LâÃ©clairage iconographique: lâillustration des Chroniques de Froissart

Laurence Harf-Lancner

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LâÃ©clairage iconographique: lâillustration des Chroniques de Froissart

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401205511_003

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Specialists in the history of literature are offered a new opening to texts by means of images, a visual counterpoint realised after the composition of the text itself: a perfect illustration of that is provided by the Chroniques of Froissart.

The place of the images, their distribution and the choice of illustrated episodes also reveal an interpretation of the text. One particular scene is represented in all the manuscripts of Book IV which have an iconographical programme: the ball of the Ardents. The distribution is equally significant: when there is a series of pictures (like the fall of Richard II), this is another indication of the importance of an episode.

The discrepances between the images and the text reveal an interpretation as well. The Chroniques possess a romance dimension and the fantastic emerges in the last two books. The illuminator sometimes seeks to highlight elements which remained in the shadow, thus giving his own reading of the text.

Finally the image may serve as propaganda. The first book, with its two groups of related manuscripts, offers several examples: the French manuscripts, often from Paris, from the early fifteenth century, and the Flemish manuscripts, dating from after 1450, and from the environment of the Burgundian court. Even if the illuminators are true to the text of Froissart, one sometimes sees the political ideology come to the surface.

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The Medieval Chronicle V

Series:Â The Medieval Chronicle, Volume: 5

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401205511

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2008

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