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<p>This dissertation examines the development of Huguenot confessional identity and political strategy under the Edict of Nantes through sermons. Here, sermons serve as a vital medium of ideological exchange, shaping and reflecting the mental world of France's Protestant population, while acting as a source of dialogue between Huguenot ministers, their parishioners and readers, and the crown. As a result, this study demonstrates the cultural tools that influenced how the Huguenot population made sense of their position in France in the seventeenth century, and it shows that, while Huguenots lost much of their effective political power after 1629, their ministers were active in the decades after through informal but telling channels, instructing their parishioners about proper civic and political belief, and positing for their various audiences a view of the French polity – and of its absolutist monarchy – that included a legitimate place for the Huguenot population.</p> <p>The introduction and the first chapter provide the historical and historiographical background, while also offering a detailed explanation of the training and vocation of Huguenot ministers, shedding light on their sermons and their social and professional networks. Chapters two and three provide the heart of the argument, exploring the elements of the sermons that emphasized, first, the necessity of religious particularism for Huguenots within France and, second, their abiding devotion to the crown. Together, these dual elements of Huguenot identity meant that they were negotiating their own vision for the kingdom and their place within it. The final three chapters examine the prevalence and significance of the Huguenot dual identity in diverse sermon themes, while also showing its legacy beyond the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.</p> <p>This dissertation provides an important contribution to Reformation and French historiography, while also complicating notions about religious identity and the development of absolutist thought by demonstrating a confessionally-distinct political activism that is not often recognized. It also reveals the interwoven nature of religion and politics in the Reformation era, here as it is manifested in sermons.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

L’année 1629 voit la sédentarisation parallèle des deux troupes théâtrales parisiennes, celle du Théâtre du Marais, dirigée par Charles Le Noir, et la Troupe Royale, locataire du prestigieux Hôtel de Bourgogne. Ces deux compagnies – auxquelles se joint ponctuellement, en 1644-1647, l’Illustre Théâtre de Molière et des Béjart – se livrent une concurrence serrée, qui passe notamment par l’usage du doublage dramatique : deux pièces, composées par deux dramaturges différents, mais fondées sur le même sujet, sont présentées, à quelques semaines ou mois d’intervalle, sur deux scènes parisiennes distinctes. Les deux premières décennies de cette Guerre des théâtres présentent quarante et un doublons dramatiques de ce type. L’investigation s’attache d’abord à les replacer dans le contexte de leur création : au carrefour des thèmes dramatiques contemporains et de la rivalité théâtrale, les pièces jumelles épousent les courants du répertoire, qu’elles contribuent simultanément à alimenter, au gré de thématiques prédominantes : l’univers romanesque de la piraterie, la rivalité fraternelle, la thématique de l’Innocence persécutée, la figure de l’Illustre héroïne, parangon de vertu ou odieuse furie, et le théâtre lui-même, que la concurrence prend pour objet au sein de pièces qui figurent ses types (le Capitan), son univers quotidien (le Paris de 1640), ou encore ses plus grands succès (Le Cid, notamment). Cette section historique de l’enquête fait simultanément apparaître les correspondances qui se tissent non seulement entre les pièces jumelles, mais également avec le reste de la production contemporaine : le rival n’est pas toujours celui qu’on croit. La suite de l’étude s’attache aux modalités du fonctionnement de la concurrence. En premier lieu, celle-ci ne peut faire l’économie d’une publicité affichée, qui lui assure l’aura nécessaire à son efficacité et en fait bénéficier les pièces qu’elle soutient. L’investigation prend ensuite pour objet les enjeux dramaturgiques et scénographiques des pièces rivales. Les premiers sont l’affaire stricte des dramaturges, dont le rapport à l’Histoire