I'm Frank Gayte
My research field is religious ethnomusicology :
1999 (Maîtrise, Poitiers, France),
A New Musicological Concept : Maxime Kovalevsky's Slavo-Gregorian
Model
2000 (D.E.A., Paris-Sorbonne),
Phos Hilaron, a 2nd c. Byzantine Hymn and its many versions
in European christian churches
"under construction..." :
200... (Doctorate, Paris-Sorbonne),
Artistic, Social and Religious Aspects of the Assumption Ceremony in
Elx, Catalunya
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Francois Villon's (1430-1460) Ballade pour prier Notre-Dame begins with :
Dame du ciel, régente terrienne,
Emperière des infernaux palus,
...
Lady of the sky, earthly regent,
Empress of the infernal marshes,
...
I wonder if Notre Dame was commonly defined or painted or sung elsewhere than in Villon's ballad in relation with a representation of Hell as a swamp during the Middle Ages. What can be understood from Villon's description is that Notre Dame reigns over the three Antiquity worlds : Heaven, Earth and Infierno. But is this symbolic representation a common "cliché" in the medieval arts and profane and/or religious literature ?
Looking forward,
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