poem while accepting the incompletion of a quest always renewed.
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Symbolisme et senefiance dans le Roman de la Rose de G. de Lorris

Dicaire, Francine. January 1998 (has links)
No description available.
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Woven words : clothwork and the representation of feminine expression and identity in old French romance

Boharski, Morgan Elizabeth January 2018 (has links)
This thesis focuses on the ways in which cloth and clothwork are represented in Old French romance in order to highlight how they relate to feminine voice, expression, and identity. By focusing mainly on medieval romance from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the field of research is narrowed to a period in which vernacular literature was redefining literacy. On the basis that literacy is not confined to the ability to read and write in Latin, clothwork is presented as a medium of literate expression, that being a form of readable knowledge or communication not codified in written word or language, and in the works of such authors as Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, and Jean Renart, amongst others, the presentation of clothwork fits this classification. My research focuses on gendered performance and gendered objects highlighting the divide between masculinity and femininity in materiality. Beginning with a contextualised and historical understanding of feminine clothwork, authority, and gendered biases in the Middle Ages in France, the Virgin Mary's associations with clothwork leads into an exploration of how the identities of women are tied to the cloth that they work or possess. From this basis, feminine voice in clothwork comes to the forefront of discussion as seemingly inaudible women make themselves heard through the use of needles and thread, telling their stories in cloth and tapestry. Throughout this study, an exploration of mother-daughter relationships is highly significant to the comprehension of feminine education and tradition in clothwork. The chansons de toile included in Le Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole by Jean Renart underline the dichotomy and tension between oral and written culture, tying feminine voice to feminine clothwork and exploring the representation of this in the written text. Finally, Christine de Pizan's intimation of the importance of feminine tasks and brilliance concludes this study in order to better understand the ways in which the literature of the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance departs from the medieval presentation of clothwork as a typically feminine activity underlying and encapsulating a woman's identity and expressive power.
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Ab Umbra Ad Umbram: Shadows in Late Medieval Secular Manuscripts

DeLuca, Dominique 24 January 2020 (has links)
No description available.
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The Roman de la Rose : nature, sex, and language in thirteenth-century poetry and philosophy

Morton, Jonathan Simon January 2014 (has links)
Jean de Meun's continuation of the Roman de la rose (The Romance of the Rose), written in Paris in the 1270s, presents a vast amount of philosophy and natural science in vernacular poetry, while engaging thoroughly with contemporary, local philosophical and institutional debates. Taking this into consideration, this study investigates how the Rose depends for its meaning on questions around human nature, natural philosophy, and the philosophy of language that were being discussed and debated in the University of Paris at the time of its composition. It suggests a reading of the poem as a work of philosophy that uses Aristotelian ideas of nature and what is natural to present a moral framework – at times explicitly, at times implicitly – within which to assess and critique human behaviour. The concepts of the unnatural and the artificial are used to discuss sin and its effects on sexuality – a key concern of the Rose – and on language. The Rose is shown to present itself as artificial and compromised, yet nevertheless capable of leading imperfect and compromised humans to moral behaviour and towards knowledge which can only ever be imperfect. It is read as a presenting a rhetorical kind of philosophy that is sui generis and that appeals to human desire as well as to the intellect. The specific issue of usury and its relation to avarice is examined, studying contemporary theological and philosophical treatments of the question, in order to illustrate similarities and contrasts in the Rose's theoretical methodology to more orthodox modes of philosophical enquiry. Finally, the poem's valorisation of pleasure and of the perversity inherent in artificial productions is explored to show how poetry, though deviating from the strictures of dialectical language, is nevertheless productive and generative.
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Por otra lectura de Charles d'Orléans: el valor de la imagen

