{"title":"Célébrer la providence divine. Jubilé et culture commémorative réformée (Genève, XVIe-XVIIe siècle)","authors":"C. Grosse","doi":"10.4000/EPISTEME.1810","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"If reformation commemorations began in Germany in 1617, using the posting of Luther's 95 theses as a date of reference, it is only a century later that a commemoration culture emerged in Geneva. This article examines the reasons for this delay. One factor was theological: the rejection of the jubilee as a Catholic practice. The other is related to the persistence of a conception of history in which events related to the conversion of the city to the Reformation, were read as a spiritual history, in which divine providence was the main actor, rather than as a temporal history, depending mainly on human action. The notion of Geneva being an elected city, and the object of particular divine protection, is central to this conception. The article argues that elements of public commemoration practice were gradually set up, first through the erection of a monument (1558), then through the definition of a proper reformed way of celebrating a jubilee (1635). These steps led to the first public celebration of the bicentenary of the Genevan Reformation in 1735.\nSi les commemorations de la Reforme prennent en Allemagne leur essor des 1617, en s’appuyant sur l’affichage par Luther de ses theses en 1517 comme date de reference, une culture commemorative ne se developpe veritablement a Geneve qu’avec un siecle de retard. Ce texte examine les raisons, notamment theologiques, de ce retard. Il demontre qu’il decoule du rejet des pratiques catholiques, mais aussi de la persistance d’une conception de l’histoire dans laquelle les evenements lies a la conversion de la cite a la Reforme s’inscrivent davantage dans le cadre d’une histoire spirituelle, dont la providence divine est l’acteur principal, qu’a l’interieur d’une histoire temporelle, dont les hommes seraient les premiers auteurs. Cette conception se fixe autour de l’idee que Geneve est une ville elue, objet d’une protection divine particuliere. Le texte montre que des elements d’une pratique commemorative publique se mettent cependant progressivement en place, d’abord par l’erection d’un monument (1558), puis par la definition d’une maniere proprement reformee de celebrer le jubile (1635). Ces jalons rendront possible la premiere commemoration veritablement publique de la Reforme en 1735.","PeriodicalId":40360,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Episteme","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2017-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Etudes Episteme","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/EPISTEME.1810","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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If reformation commemorations began in Germany in 1617, using the posting of Luther's 95 theses as a date of reference, it is only a century later that a commemoration culture emerged in Geneva. This article examines the reasons for this delay. One factor was theological: the rejection of the jubilee as a Catholic practice. The other is related to the persistence of a conception of history in which events related to the conversion of the city to the Reformation, were read as a spiritual history, in which divine providence was the main actor, rather than as a temporal history, depending mainly on human action. The notion of Geneva being an elected city, and the object of particular divine protection, is central to this conception. The article argues that elements of public commemoration practice were gradually set up, first through the erection of a monument (1558), then through the definition of a proper reformed way of celebrating a jubilee (1635). These steps led to the first public celebration of the bicentenary of the Genevan Reformation in 1735.
Si les commemorations de la Reforme prennent en Allemagne leur essor des 1617, en s’appuyant sur l’affichage par Luther de ses theses en 1517 comme date de reference, une culture commemorative ne se developpe veritablement a Geneve qu’avec un siecle de retard. Ce texte examine les raisons, notamment theologiques, de ce retard. Il demontre qu’il decoule du rejet des pratiques catholiques, mais aussi de la persistance d’une conception de l’histoire dans laquelle les evenements lies a la conversion de la cite a la Reforme s’inscrivent davantage dans le cadre d’une histoire spirituelle, dont la providence divine est l’acteur principal, qu’a l’interieur d’une histoire temporelle, dont les hommes seraient les premiers auteurs. Cette conception se fixe autour de l’idee que Geneve est une ville elue, objet d’une protection divine particuliere. Le texte montre que des elements d’une pratique commemorative publique se mettent cependant progressivement en place, d’abord par l’erection d’un monument (1558), puis par la definition d’une maniere proprement reformee de celebrer le jubile (1635). Ces jalons rendront possible la premiere commemoration veritablement publique de la Reforme en 1735.