This thesis takes as its area of exploration the papal chapel choir and its repertory, alongside the papacy and its patronage of the arts at the end of the fifteenth century. It draws on previous research concerning the singers, polyphonic manuscripts and artistic culture of the Vatican, but places Pope Alexander VI as the central figure of the thesis, showing schemes of patronage that shaped his reign. The research presents a transcription and analysis of the hymn cycle contained within the manuscript Cappella Sistina 15, alongside an assessment of the polyphonic music collection and places these against accounts of music making and evidence of music copying at the papal chapel during Alexander’s reign. The thesis also considers the environment of secular music making at Alexander’s court. In order to provide a context in which to understand this information, the life of Alexander VI is examined, tracing his artistic patronage and involvement with music both prior to his election and afterwards. Of particular note is the engagement of the artist Pintoricchio to decorate the papal apartments. Here, the artist’s representation of music as part of the seven liberal arts is analysed, providing a unique, contemporary and important insight into music practices in Alexander’s court. Three classifications of patronage are identified for Alexander’s reign, while also showing that these were strategies that he had used before he became pope. The music culture at the papal chapel is shown to be part of this strategy, through the consolidation of old music and the introduction of new music into the repertory, ending a task that had taken approximately 60 years. It shows that Alexander’s reign was an important period musically, that instituted new musical traditions and created an environment that prepared the way for the golden ages of patronage of Julius II and Leo X.

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This dissertation considers Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) as a painter and as a figure of discourse. It addresses the longstanding concern of Rousseau’s resistance to interpretation and proposes that this derives from Rousseau’s incomplete fulfillment of the professional obligations of the artist, specifically, from his failure to motivate his work through the pursuit of what modern art critics commonly called “a problem.” Rousseau did not practice painting as artists of his day did, and because of this difference—first articulated by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1908 as an absence of artistic inquiétude—he entered the discourse of art with unprecedented susceptibility to reinvention. The Rousseau we know today, the Rousseau who was a miraculous modernist in the interwar period, and the Rousseau who emerged in the context of the avant-garde in the earliest years of the twentieth century share little besides a name, and this frustrates any effort to write a coherent history of the painter and his pictures. Rather than propose once again Rousseau’s recuperation into a traditional art-historical narrative, this dissertation tells the history of a maker who produced admirable images but fulfilled few other author-functions, and it tells the history of writers who, compensating for Rousseau’s authorial deficits, produced a new artist, a new body of work, and widespread puzzlement about the place of each in the history of modern art. / text

The pamphleteers popularized the mythology of despotism by denouncing lettres de cachet and other supposed abuses of power that had little effect on most people. Historians like Funck-Brentano may be correct in arguing that the government was really moderate at this time, but it is important to show that radical propagandists were quite successful in convincing Frenchmen that thousands of innocent victims huddled miserably in <em >cachots for having inflamed the despotic passions of a minister. Moreover the prisons that were mythological for most Frenchmen had been terribly real for Brissot, Carra, Gorsas and many other writers, and this consideration also suggests the importance of the biographical approach. The Bastille may have been nearly empty, but it was a powerful symbol, effectively exploited by pamphleteers who dealt in symbols, declamation and distortions of political realities. They were highly successful in dominating public opinion, which exerted an influence on events that has been unappreciated in relation to the weak, irresolute rule of Louis XVI. The thesis attempts to develop this interprettion of the political importance of radical propaganda with reference to the scientific, financial and literary history of the period. It may seem weak on some ponts of these specialized fields, but it is hoped that it assimilates them successfully in its main attempt to contribute to an understanding of the last years of the Ancien Regime: its analysis of the character of radical propaganda in relation to the men who created it.

This thesis provides an analytical interpretation of the critique Dutch nineteenth-century statesman-cum-historian Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801-1876) articulated of French revolutionary ideology. It achieves an original reading of Groen's thought as Protestant right-order theory. This reading achieves a clarification of the functions that Scripture, 'nature', and 'history' have in his thought, and connects his thinking to that of a small group of contemporary British-based political theologians, notably Oliver and Joan Lockwood O'Donovan, and their minority view on the ontological grounding of justice. Our comparison of Groen's argument of 'history' with that of Edmund Burke achieves original critical leverage on their concepts of 'history', and draws out that Burke's critique of the Revolution purposes to re-affirm English common law, while Groen's is an apologia for Christianity.

