{"title":"Civic Pride and Royal Incorporation: Henri IV in Limoges","authors":"A. Rosensweig","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2022.2028447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2028447","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines an account of Henri IV’s entry ceremony into Limoges in 1605 that was written by Simon Descoustures, a local official and avocat du roi. I argue that this account opens up theoretical terrain on which to rethink narratives of royal power in early modern France. Henri IV’s royal entries have previously been understood as part of a broader effort to shore up his authority in the wake of the religious wars. In Descoustures’s text, however, while the people of Limoges welcome Henri IV into their city, they do so on their own terms, extending the spatial and temporal framework through which their encounter with the king takes place. By attending to the materiality of Limoges’s ancient origins and its enduring civic pride, I demonstrate how the city incorporates Henri IV into its civic body, rather than allowing itself fully to be subsumed into the king’s body politic.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"124 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47880004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Work of Fans: A Fête galante at Anet","authors":"C. Hogg","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2021.2010309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2021.2010309","url":null,"abstract":"of the","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"188 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42819499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transcending the Public and the Private: The Cosmopolitanism of Freemason Joseph Honoré Rémy","authors":"F. Poulsen","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2022.2025750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2025750","url":null,"abstract":"Published in 1770, Le cosmopolisme by Joseph Honoré Rémy is the first pamphlet in French to elaborate upon a political philosophy of cosmopolitanism. I first present a biography of Rémy with original elements concerning his membership of the Freemasonic Lodge of the Nine Sisters. This article analyses his pamphlet and argues that his cosmopolitanism is a way of transcending the public and the private. Such transcendence is, I argue, achieved in two ways: first, through the authorial function of writing as a ‘cosmopolite’ and second, through an understanding of cosmopolitanism as a human fraternity inspiring private and public virtues in republican monarchies.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"179 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47071550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: O hommes disposez & prompts à la servitude","authors":"J. O’Brien","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2022.2076315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2076315","url":null,"abstract":"Here a despotic, freedom-hating ruler contemptuously castigates the obsequiousness of the Roman Senate, which abases itself before him despite being composed of free-born citizens. The quotation was invoked as a parallel for current circumstances in late sixteenth-century French political literature and was later alluded to by Racine. Its very popularity is an index of the extent to which in early modern French historical, political, and literary traditions, questions of freedom and servitude remained perennial topics of debate. They came to the fore with particular acuity during the French Wars of Religion (1562–98) when tyranny and","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"2 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49599871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Quel monstre de vice […] que la langue refuse de nommer ?’: Monsters and the Politics of Naming in La Servitude volontaire (and beyond)","authors":"W. Williams","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2022.2076320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2076320","url":null,"abstract":"This discussion conjugates La Boétie’s exploration of the negative valency of ‘la servitude volontaire’ with a set of ancient, early modern, and contemporary images and texts – from Homer and Cicero, through Montaigne and Hobbes, to Racine and Kadir Nelson. The force of ancient example is registered in the repeated haunting of the body politic by the ghost of tyranny: across genres, locations, and times, one generation after another seems to consent to the subjection of body, property, and soul to the tyrant’s cause. Reworking insights and images drawn from La Servitude volontaire, political theorists and dramatists, writers, and artists bear exemplary witness to the dance by which we trace the contours, shapes, and limits of love and (be)longing, community and action, agency and will.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"86 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47663851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Slavery and Freedom in a Time of Civil War: La Boétie, L’Hospital, and Montaigne","authors":"J. O’Brien","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2022.2076316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2076316","url":null,"abstract":"The modern ‘neo-Roman' or ‘republican' concept of freedom as liberty from the arbitrary will of another is the starting point for a discussion of three French Renaissance magistrates for whom freedom is paramount political question: La Boétie, L'Hospital, and Montaigne. The first of these sees freedom in ontological terms, the foundation of being as well as of any political system in the form of freedom of expression and amitié. The article shows that that these values are severely tested by the French Wars of Religion. L’Hospital claims that personal and collective liberty is compatible with monarchical rule and submission to the will of another. This attempt to reconcile domination and non-domination is then greatly refined by Montaigne who re-frames the premises of this debate in terms which develop the role of historical figures such as Socrates and Lucan in the defence of individual and civic freedom.