Title Forgetting differences : tragedy, historiography, and the French Wars of Religion / Andrea Frisch

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture. Contents Learning to Forget -- Clemency, Pardon, and Oubliance -- History without Passion: National Historiography in the Age of Oubliance -- Tragedy as History: From the Guisiade to Garnier -- From Emotion to Affect Summary Examines the impact of the royal politics of amnesia on tragedy and national historiography in France, 1560-1630. By juxtaposing representations of the French civil war past as they appear (and frequently overlap) in historiography and tragedy from 1550-1630, Andrea Frisch tracks changes in the ways in which history and tragedy sought to 'move' readers throughout the period of the wars and in their wake. The book shows that a shift from a politically (and martially) active reading of the past to a primarily affective one follows the imperative, so clear and urgent at the turn of the seventeenth century, to put an end to violent conflict. The emotions that neoclassical tragedy and absolutist historiography sought to elicit were intended above all to be shared, and thus a medium via which political and religious differences could be downplayed or forgotten. The book aims to illuminate some of the ways in which the experience of the wars of religion, as registered in tragedy and historiography, contributed to a restructuring of the ever-vital relationship between emotion and politics, and thereby to historicize the very concept of 'esmouvoir'. Key Features. Confronts historiography and tragedy in the era of the French Wars of Religion Addresses the themes of amnesty, pardon, memory, and forgetting in the context of civil war Provides both close readings and a broad argument about the impact of the monarchical politics of reconciliation on conceptions of how history and tragedy should 'move' their audiences Treats multiple French authors including AndrÃ♭ de Nesmond; Henri-Lancelot Voisin de la Popelini÷re; Pierre Matthieu; Jean de la Taille; Robert Garnier Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 12, 2016) Subject Religion and politics -- France -- History -- 16th century Memory -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 16th century Social conflict -- France -- History -- 16th century HISTORY -- Europe -- France. Memory -- Social aspects Religion and politics Social aspects Social conflict SUBJECT France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598 -- Social aspects Subject France Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780748694402 0748694404 9781474404471 1474404472 9781474412322 1474412327

Other Titles Tragedy, historiography, and the French Wars of Religion

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