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Contra Fidem Christi Delinquentium: The Inquisition and the Construction of anti-Jewish Narratives in the 13th and 14th c
This article discusses the chronology of the different stages that determined the expansion of the inquisitorial jurisdiction over the Jews between the late twelfth century and 1376. Its fundamental goal is to inquire about the facts and responses that turned the Jews into potential targets for inquisitors. I will hold a theoretical perspective—no use-case will be addressed—aiming to describe the self-perception that the medieval inquisition had of its attributions. The discussion will mostly rely on papal bulls and documents, inquisitorial manuals, and other legal treatises and enactments. El presente artículo aborda, de manera cronológica, el paulatino proceso de expansión de la jurisdicción inquisitorial sobre los judíos desde finales del S. XII hasta el año 1376. Su propósito fundamental es analizar la concatenación de eventos y respuestas que acabaron por convertir a los judíos en potenciales sujetos de dicha jurisdicción. El artículo se construye sobre una perspectiva completamente teórica —en el sentido de que no se analizarán procesos concretos— con el fin de describir la percepción que la inquisición medieval poseía de sus propias atribuciones. El estudio tendrá especialmente en cuenta el contenido de las bulas papales y otros documentos eclesiásticos, así como de los manuales inquisitoriales y tratados legales de la época.
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Actor-Network Theory and methodology: Just what does it mean to say that nonhumans have agency?
Actor-Network Theory is a controversial social theory. In no respect is this more so than the role it 'gives' to nonhumans: nonhumans have agency, as Latour provocatively puts it. This article aims to interrogate the multiple layers of this declaration to understand what it means to assert with Actor-Network Theory that nonhumans exercise agency. The article surveys a wide corpus of statements by the position's leading figures and emphasizes the wider methodological framework in which these statements are embedded. With this work done, readers will then be better placed to reject or accept the Actor-Network position -understanding more precisely what exactly it is at stake in this decision.
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Pour en finir avec les \Monomanes\ de Géricault: considérons leur rôle dans la construction du mythe de l'artiste
Théodore Géricault's Monomanes (Portraits of the Insane; 18205) were rediscovered in 1863, just four years before his first biography was published. This article examines this previously unstudied conjuncture in order to put to rest some of the myths surrounding these works and to show that their circulation contributed to the discourse on Géricault that was taking shape at the time. These five portraits have been described as displaying a duality that places them between art and psychiatry, between science and popular culture. This article argues that this resulted from the amalgamation of two distinct understandings of monomania: the scientific one at the time of their production and the popular one at the time of their rediscovery.
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