Etudes de Philologie et d'Histoire

Ronsard et le livre (II)

Etude de critique génétique et d'histoire littéraire. Seconde partie : Les livres imprimés

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Reading, writing and book production marked the life of Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) almost in its entirety. The present study retraces the biographical, social ...

Jean-François COUROUAU

Et non autrement

Marginalisation et résistance des langues de France (XVIe-XVIIe siècle)

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Peut-on être Français et parler une autre langue que le français ? Au XVIe siècle, la réponse est évidente : la vitalité, à l'oral, des langues de France (occitan, basque, breton, dialectes d'oïl, francoprovençal) fait partie de l'expérience quotidienne..

Marie Henriette THEUNISSEN-FAIDER

D'une correspondance, l'autre.

Lettres de Marie Delcourt et d'Aloïs Gerlo traducteurs de l'Opus epistolarum d'Erasme (1964-1979)

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In 1964, Marie Delcourt and Alois Gerlo embarked on the unprecedented enterprise of translating Erasmus' complete correspondence. In an exchange of letters, the two collaborators confronted their reflections, hesitations, and necessary material decisions.

Tatiana DEBBAGI BARANOVA

A coups de libelles

Une culture politique au temps des guerres de religion (1562-1598)

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Ce livre propose une réflexion sur la culture de l'écrit de combat, désigné par le terme contemporain libelle, qui se met en place pendant les guerres de Religion. Il cherche à saisir...

Gabriel AUDISIO

L'Étranger au XVIeme siècle : France, Provence, Apt

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The present work addresses the question of what it was like to be a foreigner during the Renaissance and the Reformation. It adopts a three-tiered approach with three different scales of observation: ...

Calvin et l'Humanisme

Actes du symposium d'Amiens et Lille III (25-26 novembre 2009)

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These collected articles explore the humanist approach present in Calvin's relations with writing and the Bible and his relations with sixteenth century writers. This "humanism" with all its ambiguities is explored along three axes:...

Etienne Dolet. 1509-2009

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Étienne Dolet (1509-1546) provoked passionate reactions, both during his lifetime and after. Resurrected as the "martyr of the Renaissance" at the end of the nineteenth century, Dolet has served as a lens for studying the religious problems...

Denise HILLARD

Traité des eaux artificielles ou Vertus des eaux et des herbes

Le texte, ses sources et ses éditions. Une enquête lexicologique et bibliographique de 1483 à 1625

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Traité des eaux artificielles et Vertus des eaux et des herbes (Treatise on artificial waters and virtues of waters and herbs) are the two main titles under which a small handbook of phytotherapy was diffused for almost a century (1483-1578)...

Le livre demeure

Studies in Book History in Honour of Alison Saunders

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This collection of essays, celebrating the distinguished career of Alison Saunders (University of Aberdeen), consists of contributions from friends and colleagues from different stages of her life. All serve to demonstrate that, indeed, Le livre demeure..

François ROUGET

Ronsard et le livre. Etude de critique génétique et d'histoire littéraire

Première partie : lectures et textes manuscrits

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This study examines studies Pierre de Ronsard through his book production, describing the evolution in his literary and creative projects in his relation with their material production, ultimately showing how Ronsard profited from the book production ...

Jean-Louis FOURNEL, Jean-Claude ZANCARINI

La Grammaire de la République

Langages de la politique chez Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540)

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Constant war plagued Renaissance Italy, changing not only states, but also the ways to govern them. Like Machiavelli, Francesco Guicciardini sought to rethink traditional politics in the Florentine commune, inventing a new political language and "Grammar

Dominique GASPARD

Mercuriade. Tragédie (1605)

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Mercuriade is a five-act tragedy in verse written in 1605 by Dominique Gaspard, a Trinitarian from Lorraine. The play relates the Hungarian episode in the life of Philippe-Emmanuel of Lorraine, second Duke of Mercœur, from the moment he joined ...

Christine PIGNÉ

De la Fantaisie chez Ronsard

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Ronsard discovers the riches of imagination and human fantasy at the point where body and soul connect. This chronological survey of both sleep and fantasy in Ronsard's works examines the evolution of the poet’s use of fantastic images, ...

Vulgariser la médecine

Du style médical en France et en Italie (XVIe et XVIIe siècles)

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Jusqu'au XVIIe siècle, les traités de médecine, réservés aux doctes s'écrivaient d'ordinaire en latin. Pour toucher un public plus large, pour se conformer aux politiques princières de la langue ou pour participer au débat humaniste ...

Faictz de Jesus Christ et du pape

Fac-similé de l'édition de 1533

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This sixteenth-century pre-Calvinist polemical text is the first of its kind to use images to criticize Rome, comparing images of Christ's life and those of contemporary popes. The author of this presentation reveals its Germanic origins, situates it...

Romain DESCENDRE

L'Etat du Monde : Giovanni Botero entre raison d'Etat et géopolitique

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G. Botero enlarged the field of political thought in the sixteenth century by developing questions that would later be central to the social sciences : territory, population, circulation of wealth, and the geography of power. As a member of the Roman...

