L’image persuasive et l’"ymage" séductrice
The persuasive image and the seductive "ymage"

Summary/Abstract: The visual image acquires an unprecedented significance in the Arthurian romance "L’Estoire del Saint Graal", written in the thirteenth century, in which one can easily notice the insufficiency of the spoken language, less spectacular than the visual representations who prove to be much more effective instruments for the Christians, on their mission to convert the pagan kings and their peoples. From the oneiric visionary image to the image of the crucifixion and to the pagan, malefic image, the visual signs become much more convincing than words whose power is diminished and images finally generate a coherent language, more attractive and seductive for the pagan kings and also for the reader who finds himself persuaded towards a conversion of its own.

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