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- Title
L'AUDIENCE DES PROPHÉTIES DE MERLIN : ENTRE RUMEURS POPULAIRES ET TEXTES SAVANTS.
- Authors
Daniel, Catherine
- Abstract
This article looks at the way Merlin's prophecies were perceived by those other than the powerful and learned, so as to understand how ordinary people could comprehend these complex, deliberately obscure, predictions. Political communication between the powerful and the anonymous was ensured by the circulation of prophetic rumours deriving from learned written texts which gave them credibility.
- Subjects
FRANCE; PROPHECY; POLITICAL communication; FRENCH revolutionary literature; FRENCH Revolution, 1789-1799; MERLIN, Maria de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, comtesse de, 1789-1852
- Publication
Médiévales, 2009, Vol 57, p33
- ISSN
0751-2708
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4000/medievales.5800