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Boyko, Maxim. "Jeux de rois. France et Angleterre à l'heure de l’absolutisme naissant (1610-1642)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023SORUL105.
Full textDid the pre-absolutist monarchs of the first half of the 17th century have the diplomatic apparatus corresponding to their policy and aligned with their ambitions – in other words, did they have the means to their ends? Or did they rather determine their policy based on their diplomatic apparatus? The main objective of this thesis is to examine and deepen our knowledge of the relations between France and England from the death of Henry IV in 1610 until the year 1642, marked by the death of Richelieu and the outbreak of revolution and civil war in Britain. The study of this period – a period which may both seem familiar while also remaining little studied and generally perceived through the prism of the novels of Alexandre Dumas – is not intended to be a simple chronological and event-based account of French-English political-diplomatic interactions, but ambitions to analyze both the state of the administrative structures of the diplomatic apparatus of these two pre-absolutist states and the sociology of its diplomatic actors, aiming to understand how they influenced the course of political events between the two crowns. Thus, this study aims to highlight the major feature of diplomacy in early modernity as it emerges from the study of Franco-English relations: with diplomacy still poorly structured on the administrative level and therefore lagging behind in the “modernization” of the modern pre-absolutist State instruments, it is the tool of an already intense but protean foreign policy, which builds on several channels not yet exclusive of one another, but nevertheless follows codes and very precise protocols, for which every detail is invested with political undertones. From this perspective, diplomacy can thus be seen as a set of rituals, a political “choreography” but in which paradoxically, the gestures were imposed with great precision without however being entrusted to a structured administrative apparatus. In the absence of the latter, the role of the ambassador is even more central in Franco-English Baroque diplomacy, performing the acts like the artists in a ballet or a theatrical play. In this regard, this thesis also aims to propose a socio-professional study of leading official diplomatic personnel in order to identify the composition of the diplomatic pool from which the monarchies drew in order to find candidates, to understand how future ambassadors prepared for a possible exercise of functions abroad, and to shed light on the reasons for the recruitment and choice of a particular person. What is more, this study – comparative by its inherent nature – will allow us to raise the question of the professionalization of diplomatic activity, which was at unequal levels in France and England but unfinished everywhere. Furthermore – and corresponding to an additional feature that this work aims to highlight – ambassadors did not have a monopoly on diplomatic relations. We will rather show that these relations were also the work of a multitude of other actors – not very articulated – of all ranks and kind, who flourished on both sides of the Channel, carrying out both official and unofficial missions and playing, in increasing numbers, a game in the interactions between the two crowns. Finally, in line with the elements outlined above, we will propose a renewed understanding of certain major political and strategic movements of the years 1610-1642 in light of our study of the political-diplomatic apparatus structure, based in particular on the analysis of diplomatic correspondence and private writings of the actors. Drawing on these sources, from both English and French archives as well as from powerful outside actors such as Venice, allows us to go beyond national prisms in our analysis and understanding of events, prisms whose influence nevertheless remains significant throughout the period that interests us
Herrmann, Frédéric. "L'Angleterre et les juifs (1640-1660) : identités et représentations "juives" de la nation anglaise." Toulouse 2, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005TOU20073.
Full textBased on the critical analysis of various pamphlets, sermons and treatises, this PhD aims to show that the figure of the Jew was used in political and religious polemical debates of the 1640s&50s in England in order to represent the aspirations of a nation undergoing profound change. Historiography has laid much emphasis on the concept of a 17th c. English “philo-semitism” derived from the re-appropriation of the idea of the “elect nation” and the discourse on the conversion of Diaspora Jews. However, the main beneficiaries of this “philo-semitism” were not so much contemporary Jews but England herself, a country in the process of forging a new identity. As a means of representation, the Jew was not simply a model of identification but also an “enemy within”: a figure inherited from Christian tradition who survived into the early modern period via the complex relationship of puritan culture with Biblical Law, and through the political, national and identity-based representations of contemporary Jews, in particular Marranos
Pouget, Elsa. "Le mercantilisme en Angleterre au XVIIe siècle et les cheminements secrets de la pensée libre-échangiste." Toulouse 2, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004TOU20097.
