Pas d’armes et vide iconographique : quand le texte doit remplacer l’image (xve siècle)
Like their close cousin jousts and tournaments, the Pas d’armes remains noble entertainments with a strong visual impact. Eminently political, they play an important role in the staging of the princely power. Based on a “fiction de faerie”, they benefit from relatively numerous descriptions whose ro...
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| Language: | English |
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Société de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oil
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Perspectives Médiévales |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/peme/12792 |
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| Summary: | Like their close cousin jousts and tournaments, the Pas d’armes remains noble entertainments with a strong visual impact. Eminently political, they play an important role in the staging of the princely power. Based on a “fiction de faerie”, they benefit from relatively numerous descriptions whose role is to support this theatricalization of the princely power by putting forward decorative and narrative elements freely inspired by the most famous chivalrous novels. However, if the Pas had a real success at the end of the Middle Ages, these were very rarely the object of pictorial representations. Why these entertainments, in their great majority, were not the object of iconographic representations, while descriptions of jousts and tournaments, or a number of novels when they were put into prose, were enhanced and complemented by miniatures? |
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| ISSN: | 2262-5534 |