García Bascuñana, Juan Francisco 15 May 1987 (has links)
La presente tesis doctoral tiene como objetivo prioritario poner de relieve la importancia de la imagen en la obra de Charles d'Orléans, más allá del carácter alegórico de esta poesía, como expresión definitiva que es de toda una corriente literaria que partiendo, sobre todo, del siglo XIII, con "Le Roman de la Rose", abarca los siglos XIV y XV.De ahí que en la introducción a nuestro estudio, aparte de situar la obra del duque de Orléans en el contexto literario que le es propio, junto y no contra Villon, a pesar de las diferencias que les separan, no sólo por su propia condición, sino también por su concepción poética que surge de fuentes de inspiración, si no opuestas, al menos distintas, hayamos intentado delimitar un concepto eminentemente ambiguo como el de imagen. Dilucidar esas imágenes creativas, convertidas en supremo valor poético, que impregnan toda la obra del príncipe, se iba a convertir en punto de partida ineludible de nuestro itinerario; ya que desde el primer instante, se nos había hecho evidente que la imagen -y el consiguiente imaginario que de ella se desprende- constituía en Charles d'Orléans el núcleo esencial de sus poemas. Pero se trataba de evidenciarlo, y para ello era indispensable establecer bases teóricas e instrumentales que sirvieran de trampolín a lo que iba a constituir al mismo tiempo nuestra estrategia y nuestro objetivo.Dicha aproximación a la noción de imagen la hemos llevado a cabo desde una perspectiva moderna -ausente de la retórica, ya que el término imagen en la Edad Media estaba casi exclusivamente relacionado con la representación plástica- y, en particular, a partir de la visión que se desprende de los trabajos de Gastan Bachelard, con su descripción de la ilusión poética centrada en los cuatro elementos y en sus propiedades estáticas o dinámicas, plurales o unitarias, íntimas o sublimes, etc. Y todo ello sin olvidar, en ningún momento, que nos encontrábamos ante la obra de un poeta del siglo XV, con todo lo que ello comporta. De todos modos, el ejemplo de Alice Planche (1), aproximando la obra de Charles d'Orléans a la de poetas corno Baudelaire, Verlaine y, sobre todo, Mallarmé, no podía dejar de alentarnos.Por otra parte, nos parecía de todo punto imposible cualquier aproximación al concepto de imagen sin tener en cuenta la importancia capital del fenómeno alegórico en la Edad Media. Sin partir del supuesto de que el pensamiento alegórico es la savia que nutre toda la estética medieval -religiosa y profana-, el estudio de la imagen literaria queda falseado desde su inicio y condenado al fracaso; sobre todo a partir del siglo XIII, como ya hemos apuntado, y de manera especial con su «explosión» definitiva en el siglo XV, ya que la construcción alegórica caracteriza el período final de la Edad Media.Lo que resulta patente en nuestro trabajo es que era necesario conciliar los aspectos de fidelidad a la tradición cortés que se desprenden de la poesía del duque de Orléans y lo que en ella aparece de «nuevo», tratando de ver esa obra como una culminación, más que como una decadencia. En ese sentido los estudios de Daniel Poirion y especialmente su obra capital "Le Poéte et le Prince. L'Évolution du lyrisme courtois de Guillaume de Machaut a Charles d'Orléans" (2) han sido punto de referencia continua, y es porque se pretendía situar la obra del príncipe en toda su complejidad por lo que antes de pasar a estudiar lo que constituye la parte esencial de nuestra tesis, nos pareció conveniente introducir una primera parte en la que se estudian dos aspectos de la poesía del príncipe fuertemente arraigados en la tradición retórica medieval: el amor, enfocado desde una perspectiva cortés, y el exordio estacional. Ya que no hay que olvidar que es en realidad porque Charles d'Orléans ha sabido ser el último poeta cortés, es decir la culminación armoniosa de un proceso poético que cubre la mayor parte de la creación lírica medieval, por lo que su poesía llevaba en sí misma un anuncio de modernidad.Modernidad que queda subrayada en la segunda parte de la tesis, en la que se ha tratado de captar las ricas variaciones de la poesía de Charles d'Orléans, a través de las imágenes que conforman un universo alegórico único hasta acabar desbordándolo, erigiéndose en entidades con peso específico propio. Imágenes agrupadas en torno a tres nociones elementales: el bosque, el agua y la tierra, que, en realidad, se resuelven en dos: imágenes de la materia en movimiento y de la materia en reposo. En cuanto al hecho de distinguir entre el bosque y la tierra, se basa en razones que; más allá de la contradicción que puede suponer, proceden del propio itinerario creador del poeta.El bosque se presenta en Charles d'Orléans como prefiguración del refugio soñado, signo de soledad y de rechazo; imagen ambivalente, generadora de angustia y serenidad, de opresión y simpatía, que separa de los hombres y de los lugares en los que habitan. El bosque -imagen alegórica- aparece en repetidas ocasiones, tanto en las «ballades» como en los «rondeaux»: diferentes bosques («Fôret d'Ennuyeuse Tristesse» ,«Fôrét de Longue Attente», etc.), que encierran con frecuencia toda la significación propia del bosque medieval y que comportan, a veces, un alegorismo místico muy preciso. El bosque, de todos modos, no es un refugio de intimidad, de seguridad. Cuando el refugio más que acoger aleja y se convierte en lugar de huida, nos encontramos con la imagen del bosque por antonomasia, símbolo de lo asocial. De hecho la imagen alegórica del bosque va asociada frecuentemente en Charles d'Orléans al tema del viaje. Tema que relaciona los dos elementos esenciales de todo viaje medieval: el bosque, con toda su carga simbólica y realista al mismo tiempo, y el agua, con las enormes posibilidades que dicha imagen comporta. En los inmensos espacios del bosque medieval no existe más que lo desconocido; pero más allá del bosque existen las orillas y los límites seguros de las tierras habitadas. Para llegar hasta allí, cuando se viene del otro lado, no hay más alternativa que el viaje.Las aguas de Charles d'Orléans son esencialmente dinámicas, sobre todo marinas, y unen más que separan. Llevan a los hombres a sus «moradas», a la tierra, imagen rutilante de vida, de libertad y de intercambios humanos, pero también de renuncia. Aguas, pues, que conducen a orillas de liberación, de reencuentro -«imagen-realidad»- inseparable de los largos años de exilio del príncipe-poeta en Inglaterra, a raíz de la aciaga jornada de Azincourt- o de la vejez y de la muerte.La imagen «fundadora» del agua -y utilizamos la terminología del propio Bachelard- se sitúa en paralelo o, más bien , de modo tangencial a la de la tierra, refugio último. Llegamos, así pues, al entramado de asociaciones que constituyen la imagen postrera de la tierra, en que partiendo de la negación y la violencia que comporta la prisión -y su causa inmediatamente anterior que es la guerra-, llegamos a esas imágenes finales de la intimidad, representadas por esas numerosas estancias y moradas por las que deambula el yo -o los yo- del poeta, y de lasque la propia prisión inglesa sería ya prefiguración como las moradas, metáfora de la vejez -con todo lo que ésta encierra de renuncia y apartamiento definitivo-, que son a su vez el eco tardío de esa prisión lejana.Pero un grupo de asociaciones viene a interferirse formando por sí mismo un lugar particular que se inscribe a su vez en el imaginario del poeta: son las imágenes que se constituyen en torno al tema del negocio y del comercio, y que por lo que significan de compromiso, de resolución de contrarios, producen una imagen-puente entre la prisión y las moradas de la intimidad, moradas que simbolizan ese refugio que en última instancia fue para el poeta su propia obra, confidente yeco de la soledad, lugar de otra vida tan real como la propiamente vivida.NOTAS:(1) Charles d'Orléans, ou la recherce d'un langage. París, Champion, 1975. (2) París, P.U.F., 1965.ADVERTENCIA: DEBIDO AL ESTADO DEL SOPORTE ORIGINAL, LA REPRODUCCIÓN DE ALGUNAS DE LAS PÁGINAS DE LA TESIS PRESENTA CIERTAS DEFICIENCIAS. / The main aim of the thesis is to show how the importance of image in the work of Charles d'Orléans goes beyond the structure of allegory which characterized the poetry of the late Middle Ages. Herein, the image, which is an eminently ambiguous concept, is to be defined as a modern concept, lacking in rhetoric, departing particularly from the work of Gaston Bachelard and his description of poetic illusion based on the four elements.Although the first part ofthe thesis has as its task the study of certain aspects of the poetry of Charles d'Orléans relating to the medieval rhetorical tradition encompassing the themes of courtly love, seasonal exordium, the second and most essential part tries to grasp the rich variations present in this unique poetry through the study of images constituting a unique allegorical universe; images grouped around the three basic notions: the forest, water and earth - there being, of course, no contradiction between forest and eart as this division originates in the poet's own poetic itinerary.One is led from tempting solitude of the forest, particularly the medieval forest with its special significance, throug the amiguous, even contradictory image of water, to earth images appearing in the numerous dwellings through which the persona or personae ofthe have passed.Nevertheless, an ensemble of associations ariseand come to interfere in the poems, forming a particular place which in turn constitute the poet's stock of images: images clustered around the themes of business and commerce, which, for their connotation of commitment and resolution of contradictions, become an image/bridge between prison, the real prison and not by any means prison as a metaphorical game, and the dwelling places of intimacy which symbolize that refuge which in the final analysis was the poet's work itself. It was in his own poetry that he found not only his confidante and the eco of his sotitude, but another life as real as his own.
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Le Roman de la Rose et les arts figurés autour de 1500 : Lieux communs de la réception et de l'interprétation / The Romance of the Rose and figurative arts around 1500 : commonplaces of receipt and interpretation

