Violence religieuse, violence politique : l’écriture, remède à la dislocation des corps naturel et politique (1580-1610)
This paper focuses on writing as a healing process to cure violence when it affects the body politic. A series of attempts against the lives of kings were planned and achieved, as in France in 1589 and 1610. The English authorities were aware that Queen Elizabeth herself was a potential target of si...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4784 |
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| Summary: | This paper focuses on writing as a healing process to cure violence when it affects the body politic. A series of attempts against the lives of kings were planned and achieved, as in France in 1589 and 1610. The English authorities were aware that Queen Elizabeth herself was a potential target of similar projects and so they chose to use prints as a way to heal the body politic: narratives about the execution of regicides were thus published in order to publicise the recovery of the community as a whole. The case of Mary Queen of Scots’ execution is of momentous interest, in so far as it was construed both as a regicide and as necessary surgery aiming at severing one member from the body, so as to save the whole body. |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |