Governing in times of plague

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What kind of power prepares the defeated time of the Black Death? Taking up the analysis of the paradigms of leprosy exclusion and plague discipline, the lecture describes the differences between the two, taking into account biological, urban and political developments. Based on the hypothesis that leprosy was the cursed part of the sacred monarchy of the 13th^century, the authoritarian and territorial dimensions of plague administration in the late Middle Ages are examined.

Short circuit and short-circuit: Michel Foucault's art of the attack
Availability of the paradigm and suspension of time (Judith Schlanger, La Mémoire des œuvres, 2008)
True beginnings and false memories: the nave of madness and the "cursed cities" of The History of Madness
"At the end of the Middle Ages, leprosy disappeared from the Western world": this is how L'Histoire de la folie begins , and how a history of the Black Death might begin
"The void begins to grow": leprosy as a form of expectation and solicitation
"But let's not anticipate": the pleasure and necessity of not unravelling every ball of intrigue
"By telling stories we can trace a labyrinth where the plague would stray without reaching the storytellers" (Mario Vargas Llosa, Les Contes de la peste, 2015)
Foucault et ses fiches de lecture(https://eman-archives.org/Foucault-fiches/): the plague in Liège in 1519, or the shortcut he wouldn't take
"Accueillir l'oubli - le fait d'oublier - non pas dans le regret ou la résignation, mais comme l'accord avec ce qui se cache" (Maurice Blanchot, "L'oubli, la déraison", NRF, 1961 (quoted in Philippe Arières et alii, "L'Histoire de la folie" de Michel Foucault, 50 ans de réception, IMEC, 2011)
Fiction littéraire, fiction politique: retour sur un rêve politique et sur le chevauchement de deux paradigmes dans Surveiller et punir (lecture January 12, 2021)
From Hansen's disease to medieval lepra : extending the field of leprosy
The prevalence of leprosy in the seventh pathocenosis, from 1100 to 1347 (Jacques Vallin and France Meslé, "Du concept de pathocénose aux théories de la transition sanitaire", in M. D. Grmek's Le concept de pathocénose. A conceptualization of the history of diseases, 2016)
Les grandes léproseries aux portes des villes: une présence symbolique et fonctionnelle (Carole Rawcliffe, Leprosy in Medieval England, 2006)
Ambiguities of abjection (Béroul, Le Roman de Tristan) ?
The religious ambivalence of the leper, or the limits of the separation paradigm
"Horrible to behold": why is leprosy morbus regium ?
Human rejects and "inner splendor": the "cursed part" of sacred monarchy (Jacob Rogozinski, "Worse than death". Lepers in the Middle Ages: from exclusion to extermination", Lignes, 2011)
With Foucault, facing the suffering of others: for an anti-conspiratorial conception of biopolitics
In England in 1342, don't look sick chickens in the eye, "as if they were lepers": always the metaphorical escort of disease ;
With the disappearance of leprosy, the appearance of white lepers, " ladres dedans le corps "
Still impure blood: when cagots join the procession of " cursed races "
France and Aragon, 1320s: back to square one, the poisoned wells
A passing of the baton between lepers and plague victims? Three gaps
In Marseilles in 1720, making the history of the plague to revive suspended time (Fleur Beauvieux, "La peste et l'ordre du temps", colloquium session , December 13, 2021)
Not governing the plague, but governing in times of plague: regimen and governmentality
In Italian cities, quarantines and plague administrations (Carlo M. Cippola, Contre un ennemi invisible: épidémies et structures sanitaires en Italie de la Renaissance au XVIIe^siècle, 1992)
Ghetto, Nazzaretto, lazzaretto: etymological mazes and resemantisations
Milan from 1361: health policy, medical expertise and princely power (Marilyn Nicoud, "Médecine et prévention de la santé à Milan à la fin du Moyen Âge", Siècles, 2001)
Territorial control, body examination and documentary production: plague returns to Milan in the 16th^century(Ann Carmichael, "Plague Persistence in Western Europe: A Hypothesis", The Medieval Globe, 2014)
"All Italy, except Milan, where it did little harm" (Lodovico Antonio Muratori, Del governo della peste e delle maniere di guardarsen, 1714)
The lord and the three families: a cruel tale from Milan in 1348
" Le case loro furo murate l'uscia e le finestre, chè nissuno v'entrasse " (Cronaca senese attribuita ad Agnolo di Tura del Grasso)
"Dateci un nuovo Luchino Visconti ": from 1348 to 2020, the epidemic dream of authoritarian power (Volker Reinhardt, Die Macht der Seuche. Wie die Große Pest die Welt veränderte 1347-1353, 2021)
Luchino Visconti and the Sta in pace in Parma in 1347: a feared prince, a confiscated city (Patrick Boucheron, Le Pouvoir de bâtir. Urbanisme et politique édilitaire à Milan, ^XIVe-XVe^siècles, 1998)
The lord, the barons and the dog guard: "no one moves, no one speaks" (Anonymous Roman, Chronicle. Rome, time, the world and the Cola di Rienzo revolt, 2015)
"He was stern and without the slightest mercy": the fair tyranny of the Viscontis and the novellistica (lectures March 13, 20 and 27, 2018)
What power is this defeated time preparing for us? we must hear the rumble of battle" (Michel Foucault, Surveiller et punir, 1975)