Les crucifix comiques dans quelques textes du Moyen Âge français
Comical crucifixes in some texts of the French medieval literature.

Summary/Abstract: The presence of the crucifix in the comical literature is a special case of an encounter of the sacred and the profane. It appears in several French medieval texts, where it is associated with sexuality or with food, it is treated with familiarity and even faces insult, which does not mean to outrage the public, but to make people laugh. The profanation with which we are dealing here has many aspects, depending on whether it can be assigned or to a concrete personage, or to the author, since it is included in the story itself. In the first case, a lot can be justified by the simplicity, but the intentions of the personage do not always seem pure. In the second case, contrary to expectation, the sacrilege is not necessarily associated with the anticlericalism. However, what is the most interesting is the question of the reception of this kind of texts in a profoundly Christian society.

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