Books by charles-louis Morand-Métivier
The first translation and critical edition in English of "La Tragédie du sac de Cabrières", a Wal... more The first translation and critical edition in English of "La Tragédie du sac de Cabrières", a Waldensian play from the 16th century. Forthcoming 2021, the Arizona Center for MEdieval and Renaissance Studies.
This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theori... more This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a large chronological and geographical span from eleventh-century France, to fifteenth-century Iberia and England, and ending with seventeenth-century Jesuit meditative literature. Essays in this book explore how particular emotional norms belonging to different socio-cultural communities (courtly, academic, urban elites) were subverted or re-shaped; engage with the study of emotions as sudden, but impactful, bursts of sensory experience and feelings; and analyze how emotions are filtered and negotiated through the prism of literary texts and the socio-political status of their authors. Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.
Articles by charles-louis Morand-Métivier
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2018
This article proposes to explore crises from seemingly different backgrounds and periods (the ma... more This article proposes to explore crises from seemingly different backgrounds and periods (the madness of Charles VI of France and the French Wars of Religion) to demonstrate how these elements were used by authors in order to create emotional narratives in support of the failing monarchy. In the two situa- tions, the French community was constructed as an entity which duty was to support the king. However, the authors use different methods to transmit their messages. While Christine de Pizan and the chroni- clers advocate for the building of an integrating, all encompassing community around the love of and for the king, Ronsard’s France is tasked at differentiating the Catholics and the Protestants, in an effort to construct France also as a monarchy loving community, of which the protestants are presented as the enemies.
This article examines how, in the Protestant play " La Tragédie du sac de Cabrières " (16th centu... more This article examines how, in the Protestant play " La Tragédie du sac de Cabrières " (16th century), the personality of the leader of the Catholic forces at the siege of Cabrières, d'Opède, is constructed through a set of oppositions between his duties as a leader and his dilemmas as a man. With an analysis of the transformation of the character from a man full of doubts to a " monster " dedicated to the extermination of the Waldensians, the author examines how gender and emotions are intertwined in the (re)creation of a masculine personality that sets aside any non-useful ideas in order to become a man completely devoted to his cause. Avant même que la Réforme ne se propage en Europe, des idées proches de celles qui seront développées à la Renaissance avaient déjà été formulées dans le dogme des Vaudois, un mou-vement religieux qui trouva ses origines à Lyon, au XIIe siècle, et qui suivit les préceptes de Pierre Vaudès. 1 Ce groupe, principalement présent dans la région des Alpes et du Piémont, se développa et se répandit jusqu'à l'établissement de près de 300 de ces protoréformés en Provence et dans le Lubéron au cours du XVe siècle. Leur foi n'était pas, bien entendu, accep-tée par les institutions et le parlement d'Aix lança, en 1540, un mandat d'arrêt contre « ceux de Mérindol » (l'un des villages Vaudois) pour un « crime de lèse-majesté divine » (Aubéry, 19). François Ier, après avoir ordonné l'exécution de cet arrêt, le suspendit en 1541. Cependant, en avril 1545, suite à un brusque changement d'opinion du roi, le mandat fut remis en vigueur. Une opération conjointe des troupes royales et provençales, dirigées respectivement par le Capitaine Poulin et le président du Parlement d'Aix, Maynier d'Opède, aboutit au massacre des populations vaudoises du Lubéron. 2 1 Pour une histoire générale du mouvement vaudois et de ses croyances, voir Gabriel Audisio, The Waldensian Dissent. Persecution and Survival, c. 1170–c. 1570, trad. Claire Davison (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). 2 Dans son Procès-verbal d'un massacre. Les vaudois du Lubéron (avril 1545) (Aix-en-Provence: EDISUD, 1992), Gabriel Audisio donne une explication très détaillée des événements et des décisions judiciaires qui avaient mené aux massacres.
Proverbium 33 (2016), 339-56.
The French Review 90.3, Forthcoming Spring 2017.
Cincinnati Romance Review 38 (Fall 2014), 20-36.
Book Chapters by charles-louis Morand-Métivier
A study of the famous work of Chartier as a piece of emotions scholarship. Upcoming in a volume e... more A study of the famous work of Chartier as a piece of emotions scholarship. Upcoming in a volume entitled "Trauma in Medieval Life," Brill.
works in progress by charles-louis Morand-Métivier
A study of women as an emotional community following the battle of Agincourt in Chartier's Livre ... more A study of women as an emotional community following the battle of Agincourt in Chartier's Livre des quatre dames.
Presentations by charles-louis Morand-Métivier
Paper delivered at the 2015 SCSC in New Orleans, in the "Polemical Strategies across the Theologi... more Paper delivered at the 2015 SCSC in New Orleans, in the "Polemical Strategies across the Theological Divide in the French Wars of Religion" Panel, organized by Bob Hudson (BYU) and chaired by Bruce Hayes (Kansas)
Paper delivered at the 2015 SCSC in New Orleans, in the "New Perspectives on Jean de Léry and Ref... more Paper delivered at the 2015 SCSC in New Orleans, in the "New Perspectives on Jean de Léry and Reformation-Era Anthropophagy" Panel organized by Amy Houston (Stonehill College) and Adam Asher Duker (University of Notre Dame) and chaired by Amy Houston.
Transfiguring the "débat courtois": women as a national emotional community in Alain Chartier's L... more Transfiguring the "débat courtois": women as a national emotional community in Alain Chartier's Livre des quatre dames The Battle of Agincourt (October 25 th , 1415) was, as Anne Curry described it, a "momentous event" for both France and England. While for England it was a victory that was celebrated as crucial for the national construction of the kingdom, for France, it was a national catastrophe, with the death of countless knights. Literary response to this event was abundant in France; a lot of it focuses on the courage of the late knights in a rather propagandist way. Alain Chartier's Livre des quatre dames (1415) does not deal with the battle itself. Rather, it describes the reaction of four wives of those who suffered there,
In the anonymous Tragédie du sac de Cabrières, written around 1560, the destruction of a Vaudois ... more In the anonymous Tragédie du sac de Cabrières, written around 1560, the destruction of a Vaudois village located in the vicinity of Avignon is turns into a denunciation of the cruelty of Royal Catholic troops, and as the celebration of the courage of the Vaudois martyrs, who preferred to be burnt alive than to renounce their faith. Based on true events, that are related by Jean Crespin in his Histoire des Martyrs, persecutez et mis a mort pour la verite de l'Evangile, depuis le temps des apostres jusques a présent (1619), this play has the particularity of an exclusively masculine cast: Poulin and Catderousse, who are military leaders in charge of the Catholic armies, and d'Opède, the president of the parliament of Provence on the one hand, and the Mayor and the "Syndique" of Cabrières on the other hand. Masculinity is central to the development of the play, and notably how it is developed in relation to emotions. In this paper, I will focus on the transformation of d'Opède, and on the relation between his emotions and governance, and particularly how the notion of masculinity becomes central to his relation to his duties as a leader and to his interpersonal relations with his men.
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