L’habit ne fait pas le moine: à propos de la fable "De lupo qui voluit esse monachus" d’Eudes de Cheriton (XIIIème siècle): Quelques réflexions sur la complémentarité de la fable et du proverbe

The proverb and the fable are based on practical wisdom, based on modesty, simplicity and the quest for truth. By adapting the models of the aesopic tradition, medieval authors developed a moralization of fables, defending the humble and condemning ambitious clerics. The proverbial sentence and the proverb are for Eudes de Cheriton an excellent tool of moral edification.