Power and authority in the Early Modern period

Souveränität ohne Autorität. Zur Verfassungskultur der englischen Republik, in: Kommunikation und Konfliktaustragung. Verfassungskultur als Faktor politischer und gesellschaftlicher Machtverhältnisse, hrsg. v. Werner Daum / Kathrin S. Hartmann / Simon Palaoro / Bärbel Sunderbrink, Berlin 2010, S. 35-76.

by Andre Krischer

La Naissance de l'Auteur: Origines Politique et Juridique d'un Concept Littéraire

by Benoit Frydman

published online in International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
DOI: 10.1007/s11196-011-9228-7

Si le concept d’auteur est une notion centrale de la littérature et de la théorie littéraire, il s’agit d’abord d’une... more Si le concept d’auteur est une notion centrale de la littérature et de la théorie littéraire, il s’agit d’abord d’une notion juridique qui a été mobilisée par les philosophes modernes, en particulier Hobbes et Spinoza, dans le but politique et scientifique de lutter contre le régime traditionnel des autorités et de défendre la liberté de pensée contre les interprétations normatives des docteurs de la loi et de la religion. L’article remonte aux origines politiques et juridiques de l’auteur-législateur moderne et retrace sa marche vers la Souveraineté.

“A Flexible Empire: Authority and its Limits on the Ottoman Frontiers”

by Gabor Agoston

Published in the International Journal of Turkish Studies, 9, 1-2 (Summer 2003): 15-31, reprinted in Kemal Karpat and Robert W. Zens eds., Ottoman Borderlands: Issues, Personalities and Political Changes (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)

Estrategias matrimoniales y dialécticas de poder en la Italia española

by Valentina Caldari

Paper given at IX COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE HISTORIOGRAFÍA EUROPEA/ VI JORNADAS DE ESTUDIOS SOBRE LA MODERNIDAD CLÁSICA, Mar del Plata (Argentina), 24, 25 y 26 de Noviembre de 2011

El tema propuesto se enfoca en el análisis del papel estratégico que el Reino de Nápoles había en la Monarquía Hispana... more El tema propuesto se enfoca en el análisis del papel estratégico que el Reino de Nápoles había en la Monarquía Hispana mirando a través de la micropolítica practicata por los linajes nobiliarios especialmente a través de los vínculos matrimoniales para la transmisión del patrimonio con enlaces entre casas españolas e italianas.

Se ententerá demostrar la importancia de las estrategias matrimoniales en las relaciones entre la Monarquía Hispana y sus dominios periféricos. La historiografía ya es concorde en la evaluación de la importancia de los territorios italianos de la Corona de los Austrias y la análisis del matrimonio Pignatelli-Aragona Cortés es emblemático para demonstrar los comportamentos sociales y económicos de la nobleza local, istrumento fundamental para la integración de las élites sociales de los dominadores y de los dominados. La nupcias entre Ettore IV Pignatelli y Juana Aragona Cortés (1639) – además de haber fundado una nueva rama del casado (Aragona Pignatelli Cortés) – comportó ingentes acrecimientos de posesiones territoriales, entre Reino de Napoles, Sicilia y México, incrementando a la vez el prestigio familiar. Los Pignatelli, en particolar, gracias a esta boda y a su fidelidad a la Corona se vieron trasplantados desde un casado aristocrático de nivel local, a partenecer a una nobleza de caracter internacional con varios membro que tuvieron la Grandeza de España y el Cabellerado del Toisón de Oro.

Complots, révoltes et tempéraments nationaux : Français et Italiens au XVIe siècle

by Marc H. Smith

Complots et conjurations dans l’Europe moderne, actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française de Rome..., 1993, éd. Yves-Marie Bercé et Elena Fasano Guarini, Rome, 1996, p. 93-115

Étude de témoignages italiens sur les formes du pouvoir et de l'opposition en France, particulièrement dans les... more Étude de témoignages italiens sur les formes du pouvoir et de l'opposition en France, particulièrement dans les guerres de Religion. Les interprétations de l'actualité et les stéréotypes nationaux qui les sous-tendent, y compris ceux que les Français répètent en retour sur les Italiens, révèlent des différences fondamentales dans les conceptions du pouvoir et de l'action politique.

The politics of reproduction: From midwives' alternative public sphere to the public spectacle of man-midwifery

by Lisa Cody

From Confinement to Attachment: Michel Foucault on the Rise of the School

by Roger Deacon

The European Legacy, 11, 2, 2006, pp.121-138.

This article develops a Foucauldian account of the rise of the modern school, on the basis of a thorough examination... more This article develops a Foucauldian account of the rise of the modern school, on the basis of a thorough examination of all references to education in Foucault’s work. It analyses the seventeenth century origins of mass schooling and traces its development up to the nineteenth century. It identifies several overlapping stages in this multifaceted and largely contingent development, particularly a fundamental shift from a negative to a positive conception of the school. This Foucauldian understanding of the rise of schooling as a disciplinary technology suggests that an initial focus on the exclusion or confinement of disorderly groups was gradually superseded by a focus on the inclusion or ‘attachment’ of diverse individuals and on the development of their potential. It concludes by cautioning against over-simplistic applications of Foucault’s work to the field of education.

FEMALE AUTHORITY IN THE PIETAS NOBILITA: HABSBURG ALLEGIANCE DURING THE DUTCH REVOLT

by Mirella Marini

published in Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 34, issue 1 (2010), 5-24.

Reason is a Choice

by Christopher Michael Luna

My Bachelor's Thesis (called Division III at Hampshire College), first completed in 2009, revised in 2010.

As science and reason gain increasing authority in modern Western society, it is ever more important to understand not... more As science and reason gain increasing authority in modern Western society, it is ever more important to understand not only their role, but their history. Reason is a loaded word with a long and changing history, and yet it is a word of profound authority even to those who little understand its evolution.

Contemporary caricatures of religion would have us believe that the man who has prophetic visions and who is suspicious of reason must be a theocratic oppressor at heart— that such a man is unable to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellows. Reason is set against the authority of ecstatic religious traditions as both more sensible and more liberating. But the truth is altogether more complicated. Not only does modern American secular society carry within it, often unconsciously, the long heritage of Protestant imagery, but visionary, prophetic religious thinkers have used the authority of their visions to argue for freedoms that may seem unintuitive given contemporary stereotypes of religion and reason. It may be startling to realize that one of the seminal tracts written in defense of the free press against a kind of theocratic censorship was written by a man wary of human reason and convinced in the ultimate authority both of scripture and of prophetic visions. How could a man use his suspicion of human reason and his unswerving belief in the authority of visionary religious experience to argue in defense of free speech and religious toleration? The idea seems almost antithetical to the modern thinker, and yet John Milton, writing in seventeenth century England, did just that.

“The Art of a Reigning Queen as Dynastic Propaganda in Twelfth-Century Spain,” Speculum 80 (2005), pp. 1134-1171.

by Therese Martin

Posted with the permission of The Medieval Academy of America.