De la taverne à la foire. Une cartographie du mal au Moyen Âge (XIIe-XIIIe siècles)
From the Tavern to the Fair. Mapping Evil in the Middle Ages (12th-13th Centuries)

Summary/Abstract: At the heart of this new and effervescent medieval city that distorts and challenges poetic representation, the tavern and the fair, both common places (in the literal and rhetorical senses of this term) of re-cognition and deformity, both hypostasis of evil and promise of a utopian satisfaction of desire, become an eloquent metaphor of the ambiguous and paradoxical nature of the urban imaginary characterized by of an infinite reversibility of the sign and of the semantic poles of images.

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