ou la Fable se complique de celui qu’ils entretiennent avec leur rival. La perspective scénographique tente enfin de déterminer quels aspects du spectacle chaque troupe entend faire valoir, dans l’entreprise toujours éphémère de susciter le plaisir théâtral. / In the year 1629, two Parisian theatre companies settled down at the same time: the company of the Théâtre du Marais, led by Charles Le Noir, and the Troupe Royale, resident of the renowned Hôtel de Bourgogne. These two companies – which were sometimes joined by the Illustre Théâtre de Molière et des Béjart in 1644-1647 – were engaged in a fierce competition, mostly revealed by the common practice of twin plays : two plays, written by two different playwrights, but dealing with the same subject, were presented, at an interval of a few weeks or of a few months in two different Parisian theatres.Over the first two decades of this theatre War, forty-one dramatic twin plays were performed. The study first consists in explaining the context of their creation: with the combination of the theatrical themes of the time and the theatrical rivalry, the twin plays adopted the trends of the repertoire, and enriched them at the same time, through these main themes : the fabulous world of piracy, brotherly rivalry, the recurrent theme of persecuted Innocence, the figure of the Illustrious heroin, either a paragon of virtue or an odious shrew, and theatre itself, a subject chosen by the rivals for the plays which presented its great figures (le Capitan), its surroundings (Paris in 1640), or its greatest achievements (Le Cid, mainly). This historical part of the study simultaneously reveals the similarities between the twin plays and also their link with the other plays of the time : the rivals are not always the ones you would expect.What follows in the study deals with how this competition took place. Primarily, deliberate advertising was a key notion because it gave the prestige it needed to reach its goal and the plays it supported benefited from it. Then, the study focuses on the stakes in the dramatic and scenographic arts in rival plays. Dramaturgy was the business of playwrights only. Their relation to the Story or Fable was also influenced by their relationship with their rival. Finally, scenography was meant to choose the aspect of the show each company would focus on, whose aim always was theatrical enjoyment, short-lived as it may be.

This thesis re-examines the role of marriage in the golden age of seventeenth-century French comedy. It reconsiders received wisdom on the subject to challenge acceptance of the final promise of marriage as a dénouement complet to comedy. Through an analysis of the themes of discontent, cuckoldry, fertility, non-heteronormative desire and widowhood, it offers an alternative view of what comedy can encompass. Close reading of works by Molière, Quinault, (Thomas) Corneille, (Françoise) Pascal, Ulrich and de Visé establishes that comedy can be both enjoyable and satisfying while incorporating elements that conflict with the marriage ideal. This thesis does not attempt to provide a full socio-historical reading of seventeenth-century attitudes to marriage, although an understanding of contemporary attitudes provides a starting point for close textual analysis. Critical theories, notably gender theory, are used where appropriate to further clarify the role of marriage in comedy. Chapter One presents and problematizes the framework of marriage as the structuring principle of comedy, drawing on themes of compatibility, discontent and desire. The second chapter focuses on anxiety regarding cuckoldry in comedy, relating it to the promise of marriage. An analysis of the desires of older characters in projected comedic marriages, particularly as these desires relate to fertility, is the guiding principle of Chapter Three, which also sets out essential terms of reference for the fourth chapter on widowhood and queer desire. The thesis demonstrates that rather than constituting a satisfying and happy ending, a constant challenge is posed to the promise of marriage by on-stage marriages, fears of cuckoldry, widowhood, and ‘inappropriate' or queer desires. I propose a more nuanced reading, showing that comedy can be fully satisfying and structurally complete without a final promise of marriage, and that, rather, comedy can incorporate significant elements that appear antithetical to the ideal of marriage typically associated with the genre.

