Escaping the community

Abstract

Taking up again the question of the right of exile in ducal Normandy and the " capacity of Norman society in the ^11th century to produce individuals and groups who detach themselves from the whole " (David Bates), the lecture now sets out to test the following hypothesis : the relative robustness of domination in medieval societies resides less in the constraining compactness of the framing of men than in their capacity to extract themselves from it. Using the example of the Latin East, considered as a colonia nova Christianitatis (Guibert de Nogent), but also thinking about medieval logics ofexceptio, we attempt to revisit the question of the political and spatial consistency of communities of inhabitants - always taking seriously, as the work directed by Joseph Morsel invites us to do, the " fait d'habiter ". And to test the capacity of medieval populations to flee the community in order to form a commune once again.

Contents

• Should I stay or should I go (Clash, 1981), or the spiral of negativity
• Saying no to one's own will to say no : reflections on the Brexit from Albert Hirschman's Exit, Voice and Loyalty (William Davies, " Leave, and Leave again ", London Review of Books, February 2019)
• Hypothesis related to medieval societies : the relative robustness of domination would reside less in the constraining compactness of men's framing than in their ability to extricate themselves from it
• " It was in the time of Haraldr the Fair-haired that Iceland was mostly colonized, because the people would not tolerate his oppression and tyranny "(Saga of the Men of Hólmr)
• The right of exile in ducal Normandy : ullac et exilium
• Understanding " the capacity of ^11th-century Norman society to produce individuals or groups that stand out from the whole " (David Bates, William the Conqueror, Paris, 2019)
• Conquering, surveying, dominating : historiographies of the Domesday Book
• Collecting life stories : writing down, political ritualization and narrative capture
• Crusades, colonization and political experience : is the Latin East the colonia nova Christianitatis (Guibert de Nogent) ?
• Colonization without a metropolis (Benjamin Kedar)
• How to rule over Christ's heritage ? L'impossible royauté (Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Le mystère des rois de Jérusalem, 1099-1187, Paris, 2013)
• Unction, election and political decomposition : on " l'agonie textuelle " of Beaudouin IV, last king of Jerusalem
• From the Sepulchre to the dissemination of its replicas : medieval logics ofexceptio
• Fleeing to the heights ? The political paradigm of Zomia, or the art of not letting yourself be governed (James Scott)
• Resettlement, a parade against the power of settlement contractors
• What is a community of inhabitants ? Taking the political fact of dwelling seriously (Joseph Morsel dir., Communautés d'habitants au Moyen Âge (^XIe-XVe siècles), Paris, 2019)
• Distances, displacements, dispersions : the community as a " regulatory body for access to territorial resources " (Samuel Leturcq)
• Montepinzutolo à Monticello, un reincastellamento au ^XIIIe siècle (Emmanuel Huertas)
• Fleeing the community to make it common again : a game between normativity and narrativity