Une idéologie urbaine « bricolée » en Flandre médiévale : les Sept Portes de Bruges dans le manuscrit Gruuthuse (début du XVe siècle)

摘要

Jan Dumolyn, A Composite Urban Ideology in Medieval Flanders : the Seven Gates of Bruges in the Gruuthuse Manuscript (start of the 15th century) Considering late medieval “ urban ideology” as “ a systematic political and social discourse, featuring elements specific to urban life in the Middle Ages and representing the balance of power within the city and with the outside world”, this article examines the case of Bruges around 1400. More specifically, we focus on an allegorical poem in the famous Gruuthuse manuscript. When considering this text in its cultural, social, and political contexts, it appears to be very revealing as to its ideological contents. Inspired by different types of semantic registers, and most of all by Christian thought, the citizen tinkers together a discourse as a ‘ bricoleur’, to use the expression of Claude Lévi-Strauss ; a discourse that still has no really autonomous urban characteristics, but nevertheless corresponds to the specific conditions of urban life in late medieval Bruges.