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Perpetual Motion
The popular conception of the Renaissance as a culture devoted to order and perfection does not account for an important characteristic of Renaissance art: many of the period's major works, including those by da Vinci, Erasmus, Michelangelo, Ronsard, and Montaigne, appeared as works-in-progress, always liable to changes and additions. In Perpetual Motion, Michel Jeanneret argues for a sixteenth century swept up in change and fascinated by genesis and metamorphosis. Jeanneret begins by tracing the metamorphic sensibility in sixteenth-century science and culture. Theories of creation and cosmology, of biology and geology, profoundly affected the perspectives of leading thinkers and artists on ...
A Feast of Words
The banquet gives rise to a special moment when thought and the senses—words and food—enhance each other. Throughout history, the ideal of the symposium has reconciled the angel and the beast in the human, renewing the interdependence between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Michel Jeanneret's lively book explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures. Ranging widely over French, Italian, German, and Latin texts, Jeanneret not only investigates the meal as a narrative artefact but enquires as well into aspects of sixteenth-century anthropology and aesthetics.
The Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance marks the beginning of the modern era in Western Europe. New energies are liberated, transforming the fabric of society, intellectual life, and indeed the whole vision of the world. Artists and writers bear witness to and actively participate in the unfolding dynamics and thereby play an important role in shaping the present. Through its exceptional collection of books of Renai-ssance Italian poetry, the Barbier-Mueller Foundation plays a dynamic role in awakening and remoulding our con-scious-ness of what is unquestionably a key moment in European culture. The Foundation has invited a fascinating array of major writers and scholars to explore this inheritance by writing freely and creatively on the subject, whether in the form of fiction, historical reverie or personal meditation. The contributors are Etienne Barilier, Lina Bolzoni, Yves Bonnefoy, Michel Butor, Dominique Fernandez, Adrien Goetz, Michel Jeanneret, Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen, Carlo Ossola, Pascal Quignard, Francisco Rico, Cesare Segre, Lionello Sozzi, Edna Stern, Carlo Vecce, and Marina Warner.
Ritual in Early Modern Europe
The comprehensive 2005 study of rituals in early modern Europe argues that between about 1400 and 1700 a revolution in ritual theory took place that utterly transformed concepts about time, the body, and the presence of spiritual forces in the world. Edward Muir draws on extensive historical research to emphasize the persistence of traditional Christian ritual practices even as educated elites attempted to privilege reason over passion, textual interpretation over ritual action, and moral rectitude over gaining access to supernatural powers. Edward Muir discusses wide ranging themes such as rites of passage, carnivalesque festivity, the rise of manners, Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the alleged anti-Christian rituals of Jews and witches. This edition examines the impact on the European understanding of ritual from the discoveries of new civilizations in the Americas and missionary efforts in China and adds more material about rituals peculiar to women.
Semiologies of Travel
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Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel
En 1565 paraît ce mystérieux petit livre, une suite de cent vingt planches qui, de caprices en métissages, modulent, avec une incroyable inventivité, le thà ̈me du monstre. Hormis un préambule qui n'explique pas grand-chose, les images rà ̈gnent sans partage. Dans leur introduction et postface, un historien de la littérature, Michel Jeanneret, et un historien de l'art, Frédéric Elsig, rappellent l'origine probable des Songes drolatiques : le milieu parisien des imprimeurs, des brodeurs et des décorateurs. Ils les rapprochent de la mode des grotesques et les replacent dans la tradition des drà ́leries gothiques et flamandes, celle de Bosch et de Bruegel. Ils rappellent que l'univers mental de la Renaissance est peuplé de monstres et, pour saisir l'enjeu de ces gravures étranges, proposent une réflexion sur le rapport qu'entretiennent la peur et le rire, suggérant que, si l'attribution à François Rabelais est historiquement fausse, elle rejoint pourtant, dans l'esprit, les joyeuses aventures des Pantagruélistes.
Eros rebelle. Littérature et dissidence à l'âge classique
Alors que le corps moderne se civilise, voire se mécanise sous les effets conjugués de la nouvelle science et des rituels de cour, l'érotisme le plus subtil et la pornographie la plus agressive entrent en rébellion avec, comme arme principale, ce qu'ils vont contribuer à faire naître : la littérature. Ce que l'on cherche à cacher doit être dévoilé, ce que l'on discipline ou réprime doit être libéré : ingénues et jouvenceaux, libertins savants et beaux esprits doivent " rompre les bandelettes morales ". Cette descente, avec Michel Jeanneret, dans quelques quartiers mal famés du grand Siècle nous découvre un âge classique tourmenté, livrant les individus au conflit de " la dépense " chère à Bataille et de la sage économie. Le légendaire équilibre du XVIIe siècle n'aura été qu'apparence trompeuse, voile de Noé jeté sur des corps et des esprits en révolte. A l'heure où le corps est plus que jamais marchandise, où la transgression est la chose la plus ordinaire qui soit, le combat d'une autre époque vaut d'être médité.