Lazarillo de Tormès

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Lazarillo de Tormès, posthumously and anonymously published in 1554, tells the story of a young street vendor who finds his happiness in a love triangle with an archpriest's servant...

Jean-François COUROUAU

Moun Lengatge bèl : Les choix linguistiques minoritaires en France (1490-1660)

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The corpus of poetical works in languages such as Occitan, Oïl dialects, Franco-Provencal, Breton, and Basque, since the advent of printing in France begs the question of why authors would choose a less prestigious local language rather than French or...

Matthew A. VESTER

Jacques de Savoie-Nemours : L'Apanage du Genevois au cœur de la puissance dynastique savoyarde au XVIe siècle

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Jacques de Savoie-Nemours, duke of Genevois (1531-1585), was head of the legitimate cadet branch of the house of Savoy and cousin of Duke Emanuel Filibert of Savoy. The relationship between these cousins was at the same time a source of prestige for...

Esprit généreux, esprit pantagruélicque

Essays by His Students In Honor of François Rigolot

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These fifteen essays by former doctoral students, now distinguished seiziémistes, of François Rigolot, Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature at Princeton University, represent a tribute to his qualities as professor, scholar, and person...

Samuel JUNOD

Agrippa d'Aubigné ou les misères du prophète

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In Les Tragiques, the tormented figures of Jonas and Jeremy serve as analogies for Agrippa d’Aubigné’s own situation. Without the skill, the natural inclination, or the desire to take on their mission, prophets end up alienated. Though they aspire to...

Bernd RENNER

La Satire dans tous ses états

Le "meslange satyricque" à la Renaissance française

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Satire, perhaps more than any other literary form, benefited from the renaissance of classical letters in the sixteenth century. Satire is without a doubt the most exemplary instance of Renaissance syncretism, combining humanist erudition ...

Fictions du diable : Littérature et démonologie de saint Augustin à Léo Taxil

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«Fictions du diable» focuses on the relationship between demonological treatises, literature and fiction, mostly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but not forgetting Saint Augustine, Leo Taxil or Collin de Plancy. Demonologists used various...

Robert M. KINGDON

Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France (1555-1563)

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Au temps des guerres de religion de nombreux pasteurs formés à Genève prirent part aux conflits et tentèrent d’amener la Fille aînée de l’Eglise à la foi réformée. Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France (1555-1563) met en évidence le...

La Mémoire des guerres de religion : La concurrence des genres historiques XVIe-XVIIIe siècles

Actes du Colloque international de Paris (15-16 novembre 2002)

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The trauma of the Wars of Religion was still affecting political and religious thought at the time of the Enlightenment. A large body of literature – including official histories, pamphlets, scholarly research, memoirs, novels, and epic poetry – grew...

Christian-Nils ROBERT

La Justice dans ses décors (XVe-XVIe siècles)

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With a blindfold over her eyes, a sword and scales in her hands, and knee bared for all to see, the attire of allegorical statues of Justice might leave one wondering. From the fifteenth century, European courtrooms began to draw inspiration for their...

"Et de sa bouche sortait un glaive" : Les Monarchomaques au XVIe siècle

Actes de la journée d'étude tenue à Tours en mai 2003

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Monarchomaque': the term, invented in 1600, applies to authors who may have spoken out against the king of France, or more usually to their writings. These were not only pamphlets reacting to the St Bartholomew's day massacre, but also hefty...

Simon VALLAMBERT

Cinq Livres de la maniere de nourrir et gouverner les enfans dès leur naissance

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In 1565, Simon de Vallambert published the first treatise on paediatrics in French, of which only one copy, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, is known. This early manual for mothers, midwives, and wet nurses, gives precise descriptions of...

Emergence du sujet : De l'"Amant vert" au "Misanthrope"

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The notion of “the subject” is hardly cut and dried. Behind its simple appearance, multiple shapes, meanings, and definitions have been adapted to suit every occasion. This collection of studies on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries nevertheless...

Michèle CLÉMENT

Le Cynisme à la Renaissance : D'Erasme à Montaigne

suivi de "Les Espitres de Diogenes" (1546)

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Diogenes believed that the exercise of virtue is not for the faint-hearted, that it is possible to be obscene and virtuous, violent and educationalist, and remain supremely happy. The importance of Cynicism at the Renaissance may be measured by a...

Eva KUSHNER

Le dialogue à la Renaissance : Histoire et poétique

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The dialogue form was omnipresent in Renaissance Europe. While it imitated the great models from Antiquity, it also strove to adapt the static forms of medieval debates or schoolish colloquia to reflect the fragmentation of authority. As a means of...

Max ENGAMMARE

L'Ordre du temps : L'Invention de la ponctualité au XVIe siècle

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In the sixteenth century, Geneva Protestants internalized a new concept of time and applied a particular ethic to their lives. Every minute God watches his faithful, and they, come Judgment day, will have to account for each minute, as Calvin...