Decu Teodorescu, Carmen 21 November 2015 (has links)
A la fois lieu commun du raisonnement et cliché discursif - selon la distinction opérée par Remy de Gourmont pour qui le lieu commun renvoie à la banalité de l'Idée, tandis que le cliché représente la matérialité même de la phrase -, l'antienne de l'influence du Roman de la Rose sur les arts figurés au Moyen Âge est devenue l'une de ces nombreuses redondances argumentatives sustentant régulièrement la rhétorique en histoire de l'art. Partie de ce constat inflationniste et du désir de vérifier le bien-fondé d'une hypothèse iconographique reliant le Roman de la Rose à la tenture de la Dame à la Licorne, cette enquête a essayé de mettre en exergue le danger des lieux communs de l'interprétation en histoire de l'art, et plus particulièrement de ceux faisant un usage inconsidéré du texte de Guillaume de Lorris et Jean de Meung. / Both discursive cliché and commonplace reasoning – according to the distinction made by Remy de Gourmot for whom the commonplace refers to the banality of the Idea while the cliché is the very materiality of the sentence – the anthem of the Roman de la Rose's influence on figurative arts in the Middle Ages became one of those many redundancies regulary invoked in argumentative rhetoric. Provoked by this observation and by the desire to check the relevance of an iconographic hypothesis linking the Roman de la Rose to the tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn, this investigation has tried to highlight the danger of the interpretation commonplaces in Art History, especially those making a reckless use of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung's poem.
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Iconographie de Fortune au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance (XIe-XVIe siècle) / Iconography of Fortune in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (XIth-XVIth c.)

