Images et représentations du pouvoir dans l’épopée franco-italienne du xiv^e siècle

In the Franco-Italian epics of the Trecento, power is not conceived as a matter for a single authority: these texts superimpose the image of models of society hitherto unknown in the French legends onto the traditional and archetypal image of the feudal system. The poets, courtiers of the grand lords who protect them and for whom their texts are intended, heap praise on models of local government rather than on a certain form of mythical empire. The feudal epic becomes a communal epic.