Full textThe English economic thought underwent deep changes during the 17th century. Though bullionism was at its apex during the early years of James I's reign, it lost ground to free trade during Anne's. Special witnesses of these successive transformations were undoubtedly merchants, England's most important economic agents above all else. Their remarks concerning raw materials, money and trade, voiced in treatises and pamphlets, help us to draw a general outline of the economy of that time. Thanks to their writings, we are able to make out a slight change, that tends to become more and more obvious, in the perception of the validity of commercial exchanges. Beginnings of free trade thought may be at the very core of those essays that might have been too quickly labelled "mercantilist. "
Mobonda, Honoré. "La personnalité et l'oeuvre de Roger Williams." Paris 12, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA120029.
Full textRoger williams, the man who founded rhode island, is the seventeenth century american personality whose life has become familiar to many twentieth century intellectuals. Despite their relevance, the analyses by contemporaries, biographers and historians have not thrown full light on a number of points. Historical evidence, supported by the cases of bunyan, penn, and paine concludes that williams became a puritan when aged nine. His separatism explains his flight to america, where his advocacy of separation of church and state, based on the paramount value of the new testament and christ's teachings, together with his "plebsbytarian" inclinations, provoked his bannishment from massachusetts, forcing him to found a colony nurturing the separation of church and state, religious freedom, and democracy, thereby placing rhode island far in advance of its times. Despite inconsistencies, williams became one of the rare new england whites who did not really hate the american indians. Thanks to his tact, willimas avoided many wars between the "indian" nation and britain. Striking resemblances with penn's thought suggest that williams may have influenced william penn. Yet, there is evidence that he had influenced isaac backus and stephen hopkins, two giants of the propaganda fo the american revolution
Carre, Christine. "La peste à Londres en 1665." Paris 6, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA060114.
Full textConroy, Jane. "L'Angleterre des XVIe et XVIIe siècles dans le théâtre tragique du XVIIe siècle en France." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040082.
Full text17th century French tragedy turns its back on the present. There are two exceptions : the small number of turkish and english subjects. .
March, Florence. "La théâtralité de la comédie de la Restauration anglaise : 1660-1710." Aix-Marseille 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000AIX10079.
Full textSelzner, Cyril. "Conscience, réforme et révolution : les transformations de la conscience morale dans la réforme et le puritanisme anglais au XVIe et XVIIe siècles." Paris 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA010649.
Full textBonnaud, Eléonore. "Régicide et condamnation à mort des rois en France et en Angleterre : 1550-1650." Rennes 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN1G037.
Full textCrime of high treason in England, crime de lèse-majesté au premier chef in France, the crime of regicide is at the same time a political act and a criminal act. It is political for the individual who tries to kill the tyrant. The act is criminal in the fact that it injures the person of king, and must be punished as such in a most severe way which could be. What places opposite and draw closer to France and to England through these two conceptions of king-killing ? During the second half of 16th century, plots and regicides multiply on both sides of the Channel. The sovereign is considered as illegitimate and the conspirators justify their projects and their acts in the name of religious principles and of rules of devolution of the Crown. In answer to these attacks, both kingdoms borrow at the beginning of the 17th century different institutional and political ways, which express the existence of two distinct "constitutional" composts. France succeeds in shading off the threat regicide whereas certain extremist members of the English Parliament rebel and end by judge, condemn and execute their king. If the regicide as political act is not thus more comparable in France and in England during the first half of 17th century, there, the regicide as criminal act is on the contrary governed and punished in a relatively similar way, and it already in the middle of the 16th century. The letter of texts punishing the crime of regicide, the conception of the responsibility of the criminal, the procedural rules as well as the punishment, are all thought so that king is protected at best, the culprit punished severely and the other subjects dissuaded from killing anointed king
Juillet, Garzón Sabrina. ""Unis par la couronne, indépendants par l'Eglise" : la confessionnalisation en Angleterre et en Ecosse, 1603-1707." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009VERS013S.
Full textThe 17th century witnessed the confirmation of the confessional choices of the European Christians. This phenomenon occurred through the European, national and individual process of confessionalisation. England and Scotland experienced this process as much as the rest of Europe. It became there the consequence and the motivation of the affirmation of national identities which enabled the two nations to differentiate from each other within the union of the crowns, from 1603, and during the organisation of the Union of 1707. The aim of this thesis is to understand what motivated these identity and confessional affirmations and what it reflected of the English, Scottish and British identities. Within a century, the national Churches of the Isle became the representatives and the warrants of the cultural independence of their nations. The independence of the Churches of the united kingdoms was eventually recognised as a necessity in the shaping of Great Britain whereas during the first half of the 17th century, the English and Scottish Protestants believed in Church uniformity, if not in Church union. The national and European contexts, the crown's interests or those of its supporters and opponents, progressively shaped a new religious landscape on the Isle. It led to the birth of a new multi confessional Protestant unity which still reflects today what Great Britain is: a country made of nations all determined to keep their specificities
Reiplinger, Charles. "Naissance de la constitution écrite : la constitution des corps politiques en Angleterre et en Amérique du Nord aux seizième et dix-septième siècles." Paris 2, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA020074.
