Éthique et portrait du prince chrétien. Le cas du roi de France Henri II
The representation of the King of France in the xvith century is the product of several views that perpetuate it. From the view of the artist to that of the ambassador and the memorialist, the knowledge of the royal person passes by its body. Fixed or moving, it appears as an ethic construction larg...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA UMR 5190)
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Chrétiens et Sociétés |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/chretienssocietes/3534 |
| Summary: | The representation of the King of France in the xvith century is the product of several views that perpetuate it. From the view of the artist to that of the ambassador and the memorialist, the knowledge of the royal person passes by its body. Fixed or moving, it appears as an ethic construction largely inherited from the Aristotelian notion of habitus. The contemporaries - readers of Aristotle, Plutarch and Cicero - knew its stakes and considered that the ways of being virtuous, constitutive of the habitus, are primarily acquired through education. Literary and iconic portraits of the King reused types of physiognomy that were drawn from treaties of civility and which demonstrate the virtue of the king to govern. As well as the narratives which describe its familiarity and its nearness with his courtiers also bring to light a habit inherited this time from the social and political contingencies of the court of France in the xvith. |
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| ISSN: | 1257-127X 1965-0809 |