Etudes Germaniques N° 268, 4/2012 - Erec/Erec, Humanisme Et Savoirs, Paris/Weimar

Christophe THIERRY, Puissance et Sagesse dans Erec de Hartmann von Aue et Érec et Énide de Chrétien de Troyes - des références au De gratia de Bernard de Clairvaux??Did Chretien de Troyes draw his inspiration from the treatise De gratia et libero arbitrio by Bernard of Clairvaux as he conceived his first Arthurian novel, Érec et Énide?? The hypothesis set up in this article mainly builds upon the fact that some narrative patterns which are instrumental in the novel such as the gift of the horse as well as the guiding, teaching and healing functions assumed by certain characters could derive directly from the prologue of the De gratia. On the whole, the way Hartmann deals with these patterns seems to indicate that he knew where they came from. As far as the second part of the action is concerned (from the departure from Carnant after the recreantise episode until the epilogue) we suggest a three-part structure that differs from Kuhn's. Not only is this structure reminiscent of that of B