Description du projet
Le rôle de la Grèce dans l’Europe occidentale pré-moderne
Les œuvres littéraires en langue grecque (qu’elles soient historiques, de fiction, poétiques ou didactiques) n’ont pas été traduites en français avant le XIVe siècle. Les chercheurs s’accordent à penser que le regain d’intérêt pour le grec ancien dans l’Europe occidentale pré-moderne est lié au premier contact direct avec les textes grecs. Le projet AGRELITA, financé par l’UE, analysera les représentations de la Grèce antique sous la perspective inexplorée de l’élaboration d’une nouvelle mémoire, en identifiant sa structure, ses significations et ses utilisations par les auteurs en fonction de leur appartenance à une communauté nationale, régionale ou européenne. Le projet étudiera un large corpus d’œuvres littéraires françaises de 1320 à 1550, produites à la fois en France et en Europe. Il s’intéressera également aux images des manuscrits et des livres imprimés. Les résultats du projet apporteront un nouvel éclairage sur notre perception de la construction de l’identité.
Objectif
Until now the reception history of ancient Greece in pre-modern Western Europe has focussed almost exclusively on the transmission of Greek texts. Yet well before the revival of Greek’s teaching, numerous vernacular works, often illustrated, contained elaborate representations of ancient Greece. AGRELITA will study a large corpus of French-language literary works (historical, fictional, poetic, didactic) produced from 1320 to the 1550s in France and Europe, before the first direct translations from Greek to French, as well as the images of their manuscripts and printed books. It thus aims to challenge one of the great narratives that still prevails in European history: that the revival of interest in ancient Greece only took place through the first direct contacts with Greek works. It will change our perception of the Renaissance. The study of these works and their illustrations (text and image’s dialogue and powers of each) will analyze the representations of ancient Greece from the unexplored perspective of the elaboration of a new memory. It will reveal its structure, its meanings, and the various uses that authors made of it with respect to national, regional or European communities they depicted in their works. It will allow to better understand how, at a time which inherited negative preconceptions about the Greeks, Europe nevertheless began to claim ancient Greece as one of its legacies; and lead to a reassessment of the role played by Greece in Western European identities shaping processes. This promises considerable advances in our understanding of the new representations of these communities in this period. AGRELITA also aims to contribute to a general reflexion on the formation of heritages and identities. Its results will provide new insights on our perception on the issue of identity building, at different levels, local, national and European. They will be able to irrigate the research on modern times in history, sociology, memory and European studies.
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ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantInstitution d’accueil
14032 Caen Cedex 5
France