Un silence assourdissant à la césure : les guerres larvées de l’e caduc entre oedipiens, misogynes et glottophobes

Article | Contributor(s): David Moucaud

Widely studied from the “natural” perspective of a generational tabula rasa, the formalist shift in poetic technique known as the abolition of the coupe feminine, which occurred around 1515, is a thorny issue much more complicated than it would first appear. This formal silence, imposed upon the...

Livres polyglottes et conflits linguistiques au XVIe siècle : l’exemple de l’occitan

Article | Contributor(s): Michel Jourde

In the sixteenth century, the linguistic situation in southern France was characterized by the existence of several languages, each given a significantly different valuation. What relationship can be established between this environment of linguistic conflicts and the multilingual nature of...

Le conflit des publics dans le théâtre tragique imprimé de Théodore de Bèze et de Louis Des Masures

Article | Contributor(s): Louise Frappier

In the second half of the sixteenth century, with the revival of ancient theatrical forms, new readerships emerged for theatrical texts. Indeed, French tragedy is directed to a readership educated, or at least interested, in the literature of classical Antiquity. But the tragic genre also...

L’assassinat de François de Lorraine (1563) et la polarisation des publics

Article | Contributor(s): François Rouget

The assassination of François de Guise by Poltrot de Méré on 24 February 1563 exercised a considerable impact on public opinion. While Protestants celebrated, Catholics paid homage to the deceased in the form of verses written in French and Latin. His tribute was orchestrated by the de Guise...

Le conflit des publics dans le Dialogue du Manant et du Maheustre (1593) : un dialogue de sourds de la fin des guerres de religion

Article | Contributor(s): Grégoire Holtz

This article seeks to examine the representations of audiences in conflict in the abundant pamphleteer literature that flourished during the Wars of Religion. Drawing on Marc Angenot’s work on polemical rhetoric, as well as on the analyses of historians and literary critics, we are interested...

La fabrique de la controverse : André Vésale (1514–1564) à la conquête des publics (ou Comment acquérir un nom immortel dans l’histoire des sciences en insultant ses maîtres)

Article | Contributor(s): Hélène Cazes

When Andreas Vesalius published the Seven Books on the Fabric of the Human Body in 1543, it was with satisfaction that he created a scandal in the field of medicine and, more generally, among cultivated European readers. Assuming a voice of authority in medicine at the age of twenty-eight, he...

Stratégies éditoriales dans les éditions des Arrêts d’Amours de Martial d’Auvergne publiées au XVIe siècle : quand l’imprimeur-libraire choisit son public

Article | Contributor(s): Hélène Lannier

An absolute success in bookshops during the sixteenth century, Martial d’Auvergne’s Arrêts d’Amours saw thirty-one editions printed between 1500 and 1597. Far from being homogenous, this production shows a great deal of typographical and textual variance with each successive publication....

« Treschevaleureux capitaines » contre « crocheteurs de flascons » : lecteurs et lectorats dans les Fascetieux devitz des Cent nouvelles nouvelles du Seigneur de La Motte Roullant

Article | Contributor(s): Nora Viet

During the Renaissance, the short narrative owes its success partly to its social ubiquity: fables, fabliaux, and short stories circulated in very different realms, from the court to humanist circles, from bourgeois society to the clergy. However, with the popularity of the short story collection...

Médecins, chirurgiens, apothicaires : à qui sont adressées les traductions médicales ? Enquête sur l’édition lyonnaise des années 1540

Article | Contributor(s): Élise Rajchenbach

In the 1540s, medical publishing is in fashion in Lyon, specifically in the form of translations of Galen. Prefaces to the translations of the Greek physician highlight the conflicts underlying the practices of doctors, surgeons, and apothecaries in their closely-related disciplines. Translating...

Publics souhaités, publics refusés : les publics comme critères de la valeur de l’oeuvre dans les années 1550

Article | Contributor(s): Florence Bonifay

In the context of the exacerbated poetic tensions of the 1550s, the readerships defined by authors are manipulated to serve as arguments in constructing the merits of a work or in discrediting it. Innovative poets and their opponents thereby work to designate the audiences they claim to have, to...

Amours privées, amours publiques, amours publiées ; l’inscription de divers cercles publics dans quelques avatars des canzonieri pétrarquistes des années 1570–1580

Article | Contributor(s): Charlotte Triou

This article proposes an analysis of the clues given in printed collections by their address to a limited public and by the circulation of individual poems prior to publication. We will analyze, from the point of view of reception by successive audiences, the tension between the paradigm of...

« Des vers hors de rime, et de raison » : réflexions poétiques et définition de soi dans Les Amours de Christofle de Beaujeu

Article | Contributor(s): Ugo Pais

Read by a limited readership of critics and connoiseurs of literary curiosities, Christofle de Beaujeu’s work has often been subject to negative judgment. “Unrestrained” or “mediocre” are the adjectives most often applied to it. Beaujeu’s major work, the collected Amours, contains a few...

Conflit(s) et public(s) : orientations bibliographiques

Article | Contributor(s): Christian Veilleux

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Article | Contributor(s): Louise Geddes

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Article | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Grumbach

Farmer, Alan B., and Zachary Lesser, creators. Database of Early English Playbooks

Article | Contributor(s): Joshua J. McEvilla

Gruzd, Anatoliy, project lead. Netlytic. App

Article | Contributor(s): Luis Meneses

MacLean, Sally-Beth, gen. ed. REED Online. Database

Article | Contributor(s): Jesús Tronch Pérez

Acciarino, Damiano. Lettere sulle grottesche (1580–1581)

Article | Contributor(s): Marco Piana

Bailey, Amanda, and Mario DiGangi, eds. Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts: Politics, Ecologies, and Form

Article | Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic