Glossatrix

Next, this voice, which might be termed the “glossatrix,” […]

In another rapprochement to the “genre narratif bref,” the women are claiming to have knowledge about the world based on experience, handed down in an oral tradition but open to reconfirmation, qualification or refutation at any time (as shown in the interventions of the “glossatrices”).

However, it is Christine’s voice as glossatrix which explicitly states that she is speaking on behalf of ‘nous crestiens’ and can thus guide the reader along a moral and spiritual path which leads beyond the limitations imposed on Othéa[.]