A wandering knight’s quest for a mentor Thomas de Saluces’s Le Chevalier Errant
- Publication type: Article from a collective work
- Collective work: Mentoring through the Centuries. On The Dynamics of Personal and Professional Growth
- Author: Jeay (Madeleine)
- Pages: 25 to 35
- Collection: Encounters, n° 536
Thomas de Saluces’s Chevalier Errant is an allegorical prosimeter written in captivity in Turin between 1394 and 1396. It takes the form of a learning journey told in the first person, punctuated by successive encounters that the Knight makes during an itinerary that leads him from the Court of Love to the domain of Fortune, then to a meeting with Knowledge. In this allegorical autobiography, personal allusions are intertwined with didactic aims, political actuality with literary reminiscences.
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- ISBN: 978-2-406-12921-9
- EAN: 9782406129219
- ISSN: 2261-1851
- DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12921-9.p.0025
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 07-13-2022
- Language: English
- Keyword: Allegory, prosimeter, love, fortune, knowledge, wisdom, ambivalence, didacticism
