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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Pierre Salmon's Advice for a King
Beteiligte:
Hedeman, Anne D.
Erschienen:
International Center of Medieval Art, 1993
Erschienen in:Gesta
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0016-920X
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Beschreibung:
<p> This article analyzes the relationship between text and image in the earliest manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 23279) of the Réponses à Charles VI et Lamentation au roi sur son état by Pierre Salmon, a secretary to Charles VI. Salmon's political treatise is made up of three distinct parts which differ markedly from one another. Scholars who have studied the Réponses have done so fragmentarily and have neglected the pictorial evidence that guides an understanding of the text. This study considers the manuscript as a whole, analyzing the pictures, first in narrow relation to their text and to each other and second, in relation to the broader framework of French politics in the early fifteenth century. It reveals that the repetition of scenes of presentation and dialogue that frame the text, and the seemingly random distribution of eight full page miniatures were carefully orchestrated to echo and, in one particular case, amplify, the sense of crisis and resolution that the text presents. A study of the manuscript as a whole reveals Salmon to be a royalist whose primary concern was to strengthen the monarchy at a particularly distressful time in French history. </p>