Recent Publications

De Tamerlan à Gengis Khan (Matthieu Chochoy)

Matthieu Chochoy, De Tamerlan à Gengis Khan. Construction et déconstruction de l’idée d’empire tartare en France du XVIe siècle à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2021.

De Tamerlan à Gengis Khan describes how the writing of the history of Tamerlane by French scholars between the 16th and 18th c. led to a reinterpretation of the history of Genghis Khan. Based on a supposed common origin of these two emperors, the idea of a «Tartar empire» structured the perception of the history of the Orient until the 19th century. Matthieu Chochoy highlights the dynamics and networks within which this idea circulated, the sources mainly produced in Persia and China that fed this paradigm and the stages of its deconstruction.

In this perspective, this book stands at the crossroads of the history of scholarship in France in the classical age and the intellectual history of Orientalism.



De Tamerlan à Gengis Khan décrit la façon dont l’écriture de l’histoire de Tamerlan par les érudits français entre le xvie et le xviiie siècle a conduit à une réinterprétation de l’histoire de Gengis Khan. Construite à partir d’une origine supposément commune à ces deux empereurs, l’idée «d’empire tartare» a structuré la perception de l’histoire de l’Orient jusqu’au xixe siècle. Matthieu Chochoy met en lumière les dynamiques et les réseaux au sein desquels cette idée a circulé, les sources majoritairement produites en Perse et en Chine qui ont alimenté ce paradigme, et les étapes de sa déconstruction.

Dans cette perspective, ce livre témoigne de la rencontre entre une histoire de l’érudition en France à l’âge classique et une histoire intellectuelle de l’orientalisme.

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ISBN: 978-90-04-49901-0

Publication Date: 18 Nov 2021

Early Modern Privacy Sources and Approaches (dir. Michaël Green, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, and Mette Birkedal Bruun)

Early Modern Privacy. Sources and Approaches, dir.  Michaël Green, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, and Mette Birkedal Bruun, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2021.

Privacy is often considered a modern phenomenon. Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches challenges this view. This collection examines instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy, and opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies. Scholars of architectural history, art history, church history, economic history, gender history, history of law, history of literature, history of medicine, history of science, and social history detail how privacy and the private manifest within a wide array of sources, discourses, practices, and spatial programmes. In doing so, they tackle the methodological challenges of early modern privacy, in all its rich, historical specificity.



Contributors: Ivana Bičak, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Maarten Delbeke, Willem Frijhoff, Michael Green, Mia Korpiola, Mathieu Laflamme, Natacha Klein Käfer, Hang Lin, Walter S. Melion, Hélène Merlin-Kajman, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Anne Régent-Susini, Marian Rothstein, Thomas Max Safley, Valeria Viola, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Heide Wunder.

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ISBN: 978-90-04-15291-5

Publication Date: 16 Dec 2021

François Hotman: Antitribonian (ed & transl. Howell A. Lloyd)

François Hotman, Antitribonian, ed & transl. Howell A. Lloyd, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2021.

Written c. 1567 (though unpublished until 1603), this is the work of an extraordinary scholar, a radical and polemicist, rival of many of the leading intellectual and political figures of his day. According to François Hotman’s distinguished biographer Donald Kelley the Antitribonian ‘is, or should be, a landmark in the history of social and historical thought’. It is also a landmark in the history of legal thought. The present edition is the first to evaluate Hotman’s text in the context of the history of Roman law from the time of the sixth-century Byzantine Emperor Justinian I to the Germany of the Enlightenment.

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ISBN: 978-90-04-40033-7

Publication Date: 21 Oct 2021

Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (dir. Ji Li)

Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, dir. Ji Li, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2021.

