La révolte des clercs - une tentative d’ autonomisation du champ littéraire au XIIIE siécle?
The Clerks’ Rebellion – an Attempt towards the Independence of Literature during the Thirteenth Century?

Summary/Abstract: The medieval clerk can be considered as an ‘intellectual’ in its modern sense since he has been affirming his independence from the bullying ecclesiastical power from the 12th century onward. Some fabliaux and principally the 13th-century dits show him as the artisan of a reflection on the connections between literature and society: wondering about the connections between power and university or women's place in a clerical life, he initiates a new type of expression still modest but allowing literature to affirm itself as being a counter-power.

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