Resumen de L'idée de la folie en texte et en image: Sébastian Brandt et l'insipiens
The Idea of Folly in Text and Image : Sebastian Brant and the insipiens - The concept of folly underwent its most important evolution between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. When tracing an iconographie and literary course from Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff to Psalm 52, by way of Notre Dame of Paris and the Psychomachia, the contradictions present in the idea of folly become evident. The term insipiens used in Psalm 52 was figuratively represented to illustrate the text, and gave rise to various iconographic interpretations. The representation generally took the form of a symbolic figure, and it is precisely the exceptions to this tradition which mark a step by step evolution leading to a portrait of the court jester. On the threshold of the 16th century, by a fusion of fiction and portrait, Sebastian Brant used the image of the court jester to present a new form of critique demonstrating the differences between each person's real or presumed role in life. Yet by applying the term « folly » to his personal vision of the world as well, Brant gave a new dimension to the dilemma set forth by the insipiens of Psalm 52.
