La question du sens au Moyen Âge

Brought together to pay tribute to Professor Armand Strubel, known in the University for his scientific qualities as much as for his human commitment, the forty-four studies presented here propose to rethink the question of meaning in the Middle Ages from his founding works. analyzes of the double meaning that he himself proposed, especially in his two major works dedicated to the study of medieval allegory. The subject unfolds around its three major corpuses of predilection - the Rose, Renart and the Grail with the influence of the great texts of allegorical literature - and under the eyes of specialists in literature, linguistics, history and history. art history, but it also opens up to analyzes of the epic, dramatic, hagiographic or historiographical fields necessary for overall theorization. The students, colleagues and friends of the master here collectively explore the processes and techniques of the double meaning and their poetic, rhetorical, generic or hermeneutic issues in order to grasp in their entirety and in their variety the processes of the implementation of meaning. From the simple word to the most complex tropes, all the cogs of the machines of the sense are here