L’Estoire d’Outremer, vaste fresque historique constituée de la traduction française de l’Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum de Guillaume de Tyr prolongée par la compilation de diverses chroniques, retrace l’histoire du royaume latin de Jérusalem jusqu’en 1277 et représente l’une des principales sources franques de l’histoire des croisades. Relevant autant du genre didactique que de la littérature aristocratique, l’Estoire d’Outremer est également un des tous premiers monuments de l’historiographie en prose de langue française et manifeste l’émergence, de la fin du XIIe siècle à la fin du XIIIe siècle d’un nouveau public, lettré mais non savant, avide de découvrir son passé. Le manuscrit Pluteus LXI. 10 de la bibliothèque laurentienne de Florence dont nous présentons ici l’édition, dans sa partie de la Continuation copiée outremer et couvrant les années 1185-1247, prend place dans un ensemble complexe et hétérogène de plus de cinquante manuscrits et constitue à bien des titres un témoin particulièrement précieux. Copié dans le français d’Outremer, dialecte d’oïl formé en Terre sainte, il est le dernier manuscrit fabriqué à Saint-Jean d’Acre avant la chute de la ville et du royaume, couronnement de toute une tradition historiographique. Complet, luxueux et richement décoré, il témoigne des pratiques propres aux ateliers ultramarins et du savoir-faire de ses ornemanistes, et nous présente les œuvres les plus abouties de l’artiste nommé maître de Paris et d’Acre. L’édition que nous en donnons comprend un apparat critique complet, une présentation littéraire, des études codicologiques, linguistiques et paléographiques, un glossaire, un index et une chronologie. / The Estoire d’outremer is a sweeping historical account that represents one of the main Frankish sources for the history of the crusades. It contains the French translation of William of Tyre’s Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum, to which is added a compilation of several chronicles retracing the history of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem until 1277. The Estoire d’outremer is rooted in the didactic genre as well as in aristocratic literature, and represents one of the first testaments of prose hagiography in the French language. It is evidence of the well read, although not scholarly public which emerged during the 12th and the 13th centuries, and which was keen to uncover its past. We present here the edition of the Pluteus LXI.10 manuscript at the Laurentian Library in Florence, from the f. 274 to the f. 336 (the period 1185-1247). It is part of a complex and heterogeneous ensemble of more than fifty manuscripts, and is a particularly precious testimony on several counts. Copied in Outremer French – an oïl dialect shaped in the Holy Land – it was the last manuscript to have been completed at St.-Jean d’Acre before the fall of the city and kingdom, and was the crowning achievement of a long historiographical tradition. The manuscript is complete, sumptuous and richly decorated, showcasing the particular practice of ultramarine workshops and the mastery of their ornementists. Its pages display the most consummate works produced by the Paris-Acre Master. Our text edition is presented with a comprehensive critical apparatus, a literary presentation, some codicological, linguistic and paleographical studies, a glossary, an index and a chronology.

Cette thèse porte sur la Trilogie du Futur du Théâtre du Futur, compagnie basée à Montréal. Ces trois pièces imaginent un futur où le Québec serait devenu indépendant et examinent, du même coup, les problèmes sociétaux qui resteraient à régler à la suite de la réussite d’un tel projet politique. Cette thèse pose que les problèmes sociétaux explorés dans la Trilogie du Futur sont liés à des réminiscences de l’ancienne survivance canadienne-française, dont les principales caractéristiques, telle que définies par Éric Bédard dans Survivance : histoire et mémoire du XIXe siècle canadien-français (2017), sont le récit sur soi, le messianisme compensatoire et l’évitement de la question du régime. Le récit sur soi désignerait la nécessité ressentie par un peuple perdant de l’Histoire de se créer un récit national où il se présenterait plutôt comme gagnant de l’Histoire. Le messianisme compensatoire, pour sa part, est ici compris comme la nécessité d’un peuple conquis à se trouver des guides (c.-à-d des figures messianiques), ceci afin de sauver la nation de la disparition. L’évitement de la question du régime, enfin, recouvre le fait d’empêcher d’envisager un état politique autre que le statu quo et d’ainsi éviter la question, toujours problématique, de la place de la francophonie dans une Amérique majoritairement anglophone. Pour mener à bien cette analyse, la thèse emprunte sa structure comme une partie de son cadre théorique à la triple mimèsis développée par Paul Ricœur dans le tome un du monumental Temps et récit (1991). Dans cet ouvrage, Ricœur examine la mise en intrigue du bagage culturel préalable nécessaire à la compréhension d’un récit ainsi que sa réception par le lecteur. Au terme de cette analyse, la thèse arrive à la conclusion que la trilogie chercherait à transcender ces réminiscences de la survivance canadienne-française par une série de renversements, souvent carnavalesques, des lieux de mémoire passés (hérités du Canada français) ainsi que des topoï québécois contemporains, souvent issus de la politique ou de la culture populaire, et qui sont disséminés à même ces récits du Théâtre du Futur.