The first scholarly work on the subject by leading scholars in the field, Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China examines the variety of ways in which MEP missionaries complemented and complicated Catholic Church and French engagement with Chinese society. Key players in the Church’s overseas missions in the Far East, many MEP missionaries spent their entire lives working with ordinary Chinese. This volume explores the proactive engagement of MEP missionaries in Bible translation and cultural accommodation, their evangelization efforts in local communities, and the interaction between MEP representatives and various local groups. Each study in this book responds to one or more of the major themes in the history of Christianity in China that include conflicts, accommodations, indigenization, imperialism, and nationalism. Contributors are François Barriquand, Jean Charbonnier, Yanrong Chen, Lina Guo, Zhijie Kang, Ji Li, Matthieu Masson, Jean-Paul Wiest, Qing Wu, Hongyan Xiang, Ernest Young, and Aidong Zhao. See Less

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Copyright Year: 2022

ISBN: 978-90-04-47210-5

Publication Date: 18 Nov 2021

Histoire des deux Indes. Raynal et ses doubles (dir. Pierino Gallo)

Histoire des deux Indes. Raynal et ses doubles, dir. Pierino Gallo, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2021.

Le statut polygraphique et la structure hétérogène de l’ Histoire des deux Indes invitent à réexaminer les méthodes et les stratégies employées par les rédacteurs, et amènent à lire le texte dans une double perspective : celle dictée par la tradition historiographique et celle suggérée, en parallèle, par les intrusions du discours philosophique. C’est ce dernier aspect que tâchent d’interroger les études ici réunies, en mettant l’accent sur le recyclage des sources et le croisement des voix textuelles (ce qui finit par « mettre en scène » une pluralité de visions sur les thématiques traitées), sur les phénomènes rhétoriques utilisés par les auteurs (apostrophes, commentaires, dialogues fictifs et apartés), et/ou sur les figures qui marquent la narration d’une polyphonie subjective.



The polygraphic status and the heterogeneous structure of the Histoire des deux Indes invite us to re-examine the methods and strategies employed by the editors, and lead us to read the text from a double perspective: that dictated by the historiographical tradition and that suggested, in parallel, by the intrusions of philosophical discourse. It is this latter aspect that the articles gathered here attempt to examine, focusing on the recycling of sources and the crossing of textual voices (which ends up "staging" a plurality of visions on the themes treated), on the rhetorical phenomena used by the authors (apostrophes, commentaries, fictitious dialogues and asides), and/or on the figures that mark the narrative with a subjective polyphony.

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Copyright Year: 2022

ISBN:978-90-04-47277-8

Publication Date: 18 Oct 2021

ISBN: 978-90-04-47276-1

Publication Date: 21 Oct 2021

Dufresny, Théâtre français. Tome I (éd. dir. Guy Spielman)

Dufresny, Théâtre français, Tome I, éd. dir. Guy Spielman, avec Jeanne-Marie Hostiou, Jacqueline Razgonnikoff, Agnès Vève-Lamy et Matthieu Franchin, Paris, Classiques Ganier, 2022.

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Auteur d'une quarantaine de comédies, Charles de la Rivière du Fresny (1657-1724) dissimula sous l'insouciance un sérieux de moraliste ; ses comédies, parfois, anticipent le drame. Il accordait aussi une grande importance à la musique, insérant dans ses pièces des chansons qu'il composait lui-même.

Nombre de pages: 784

Parution: 26/01/2022

Collection: Bibliothèque du théâtre français, n° 84

ISBN: 978-2-406-12174-9

ISSN: 2109-7577

Albineana, 2021, n° 33 : "Musiques et société dans les provinces de l’Ouest au cours des Guerres de religion"

Albineana, 2021, n° 33 : "Musiques et société dans les provinces de l’Ouest au cours des Guerres de religion".

Coordinateurs d'ouvrage: Goeury (Julien), His (Isabelle), Poton (Didier)

Résumé: Bulletin de la Société des Amis d'Agrippa d'Aubigné, Albineana propose une fois par an des analyses et des informations sur l'œuvre de l'écrivain, sur ses contemporains et sur son époque.