Full textThis study is dedicated to the birth of the idea of a written constitution, in England and North America, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Taking as starting point Reformation in England, it shows that congregationalist theology, a branch of english calvinism, by developping the idea that the church is a body politic created by a covenant and given a constitution, is a direct source of the idea of a written fundamental law. This idea is joined in New England by the english law, specificly corporate law, which makes the colonies bodies politic, based upon and ruled by a charter of incorporation. These influences lead to the Mayflower Compact, a social contract by which New Plymouth is founded in 1620. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut in 1639 add to the social contract the idea of a written fundamental law, meant to establish and limit the powers of political authority. This idea is extended in 1643 by the adoption of the Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England
Forain, Guillaume. ""A sport for the taste of the court" : présentation et traduction annotée de huit masques de cour de Ben Jonson (1605-1624)." Montpellier 3, 2009. http://www.biu-montpellier.fr/florabium/jsp/nnt.jsp?nnt=2009MON30049.
Full textThis study offers the first full-length translation of eight texts written by Ben Jonson for Jacobean court masques. The masque, a cross-disciplinary genre and the counterpart of the French ballet de cour and Italian intermezzo, was short-lived (1605-1640), but dazzling. The first volume traces its origins and the work of the two artists who improved it over its predecessors : Jonson, by the quality of his texts, and Inigo Jones, whose lavish stage designs reduced the text to a mere foil in the next reign. Then, a critical overview of the genre shows that, far from being only a royal panegyric, masques often voiced complex political issues. The spirit and principles of this translation are also put forward : the aim was to express both the ideological and historical outdatedness of these texts (especially by translating into rhymed Alexandrine verse the iambic pentametres of the main masque – the panegyric part proper), but also their more modern dimension, especially in the comic passages of the antimasque. Lastly, there are many chronological, biographical and iconographical documents appended to this volume. The second volume includes the English text and French translation facing each other, accounts for the choice of the editions used (Herford & Simpson, Orgel), presents the historical context and main thematic lines of each masque, and provides numerous notes, taking into account the work of the previous commentators and the most recent critical contributions. This unprecedented translation aims at making Jonson’s masques available to the francophone community ; yet the updating work and interpretations offered in the substantial critical apparatus may prove useful to the specialists of the period
Ruellet, Aurélien. "La maison de Salomon : contribution à l'histoire du patronage scientifique et technique, France et Angleterre, ca.1600-ca.1660." Thesis, Tours, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOUR2009.
Full textThis study first intends to map out the various modalities of scientific and technical patronage. Grand aristocratic patronage is rarely granted and is rivaled by more customary forms of protection. The State remains the greatest bestower of favours. Even if sciences and techniques are not supported by any administrative structures, monarchies give scientists and technicians several occupational perspectives while the State’s military and cultural preoccupations spark the development of various fields of research. Despite the administrators’ growing tendency to support scholarly enterprises, the access to the sovereign’s favours remains very competitive, as is shown through the longitude quarrel, which breaks out in relation to the work of the astrologer Jean-Baptiste Morin. Lastly, technicians increasingly appeal for another form of protection - the privilege of invention, which often results in the creation of technical enterprises. The last part of this study shows that the conquest of the marketplace tends to be spurred by favours more than by innovation
Barros, Ana Paula. "Les vivants à l'épreuve du deuil : Discours théoriques et écrits de circonstance en Angleterre, c. 1550-1640." Montpellier 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007MON30070.
