Littérature, histoire, pouvoir et mécénat : la cour de Flandre au XIIIe siècle

Abstract

Literature, History, Power and Patronage : the Court of Flanders te the XIIIIth Century - The thirteenth century witnesses the emergence of vernacular historiography as well as the progressive supervision of the northern vassals by the Capetians. The rivality that occurs between those two circles seems also to appear through the nature of patronage they assume : the royal authority thus encourages above all historical french and latin works when the northern courts (especially the flemish one) give its favour to a kind of patronage that favorishes principally the french literary production. Literature and history thus reflect two political mentalities and their very differences.