‘Conpains, vois tu ce que je voi?’: gendered encounters in the Three Living and Three Dead

Leglu, C. (2018) ‘Conpains, vois tu ce que je voi?’: gendered encounters in the Three Living and Three Dead. Reading Medieval Studies, XLIV. pp. 1-20. ISSN 0950-3129 (ISBN 9780704915824)

Abstract/Summary

The encounter of the three living and three dead is one of the most famous traditions in medieval European art as well as in French and English literature. This article explores a rare image of an encounter between three women and three dead (in manuscript Paris, BNF fr. 378), which illustrates a French poem about masculine protagonists, in order to develop further the debates concerning this meditative tradition and the role of images in the macabre.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/79756
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies (GCMS) Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures > French
Publisher	University of Reading
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