Michel SERVET

Discussion apologétique pour l'astrologie contre un certain médecin

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Astrology was part of Michel Servet’s and his friends’ culture, but provoked strong responses from the scientific and religious communities at the university of Paris, where the young humanist was studying at the medical faculty between 1536 and 1538...

Florian PREISIG

Clément Marot et les métamorphoses de l'auteur à l'aube de la Renaissance

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Although the medieval cultural model continued under François I, new ideological and commercial factors affected the various audiences. Marot is emblematic of the poetic experimentation that ensued. Building on both Humanism and Evangelism, benefiting...

Le Poète et son œuvre : De la composition à la publication

Actes du colloque de Valenciennes (20-21 mai 1999)

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The established presence of the printing press influenced sixteenth-century French literature. Certain authors, conscious of the novel means at their disposal, adapted their work accordingly. Others objected to mass distribution and kept their work...

Jean-François GILMONT

Le Livre et ses secrets

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«Le livre et ses secrets» combines articles written by Jean-François Gilmont over the past thirty years on the history of the book and of reading, sixteenth-century bibliographies, typographical production, as well as book reviews. A bibliography of...

Thomas HUNKELER

“Le Vif du sens” : Corps et poésie selon Maurice Scève

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Maurice Scève’s discovery of Laura’s tomb in Avignon in 1533 was the start of his literary career. The body of Petrarch’s muse inspired Scève to write a dialogue with the “Thuscan Apollo”, and he was soon searching for more bodies and more models to...

Françoise ARGOD-DUTARD

L'Ecriture de Joachim Du Bellay : Le discours poétique dans "Les Regrets"

L'orthographe et la syntaxe dans les lettres de l'auteur

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Françoise Argod Dutard studies Du Bellay’s writing and analyses its lyrical subjective and literary forms. Using his letters, she tends to define the poet’s natural writing and underlines how it is used in Les...

Patricia EICHEL-LOJKINE

Excentricité et Humanisme : Parodie, dérision et détournement des codes à la Renaissance

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The word eccentric, borrowed from the technical vocabulary of astronomy, comes from the medieval Latin excentricus, "off-centre". Heavenly bodies, such as the sun, which move away from their centre of gravity without provoking any anomalies, are a...

Terence CAVE

Pré-Histoires II : Langues étrangères et troubles économiques au XVIe siècle

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Episodes from Rabelais' works provide the principal focus of the second volume of Pré-Histoire, although a wide range of texts of different kinds is used as evidence in these investigations. As in the first volume, literary and para-literary texts are...

Histoire & littérature au siècle de Montaigne

Mélanges offerts à Claude-Gilbert Dubois

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In this tribute to Claude-Gilbert Dubois about thirty articles by distinguished sixteenth century scholars are gathered. These scholars focus on subjects close to the Dubois’ work in dealing with the writing of History, Montaigne’s œuvre and the...

Gisèle MATHIEU-CASTELLANI

Montaigne ou la vérité du mensonge

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An interesting study emphasizing on thruth and lies in the works of Montaigne. Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani leads the reader into a world of...

Frédéric TINGUELY

L'Ecriture du Levant à la Renaissance : Enquête sur les voyageurs français dans l'empire de Soliman le Magnifique

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This book examines the intertextual and anthropological strategies developed by Western travellers to the Middle East in the Renaissance. It focuses on the writings of seven authors (Belon, Chesneau, Gassot, Gilles, Nicolay, Postel, and Thevet) who...

Leon Battista ALBERTI

Descriptio urbis Romae

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The Descriptio Urbis Romæ of Leon Battista Alberti is a short text apparently written in the middle of the XVth century. It describes the method that the author invented for drawing up the map of Rome. This is the first complete edition covering all...

Ullrich LANGER

Vertu du discours, discours de la vertu : Littérature et philosophie au XVIe siècle en France

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This essay provides a link between the rhetoric of praise, the theory of the virtues, and the representation of human behavior in literature of the French Renaissance. Ullrich Langer demonstrates the relevance of classical moral philosophy to an...

Terence CAVE

Pré-Histoires : Textes troublés au seuil de la modernité

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This study explores the "pre-history" of a group of phenomena often regarded as constitutive of modernity : radical scepticism, shifts in the framework of religious belief, the emergence of a secularized self, the invention of new narrative forms and...

Brigitte ROUX

Les Dialogues de Salmon et Charles

VI : Images du pouvoir et enjeux politiques

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Study of the text of a very interesting political treatise and of Maitre de Boucicaut’s fascinating...

Calvin et ses contemporains

Actes du colloque de Paris 1995

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An increasingly important aspect of Calvin’s life with his contemporaries, through new methods of...

Eros et Priapus : Erotisme et obscénité dans la littérature néo-latine

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This collection focuses on the universal but protean theme of the erotic in neo-Latin literature. Eight contributions in English and in French by scholars of Renaissance and Early modern literature from France, Great Britain, Germany and Belgium chart...

Jean-François GILMONT

Jean Calvin et le livre imprimé

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When Calvin undertook his religious reform, he resorted to several different means of communication: sermons, letters, and books. However, what place did he give to the printing press in carrying out the influence of his message? This question...

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