Full textThis thesis explores the ideas about grief and mourning in early modern England. Focusing on a body of printed texts including both normative discourses and occasional writings, it aims at describing and explaining the most common and widespread cultural constructs. Parallel to the theological valuing of feeling and suffering, the increasing place of grief in the ethos of funeral poetry and the erosion of the values of classical and humanist consolation signal deep changes in the patterns of behaviour available to the bereaved and their consolers. In the context of the penetration of Protestantism and the emergence of a baroque culture, theologians, moralists and poets emphasize the ethical and social meaning of grief and sorrow. The reaffirmation of the relationship between the living and the dead, defined as a community of brotherhood and love, also influences the representations of memory. As preachers rediscover and redefine the theory of funeral praise, they rely on both rhetorical patterns and theological doctrines to rewrite the lives of the deceased, which are made to conform to the Protestant ideal of godliness
Wu, Juanyu. "L' image de la Chine et son influence dans l'art des jardins paysagers anglais au XVIII ème siècle en Europe." Paris, EHESS, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EHES0063.
Full textDuring the XVIIth and the XVIIlth centuries, in Europe, China was a fashionable subject. The social orders, from royal families to common people, devoted themselves to "Chinoiseries". Infatuation was universal. Similarly, the rare European passengers who made the long journey towards China, came back with passionate recites, which fascinated the European readers. These recites, as holders of the culture of an imaginary country, renewed European look, particularly in the field of the landscape and the art of gardens. This thesis aims at clarifying a convergence between Arcadian and Chinese sources in landscape garden in the XVIIith century. We try to analyse some descriptions of Chinese gardens in the letters of the European Jesuits during the XVIIth and the XVIIIth centuries, and to display how these ideas were passed on Europe in XVIIIth century, through the creation of a new style: the English landscape garden
Revon-Rivière, Elise. "Des textes intitulés Promenade à l'invention du promeneur et de l'observateur : le loisir lettré en ville dans les textes anglais et français des dix-septième et dix-huitième siècle." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070081.
Full textThis work deals with dozens of texts called « Promenade » from 1586 to the 19th century, with English journalism, with the invention of the word « promeneur » and "observateur" during the French Enlightenment
Wolff, Hoffmann Anne. "Le chant commun des Réformes européennes et l'hymnodie anglaise de 1535 à 1610 : sources continentales des mélodies, interactions et réception insulaire." Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100216.
Full textCongregational singing in the vernacular has long been favoured by various religious persuasions to express their faith. In 16th century Europe, this musical genre became the prerogative of the Reformation; it developed in several hymnological centres, simultaneously or successively, often interactively. Through various channels, the tunes composed on the continent reached the British Isles, fostering as early as 1535 the spread of the ideas of the Reformation on English soil, as well as the designing of Psalters which were later used in the national church. The purpose of this study is threefold: Firstly, it aims at identifying the continental tunes which were printed in English-language songbooks in the 16th and in the early 17th centuries, secondly at tracing their itineraries from the year and place of composition to the integration into the songbooks; thirdly, it will lead to assess the use of the tunes in the liturgy of the Church of England and their impact on people’s minds and on their musical practice. While analysing historical and hymnological contexts, I will try on the one hand to draft a typology of the songs, i. E. Each piece’s specific origin and form –Lutheran chorales, Reformed metrical psalms, Moravian canticles, Medieval hymns, secular melodies– and their usage –liturgical, para-liturgical, domestic, collective or individual–, on the other hand to explain which tunes were able to stand the brunt of time while others failed to –namely to define the criteria of a tune's durability. By examining the tunes in relationship with the texts they were sung on, I will conjecture the input of congregational singing into English hymnody
Lobry, Bellamy Stéphanie. "L'échec du règne de Jacques II en Angleterre (1688) et en Irlande (1690) : analyse d'une personnalité mise en contexte." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00951750.
Full textBerget, Claire. "Les représentations et l'imaginaire de la viole de gambe en Angleterre aux dix-septième et dix-huitième siècles." Thesis, Tours, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013TOUR2031.
Full textIn England, the viola da gamba has a singular destiny, from an incontestable popularity with the aristocracy in the seventeenth century to a rejection of increasing intensity over the eighteenth century. The representations of the instrument in documents peripheral to the musical sphere, such as letters, poems or paintings, reveal the complexity of the imaginaire surrounding the instrument. Although, in prosperous times, the viol conjures up lewd images of a sensual body, it is simultaneously associated with ideals of nobility through the supposed melancholy of its tone. At that period, it is also felt to be closely connected to the English national identity, whose specificity it appears to crystallise. However, its dwindling popularity with the elite leads to the proliferation of negative images. Senescence and sterility are increasingly associated with the viol, while ideologically, the instrument is spurned as non- English. The brief resurgence of the viol in the second half of the eighteenth century is brought on by the development of the cult of sensibility. Individual emotions are voiced through its perceived archaism and unique tone. The viola da gamba, both in the circular paradigm of the Renaissance, and in the linear and discursive paradigm of the Enlightenment, successfully embodies contrasting aesthetic and ideological imaginaires
Rivère, de Carles Nathalie. "Entre texte et scénographie : théâtralité de la toile à la Renaissance." Montpellier 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005MON30051.
