L'homme, les hommes et la femme. Étude sur le vocabulaire des biographies royales françaises (Xle-Xllle siècle)
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1986
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Élisabeth Carpentier, « L'homme, les hommes et la femme. Étude sur le vocabulaire des biographies royales françaises (Xle-Xllle siècle) », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1986.283277
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Man, Men and Women. A Study of the Vocabulary used in French Royal Biographies (11th-13th centuries). E. Carpentier. This article has mode use of the indexing and concordances obtained through the data-processing of a Latin corpus comprising several French Royal biographies: the Vie de Robert le Pieux by Helgaud de Fleury, the Vie de Louis VI le Gros by Suger, the Vie de Philippe Auguste by Rigord and Guillaume le Breton. This implies trying to understand, by studying the terms vir, homo and vocables designating women, their respective roles in the biographer's narrative. A careful analysis of the usage of different cases, singular and plural, qualificatives and context enables to oppose the vir, a highly valorized social type, to the mass of hommes presented in an unfavourable light and to a few women, object of the dynastic strategy of family heads.