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La prose romanesque arthurienne (XIIIe-XVe siècle) fait volontiers référence, au détour du récit, à des inscriptions qu'il est donné de lire à un lecteur fictif, le plus souvent un chevalier errant en quête de sens. À partir d'un large corpus - 'Lancelot-Graal, Suite du Roman de Merlin, Prophesies de Merlin, Tristan en prose, Roman de Meliadus et de Guiron le Courtois, Perceforest, le Livre du Cuer d'Amor espris de René d'Anjou' -, ce sont ces inscriptions que l'on envisagera selon les perspectives littéraires, poétiques, linguistiques et historiques. Comment l'inscription questionne-t-elle les notions d'autorité, d'espace, d'oralité et de mémoire ? En tant qu'elle est écriture, et donc image, dans quelle mesure peut-elle être perçue comme une 'imago', mentale ou matérielle ? Dès lors qu'elle manifeste le double caractère sacramentel/saint et magique/diabolique de l'écriture, l'inscription participe aussi fréquemment de pratiques magiques et prophétiques, que les romanciers se plaisent à mettre en scène. En prose mais également en vers, anonyme ou signée, brève ou prolixe, mouvante, illisible ou monumentale, reposant sur le métal, la pierre, le bois ou la chair, l'inscription romanesque possède de multiples facettes, qui en disent long sur le pouvoir de l'écrit au Moyen Âge.

Arthurian romances --- French fiction --- Inscriptions in literature

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This study looks at the funerary inscriptions that are reproduced verbatim in Roman elegy. Through an analysis of quoted inscriptions in the elegies of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid, the author places these inscriptions into their literary and societal context. While it has often been assumed that the primary motive for including such inscriptions is to achieve a permanent memorial for the dead, this study argues that the inscriptions instead serve a series of functions that are typical for their specific elegaic context, and that distinguish them from inscriptions in other genres.

Inscriptions in literature. --- Elegiac poetry, Latin --- Latin poetry --- Inscriptions dans la littérature --- Poésie élégiaque latine --- Poésie latine --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Inscriptions dans la littérature --- Poésie élégiaque latine --- Poésie latine

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The two founding works of the Western historiographical tradition, Herodotus’ Histories and Thucydides’ History, feature, among many other things, mentions and quotations of inscriptions (that is, texts written on durable materials such as stone). This book explores the epigraphic dimension of Herodotus’ Histories and Thucydides’ History (including potential allusions to inscriptions in general, possible instances of a tacit use of epigraphically recorded information, and explicit references to specific inscriptions) and offers a number of case studies aimed at elucidating the subtle uses to which specific embedded inscriptions are put in the works of Herodotus and Thucydides. Special attention is paid to the ways in which these inscriptions contribute to the characterisation of historical actors and to the self-fashioning of the Herodotean and Thucydidean narrator. The book may appeal to literary classicists, ancient historians, epigraphists, and other readers with an interest in ancient historiography and/or epigraphic culture

Inscriptions in literature --- Herodotus --- Thucydides --- Thucydide --- Thukydides --- Thoukudides --- Herodotus van Halicarnassus --- Herodot --- Gerodot --- Hērodotos --- Herodotos --- Erodoto --- Hérodote --- Heródoto --- הירודוטוס --- הרודוט --- הרודוטוס --- هردوت --- هيرودوت --- Ἡρόδοτος --- Criticism, Textual. --- Tucidide --- Fukidid --- Tucídides --- Thoukydidēs --- תוקידידיס --- Θουκυδίδης --- Inscriptions antiques. --- Civilisation antique. --- Hérodote