Vassilieva-Codognet, Olga 16 May 2017 (has links)
Ce travail sur l’iconographie de Fortune au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance se base sur un corpus de plus d’un millier d’images dont seul un tiers y est reproduit. L'enquête commence par une nécessaire étude lexicographique qui permet de mieux cerner les sens du mot latin « fortuna » ainsi que ceux du mot français « fortune » entre le xie et le xvie siècle. Une seconde partie s’intéresse au motif iconographique de la Roue de Fortune médiévale – i.e. cette roue sur le pourtour de laquelle prennent place des personnages dont le premier monte, les second trône, le troisième tombe et le dernier gît à terre –, depuis sa genèse dans un manuscrit bénéventain datant des années 1060-1070 jusqu’à sa diffusion sur toutes sortes de supports (peinture murale, sculpture monumentale, mosaïque, etc.) ainsi qu’aux différents usages de ce motif (didactiques, emblématiques, divinatoires). Une troisième partie recense les nombreuses variantes que génère au fil des siècles ce très fécond motif : Roue de la Vie, Roues animales satiriques, Roue des Vicissitudes de l’Humanité, etc. Une quatrième partie étudie la personnification de Fortune qui apparaît au xiie siècle, tant dans les images que dans les textes, avant de devenir l’une des vedettes de l’iconographie de la fin du Moyen Âge, la figure de Fortune se retrouvant dans d’innombrables manuscrits de Boèce, Jean de Meun, Boccace ou Christine de Pizan. La cinquième et dernière partie est consacrée à la mutation que connaît Fortune à la Renaissance, mutation qui la voit changer tant de forme que de fonction, l’aveugle et duplice déesse du sort abandonnant alors sa fonction didactique – et la roue d’exemples qui va avec – pour devenir une accorte jeune femme nue à la mèche de cheveux flottant au vent dont la fonction est propitiatoire et l’usage emblématique. / This work on the iconography of Fortune in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is based on more than one thousand images of which only one third is reproduced in the document. The study begins with a lexicographical study aiming at better understanding the various meanings of the Latin word « fortuna » and the French word « fortune » from the xith to the xvith centuries. The second section addresses the iconographical pattern of the mediaeval Wheel of Fortune – i.e. that wheel where four human beings occupy different positions on the rim: the first ascends, the second is enthroned, the third falls and the fourth lays on the ground – from its inception in a 1060-1070 Beneventan manuscript to its diffusion to various media (mural painting, monumental sculpture, mosaic, etc.) as well as its different uses (didactic, emblematic, divinatory). The third section identifies the numerous variations that this fertile pattern has generated over the centuries: Wheel of Life, satirical animal Wheels, Wheel of Vicissitudes of Humanity, etc. The fourth section studies the personification of Fortune which appears in the xiith century before becoming a star of late mediaeval iconography, her figure gracing innumerable manuscripts of Boethius, Jean de Meun, Giovanni Boccaccio or Christine de Pizan. The fifth and final section is devoted to Fortune’s mutation during the Renaissance: changing both form and function, the blind and treacherous goddess of fate gives up her didactic function – and the wheel of examples that comes with it – and becomes a beautiful naked woman with a forelock whose function is propitiatory and use emblematic.
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Image, manuscript, print : Le Roman de la rose, ca. 1481-1538

