As the world struggles to come to grips with the rise of new populisms that call into question the legitimacy of technocratic expertise, the historical understanding of the processes by which the characteristically modern modes of meaning-making came into existence has never been so important. Politically-motivated attacks on 'science' are difficult to counter in a climate of generalised scepticism for all forms of authority, but cultural historians have an important part to play by offering an adequate historical framing for the terms of the debate. The origins of modernity are routinely associated with the empirical attitudes of the 'scientific revolution' and the liberal rationalism of the Enlightenment; but this story tends to be studied either conceptually by historians of science, or politically by cultural historians. For it to make sense as the backdrop to modern debates, the political and epistemological dimensions of the emergence of modernity need to be put more firmly into contact with one another. This book attempts to do so by focusing on the theme of the emergence of disciplinarity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Ordering Knowledge - Disciplinarity and the Shaping of European Modernity

Dans toute l'Europe, la Renaissance et l'époque qui a suivi se sont plu à composer devises et emblèmes, au point d'en faire un genre littéraire. Plaisante et didactique, l'association d'une image et d'un mot ou d'un texte fait jaillir des significations surprenantes. Après le livre illustré, devises et emblèmes conquirent très vite les murs des édifices, les objets quotidiens, les décors éphémères inventés pour les fêtes. Ils devinrent peu à peu un objet de curiosité, puis de science, les études « emblémistes ». Ils constituent en effet un observatoire privilégié pour une histoire totale, ouverte sur une compréhension renouvelée des modes de pensée, des sensibilités et des événements du passé. Aujourd'hui, toutes sortes de combinaisons proliférantes et erratiques d'objets visibles et d'énoncés ont envahi notre environnement, sollicitant à la fois notre imagination et notre intellect. Plus actuelle que jamais, « L'image pensive », d'après une expression d'Émile Gallé, réunit ici vingt-cinq universitaires français, allemands, italiens, espagnols et japonais.

L'image pensive - Devises et emblèmes du XVIe au XXIe siècle

Ce livre apporte un éclairage nouveau sur les échanges culturels entre Strasbourg et l'Angleterre de l'époque moderne. Y sont abordés le rôle capital joué par Bucer et certains théologiens alsaciens dans la construction de la nouvelle l'Eglise d'Angleterre après le schisme, la trace laissée par la théologie alsacienne sur les grands débats de l'époque Tudor et l'importance de l'hymonologie strasbourgeoise dans la musique religieuse du XVIe siècle. In the sixteenth century, the ties between Strasbourg and the English Reformation were particularly close. Many Marian exiles flocked to the Alsatian city to avoid persecution in England, and Strasbourg became an important centre for the printing of polemical religious tracts. Martin Bucer was invited as Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and his views on the Eucharist were used in the 1552 revision of the Book of Common Prayer. Bucer's theology significantly influenced a range of figures from Thomas Cranmer and Stephen Gardiner in their controversy over the doctrine of transubstantiation, to Matthew Parker and Edmund Grindal, both of whom served as Archbishop of Canterbury. Strasbourg church music also found its way across the Channel, notably in the form of a new idiom which combined syllabism and melisma at the end of each musical sentence. Disseminated in England by Miles Coverdale, Jan Laski and Vallerand Poullain, this Strasbourg model of hymnody was eventually adopted by the Church of England. The present volume offers fresh perspectives on these aspects of Strasbourg and Alsatian reformers' contributions to the construction of the new Church of England.

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