Esta tese ocupa-se da investigação da semiótica da agudeza, utilizando como corpus poemas do final do século XX, chamados neobarrocos, e fragmentos de Galáxias, de Haroldo de Campos, e Finnegans1Wake, de James Joyce. As recepções contemporâneas aos séculos XVI e XVII não entendem as produções literárias como barrocas, mas como clássicas, diferentemente, portanto, do valor atribuído ao estado de barroco constante dos textos da crítica do século XX. Da investigação das obras de Peregrini, Gracián, Hansen e Pécora, depreende-se a agudeza como sistematizadora das produções barrocas dos seiscentos. Além disso, esta pesquisa constata não a presença eufórica de barroco sincrônico ou a existência de um possível neobarroco, mas gradações da agudeza como um operador formal da poesia dita barroquista. Com base nessa agudeza, propõe-se, dentro do quadro teórico-metodológico da semiótica tensiva, demonstrar como essa poesia, vista por muitos críticos como neobarroca, é regida segundo uma oscilação que a regula, reconhecendo nela uma dominância de agudeza do plano da expressão (PE) e/ou uma dominância de agudeza do plano do conteúdo (PC). Observadas as propriedades da agudeza, os objetos poéticos apresentam diferenças tensivas que os encaminham para uma poesia que conhece a graduação entre mais fluida e mais nítida, manifestando diferenças de acentuação no obscurecimento formal do enunciado. O enunciador, ao privilegiar a vivificação das agudezas, promove uma tensão estetizante: um jogo entre o rápido prazer da conservação sensível e o demorado prazer do reconhecimento inteligível do objeto estético, dois tipos diferentes de fruição. Dividida em cinco capítulos, a tese aborda inicialmente a ausência e a presença do recorte de barroco nos estudos literários, bem como a dominância do sobrevir nos semas de barroco e a sincronia e diacronia dos estados de barroco em direção a uma agudeza idiossincrônica. Em seguida, examina o jogo tensivo entre agudeza da expressão e agudeza do conteúdo, focalizando sobretudo os tratadistas seiscentistas e as propriedades da agudeza. Ocupa-se também da negação da euforia barroquista em direção à visualidade na poesia da agudeza. Como o conceito de neobarroco varia de autor para autor, examina-se o ponto de vista de Umberto Eco, Omar Calabrese, Severo Sarduy, Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, Haroldo de Campos, Affonso Ávila, Affonso Romano SantAnna, Horácio Costa, Ana Hatherly, Ivan Teixeira, para estabelecer um modelo mais conforme à semiótica tensiva. A tese trata ainda dos limites entre sensível e inteligível na poesia aguda do século XX, realizando uma recapitulação da fenomenologia em diálogo com a semiótica tensiva, da qual sobressai o conceito de fé perceptiva e de perobjeto zilberberguiano. Finalmente, entra em cena a agudeza do final do século XX na direção do objeto fluido. / This thesis is concerned with the investigation of semiotics of sharpness. Its corpus consists of poems from the late 20th century which are called \"neo-baroque\", and fragments of Haroldo de Campos Galáxias and James Joyces Finnegans Wake. Contemporary receptions to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries do not understand the literary productions as baroque, but as classical, therefore unlike the value assigned to the \"state of baroque\" in critical texts of the 20th century. Sharpness is inferred from the research of the works of Peregrini, Gracián, Hansen and Pécora as systematizing baroque productions of the 1600s. Furthermore, this research finds not the euphoric presence of synchronous baroque or the existence of a possible neo-baroque but gradations of sharpness as a formal operator of the so-called baroqueist poetry. Based on this sharpness, and within the theoretical and methodological framework of tensive semiotics, it is proposed to demonstrate how this poetry, regarded by many critics as \"neo-baroque\", is governed according to an oscillation that regulates it, recognizing in it a sharpness dominance of the level of expression (PE plano da expressão) and / or a sharpness dominance of the level of content (PC plano do conteúdo). Once observed the properties of sharpness, poetic objects show tensive differences that forward them for a poetry that knows the graduation from more fluent to more clear, manifesting differences of emphasis in the formal obscuration of the enunciation. The enunciator, while privileging the enlivenment of sharpness, promotes aesthetic tension: a game between the quick pleasure of sensitive conservation and delayed enjoyment of intelligible recognition of the aesthetic object two different types of enjoyment. Divided into five chapters, the thesis first addresses the absence and the presence of baroque slice in literary studies as well as the dominance of occurrence in baroque units of meaning and the synchrony and diachrony of baroque states towards an idiosynchronic sharpness. Then it examines the tensive game between sharpness of expression and sharpness of content, particularly focusing on the seventeenth-century treatise writers and the properties of sharpness. It also deals with the denial of baroqueist euphoria towards the visuality in the poetry of sharpness. As the concept of \"neo-baroque\" varies from author to author, the thesis examines the viewpoint of Umberto Eco, Omar Calabrese, Severo Sarduy, Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, Haroldo de Campos, Alfonso Ávila, Affonso Romano Sant\'Anna, Horácio Costa, Ana Hatherly, Ivan Teixeira, in order to establish a model more consistent with tensive semiotics. It also addresses the boundaries between sensible and intelligible in the sharp poetry of the 20th century, making a recapitulation of phenomenology in a dialogue with tensive semiotics, from which the concepts of perceptual faith and zilberbergian perobject stand out. Finally, the sharpness of the late 20th century comes into play towards the fluid object.

Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665) est une femme peintre du XVIIème siècle bolonais. La ville de Bologne mérite en soi un discours philogyne, dans la mesure où plusieurs femmes étaient non seulement reconnues pour leur érudition, mais également diplômées dans les domaines littéraire et scientifique. Elisabetta Sirani ne déroge pas à la règle en associant une solide culture générale et une profession considérée en premier lieu comme virile : la peinture. Le profil d’Elisabetta Sirani présente à la fois un intérêt biographique et iconographique ; double orientation reliant étroitement art et littérature. Le personnage d’Elisabetta Sirani s’inscrit également dans l’histoire, superposant les différents genres littéraires. Le XIXème siècle est en ce sens révélateur de la revisitation d’un fait divers en mythe. / Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665) was a Bolognese 17th century women painter. Bologna was considered a philogynous city, since many Bolognese women were famous for their erudition and for being laureates in literature and sciences. Elisabetta Sirani was not an exception, she was a well-educated and cultured woman whose occupation as a painter was mostly seen as a virile one. Elisabetta Sirani’s profile presents both a biographical and iconographic interest ; a double orientation that closely relates art to literature. Elisabetta Sirani was part of history too as her character was reintrepreted by various literary genres. The 19th century revealed the reinterpretation of a chronicle into a myth.

Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689)--one of the most celebrated, if controversial, converts of all times--settled in the papal city after her abdication in 1654. Her palace--the Palazzo Riario (today Corsini)--became one of Rome's leading cultural institutions: a site where learned, artistic, and elite culture converged. This study examines Christina's practice of collecting, and argues that her ambition was to create a center for learning and the arts in the Palazzo Riario modeled on the ancient Musaeum of Alexandria. While Christina's importance as a patron of art and learning has long been recognized, this dissertation offers the first comprehensive discussion of Christina's practice of collecting, and the architecture and ambience of her Roman palace. Based on both published and unpublished architectural drawings, inventories, household accounts, and contemporary travel descriptions, this dissertation establishes the contents and the display of Christina's collection, and the architectural plan of the Palazzo Riario. This study examines the intersection between objects and their display, issues of etiquette and decorum, and the social use of architecture in seventeenth-century Rome. It aims to contribute to the history of collecting and early museums, and to the broader field of seventeenth-century culture.

Esta tese ocupa-se da investigação da semiótica da agudeza, utilizando como corpus poemas do final do século XX, chamados neobarrocos, e fragmentos de Galáxias, de Haroldo de Campos, e Finnegans1Wake, de James Joyce. As recepções contemporâneas aos séculos XVI e XVII não entendem as produções literárias como barrocas, mas como clássicas, diferentemente, portanto, do valor atribuído ao estado de barroco constante dos textos da crítica do século XX. Da investigação das obras de Peregrini, Gracián, Hansen e Pécora, depreende-se a agudeza como sistematizadora das produções barrocas dos seiscentos. Além disso, esta pesquisa constata não a presença eufórica de barroco sincrônico ou a existência de um possível neobarroco, mas gradações da agudeza como um operador formal da poesia dita barroquista. Com base nessa agudeza, propõe-se, dentro do quadro teórico-metodológico da semiótica tensiva, demonstrar como essa poesia, vista por muitos críticos como neobarroca, é regida segundo uma oscilação que a regula, reconhecendo nela uma dominância de agudeza do plano da expressão (PE) e/ou uma dominância de agudeza do plano do conteúdo (PC). Observadas as propriedades da agudeza, os objetos poéticos apresentam diferenças tensivas que os encaminham para uma poesia que conhece a graduação entre mais fluida e mais nítida, manifestando diferenças de acentuação no obscurecimento formal do enunciado. O enunciador, ao privilegiar a vivificação das agudezas, promove uma tensão estetizante: um jogo entre o rápido prazer