Hartigan, Caitlin Carol January 2013 (has links)
This thesis examines the transmission and reception of images in Le Roman de la rose manuscripts and printed editions of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Through in-depth case studies, I analyse how illustrators, editors, and readers used printed imagery in Rose books ca. 1481-1538, during the period of Rose printed edition production, exploring wider cross-disciplinary issues concerning the history of the book, the relationship between word and image, and readership practices following the advent of French printing. I argue that the mobility of printed imagery, which was facilitated in part by the wider dissemination of woodcuts in workshops, influenced the form and function of images in books. In addition, I problematize the 'transition' from manuscript to print in the later Middle Ages, through an investigation of artisans' personal and professional collaborations and evidence of image sharing between hand-illustrated and printed books. Bookmakers and readers used printed imagery in fascinating ways in books, appropriating and modifying woodcuts in order to engage with certain subjects and motifs. Readers' visual responses to books are under-examined, and I assess how readers' drawings add insight into their understanding of printed editions and those editions' visual iconography. French books contain a large body of evidence pertaining to image production and reception, but printed imagery is often overlooked, despite its potential to shed light on the practices of illustrators, editors, and readers. I provide new strategies for examining patterns of printed image production, circulation, and reception in the visual presentations of manuscripts and printed editions of this period. I also deepen understanding of the Rose and its consumption in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, probing the role of images in books.

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