La réception du poème des Eschés amoureuxet du Livre des Eschez amoureux moralisésdans les États bourguignons au XVe siècle

The reception of the poem Les Eschés amoureux and of the Livre des Eschez amoureux moralisés in the Burgundian States in the 15th Century Towards 1400, Évrart de Conty, Charles V’s doctor, wrote the Livre des Eschez amoureux moralisés from a text in verse, Les Eschés amoureux, which he himself had written some thirty years earlier. Évrart’s undertaking consisted of converting his long poem into prose and moralizing it. In both its versions, the work circulated in France, between Paris and Cognac, but also in Burgundian circles where it received a most favorable reception. Focusing our attention on the Duchy of Burgundy, we went in search of archival documents, of codicological, artistic and heraldic clues, enabling us to be more specific about the place where the illuminated specimens were produced, to track lost copies and to link a lost manuscript with the “témoin gamma” said to be the source of the Burgundian family of prose commentary

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