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January 18, 2012
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langue vulgaire Grande-Bretagne Italie Merlin écrit écriture Écosse Édouard Ier Geoffroy de Monmouth Giraud de Cambrie Henri II Plantagenêt Jean Bréhal Jeanne d’Arc gallois pays de Galles prophéties rumeur Salimbene de Adam vernacular language Italy writing Great Britain Scotland Edward I Geoffrey of Monmouth Giraldus Cambrensis Henry II Jean Bréhal Joan of Arc Welsh Merlin Wales prophecies rumour Salimbene di AdamSimilar subjects
Predicciones proféticas Vaticinios Prévisions prophétiques Vaticinations Prédictions des prophètesCite this document
Catherine Daniel, « L’audience des prophéties de Merlin: entre rumeurs populaires et textes savants », Médiévales, ID : 10.4000/medievales.5800
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Abstract
This article looks at the way Merlin’s prophecies were perceived by those other than the powerful and learned, so as to understand how ordinary people could comprehend these complex, deliberately obscure, predictions. Political communication between the powerful and the anonymous was ensured by the circulation of prophetic rumours deriving from learned written texts which gave them credibility.