Full text“Let's place our selues within the Curtaines, / for good faith the Stage is so very little we shall wrong / the generall eye els very much”. John Marston's stage directions for his play What you Will stresses that the Renaissance playing space is hardly thought about without curtains as material landmarks. Yet, this prop is constantly denied its existence and its impact on the Shakespearean stage. . . Despite textual evidence as the murder of Polonius behind the arras in Hamlet, there are still doubts about the role of curtains in Renaissance scenography. The purpose of this study is not only to reassert the existence of curtains thanks to archaeological data but to assess the impact of the material culture on the writing and the performance of dramatic texts. Since the Middle Ages, acting troupes have used a varied amount of cloths, tapestries and veils on stage. Those props are keys to the scenographical consciousness of the 16th and 17th centuries playwrights and actors. We will consider the flexibility and the complexity of the theatrical space and practices through an object belonging to both the domestic and the dramatic worlds
Mandon, Natalie. "Poétique du comique dans le théâtre de William Congreve : 1670-1729 : The old batchelour, 1693, The double-dealer, 1693, Love for love, 1695, The way of the world, 1700." Lyon 3, 2004. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/in/theses/2004_in_mandon_n.pdf.
Full textCette thèse vise à une réévaluation de la poétique du comique telle que la définit le dramaturge anglais William Congreve (1670-1729) et telle qu'elle est reflétée dans ses quatre comédies. Sont étudiés le contexte social et théâtral ainsi que le rapport qu'entretient le théâtre avec la société londonienne à la fin du dix-septième siècle. Si le comique de Congreve se nourrit des particularités de la société à laquelle il est destiné, l'écriture est façonnée par une volonté de concilier des idéaux artistiques propres au dramaturge et les contraintes du genre. Elle tend vers une forme nouvelle. La façon dont Congreve exploite son héritage théâtral et l'utilisation qu'il réserve aux procédés propres au théâtre comique font aussi apparaître la spécificité de sa démarche. De cette étude émerge la prépondérance d'un comique qui transcende l'univers de la comédie : la mise en scène du verbe et du discours sur le monde permet à l'œuvre de s'affranchir des limites du théâtre de la Restauration
Rousseau, Delphine-Anne. "Un cas de résurgence terminologique : la terminologie musicale en usage en France et en Angleterre à la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2067.
Full textThe present thesis consists of a synchronic historic study (1650-1700) and a diachronic study (from 1700 onwards) of music terminology in two countries (France and England) and two languages (French and English). We gathered, processed and analysed a corpus of period writings on music (term-extraction corpus), in order to create a terminological database in i-Term. Then, based on a corpus of works published from 1700 onwards (reference corpus), we studied the evolution over time of a number of terms and concepts. Before undertaking this work, we deemed it essential to conduct a literature review on diachronic terminology and to define our theoretical framework, as well as to put forward a typology of diachronic variation. We established a detailed methodology, which may be used for similar work in other fields. Finally, we have put forward a reflection on the role of the terminologist in the linguistic mediation process, as well as mediation tools designed for the various early-music terminology users.Research in historical terminology, as yet relatively scarce, addresses a genuine need in spheres of activity that are undergoing a revival of their practices, the reappropriation of which implies rediscovering ancient terminology. The field of music has been the subject of such a revival, as it saw the emergence of the new sphere of activity of 'ancient music' in the nineteenth century, which then turned into a subject field in its own right, the aim of which is to become acquainted with and to reappropriate music from remote eras (Middle Ages, Renaissance, seventeenth, eighteenth – and even nineteenth – centuries), and to share it with enthusiastic audiences. However, despite all the work undertaken by musicologists and music practitioners, much remains to be done, and the work related to the study, understanding and dissemination of early-music terminology is far from achieved. Our research is meant as a further contribution to this end. As a musician specialised in early-music performance (violin), we have observed there was an important need for terminological disambiguation, if only because early-music experts are frequently bound to interact with the public and people who specialise in other areas, which entails a genuine risk of terminology-related misunderstandings. Such need also arises in expert-to-expert communication, as all early music experts do not use the same terminology (depending on their special field, training, and the languages in which they have worked)
Ducrocq, Myriam-Isabelle. "Le réalisme dans la pensée politique anglaise de la Grande Rébellion à la Glorieuse Révolution : à travers les oeuvres de Thomas Hobbes, James Harrington, Algernon Sydney et John Locke." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030153.
