The challenges of creation and representation: From medieval manuscripts to transmedia research-creation

Presentation

The search for Ségurant le Chevalier au Dragon, the lost novel of the Round Table scattered in manuscripts all over Europe, was a borderline case in my research where I constantly questioned the methods used. This mosaic of rediscovered texts - an "open work", as Umberto Eco would have said - led me to propose various reconstructions, ranging from scientific editions, to translations in several languages, to documentaries and comic strips. This transmedia research-creation approach has led me to embark on an even more ambitious project: not to exhume medieval texts preserved in manuscripts, but to bring together what remains on several continents of an oral memory preserved from generation to generation, from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day.

Emanuele Arioli, born in 1988 in Italy, is a medievalist, archivist-paleographer and HDR lecturer at UPHF. Author of several books and essays on Arthurian literature, medieval manuscripts and on Marcel Proust, he is also a documentary filmmaker for ARTE, director and actor. His publications include Ségurant, le Chevalier au Dragon published by Les Belles Lettres (2023), a medieval novel he has reconstructed, as well as a comic book adaptation (Le Chevalier au Dragon, DARGAUD, 2023), and a children's album (Ségurant, Seuil Jeunesse, 2023).

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