Souls under Siege

Nicole Archambeau

Description

In Souls under Siege, Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century. Many people, she finds, understood both plague and war as the symptoms of spiritual sicknesses caused by excessive sin, and they sought cures in confession.Archambeau draws on a rich evidentiary base of sixty-eight narrative testimonials from the canonization inquest for Countess Delphine de Puimichel, which was held in the market town of Apt in 1363. Each witness in the proceedings had lived through the outbreaks of plague in 1348 and 1361, as well as the violence inflicted by mercenaries unemployed during truces in the Hundred Years' War. Consequently, their testimonies unexpectedly reveal the importance of faith and the role of affect in the healing of body and soul alike. Faced with an unprecedented cascade of crises, the inhabitants of Provence relied on saints and healers, their worldview connecting earthly disease and disaster to the struggle for their eternal souls. Souls under Siege illustrates how medieval people approached sickness and uncertainty by using a variety of remedies, making clear that "healing" had multiple overlapping meanings in this historical moment.

Sujets

• Histoire
• History of medicine
• History of Europe
• France

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 avril 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501753688
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

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SOUS UNDER SïEGE

SOUS UNDER SïEGE

STORI ES OF WAR, PL AGUE , AND CONF ESSI ON I N F OURT E E NT H CE NT URY PROVE NCE

N i co l e A r c h a m b e a u

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îbrary o Congress Cataogîng-în-Pubîcatîon Data Names: Archambeau, Nîcoe, author. Tîte: Sous under sîege : storîes o war, pague, and conessîon în ourteenth-century Provence / Nîcoe Archambeau. Descrîptîon: ïthaca, [New York] : Corne Unîversîty Press, 202. | ïncudes bîbîographîca reerences and îndex. ïdentîIers: CCN 20200265 (prînt) | CCN 202002652 (ebook) | ïSBN 97850753664 (hardcover) | ïSBN 9785075367 (ebook) | ïSBN 97850753688 (pd ) Subjects: CSH: Dephîna, o Sîgne, 284–360. | Heaîng–Reîgîous aspects–Chrîstîanîty–Hîstory– To 500. | War and socîety–France–Provence–Hîstory– To 500. | Pague–France–Provence–Hîstory–To 500. | Penance–Hîstory–France–Provence–To 500. | France–Socîa îe and customs–328–600. CassîIcatîon: CC DC33.2 .A73 202 (prînt) | CC DC33.2 (ebook) | DDC 944.9/025—dc23 C record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/20200265 C ebook record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov /202002652

Cover îmage:the Anesïntercessîon o , detaî rom Medîtatîones vîtae Chrîstî / Le Lîvre doré des medîtatîons de a vîe de nostre seîneur Jesu Chrîst(Roya 20 B ïV, . 6), c. 420. Brîtîsh îbrary, ondon, UK. © Brîtîsh îbrary Board. A rîghts reserved: Brîdgeman ïmages. Used by permîssîon.

For my parents, Peter and Caro Archambeau, who showed me the power o storîes

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 ïntroductîon: Teîng Storîes o Danger în Fourteenth-Century Provence  . Bertranda Bertomîeua and the Death o Kîng Robert o Napes, 343  2. Bîshop Phîîppe Cabassoe and the “War o the Seneschas,” 347–349  3. Master Nîcoau aurens and the Mercenary ïnvasîon o 357–358  4. ady Andrea Raymon and the Great Companîes, 36  5. Master Durand Andree and the Sacrament o Penance as a Moment o Danger  6.Sîster Resens de ïnsua and the Desîre or Certaînty  Concusîon: ord Gîraud de Sîmîana and the Heath o Body and Sou

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