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Nombre de pages: 346

Parution: 15/12/2021

Revue: Albineana, n° 33

ISBN: 978-2-406-12624-9

ISSN: 1154-5852

DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12625-6

Bulletin de la Société internationale des amis de Montaigne, 2021, n° 73

Bulletin de la Société internationale des amis de Montaigne, 2021, n° 73 : "varia".

Directeur d'ouvrage: Guerrier (Olivier)

Coordinateurs d'ouvrage: Dupeyron (Jean-François), Lins (Fabien Pascal), Péraud-Puigségur (Stéphanie)

Résumé: Le Bulletin paraît deux fois par an et propose alternativement des numéros spéciaux (actes de colloque, contributions sur un thème spécifique) et des livraisons "généralistes" qui accueillent les participations individuelles autour du texte des Essais.

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Nombre de pages: 474

Parution: 10/11/2021

Revue: Bulletin de la Société internationale des amis de Montaigne, n° 73

ISBN: 978-2-406-12606-5

ISSN: 2119-9434

DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12607-2

Cahiers Tristan L’Hermite, 2021, n° XLIII : Tristan et la poésie du XVIe siècle

Cahiers Tristan L’Hermite, 2021, n° XLIII : "Tristan et la poésie du XVIe siècle".

Revue des Amis de Tristan L’Hermite fondée en 1979, les Cahiers Tristan L’Hermite ont pour vocation d'éclairer l'œuvre du célèbre poète, dramaturge, romancier et prosateur en son temps (1601-1655) et plus largement la culture du premier XVIIe siècle.

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Nombre de pages: 196

Parution: 17/11/2021

Revue: Cahiers Tristan L’Hermite, n° 43

ISBN: 978-2-406-12344-6

ISSN: 0241-9890

DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12345-3

Christopher J. Lane, Callings and Consequences

Christopher J. Lane, Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021). ISBN paperback: 978-0-2280-0855-2, $34.95; ISBN hardcover 978-0-2280-0854-5; ISBN PDF 978-0-2280-0975-7; ISBN ePub 978-0-2280-0976-4. See below for 20% discount.

 

The concept of vocation in an early modern Catholic setting calls to mind the priesthood or religious life; we sometimes assume that to be “called” by God meant to leave the lay state. Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, French Catholic clergy began to promote the innovative idea that everyone, even an ordinary layperson, was called to a vocation or “state of life” and that discerning this call correctly had implications for one’s happiness and salvation, and for the social good.

 

Callings and Consequences analyzes the origins, growth, and influence of a culture of vocation that became a central component of the Catholic Reformation and its legacy in France. The reformers’ new vision of the choice of a state of life was marked by four characteristics: urgency (the assertion that one’s soul was at stake), inclusiveness (the belief that all Catholics, including lay people, were called to their state), method (the use of proven discernment practices), and liberty (the belief that this choice must be free from coercion, especially by parents). No mere passing phenomena, these vocational reforms engendered enduring beliefs and practices within the repertoire of global Catholic modernity, even to the present day.

 

An illuminating and sometimes surprising history of pastoral reform, Callings and Consequenceshelps us to understand the history of Catholic vocational culture and its role in the modernizing process, within Christianity and beyond.

 

Praise:

"It is hard to explain why the striking change in French discourse around vocation in the early modern era has gone almost unstudied, but from the point of view of the faithful, this was one of the biggest innovations of early modern Catholicism. Callings and Consequences provides a crucial introduction to the topic, filling a major gap in our understanding of the early modern Catholic world. All serious scholars of early modern Catholicism should read this book." Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University (author of The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism and Political Ideology in Renaissance France)

 

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1 – Before the Rigorist Turn: The Catholic Reformation of Vocation in the Long Sixteenth Century

2 – Urgency: Vocational Rigorism and the Dangers of Choosing Poorly

3 – Inclusiveness: Lay Vocation in a Rigorist Framework

4 – Method: Systematizing the Discernment Process

5 – Liberty: Parental Involvement without Parental Coercion

Conclusion