This conference is co-organized by Brenton Hobart (The American University of Paris) and V茅ronique Montagne (Universit茅 C么te d鈥橝zur). Brenton Hobart's first book,聽 鈥 published by Classiques Garnier in 2020 鈥 was awarded the prestigious for best book in the field of History of Philosophy.
Medical treatises, historical writings and literary narratives about the plague use a common linguistic register which repeated itself from Antiquity through Renaissance Europe and which persists in today鈥檚 popular and scholarly imagination of how we envision epidemic disease聽鈥 Covid language and plague language are to a large degree one and the same. The truth concerning disease is thereby molded, if not skewed, by a preconceived discourse, which the writers of such truth are (or feel) forced to revisit: to prove knowledge of and move beyond past disease; to establish themselves as authoritative; likely, to learn how to transform ineffable horror into the art form that the printed word is. To prove encyclopedic knowledge, medical authorities revisited literary and historical perspectives; literary writers incorporated medical knowledge into their literature. The experiential (I sometimes witness X 鈥 factually based) is thus subjugated to the theoretical (I often read Y 鈥 rehashed time and again because some long past authority chanced to take note of it).
Discussions throughout this conference shall include the relative importance of theory, imitation, experience, and experimentation in treatises on the plague and in literature of the greater Renaissance, while considering them in light of the current global medical crisis. They shall also consider the opposition and exchanges between the humanist tradition and personal enquiry, i.e. the place of 鈥榟e鈥, 鈥榮he鈥, 鈥榦ne鈥 and 鈥業鈥 in these writings, together with the implied importance for empirical and subjective approaches, as well as the epistemological consequences of these choices by the authors of the treatises.
Most papers will be given in French. Questions and answers in French or English.
For more information, contact Brenton Hobart:聽bhobart [at] aup.edu (bhobart[at]aup[dot]edu).
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Program
Jeudi 19 octobre 2023
9h30 | Mot d鈥檃ccueil de la pr茅sidente de l鈥橝merican University of Paris (Sonya Stephens)
9h45 | Introduction au colloque (Brenton Hobart, The American University of Paris & V茅ronique Montagne, Universit茅 C么te d鈥橝zur)
Matin茅e sous la pr茅sidence de Violaine Giacomotto (Universit茅 Bordeaux Montaigne)
10h | Conf茅rence de Sylvie Bazin (Universit茅 de Lorraine) : 芦 De l'irruption de la peste 脿 son installation : nommer le mal en fran莽ais 禄
Pause-caf茅 (11-11h15)
11h15 | Isabelle Vedrenne-Fajolles (Universit茅 C么te d鈥橝zur) : 芦 脡crits m茅dicaux sur la peste au bas Moyen 脗ge : typologie, diffusion manuscrite et compagnonnage en recueil 禄
11h45 | Estela Bonnaffoux (Universit茅 de Tours) : 芦 Fere omnes sanabat : savoirs profanes, pratiques empiriques et exp茅rience personnelle dans le De peste d鈥橝ntonio Guaineri (vers 1422) 禄
12h15 | Valerie Worth (Trinity College, University of Oxford) & Brenton Hobart (The American University of Paris) : 芦 Les figures de la f茅minit茅 dans les trait茅s de peste de la premi猫re modernit茅 禄
Buffet
Apr猫s-midi sous la pr茅sidence de Magdalena Ko藕luk (Uniwersytet 艁贸dzki)
14h15 | Erik Heinrichs (Winona State University), 芦 First-Person Perspectives and Particular Knowledge in German Plague Treatises of the Sixteenth Century 禄
14h45 | Edoardo Zorzan (Universit茅 Sorbonne Nouvelle & Universit茅 Ca鈥 Foscari, Venise) : 芦 Il desiderio di giovar al prossimo : savoir m茅dical, rh茅torique et engagement civique dans le Conseil sur la Peste de Bernardino Tomitano (1556) 禄
Pause-caf茅 (15h15-15h45)
15h45 | Anne Brogini (Universit茅 C么te d鈥橝zur) : 芦 Les trait茅s sur la peste de Pietro Parisi (1593 ; 1603). Une exp茅rience maltaise r茅ussie des soins en temps de peste 禄
16h15 | Jo毛l Coste (EPHE, Paris) : 芦 La science m茅dicale aux prises avec la peste (France, premi猫re modernit茅) 禄
Vendredi 20 octobre 2023
Matin茅e sous la pr茅sidence de V茅ronique Montagne
9h30 | V茅ronique Boudon-Millot (CNRS, Sorbonne Universit茅) : 芦 Camerarius lecteur de Galien : un m茅decin antique au secours des pestif茅r茅s de Nuremberg (1533) 禄
Pause-caf茅 (10h30-10h45)
10h45 | Caroline Petit (University of Warwick) : 芦 Sur le De pestilentia de Rhazes : la r茅ception de la m茅decine arabe 脿 la Renaissance 禄
11h15 | Simon Achigar (Centre d鈥櫭塼udes Sup茅rieures de la Renaissance) : 芦 De l鈥檃utorit茅 m茅dicale aux autorit茅s urbaines : la mise en pratique des trait茅s de peste 脿 Chartres au XVIe si猫cle 禄
11h45 | Guylaine Pineau (Universit茅 de Pau) : 芦 Remplacer ou 茅vincer le m茅decin, le statut de chirurgien dans le Livre de la peste et dans les 艗耻惫谤别蝉 d'Ambroise Par茅 禄
Buffet
Apr猫s-midi sous la pr茅sidence de Brenton Hobart
14h | Val茅rie Auclair (Universit茅 Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne) : 芦 La Peste dans les 艙uvres historiques, graphiques et philanthropiques de Nicolas Houel 禄
14h30 | Anthony Le Berre (Universit茅 d鈥橝ix Marseille) : 芦 Le r茅cit de cure dans les trait茅s de peste de la Renaissance 禄
Pause-caf茅 (15h-15h15)
15h15 | Fran莽oise Hildesheimer (Archives nationales) : 芦 Retour d'exp茅rience : la peste de Toulon (1721) relue par Jean d'Antrechaus 禄