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100	1	0	_aApostu, Andreea _eauthor
245	0	0	_aThe shield: Prowess, cowardice, and parody of absence. The Bodley manuscript 264
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520			_aThe richness of the marginalia accompanying the text of the Roman d’Alexandre in the ms. Bodley 264 demonstrates “the possible reversibility of the center and the margins”, in the words of I. Fabry-Tehranchi. This article analyzes the treatment of the shield and the coat of arms it bears in these drolleries, which compete with the central iconography of the manuscript, depicting the blossoming of the seigneurial world in the fourteenth century. On the one hand, there is a profusion of imaginary coats of arms with positive or negative connotations. On the other hand, there is a parodic register that uses either the shield without heraldic devices, or the anthropomorphic shield, whose meanings are similar to those found in the topos of the fight between the knight and the snail, a recurrent theme at the time. In Bodley 264, the coat of arms, as a mirror of seigneurial identity, escapes the derision that these representations in the margins sometimes express, even as they magnify and align with the central iconography.
690			_aBodley 264
690			_aanthropomorphic shield
690			_aimaginary coats of arms
690			_adrolleries
690			_athe Roman d’Alexandre
690			_aRoman d’Alexandre
690			_aBodley 264
690			_aanthropomorphic shield
690			_aimaginary coats of arms
690			_adrolleries
690			_athe
786	0		_nLe Moyen Age | Volume CXXIX | 2 | 2024-04-17 | p. 465-477 | 0027-2841
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-le-moyen-age-2023-2-page-465?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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