Full textThe purport of this doctoral thesis is to bring in perspective four emblematic thinkers of the period of English history extending between The Great Rebellion and the Glorious Revolution : Thomas Hobbes, John Harrington, Algernon Sydney and John Locke. These authors, whose respective status and posterity widely differ, are divided by strong ideological differences : Hobbes was a proponent of absolutist government, Harrington and Sidney inclined in favour of a regime based on popular representation and John Locke was a partisan of parliamentary monarchy. Whatever their differences, these philosophers share a common attitude that consists in taking into account the real conditions presiding over the exercise of political power. This common perspective which has been described as political realism is founded on three main axes : the first one is the will to choose a foundation of all political organisations the principles of nature as evidenced by the historical study of human societies and rational analysis ; the second axis is to be found in their search for optimal conditions to ensure the preservation of the Commonwealth built on such foundation ; the third and last axis consists in taking into account the Commonwealth ‘s interest in the resolution of a certain number of fundamental political questions that prevailed during that period. We shall establish in conclusion that their common realism induces them to put forward similar propositions on the nature and extent of the power that political leaders must be entrusted with, whatever the chosen form of government may be
Ifrah, Lionel. "La restauration d'israel dans la pensee anglaise. (1596-1667)." Paris 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA030024.
Full textIn 1596, the jew, as represented through shylock, was a satanic usurer, a stereotype inherited from the medieval religious and literary tradition. However the development of hebraic and biblical studies culminated in the publication of the "authorized version" of the bible in 1611. The puritans' keen interest in apocalytic prophecies then increased with the circulation of fantastic reports about the lost ten tribesof israel whose miraculous return to jerusalem was to herald the exiled nation's restoration and mankind's redemption. Jewish messianism and protestant millenarianism thus shared the same longing for an event most thinkers deemed imminent. Such a hope was expressed by menasseh ben israel on behalf of his brethren whose readmission to england he requested from cromwell. Besides, numerous theologians argued for the calling of the jews whose conversion would hasten the second coming of christ. But henry finch was the first writer to promote a political restoration of the jews to palestine. Favouring menasseh ben israel's petition, cromwell convened a conference at whitehall in 1655 to consider the question, thus rousing a fierce debate. Though no official decision was taken, readmission became effective for the small london marrano community. The presence of judaism was even more obvious in literature, especially in milton's works and his "paradise lost" (1667)
Philamant, Luc. "Images du monde rural à l'âge de Shakespeare : mythes et réalités." Montpellier 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002MON30050.
Full textTessier, Alexandre. "Réseaux diplomatiques et République des Lettres. Les correspondants de Sir Joseph Williamson (1660-1680)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040201.
Full textDiplomatic and cultural spheres are often regarded as being very close, especially in Early Modern Europe. Many biographies are devoted to diplomats who were also authors, artists or scholars. The purpose of this PhD is to question this association, and to argue that it results from inaccurate observations, and from a refusal to consider diplomatic structures globally at a given date, so that brilliant individuals tend to attract all attention, even if they are exceptions.In order to draw a more accurate picture of the actual relations between diplomatic and cultural spheres, I decided to focus on the Republic of Letters, as the prominent cultural structure of Early Modern Europe, and on a specific diplomatic network of informants: the international network which was developed by Sir Joseph Williamson between 1660 and 1680. This case is particularly appealing, because Williamson was one of the major British diplomats of the time, and also an accomplished scholar. Finally, his extensive records have been remarkably well preserved. Thanks to these materials, it has been possible to reconstitute Williamson’s network of informants, and to establish that few of them were men of letters, most of whom only appear in specific circumstances, which are depicted and discussed in this work
Roynier, Céline. "Le problème de la liberté dans le constitutionnalisme britannique." Thesis, Paris 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA020090.
