Jean Wauquelin, Belle Hélène de Constantinople. Promises of a gesture song
Disciplines
Review
French
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The text by Jean Wauquelin is the promise, according to the author’s prologist, of a song in 1448 towards the fourteenth century telling the tumultuous adventures of the mother of Saint Martin. This text is characterised by its incredible mix of genders and motifs, consisting of the gesture song, the novel, del hgiography and folklore (with, inter alia, the twin pattern and the cut hand pattern — Wauquelin is also the author of a promise of La Manekine). Dific...