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AbstractWho was Jean de Savoie, the clerk with whom the composers Jean Campion and Philippe de Vitry penned the jeu-partiUlixea fulgensin 1350? This article uses Jean's hitherto unnoticed will and foundations at the church of Saint-Benoît-le-Bestourné, Paris, with other documentation, to bring together Jean's two identities in a unified biography (including a new date for his death, in 1354); to illustrate the close parallels between his own career and that of Philippe de Vitry, and to map the scope of opportunities for contact between them in and around the French royal court from the early 1320s onwards. Jean was also an artist and illustrator, and his career as one of the more prominent cartoonists of Philippe VI, king of France, throws light on potential contact with Vitry via the adoption by Louis I de Bourbon of the hitherto largely royal practice of charter illustration. In addition the properties acquired to support two chaplaincies endowed by Jean at Saint-Benoît demonstrate the extent to which he was professionally embedded in a network of royal councillors working in and around the Parlement in the 1330–50s, in which Vitry was also active. Also identified is a house acquired at Saint-Benoît by Gervès du Bus, author of the Roman de Fauvel.

Decadent authors writing about the past share a common artistic practice: revisionist creativity. I argue in my Zoom sur les décadents that this particular type of creativity uses as its main device recombination of legends, myths, and historical events. Historical, cultural or religious figures are reexamined and shown in a new unexpected light. I show in my book how Villiers de Isle-Adam conflates two crucial battles of the Ancient world: Marathon (490 BC) and Thermopiles (480 BC) in ashort story called "Impatience de la foule." The final result of Villiers's telescoping of separate historical events is a seamless narrative. In Hugues Rebell's "Une Saison à Baia," Saint Paul attempts to convert Roman patricians who mock his incoherent speeches. In "La Gloire de Judas," Bernard Lazare departs from the Gospels and tells the tragic story of Judas whose betrayal made the salvation of the human race possible. In Lazare's short story, Judas is a self-effacing figure who doesn't act on his own but on Jesus Christ's specific order, who sworns him into secrecy.Common in French decadent fiction, religious revisionism was largely tolerated in the secular Third Republic. Whereas censorship was quick to punish naturalist authors writing about debauched clergy in contemporary France (e.g. Louis Deprez and Henry Fèvre's Autour d'un clocher) decadent authors reinventing ancient religious stories and retelling the life of catholic saints enjoyed a relative freedom ofexpression.It is my hypothesis that taken out of its secular context, religious revisionism of the kind practiced by French decadents may be seen as shocking transgression in a fiercely catholic country like Poland. In the country that lost its independence in 1794 and was ever since seeking to regain it, Catholic Church was perceived as an essential ally in the struggle against main occupying powers: Orthodox Russia, and Protestant Prussia. In the course of the 19th century Catholicism and patriotism had been effectively fused in Polish national conscience. In this charged political context a Polish author revisiting Church dogma or tradition was at risk of being perceived not only as a religious outcast but also as a traitor to the cause of Polish independence.To test my hypothesis I propose to examine Igrzysko (Game), a forgotten play by Leopold Staff. Admired today chiefly as a poet, the young Staff wrote Igrzysko in Poland after a long sojourn in Paris where he had lived among the international crowd of fin de siècle writers and artists. The play was first produced in Lemberg in 1909 and after a few performances vanished forever from Polish theatrical repertoire.Leopold Staff's play is set in ancient Rome and depicts tribulations of an actor who, while impersonating a Christian awaiting crucifixion, converts to Christianity. In his play, Staff revives the legend of Saint Genesius, an actor in Arles who died a martyr's death in 286 under Diocletian. In Spain, Saint Genesius's legend inspired Lope de Vega who wrote Acting is Believing (Lo fingido verdadero, 1607). In France, it was the source for Jean Rotrou's Saint Genest (1646). All told, the legend of Genesius is a popular theme for artists who wish to explore the distinction between art and life. An important addition to this old tradition, Staff's play contains, however, a decadent and potentially scandalous twist. Unlike in Acting is Believing and Saint Genest, the protagonist's conversion is very short lived in Igrzysko. Fearing pain, Staff's character commits suicide and is, therefore, condemned for eternity. In my paper, I will discuss the significance of Staff's religious transgression in the context of the turn of the century arch-catholic and patriotic Poland.

The recovery of two notarial documents prepared in Ferrara on behalf of Josquin Desprez soon after his arrival in that city in the spring of 1503 demonstrates his intentions at that time to obtain the provosty of Notre Dame of Condéé and reveals the complicated exchange of benefices that brought about that result. The documents name Loyset Compèère and Pierre Duwez as respondents to Desprez in a quadrangular exchange of positions. In this transaction Josquin appointed the dean of the chapter of Condéé to resign the benefice he held in the collegiate church of Saint-Quentin. Since this was a position over which the King of France enjoyed full legal rights of collation, Josquin ordered the position to be surrendered to that monarch or his confessor, rather than to the pope. Accordingly these documents provide a very strong indication that Louis XII of France was the composer's patron before he came to Ferrara and that the king approved of this benefice exchange. In light of these implications, aspects of the composer's career before and after his Ferrarese service are reconsidered, including occasions on which he composed works for patrons in the French and imperial networks, such as Margaret of Austria, and his collaboration with the poet Jean Lemaire de Belges. Repertoire from Josquin's year in Ferrara is discussed, along with the Hercules Mass. Sections of his setting of the psalm Miserere mei deus are commented on, in connection both to a Biblical passage concordant with a verse of the psalm and to remarks by the theorist Glareanus. The expressive qualities of the Miserere are related to the devotional and ceremonial of duke Ercole, especially in the context of the outbreak of the plague in Ferrara.

