Les crucifix comiques dans quelques textes du Moyen Age français

• Authors: Agata Sobczyk

Title variants

EN

Comical Crucifixes in Some Texts of French Medieval Literature

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

The presence of the crucifix in comical literature is a special case of an encounter of the sacred and the profane. It appears in several French medieval texts, where it is associated with sexuality or with food, it is treated with familiarity and even casualness, which is not meant to outrage the public, but to make people laugh. The profanation with which we are dealing here has many aspects, depending on whether it can be assigned to a particular personage or to the author, since it is included in the story itself. In the former case, much can be justified by simplicity, but the intentions of the personage do not always seem pure. In the latter case, contrary to expectation, the sacrilege is not necessarily associated with anticlericalism. However, what is the most interesting is the question of the reception of this kind of texts in a profoundly Christian society.

Keywords

FR

fabliaux; Moniage Renouart; crucifix; profanation; trickster

EN

fabliaux; Moniage Renouart; crucifix; profanation; trickster

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Wydawnictwo Werset
• Journal: Quêtes littéraires
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 16-23

Dates

published

2013-12-30

Contributors

author

Agata Sobczyk

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/ql.4587