Academic Journal
Hawks and knights. (De)constructing knightly identity through animals in French chivalric literature (12th -13th century)
| العنوان: | Hawks and knights. (De)constructing knightly identity through animals in French chivalric literature (12th -13th century) |
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| المؤلفون: | Sciancalepore, Antonella |
| المساهمون: | UCL - SSH/INCA - Institut des civilisations, arts et lettres |
| المصدر: | Reinardus : yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Vol. 29 (2017) |
| بيانات النشر: | JohnBenjamins Publishing Co. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| المجموعة: | DIAL@USL-B (Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Animal studies, French medieval literature, Falconry, Jean Renart |
| الوصف: | This article explores the role of hunting birds in the definition of the knight in twelfth- and thirteenth-century French chivalric literature. After some introductory remarks on the identity-shaping role of hawks in the hunting practices of medieval aristocracy, the article focuses on the multi-faceted identity correlation between knights and hawks across romance and epic poems. The analysis of episodes drawn from various texts provides evidence of three levels of this human/animal relationship: the use of hawks as aristocratic and chivalric badges (Octavian, Enfances Vivien, Guillaume d’Angleterre); the use of hawks as visual doubles of knights (Anseÿs de Metz, Erec et Enide, Lai de Yonec); the representation of the link between knight and hawk as a flow of actions and values going in both directions of the human/animal divide (Jean Renart’s L’Escoufle). Through this analysis, the study demonstrates that chivalric literature established between knights and hawks a multi-layered and two-fold identity shift, which contributed to convey the ambiguities of the knightly ethical model. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0925-4757 1569-9951 |
| Relation: | boreal:190488; http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/190488; urn:ISSN:0925-4757; urn:EISSN:1569-9951 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/190488 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.5B3D027 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 09254757 15699951 |
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