Laura Endress, Les trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval : de la mythographie à l’historiographie et au-delà. Avec édition critique partielle du livre IX de l’Ovide moralisé

This thesis aims to shed new light on the myth of Hercules in medieval texts, by studying its sources and evolution. A particular focus is on little-studied, partially unedited textual material from 12th to 15th century France. Texts examined include, on the one hand, Latin commentaries on the Class...

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Main Author: Laura Endress
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Published: Société de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oil 2023-02-01
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description This thesis aims to shed new light on the myth of Hercules in medieval texts, by studying its sources and evolution. A particular focus is on little-studied, partially unedited textual material from 12th to 15th century France. Texts examined include, on the one hand, Latin commentaries on the Classics – on the Metamorphoses in particular – and related mythographic treatises, and, on the other, vernacular historiographical compilations, which evolved in close relation to works of historical romance. On the basis of texts belonging to these distinct traditions, it is possible to consider a large array of Hercules-related materials integrated within different interpretative contexts, to study the evolution of various episodes of the hero’s life within and across textual traditions and to identify intersections between them. A third focus is on the sources and manuscript tradition of the Ovide moralisé, a 14th century French adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, situated at the crossroads of different traditions, which completes the Ovidian narrative with material from a variety of sources. The study of Hercules’ life in the Ovide moralisé attempts to elucidate possible sources of specific episodes that innovate with regard to the Metamorphoses, and to offer new insights into the complex manuscript tradition of the work. This study is accompanied by a provisional critical edition of the life of Hercules in book IX of the Ovide moralisé (lines 1-1036).
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Laura Endress, Les trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval : de la mythographie à l’historiographie et au-delà. Avec édition critique partielle du livre IX de l’Ovide moralisé
Perspectives Médiévales
Historiography
Manuscript Variant
Mythography
Olympic Games
Ovid in the Middle Ages
Medieval Reception of Antiquity
title Laura Endress, Les trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval : de la mythographie à l’historiographie et au-delà. Avec édition critique partielle du livre IX de l’Ovide moralisé
title_full Laura Endress, Les trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval : de la mythographie à l’historiographie et au-delà. Avec édition critique partielle du livre IX de l’Ovide moralisé
title_fullStr Laura Endress, Les trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval : de la mythographie à l’historiographie et au-delà. Avec édition critique partielle du livre IX de l’Ovide moralisé
title_full_unstemmed Laura Endress, Les trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval : de la mythographie à l’historiographie et au-delà. Avec édition critique partielle du livre IX de l’Ovide moralisé
title_short Laura Endress, Les trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval : de la mythographie à l’historiographie et au-delà. Avec édition critique partielle du livre IX de l’Ovide moralisé
title_sort laura endress les trajectoires textuelles de l hercule medieval de la mythographie a l historiographie et au dela avec edition critique partielle du livre ix de l ovide moralise
topic Historiography
Manuscript Variant
Mythography
Olympic Games
Ovid in the Middle Ages
Medieval Reception of Antiquity
url https://journals.openedition.org/peme/47939
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