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Rabelais et Linacre : Les racines médicales de l’incertitude.

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Unlike Pantagruel and Gargantua, the last novels by Rabelais use a subtle grammatical innovation of the years 1520-1530: the outbreak of the potential mood, due to the physician Thomas Linacre, in his Progymnasmata (ca.1515) or Rudimenta, fully developed in De emendata structura (1524), and underlined by Vivès in his paedagogical letters (1527). The morphological “conditional” (the –rais form in French), the modal meanings of devoir and pouvoir are important to express doubt, uncertainty, possibility. Robert Estienne (1543), then Jean de Drosay (1544) include later this new paradigm, following George Buchanan, who taught in Paris and Bordeaux and translated the Rudimenta written by Linacre into Latin, also translating the English examples in French (1533). Nevertheless, Linacre was an heir of the “Modist” trend in Oxford, and Buchanan himself was indebted to the “terminist” philosopher John Mair. The emergence of the potential could be linked to a Modist legacy in a medical context.

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Marie-Luce Demonet. Rabelais et Linacre : Les racines médicales de l’incertitude.. Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, panel « Rabelais : état des recherches », Bernd Renner, Mar 2017, Chicago, États-Unis. ⟨halshs-01676865⟩
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