La chasse amoureuse : Métaphores de la biche et du cerf dans la poésie d’amour de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance

Recalling the ambivalence of the metaphor of the deer (or the doe) in classical Antiquity, Sandra Provini points out its remarkable growing complexity in the Middle-Age, in relation with Christian soteriology and evolution of hunting rules, and then its inevitable prosaic fate since Renaissance.