The particular relationship that ties a work, medieval or not, to its audience constitutes if not the essence, at least the cause, in the broadest sense, of its historical being. This relationship can be investigated using different techniques, which normally refer to the coherence between the content of the text and the historical-ideological context to which the text, as an object and instrument of communication, is or seems destined. In a profound intersection of real themes and investigative perspectives, the Roman de Renart has been seen as predominantly belonging to classical traditions and born in a cultured environment, and destined to it and its games; as a particular aspect of a literature of the great or small nobility or of the bourgeoisie that linked their attention to other forms. - [Author]

Language: Italian