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Sarah Delale, « Qui ne dit mot consent : autorité des grands noms et poids communautaire dans la querelle de la Belle Dame sans mercy », Littérales, ID : 10.4000/13d6p
The quarrel surrounding Alain Chartier’s La Belle Dame sans mercy provides an opportunity to study collective literary practices in the 15th century as a product of auctorial communities. The quarrel’s works can be considered as literary productions as well as social debates. They offer a rich illustration of actor-network theory and Boltanski’s sociology on “cities”. Within the quarrel, several communities clash over the love issue: supporters of fin’amor, such as in Pierre Michault’s Procès d’honneur feminin and the Jardin de plaisance et fleur de rhetorique; a misogynistic male community, as can be seen in the Debat du jouvencel et du vieillart; and a mostly female community disassociating itself from fin’amor, in works such as the Loyal amant refusé, the Debat de la dame et de l’escuyer or the Debat sans conclusion. These communities oppose each other within texts that are often anonymous and that fall within diverse literary genres, from fiction to reactions to the latest news, e.g. the scandal surrounding the love affair of Étiennette de Besançon and Count Gaston IV de Foix. Those works allude to emblematic authors, famous texts or characters and current events to forge “cities” connecting aesthetics with ethics.