With the rejection of Purgatory by the Reformed Church, the ghosts became a fashionable subject in demonological debates, just as the rediscovery of Seneca encouraged spirits to haunt the European stages. The study of the relations between these two fields shows some similitude but mostly underlines the differences in apprehending the phenomenon itself: for the demonologists, the Devil always lurked behind apparitions of the souls, whereas the playwrights developed a paradoxical ghost figure insisting on its authority but questioning its reality. Beyond this contradiction, drama better than any other genre reflects the ghost's essential ambivalence, both human and supernatural, but also the ambivalence of its perception as a phenomenon, osc...
Le genre fantastique, contrairement à l'opinion spontanée, repose, dans ses réalisations majeures, s...
International audienceWhere was (literary) fiction in the early-modern passion for supernatural phen...
In the second half of the sixteenth century, with the revival of ancient theatrical forms, new reade...
With the rejection of Purgatory by the Reformed Church, the ghosts became a fashionable subject in d...
International audienceBetween 1570 and 1651, many French treaties or cheap newspapers deal with ghos...
International audienceSeveral medieval moral and didactic tales describe the animation of corpses by...
This dissertation is a study of the nature and function of the demonic in the theater of Paul Claude...
The theatre is the most superstitious of cultural contexts, imbued with folklore, tall tales and ‘wa...
Les spectres, les revenants et les fantômes ont depuis toujours suscité la curiosité de l’être humai...
Les fatistes du théâtre à sujet religieux souhaitent montrer aux spectateurs médiévaux le scénario b...
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the 17th century, western Europe is the sta...
International audienceThe subject of this volume presents a particular historical interest in the En...
The Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century fuelled heated debates about the nature and perc...
Au XVIéme siècle, il est courant d'affirmer une parenté ontologique entre les univers du surnaturel ...
Abrstact (english)Contemporary realistic fiction sometimes includes features which echo ancient ghos...
Le genre fantastique, contrairement à l'opinion spontanée, repose, dans ses réalisations majeures, s...
International audienceWhere was (literary) fiction in the early-modern passion for supernatural phen...
In the second half of the sixteenth century, with the revival of ancient theatrical forms, new reade...
With the rejection of Purgatory by the Reformed Church, the ghosts became a fashionable subject in d...
International audienceBetween 1570 and 1651, many French treaties or cheap newspapers deal with ghos...
International audienceSeveral medieval moral and didactic tales describe the animation of corpses by...
This dissertation is a study of the nature and function of the demonic in the theater of Paul Claude...
The theatre is the most superstitious of cultural contexts, imbued with folklore, tall tales and ‘wa...
Les spectres, les revenants et les fantômes ont depuis toujours suscité la curiosité de l’être humai...
Les fatistes du théâtre à sujet religieux souhaitent montrer aux spectateurs médiévaux le scénario b...
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the 17th century, western Europe is the sta...
International audienceThe subject of this volume presents a particular historical interest in the En...
The Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century fuelled heated debates about the nature and perc...
Au XVIéme siècle, il est courant d'affirmer une parenté ontologique entre les univers du surnaturel ...
Abrstact (english)Contemporary realistic fiction sometimes includes features which echo ancient ghos...
Le genre fantastique, contrairement à l'opinion spontanée, repose, dans ses réalisations majeures, s...
International audienceWhere was (literary) fiction in the early-modern passion for supernatural phen...
In the second half of the sixteenth century, with the revival of ancient theatrical forms, new reade...