Ovide en français. Genesis, Transformation and Reception of the Ovide Moralisé

Zusammenfassung(英语)本项目的目的是研究从14世纪起，《S变形记》拉丁文本在法语《道德经》中所经历的文化适应过程。调查从《道德奥维德》的手稿开始，其中包含了注解和有时精心设计的图像方案，最重要的是，它分成了几个非常不同的版本。研究法语手稿，以及后来的散文和文本的印刷版本，使我们能够看到拉丁文文本在法语中世纪是如何被理解的。通过这项研究，可以清楚地看到，中世纪时期文本最显著的特征，即使文本扩展到72000行八联的道德化，有时成为其传播的障碍。一些手稿的奥维德道德省略，因此成为简单的变形记翻译，但它们仍然帮助我们看到拉丁文本是如何被吸收到基督教中世纪。在整个翻译过程中，法语抄写者可能会发现自己面对的是一篇对他们来说已经陌生的文本。今天，手稿带有这种缺乏理解的迹象，这些有时无意识的修改特别说明了从一种文化到另一种文化的转变。通过艺术历史学家、词汇学家和法语和拉丁文学专家的合作，我们将通过这个项目获得对文本生命周期的理解，该文本允许西方文化的基础之一从古典时期过渡到中世纪，然后是文艺复兴时期，从拉丁语到法语，从官方环境到非专业读者，从诗句到散文，从手稿到印刷体。对仍在很大程度上未被探索的文件所包含的语言、肖像、注解和评论的检查将产生精确的研究，其重要性将超出Ovide Morarisé的领域，因为它们将揭示一种既完全不同又非常相似的文化的同化。在这一具体目标之外，还有一个进一步的战略研究目标。通过这个实际上已经是欧洲的两国项目，我们将努力扩大中世纪文学研究的边界，以涵盖一种新的方法来研究前现代书籍，相关学科的专家可以在其中进行对话。

Zusammenfassung (englisch) The aim of the present project is to study the process of acculturation towhich the Latin text of Ovid¿s Metamorphoses is subjected, from the 14thcentury onwards, in the French Ovide moralisé. The investigation begins withthe manuscripts of the Ovide moralisé, which contain glosses and sometimeselaborate iconographic schemes, and, above all, branch into several verydifferent versions. A study of the French manuscripts, as well as ofsubsequent prose and printed versions of the text, enables us to see how theLatin text was understood in the French Middle Ages. Through this study itbecomes clear that the very feature which was most distinctive of the textin the medieval period ¿ namely the ¿moralisations¿ which cause the text toexpand into 72000 lines of octosyllablic couplets ¿ sometimes becomes anobstacle to its diffusion. Some manuscripts of the Ovide moralisé omit themoralisations and so become simple translations of the Metamorphoses, butthey nonetheless help us to see how the Latin text was assimilated into theChristian Middle Ages. Throughout the process of translation, French scribescould find themselves confronted with a text which had become unfamiliar tothem. Today, the manuscripts bear the signs of this lack of understanding,and these sometimes unconscious modifications are especially telling of thetransition from one culture to another.Through the collaboration of art historians, lexicologists, and specialistsin French and Latin literature, we shall through this project gain anunderstanding of the life cycle of a text which allowed one of the foundingworks of western culture to pass from the Classical period to the MiddleAges and then the Renaissance, from Latin to French, from a clerical milieuto a lay readership, from verse to prose, and from manuscripts to printedform. The examination of the language, iconography, glosses and commentariescontained by documents which are still largely unexplored will yield precisestudies which will have an importance extending beyond the domain of theOvide moralisé, for they will shed light on the assimilation of a culturewhich is at once quite different and yet remarkably similar.Atop this concrete goal there is also a further strategic researchobjective. Through this bi-national project ¿ which in fact is alreadyEuropean ¿ we shall strive to expand the borders of medieval literary studyto encompass a new approach towards the ¿pre-modern book¿, in whichspecialists in related disciplines can enter into dialogue.