Publications emblématiques

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Les douze contributions rassemblées ici sous la direction de Gilles Lecuppre font justice à la diversité des motifs et des vecteurs de la contestation sur une très large période, qui nous mène du début du XIe siècle aux prodromes de la Révolution française, de l’âge d’or d’al-Andalus à des Lumières fatiguées et sceptiques. Partout, en Espagne, en France, à Naples ou dans le Saint-Empire, ce ne sont pas seulement des pouvoirs que l’on abat ou contre lesquels on se soulève, mais plus simplement, plus quotidiennement, des abus que l’on dénonce et auxquels on résiste par la plume ou les procès, la grève ou le déguerpissement, le cri ou l’éloquence – avant, parfois, il est vrai, de prendre les armes, sans que celles-ci perdent tout contact avec les manifestations plus symboliques qui ont précédé leur avènement rien moins que spontané.
Contributions de Véronique Beaulande-Barraud, Julien Briand, Monique Cottret, Christophe Duhamelle, Alexis Fontbonne, Manuela Águeda García Garrido, Nathalie Gorochov, Alain Hugon, Thierry Lassabatère, Vincent Meyzie, Juliette Sibon et Emmanuelle Tixier du Mesnil.

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The memory of the First World War is particularly present in Brussels. Today, the Brussels-Capital Region counts no less than six hundred street names, commemorative plaques and monuments dedicated to its memory.
At the time of the centenary of 1914-1918, the importance of this memorial heritage encourages to interrogate the different identities, in all their complexity, as they are revealed through these traces, for the Region of Brussels is the bearer of a multiple memory. As the capital of the kingdom, it is home to the Unknown Soldier, preserves the memory of great battles and important national figures, even as it pays homage to the Allies and the international humanitarian aid of which Belgium was the beneficiary. Brussels also embraces the memory of national corporations such as the foresters or the showmen. Finally, and most importantly, as an entity formed of municipalities eager to acknowledge their autonomy, Brussels keeps local memories alive, memories of simple soldiers who died in battle, of the everyday suffering of civilians during the occupation, as well as of Belgian patriotic figures.
The present work aims to retrace the construction of this memory in the space of Brussels, analyse its symbolic impact and its evolution, while it interrogates the current meaning of this extraordinary heritage.

 

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The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola on a principal of strict obedience to papal authority, yet the nature of the Jesuits’s work and the turbulent political circumstances in which they operated, inevitably brought them into conflict with the Catholic hierarchy. In order to better understand and contextualise the debates concerning obedience, this book examines the Jesuits of south-western Europe during the generalate of Claudio Acquaviva.
Acquaviva’s thirty year generalate (1581–1615) marked a challenging time for the Jesuits, during which their very system of government was called into doubt. The need for obedience and the limits of that obedience posed a question of fundamental importance both to debates taking place within the Society, and to the definition of a collective Jesuit identity. At the same time, struggles for jurisdiction between political states and the papacy, as well as the difficulties raised by the Protestant Reformation, all called for matters to be rethought.
Divided into four chapters, the book begins with an analysis of the texts and contexts in which Jesuits reflected on obedience at the turn of the seventeenth century. The three following chapters then explore the various Ignatian sources that discussed obedience, placing them within their specific contexts. In so doing the book provides fascinating insights into how the Jesuits under Acquaviva approached the concept of obedience from theological and practical standpoints.