Jeanne de Bourgogne and The Political Appropriation of History: The Miroir historial and the Chroniques of Primat (잔 드 부르고뉴와 역사서의 정치적 전유-『역사의 거울』과 『프리마 연대기』를 중심으로-)

Lee, Hye-Min (이혜민)

Jeanne de Bourgogne and The Political Appropriation of History: The Miroir historial and the Chroniques of Primat

Korean Review of French History
Abbr : KRFH
2008, (19), pp.33~71
Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
Research Area : Humanities > History

Lee, Hye-Min ¹

¹연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

Between 1328 and 1337, Jean de Vignay dedicated to Jeanne de Bourgogne, the wife of Philippe VI of France, two historical works translated into French: the Miroir historial of Vincent de Beauvais, and a part of Chroniques of Primat. By translating the chapters of Primat’s Chronicles, which cover the period between 1250 and 1285, the translator wanted to continue and complete the historical encyclopedia of Vincent de Beauvais. The question arises as to why Jean de Vignay opted to conclude his translation with the epoch of Philip III instead of continuing to the reigns of the last Capetian kings? The objective of this study is to demonstrate that the historioghraphical choice of Jean de Vignay was a response to the political interests of Jeanne de Bourgogne. The historical texts translated by Jean de Vignay shape, on the whole, a political corpus that legitimizes the Valois dynasty - a fact which can be shown in both an iconographic and contextual analysis of the texts. The iconographic cycle of the first copies of the Miroir historial emphasizes dynastic continuity. In its frontispieces, for example, that are composed as a political mirror, the commission of the translation by the queen is interpreted as a gesture that continues the cultural politics of Saint Louis. Moreover, the royal couple of Valois family was able to claim direct lineage from Saint Louis and Philip III, rather than from Philip the Fair and his sons, highlighted as much by the frontispieces of the first copies of the Miroir historial as by the textual selection and demarcation in the Chroniques de Primat. The translation of the Miroir historial and of the Chroniques de Primat represents, then, a political appropriation of history by the Valois as well as a transition from universal and ecclesiastical history toward a dynastic and “national” history.

KEYWORDS

Le Miroir historial, Les Chroniques de Primat, Vincent de Beauvais, Jean de Vignay, Philippe VI de Valois, Jeanne de Bourgogne, saint Louis

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