Chassignet Le Mépris De La Vie

211 L’artifice amoureux : aimer ou ne pas aimer......................................................213 Manipulation et déroute : l’affrontement politique.............................................215 « Cette morte apparente, en qui revient la vie »..................................................220 5 CONCLUSION.................................................................................................................227 TROISIÈME PARTIE – VERS UNE DRAMATURGIE DU SPECTACLE..

from tragic to comic, noble to ignoble, and even exponents of courtly love mixed high idealism with frank obscenity. The Middle Ages spanned ten centuries. Medieval literature, however, covers a much shorter period: the 400 years which run from La Vie de Saint Alexis (c.1040), the first significant literary text to survive, to the age of Villon, about the same time in fact that Modern French 6 THE MIDDLE AGES literature has taken to advance from Montaigne to Postmodernism. From its beginnings