This work is an edifying text in which the interlocutors are experts in evil deeds--they are none other than Sathan and Lucifer. Sathan, at the request of his master, reveals numerous details on the way in which people lived at the end of the Middle Ages: their work and their leisure activities, their sins and their good deeds. With its humour and richness of language, the dialogue between the devils is in the best tradition of the "Rhetoriqueurs" and Francois Villon. Furthermore, as an historical document, it bears witness to the medieval conception of Hell and the representatives of Good and Evil. / We are proposing a new edition of Eloy d'Amerval's Le Livre de la Deablerie, an edition fully justified by the richness of both text and language. Our reconstruction of the twenty thousand eight hundred and four verses of the incunabulum of 1508 (no manuscript of this book has appeared to date) is based on the principles of Bedier's method of text editing. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.61227 |
| Date | January 1991 |
| Creators | Dupras, Elyse |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Département de langue et littérature françaises.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001270662, proquestno: AAIMM74932, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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