Inceste et sainteté. La Vie de saint Grégoire en français (XIIe siècle) - article ; n°6 ; vol.43, pg 1291-1319

Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1988 - Volume 43 - Numéro 6 - Pages 1291-1319
Incest and Holiness: The Vie de saint Gregoire in French.
In the Vie de saint Gregoire, a text written in French dating back to the 12th century, a man born of an incestuous brother/sister relationship went on to marry his mother and eventually became a pope and a saint. The precise ordering of notations of spatial and social position allows one to bring to light the narrative's structure, seeming, in the end, to correspond to that of a clerical account of good social order—that social order which was contested by the knights because of its kinship organization and the social role it conferred on the clergy. This debate can only be understood, however, if one takes into account the major importance of symbolic and material spatial relations.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.