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Marie-Christine Pouchelle, « Mots, fluides et vertiges : les fêtes orales de la mystique chez Gautier de Coinci », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1987.283444
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Words, Fluids and Dizzyness: Oral Festivals of Mysticism as seen in the Work of Gautier de Coinci. Juggling words, Gautier de Coinci attempts to lead his 13th century contemporaries onto the shifting ground of miraculous proofs, into the realm in which one can be awake while sleeping, in which statues walk, and in which saying is doing. This article explores the mental and emotional universe which makes miracles plausible in the work of this religions writer. It is a universe in which symbols act very concretely upon beings and things, one which is par excellence linked to the Incarnation of the Word. The flesh is patently present in the writing of this avid lover who savoured the Virgin every time he pronounced her name. The narrative style of his tales has many affinities with that of incantation. Neither naive nor cunning, his text is so "efficicacious" that word plays can be seen to be more than mere intellectual entertainment: they constitute a technique for achieving ecstasy.