General Study on the Historical Evolution of Dogmata, Legends and Symbols in French Medieval Age and Renaissance

从分析欧洲文化语境中最经典的象征主义形态的角度，我们从考察中世纪神学家的思想开始研究。在这方面，最幸运的是，构成基督教思想框架的丰富的拉丁教父文学语料库已经以光盘形式出版。购买这一材料使得能够对关键词进行彻底和详尽的搜索。不断引用基督教世界的主要人物Augstinus的作品，以及中世纪神学家，他们发展了后者与自己的历史紧急情况有关的思想，为解释学和宇宙学中的象征和寓言的方法论意义提供了新的视角。另一方面，我们关注用粗俗语言写的作品。修订法国中世纪文学的各个方面，我们研究了与流行的世界观和物理学的亚里士多德传统的同化有关的庸俗文学风格的演变。特别关注的是关于生与死、今世与来世、色彩与身体的意象。分析也延伸到知识分子如拉伯雷和伊拉斯谟如何发展这一认识论在文艺复兴时期。最后，通过对中世纪手稿和文艺复兴时期绘画中的微型画的细致研究，尤其是对其中社会政治因素的解读，不仅为文本中有关象征、寓言和传说的解读提供了大量例证，而且揭示了文本中所没有的绘画的无声信息。

In the perspective of analyzing the most classical modality of symbolism in the European cultural context, we started our research by examining the thought of medieval theologicians. In this respect, it was most fortunate that the enoumous corpus of Latin Fathers' Literature, which constitutes the framework of Christian though, has been published in CD-ROM format. The purchase of this material made possible a thorough and exhaustive search of keywords. The constant reference to the works of Christian world's major figure, Augstinus, and to medieval theologicians who developed the latter's thought in relation to their own historical exigencies, shed a new light on the methodological meaning of symbols and allegories as seen in exegesis and cosmology.On the other hand we focused on works written in vulgar languages. Revising various aspects of french medieval literature, we studied the evolution of styles in vulgar literature in relation to the popular Weltanschauung and the assimilation of the Aristotelian tradition of physics. Special attention has been directed on the images concerning life and death, this world and the next, colors and body. The analysis was also extended to how intellectuals as Rabelais and Erasmus developed this epistemology in Renaissance times. Lastly, an attentive research on the miniatures n medieval manuscripts and Renaissance paintings, especially in interpreting thir socio-political elements, not only brought a substantial illustration to the interpretation of textual documents about symbols, allegories and legends, but also revealed the silent messages of painting not to be found in texts.