Full textMany are the signs revealing a certain difficulty with liberty or freedom in british constitutionalism. The relative failure of the Human Rights Act 1998 in terms of efficiency , the never-ending debate about the enactment of a british declaration of rights and the numerous sanctions taken by the ECHR against the UK, can be considered as symptoms of this problem. How, then, is it possible to explain the overwhelming role of the UK in the adoption of the ECHR in the 1950’s and this resistance of the UK towards the European Convention ? Our aim, in this work, is to provide an explanation which would be based on the study of the early modern common law tradition that is mainly (but not exclusively) the parliamentary Doctrine of the Seventeenth Century. We think that this doctrine or discourse established the english conception of liberty and considered this latter as originating in the common law. We suggest that liberty was and is thought as a permanent redefinition of the law itself (the common law) and that this idea gave birth to Public Law exactly at the same time. First of all, the above-mentioned problem of liberty – which appeared in America and France as well – arose in a particular way in England. Rather than focusing on power and its legitimacy, english state lawyers concentrated their work on the marks of a law which could be acceptable for all. This reflexion led to successive waves of politisation of the law itself but did not enable the apparition of a people which would be the source of both law and power. The first wave of politisation established that common law was the law common to all (Part 1). The second wave deepened the first one and enabled the common law to be « the law of liberty » by linking the language of the common law with the individual, through constitutional morality (Part 2)
Tedeschi, Chiara. "Thomas Stanley, editore di Eschilo." Doctoral thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EHES0131.
Full textThe edition of Aeschylus plays edited by Thomas Stanley, and the notes he collected for a second one, are the subject of this thesis. The analysis considers the work of Thomas Stanley from different points of view: ch. Land 2 present a summary on the historical events of English Revolution, the contemporary cultural upheavals, and the biography of Thomas ' Stanley. The traits of Stanley's edition and sources are considered in ch, 3 and 4. Ch. 4 describe the different volumes, from which Thomas Stanley copied and exploited the marginal notes of XVI and XVII century scholars (Jean Dorat, Franciscus Portus, Il Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, Henry Jacob, John Pearson) in his large philological commentary (aIllisted in ch. Il). Furthermore, Thomas Stanley's edition, well-known and widely used tiIl the end of XVm century, has given a great contribution to the diffusion of these scholars' conjectures, much before these annotated volumes were discovered and explored indipendently. Ch. 5 considers how Stanley worked on a portion of Aeschylus' Agamemmon (vv. 1-680), considering the tranlsatioIl, the commentary, the correction practice, and the metrical knowledge. AlI these aspects are deepened in ch. 6,7,8,9. Stanley's edition does n9tjust give attention to the philological issues raised by the text, but shows itself as an "aeschylean encyclopaedia", giving readers a great amount of information on different subject (archaeology, chronology, geography, etc. . . ), in order to let a wider and more complete comprehension of the text. This encyclopaedic 'character matches with the requirements put forward by Francis Bacon and his followers in the first half of the XVIIe century
Simon, Laurent. "L’œuvre vocale sacrée de Henry Purcell : à la recherche d’un équilibre." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040238.
Full textThe development of Henry Purcell’s sacred music in the second half of the seventeenth century originates in a fruitful compromise between the political and religious constraints of Restoration England and the contribution of the continental baroque. The stylistic evolution of his religious compositions reflects the political and religious developments which took place during the successive reigns of Charles II, James II and William of Orange. As a baroque musician and a native of an anti-papist country, Purcell showed considerable skill in the art of setting words to music and managed to blend in the Reformers’ emphasis on the intelligibility of the text and Counter-Reformation aesthetics
Brun, Chaise Vanessa. "Eikon Basilike (1649) : héroïsme royal et mises en récit de l'histoire." Thesis, Reims, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REIML009.
Full textThe aim of the project is to study the representations of King Charles I (1649), starting with a book published a few days after his execution, Eikon Basilike. First, this text seems to be a spiritual autobiography of the king, but all the editions, translations and reviews, published in the seventeenth century in England and in the rest of Europe, transformed the view we had on this text. It became a representation of the political and religious problems of that time and a representation of the king, that is to say 'the royal portrait', or Eikon Basilike. It is this representation which is to be studied here: how the Royal history is told through these numerous publications? The purpose of this work is to understand how the king’s image is changing in order to respond to 1649, and to see what those changes reveal about the Early Modern English society. The aim is to study the writing, the reading and the impact of this text on the representation of the king and of the Monarchy