La réception du poème des Eschés amoureuxet du Livre des Eschez amoureux moralisésdans les États bourguignons au XVe siècle
Anne-Marie Legaré
Towards 1400, Évrart de Conty, Charles V’s doctor, wrote the Livre des Eschez amoureux
moralisés from a text in verse, Les Eschés amoureux, which he himself had written some
thirty years earlier. Évrart’s undertaking consisted of converting his long poem into
prose and moralizing it. In both its versions, the work circulated in France, between
Paris and Cognac, but also in Burgundian circles where it received a most favorable
reception. Focusing our attention on the Duchy of Burgundy, we went in search of
archival documents, of codicological, artistic and heraldic clues, enabling us to be
more specific about the place where the illuminated specimens were produced, to
track lost copies and to link a lost manuscript with the “témoin gamma” said to be
the source of the Burgundian family of prose commentary.Keywords :
Burgundy, Échecs amoureux, illumination, Évrart de Conty, Hainaut.
• Les Eschés amoureux
• Les manuscrits disparus
• Le Livre des Eschez amoureux moralisés
• La diffusion du texte en prose
• Conclusion