da conservação sensível e o demorado prazer do reconhecimento inteligível do objeto estético, dois tipos diferentes de fruição. Dividida em cinco capítulos, a tese aborda inicialmente a ausência e a presença do recorte de barroco nos estudos literários, bem como a dominância do sobrevir nos semas de barroco e a sincronia e diacronia dos estados de barroco em direção a uma agudeza idiossincrônica. Em seguida, examina o jogo tensivo entre agudeza da expressão e agudeza do conteúdo, focalizando sobretudo os tratadistas seiscentistas e as propriedades da agudeza. Ocupa-se também da negação da euforia barroquista em direção à visualidade na poesia da agudeza. Como o conceito de neobarroco varia de autor para autor, examina-se o ponto de vista de Umberto Eco, Omar Calabrese, Severo Sarduy, Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, Haroldo de Campos, Affonso Ávila, Affonso Romano SantAnna, Horácio Costa, Ana Hatherly, Ivan Teixeira, para estabelecer um modelo mais conforme à semiótica tensiva. A tese trata ainda dos limites entre sensível e inteligível na poesia aguda do século XX, realizando uma recapitulação da fenomenologia em diálogo com a semiótica tensiva, da qual sobressai o conceito de fé perceptiva e de perobjeto zilberberguiano. Finalmente, entra em cena a agudeza do final do século XX na direção do objeto fluido. / This thesis is concerned with the investigation of semiotics of sharpness. Its corpus consists of poems from the late 20th century which are called \"neo-baroque\", and fragments of Haroldo de Campos Galáxias and James Joyces Finnegans Wake. Contemporary receptions to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries do not understand the literary productions as baroque, but as classical, therefore unlike the value assigned to the \"state of baroque\" in critical texts of the 20th century. Sharpness is inferred from the research of the works of Peregrini, Gracián, Hansen and Pécora as systematizing baroque productions of the 1600s. Furthermore, this research finds not the euphoric presence of synchronous baroque or the existence of a possible neo-baroque but gradations of sharpness as a formal operator of the so-called baroqueist poetry. Based on this sharpness, and within the theoretical and methodological framework of tensive semiotics, it is proposed to demonstrate how this poetry, regarded by many critics as \"neo-baroque\", is governed according to an oscillation that regulates it, recognizing in it a sharpness dominance of the level of expression (PE plano da expressão) and / or a sharpness dominance of the level of content (PC plano do conteúdo). Once observed the properties of sharpness, poetic objects show tensive differences that forward them for a poetry that knows the graduation from more fluent to more clear, manifesting differences of emphasis in the formal obscuration of the enunciation. The enunciator, while privileging the enlivenment of sharpness, promotes aesthetic tension: a game between the quick pleasure of sensitive conservation and delayed enjoyment of intelligible recognition of the aesthetic object two different types of enjoyment. Divided into five chapters, the thesis first addresses the absence and the presence of baroque slice in literary studies as well as the dominance of occurrence in baroque units of meaning and the synchrony and diachrony of baroque states towards an idiosynchronic sharpness. Then it examines the tensive game between sharpness of expression and sharpness of content, particularly focusing on the seventeenth-century treatise writers and the properties of sharpness. It also deals with the denial of baroqueist euphoria towards the visuality in the poetry of sharpness. As the concept of \"neo-baroque\" varies from author to author, the thesis examines the viewpoint of Umberto Eco, Omar Calabrese, Severo Sarduy, Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, Haroldo de Campos, Alfonso Ávila, Affonso Romano Sant\'Anna, Horácio Costa, Ana Hatherly, Ivan Teixeira, in order to establish a model more consistent with tensive semiotics. It also addresses the boundaries between sensible and intelligible in the sharp poetry of the 20th century, making a recapitulation of phenomenology in a dialogue with tensive semiotics, from which the concepts of perceptual faith and zilberbergian perobject stand out. Finally, the sharpness of the late 20th century comes into play towards the fluid object.