25 septembre 2019
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Julie Jourdan, « L’image exemplaire dans le Ci nous dit de Chantilly », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.132150
The Ci nous dit cannot be integrated into predication as the majority of collections of exempla are, but as a pedagogical project in the context of private reading. J. Jourdan reminds us that R. Barthes described how the exemplum based on a «feature of rhetorical induction» fonctioned in an analogical system. She proposes to extend this model to the whole of the Ci nous dit. The illuminations fill in the absence of visible signs which structure the book, so allowing a «reading consultation» for a non-latinist lay readership. The first title of this work «A Composition of Holy Scripture» suggests rethinking the structure and the lay out of the Chantilly manuscript. The basic rythm is: one exemplum, one picture per page; from there on the painter plays with a range of variations. The relationship between text and image are to be carried through to the larger context of the relationship between verbal thought and figurative thought. Exemples of stag, eagle and dog are analysed in detail in the chapter about the fruits of confession. This is done taking into account the interaction between the series of images which conjure up a network of meaning way beyond the unity of each text.