L'oeuvre hagiographique en prose d'Alcuin, abbé de Tours : édition critique, traduction et commentaire
Christiane Veyrard-Cosme
The hagiographical prose works of alcuin includes three saints'lives dealing respectively with vaast, riquier and willibrord. Written at the end eighth century, for monastic readers, ordered by familiars charlemagne, they aim a larger audience, rulers carolingian era. Two them consist in rewriting older texts; third is an original. purpose to train readers mora ly religiously through confrontation between king saint each work. More over, these works, thanks variety stylistic narrative devices, appear as christian epic which heroes, little individualization, are god's instruments, well frank cheafs who act his glory. Last, symbolic universe alcuin's present themes light, water wine, nourishes mystical devotion christ.