L'histoire commynienne. Pragmatique et mémoire dans l'ordre politique

Commynes' history. Pragmatics and memory in the political realm. The fact that certain highly significant historically lived practices become subject to narrativization by the end of the Middle Ages points to growing need for structuring knowledge not yet theorized. Professionals practitioners, wishing to render their readers yet another service develop new applied methods of teaching history move by move. This paper analyzes the nature of this new writing experiment on the part of authors who are not literary professionals but who function in specific professional context that of diplomacy and who remain ulto privileged model that of Commynes, Memoires. To represent to propagate what is both know-how and an ars vivendi requires specific kind of writing on the margins of established representations of power It will become clear that Commynes's own manner of dissenting rom established cultural references leads to redefinition of historical strategies in the literary and the political field Middle Ages on the wane.Blanchard Joël. L'histoire commynienne. Pragmatique et mémoire dans l'ordre politique. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 46ᵉ année, N. 5, 1991. pp. 1071-1105