Abstract
From epidemics to lovesickness, both without remedy, the same imaginary of contamination and fascination circulates. This first introductory session is devoted to studying the doctrines and languages of medieval love, placing the object of study between fantasies and fantasies, but also between fictions and political experiences. This interest in the metaphysics of love must not detract from the need for a social history. We therefore seek to understand this theme of the amorous gaze through texts (Guillaume de Machaut), episodes (the " coup de foudre " of Charles VI for Isabeau of Bavaria in 1385) and images ( descchi da parto), as ordo amoris and as a force of effraction.
Contents
- The plague, after the plague, love after the plague : a look back at Guillaume de Machaut and Machiavelli
- During the plague, against the plague, before the plague : the burning of a loving heart, the true prologue to the Decameron
- What is obscene ? The grotesque reversal of the Boccaccio device
- Sex, fright and fascinus : Arthur Forgeais' Priapées (Zrinka Stahuljak, L'Archéologie pornographique. Medicine, the Middle Ages and French History, 2018)
- Moralism of the ancients, moralism of the modern : for a social and inclusive history of the politics of love
- Dante and theordo amoris : the metaphysics of love as a universal principle of movement
- Why fall in love ? Thomas Aquinas and the power of love : " be attracted to that which acts upon us "
- There is no cure for love : amor hereos et fascinatio from Constantine the African to Marsilio Ficino (Aurélien Robert, " Fascinatio ", in Mots médiévaux offerts à Ruedi Imbach, 2011)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, L'Amour au temps du choléra : la contamination du mal d'amour
- From the physiology to the phenomenology of love : the most intense experience of consciousness
- " The act of a gaze that surrenders itself to another gaze in a common insubstitutability " (Jean-Luc Marion, Prolégomènes à la charité, 1983)
- Histoire d'un regard : le " coup de foudre " de Charles VI pour Isabeau de Bavière en 1385 (Paris 1400. Les arts sous Charles VI, 2004)
- Histoire de l'œil : l'effraction du désir (Michael Camille, L'Art de l'amour au Moyen Âge. Objects and subjects of desire, 2000)
- Histoire d'une idole : le Livre du Voir Dit de Guillaume de Machaut, simulacre (Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet ed., 1999) et claustration (Alain Corbellari, in Le Moyen Âge, 2022)
- Histoire d'un objet : Venus venerated on a birthing tray, vulnerable in her triumph (Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Mariages à la florentine. Femmes et vie de famille à Florence (XIVe-XVe siècle), 2020)
- Literatures of the awakening : arts of governing and arts of loving
- Alain Chartier's " réveil d'Entendement " and Le Débat de réveille matin
- " Avoir la puce à l'oreille " : qu'entendre par là ? (Emma Cayley, Debate and Dialogue: Alain Chartier in his Cultural Context, 2003)
- Watch, vigilance and antecedence (Jean-Baptise Brenet, Demain la veille, 2023)
- Fictions, fantasies or fantasies ? (Barbara Rosenwein, Love: the story of a feeling, 2023)
- Puritanism, pornography, sentimentalism : two books from 1977 (Roland Barthes, Fragments d'un discours amoureux ; Pascal Bruckner and Alain Finkielkraut, Le Nouveau Désordre amoureux)
- Feminist struggles and the repoliticization of the intimate (Bell hooks'À propos d'amour , 2022)
- Actuality and inactuality of the politics of love : when " words make love " (Raymond Queneau, Les Fleurs bleues, 1965).
