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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Main Author: Marie-Céline Daniel
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Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2017-03-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4784
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description 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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spelling doaj-art-4187ac0bd9dd4fc0a92e31020bfa9b4b2025-01-30T13:47:45ZengCentre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"Sillages Critiques1272-38191969-63022017-03-012210.4000/sillagescritiques.4784Violence religieuse, violence politique : l’écriture, remède à la dislocation des corps naturel et politique (1580-1610)Marie-Céline DanielThis 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.https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4784Elizabeth IHenri IIIHenri IVMary Stuartregicideprints
spellingShingle Marie-Céline Daniel
Violence religieuse, violence politique : l’écriture, remède à la dislocation des corps naturel et politique (1580-1610)
Sillages Critiques
Elizabeth I
Henri III
Henri IV
Mary Stuart
regicide
prints
title Violence religieuse, violence politique : l’écriture, remède à la dislocation des corps naturel et politique (1580-1610)
title_full Violence religieuse, violence politique : l’écriture, remède à la dislocation des corps naturel et politique (1580-1610)
title_fullStr Violence religieuse, violence politique : l’écriture, remède à la dislocation des corps naturel et politique (1580-1610)
title_full_unstemmed Violence religieuse, violence politique : l’écriture, remède à la dislocation des corps naturel et politique (1580-1610)
title_short Violence religieuse, violence politique : l’écriture, remède à la dislocation des corps naturel et politique (1580-1610)
title_sort violence religieuse violence politique l ecriture remede a la dislocation des corps naturel et politique 1580 1610
topic Elizabeth I
Henri III
Henri IV
Mary Stuart
regicide
prints
url https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4784
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