Renart le Contrefait is half made up of a universal chronicle. If the first part, in verse, is original, the second, in prose, is the simple interpolation of the Manual of Philippe de Valois. The universal chronicle is present in counter-employment; it is a source of disorder, introducing prose into the verse, and above all allows two writings of history to be opposed: a subversive writing for the Old Testament, a canonical writing with the second half of the Manual. - [Abstract]

Language: French

ISBN: 9782406119098; DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-11909-8.p.0017