John W. Baldwin, The crisis of the ordeal: literature, law, and religion around 1200, Journal of medieval and Renaissance Studies, 24/3, 1994 : p. 327-353
Cité dans IMB 28/2, 1994, n° 2755: Discusses the Tristan legend (including a homologue from Chrétien's Chevalier de la charette), the early branches of the Roman de Renart, and the Roman de la rose of Jean Renart and its sequel the Roman de la Violette of Gerbert de Montreuil. Shows that the ordeal functioned in literary texts in ways congruent to those found in other historical documents, and highlights the crisis of the ordeal as revealed in literary texts Mots-clés : Tristan//Chrétien de troyes: lancelot//Lancelot: chrétien de troyes//Renart (roman de)//Jean renart: rose (roman de la)//Rose (roman de la): jean renart//Gerbert de montreuil: violette//Violette: gerbert de montreuil//