“Le clerc, le poète et le fou: de quelques discours possibles sur Narcisse à la fin du Moyen Age”

Florence Bouchet

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Medieval Literature and History Medieval European Literature and History Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies

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This article deals with some examples of the contrasting ways in which the Narcissus myth is reconsidered in the later Middle Ages. Evrart de Conty, in his Livre des Echecs amoureux moralisés, raises different interpretations from the case of Narcissos case, according to the integumentum doctrine and to an encyclopaedic manner. He (a physician) tends towards a rationalistic judgment about love. Froissart, in Le joli buisson de jeunesse, thoroughly transforms the myth: he presents Narcissus as a perfect courteous lover, who died of grief caused by the premature death of his beloved Echo. This

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