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"53 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44598335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sujétion et subjectivation dans la Servitude volontaire de La Boétie","authors":"L. Gerbier","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2022.2076317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2076317","url":null,"abstract":"Quelle place La Boétie occupe-t-il dans la genèse du concept moderne de sujet? Cet article entreprend de répondre à cette question en la replaçant dans le contexte des études françaises récentes sur l'histoire philosophique du sujet moderne. L'étude lexicale des occurrences du sujet et de la sujétion dans la Servitude volontaire montre que La Boétie semble réserver le terme de sujet à la désignation de l'asservissement: cependant, une lecture précise de ces occurrences permet de reconstituer les contours d'une pensée de la subjectivation libre qui court, à l'état de traces, tout au long de la Servitude volontaire. Cette pensée présente la singularité de se construire dans le cadre d'une réflexion sur le problème de la naissance: c'est par le biais de cette pensée de la naissance, et de l'écart entre naissance et commencement, que La Boétie trouve sa place dans l'histoire de la naissance du concept moderne de sujet.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"8 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46005086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power, Consent, and the Role of the Multitude in Étienne de La Boétie’s De la servitude volontaire","authors":"Sophie Nicholls","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2022.2076318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2076318","url":null,"abstract":"La Boétie’s De la servitude volontaire has traditionally been read as an archetypal piece of French humanist writing. In contrast, this article argues that medieval, scholastic ideas underpin De la servitude volontaire. There are two components to this argument: the first is the influence of La Boétie’s training in civil law at the Université d’Orléans on his political ideas, where there is clear evidence that aspects of medieval jurisprudence underpinned an argument that is otherwise presented in the stylish prose of French humanism. The second is La Boétie’s indebtedness to aspects of the Aristotelian, scholastic tradition, in which his use of anti-democratic commentaries on Aristotle’s Politics forms the basis of a critique of republican readings of De la servitude volontaire.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"24 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48258352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Verba Ligant Homines, Taurorum Cornua Funes","authors":"O. Guerrier","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2022.2076319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2076319","url":null,"abstract":"Le brocard juridique qui sert de titre à cet article est d’abord examiné selon les glissements de sens qu’il a connus, de Justinien à Loisel en passant par les glossateurs médiévaux, du formalisme au consensualisme, et selon ses croisements avec la littérature populaire et morale. Le ‘lien’ humain auquel il fait référence est la plupart du temps astreinte, erreur, voire folie. Sa plasticité est comme redoublée par son immersion dans des textes relevant de la ‘littérature’ tels que ceux de Rabelais, La Boétie ou Montaigne, qui en disséminent les composantes, s’attachant tantôt au domaine animal tantôt au domaine humain, pour dénoncer la servitude et la faillite de la société ou au contraire caractériser une possible émancipation, et notamment une relation de confiance mutuelle, politiquement et éthiquement positive, susceptible de concerner aussi bien le contenu des textes que le type de lecture qui en assure la juste compréhension.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"40 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43331910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Est-ce vivre?’ The Politics of Living in La Boétie and Montaigne","authors":"Emma Claussen","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2022.2076314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2076314","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores Étienne La Boétie's discussion of the unfree life, with and against Montaigne's accounts of life in the Essais. In De la servitude volontaire, La Boétie responds to writing on life in his source texts, such as Seneca's ‘On the Brevity of Life’: the life of servitude is almost antithetical to any ‘good life’, and indeed is scarcely life at all. Giorgio Agamben's concept of ‘bare life’ and Orlando Patterson's characterisation of slavery as ‘social death’ elucidate La Boétie's characterisations of the deprived life in servitude. Montaigne's differently weighted reflections on painful, reduced, or tyrannised lives at the end of Book II allow that lives that are ‘less than good’ (not least his own, while suffering ‘subjection’ to kidney stones) may nonetheless be worth living. These approaches are part of the broader interest in early modern political thought in minimal definitions of the good life, and/or negative accounts of life.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"70 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45997590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}