<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Cet article est le fruit d&rsquo;une r&eacute;flexion, qui propose d&rsquo;&eacute;tudier, &agrave; travers un corpus m&eacute;di&eacute;val, des r&eacute;cits de femmes pers&eacute;cut&eacute;es, qui est un vaste ensemble europ&eacute;en de textes compos&eacute;s entre le XIIe&nbsp;et le XVe&nbsp;si&egrave;cle, dans la perspective des&nbsp;<em>Care studies</em>&nbsp;en y associant les ressources philosophiques et religieuses propres &agrave; la civilisation m&eacute;di&eacute;vale. L&rsquo;objectif de ce travail est de pallier une absence injustifi&eacute;e de sollicitation des textes m&eacute;di&eacute;vaux par les&nbsp;<em>Care Studies</em>, dans le dessein de montrer que ces textes, compos&eacute;s le plus souvent dans un contexte chr&eacute;tien o&ugrave; la charit&eacute; est un sentiment naturel en m&ecirc;me temps qu&rsquo;un devoir, sont les premiers de notre langue &agrave; faire de l&rsquo;empathie &agrave; la fois un pilier &eacute;thique de l&rsquo;existence commune pour l&rsquo;individu chr&eacute;tien, mais &eacute;galement et surtout, un fondement po&eacute;tique de l&rsquo;&eacute;criture litt&eacute;raire. Nous voudrions en d&eacute;finitive montrer que les textes m&eacute;di&eacute;vaux peuvent &ecirc;tre apparent&eacute;s, en ce qu&rsquo;ils th&eacute;matisent et suscitent des formes d&rsquo;empathie, &agrave; un geste de soin.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;">This article results from a reflection which proposes to study, through a medieval corpus, the stories of persecuted women, which is a vast European set of texts composed between the twelfth and the fifteenth century, from the perspective of&nbsp;<em>Care Studies</em>&nbsp;by associating the philosophical and religious resources proper to medieval civilization. The aim of this work is to make up for an unjustified absence of medieval texts from the<em>&nbsp;Care Studies</em>&nbsp;perspective, with the intention of showing that these texts, most often composed in a Christian context where charity is a natural feeling as well as a duty, are the first in our language to make empathy both an ethical pillar of common existence for the Christian individual, but also, and above all, a poetic foundation of literary writing. Ultimately, we would like to show that medieval texts can be related to a gesture of care in that they represent and elicit forms of empathy.</span></span></span></p>