Journal article
‘Et prendre nom de Sarrazin’: Islam as the symptom of Western iniquity in Honorat Bovet’s L’apparicion maistre Jehan de Meun
Multilingua, Vol.18(2-3), pp.227-250
1999
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/120762
Abstract
Honorat Bovet produced bis poem L'apparicion maistre Jehan de Meunin 1398, in the aftermath of the Christian defeat by the Turks at Nicopolis. The text repeats neither the conventional depictions of the enemies of Christianity äs ignorant monsters nor the calls for their annihilation through crusade. Bovet's character le Sarrazin, a noble and educated representative of his faith, reverses the usual political paradigm through his defiant speeches. Islam is seen not as an external force but as a schism within Christianity brought on by institutional vice and abuse. Both through his Middle French poetic text and extensive Latin marginalia, Bovet exhorts the powerful nobles to whom he dedicated the manuscripts of the poem to undertake thorough internal reforms. Bovet argues that only in this way could they heal a faith then divided not only by the 'schism' of Islam, but by a papal schism and the Hundred Years War between England and France.
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- Title
- ‘Et prendre nom de Sarrazin’: Islam as the symptom of Western iniquity in Honorat Bovet’s L’apparicion maistre Jehan de Meun
- Creators
- MICHAEL Hanly
- Publication Details
- Multilingua, Vol.18(2-3), pp.227-250
- Academic Unit
- English, Department of
- Identifiers
- 99900619653001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article