Throughout the XVII century Port-Royal nuns face various challenges that compromise their overall existence. In 1650s and 1660s, the French Clergy together with the Crown try several times to subdue all their components, and therefore also Port-Royal nuns, to the signature of a Formulaire in ratification of the anti-Jansenist condemnation endorsed by the papacy, especially with Urban VIII, Alexander VII, Clement IX and Clement XI. Port-Royal community rejects to sign, and starts to elabo-rate a mythic narration that combines resistance and martyrology. Port-Royal nuns write many historical documents that are used by the community as an apologetic means also during the persecutions of the early XVIII century. The aim of my doctoral research is the analysis the long and complex forma-tion process of the Port-Royal identity, starting from its origins and its development from 1609 onward, when the reform started, and in 1668-1669, during the so-called «Paix de l’Église», that marks the end of the first anti-jansenist persecutions and the acme of the adherence of the community to the Jansenism. The specific focus is the analysis of the community spiritual life through the analysis of the praying and edify-ing literature of the nuns, that until today has been put aside by historiography. In order to highlight how the community took part to the development of French spirituality of the early XVII century, this work tries to rebuild the image of the spirituality experienced in the monastery, once its identity had been well established. 1. Including Salesian and Oratorian experiences, the reform of mère Angélique grows up during the direction of Saint-Cyran (1633-1643), that harshly stresses the spiritual conduct of the monastery as a whole. 2. Eucharistic adoration became more and more refined, growing as the liturgical centre of the new Istitut du Saint-Sacrement (1633-1647) and endly the model that conforms the communal enterprise of recollec-tion of memories on the reform, and since 1630s it combines the slow development of the self-representation, enhanced by internal traditions and loyalty to the monastic model. It is a remarkable witness of the construction of specific categories of Port-Royal spirituality, before those Jansenist experience in which these categories found their own doctrinal field. 3. Furthermore, regulation of the prayer through oral and written normative devices becomes an important characteristic of the community. 4. The last part of the work focuses on the construction of a unique and shared ‘speech’ that develops into a true ideology facing the menace or the real suffering of persecu-tions in the second half of the century.
Durante il XVII secolo, le religiose di Port-Royal affrontano diverse crisi che compromettono la stabilità del loro ordine. Negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta il clero e la Corona di Francia stabiliscono diverse volte per tutti i loro appartenenti, e anche per le monache di Port-Royal, l’obbligo della firma del Formulario di ratifica delle condanne gianseniste da parte del papato, in particolare da Urbano VIII, Alessandro VII, Clemente IX e Clemente XI. La comunità di Port-Royal rifiuta la firma ed elabora una narrazione mitica di resistenza e martirio, pervenendo infine, alla proliferazione di documenti storici che funzionano come strumento apologetico proprio della comunità anche nelle persecuzioni del primo Settecento. La ricerca presente ha un obiettivo preciso: si concentra nell’approfondire la lunga e complicata definizione dell’identità di Port-Royal, nelle sue origini e nella sua trasformazione nel periodo compreso tra il 1609, data del debutto della riforma, e il 1668-1669, all’inizio della cosiddetta «Paix de l’Église», che segna la fine delle prime grandi persecuzioni antigianseniste e il culmine della partecipazione al Giansenismo. L’osservatorio specifico per tale obiettivo è l’analisi della vita spirituale della comunità attraverso lo studio della letteratura devozionale delle monache che è stata spesso messa da parte dalla storiografia. Per mettere in evidenza la misura in cui la comunità sembra partecipare a quel processo di trasformazione della spiritualità francese del primo Seicento, la pre-sente indagine cerca di ricostruire l’immagine della spiritualità che si è vissuta nel convento, quando ormai l’identità condivisa è ben delineata. 1. Raccolte le esperien-ze salesiane e oratoriane, la riforma angelicana matura pienamente col direttorato di Saint-Cyran (1633-1643), che caratterizza fortemente la vita spirituale del monastero. 2. L’adorazione eucaristica viene man mano perfezionata nel tempo, diventando il centro liturgico del nuovo Institut du Saint-Sacrement (1633-1647) e infine il modello cui si conforma l’impresa comunitaria volta alla raccolta di notizie e memorie retro-spettive sulla riforma, a partire dagli anni Trenta, accompagnando il lento formarsi di un’autorappresentazione, che si nutre di tradizione interna e fedeltà al modello mo-nastico. Essa è una valida testimonianza, in anteprima, della formazione di determi-nate categorie della spiritualità di Port-Royal, prima ancora dell’influenza giansenista, le quali troveranno in quest’ultima uno sfondo teorico appropriato. 3. Inoltre, la rego-lazione della preghiera mediante l’elaborazione di un apparato normativo prima orale e poi scritto, diviene un elemento importante della vita di comunità. 4. L’ultima parte del lavoro si focalizza sull’elaborazione di un ‘discorso’ unico e condiviso che si svi-luppa in una vera e propria ideologia nella seconda metà del secolo.

Castellio’s ideas spread widely throughout Europe, and his followers played a more important role in the development of French Protestantism than has hitherto been acknowledged. This chapter reveals the networks of Castellio’s supporters that developed in the Vaud, Montbéliard, France, and elsewhere in Europe. These allies often united around opposition to religious persecution and to the Calvinist teachings of predestination and strict moral discipline. Instead, they favored religious toleration and free will (and occasionally universal election), and they emphasized voluntary Christian piety. The Calvinists perceived the Castellionists as a threat to their dominance of French Protestantism. Fears about a Castellionist in Poitiers, Jean Saint-Vertunien de Lavau, seem to have led both to Geneva’s missionary program into France and to the convocation of the national synods of the French Reformed churches.