The peritextual apparatus described by Gérard Genette is an integral part of medieval book production and medieval studies are equiped to treat these productions in the manuscripts they study, whatever the genres are transmitted by them. However, the genettian terminology is not exactly new to medieval studies and the description of “page layout”, or mise en page is often prefered so as to describe the particularity of pre-print culture. This paper would like to measure the relevance of Genette’s theory through the example of French bestiaries production in order to understand the benefit of the use of peritext as a concept. - [Abstract]

Language: English/French/Italian

2262-5534; DOI: 10.4000/peme.36348