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SUMMARY:Between Fait-divers and Grand récit: The French Wars of Religion a
 nd the Genres of Historiography in the Sixteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture\n\n–Andrea Frisch (Univ
 ersity of Maryland)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJl9LS1Q4MU\n\nOnli
 ne event via Zoom.\n\nThis event is free of charge\, but you must register
  to attend in advance. All registrants will receive instructions via email
  after registering. Click he following link to register directly with Zoom
 : https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XNsdI9SWS8eJtgvDZWHufQ\n\n\n\nA
 s was the case with many events of the European sixteenth century\, the Fr
 ench Wars of Religion (1562–1598) were registered in a number of differe
 nt media and across a wide range of genres simultaneously\, both within an
 d without the French kingdom.  This proliferation of documents yielded a 
 large and diffuse record of the conflicts that did not easily lend itself 
 to a consensual account of any aspect of the period.\n\nThis talk will add
 ress the phenomena of “remediation”–the shaping of material across m
 edia–\, and “regeneration” –the shaping of material across genres
 –with respect to specific events of the French Wars of Religion\, with t
 he aim of situating elite French historiography within the complex web of 
 discourses about the wars from which it explicitly sought to distinguish i
 tself. At the center of Frisch's reflections is the histoire mémorable\, 
 since in 16th- and 17th-century France–in contrast to her European neigh
 bors–some form of this label was regularly applied to accounts of curren
 t events. As a generic indicator\, the category is deeply ambiguous: On th
 e one hand\, the term “mémorable” implied a shared inheritance of con
 sensually venerated material traditionally associated with a unifying Hist
 ory\; on the other\, in the glut of printed matter in the age of confessio
 nal conflict\, the epithet “mémorable” was repeatedly attached to div
 isive accounts of current events directly linked to contemporary political
  debates.\n\nAndrea Frisch received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Lit
 eratures from UC Berkeley in 1996. Her research focuses on literary and hi
 storiographical works in the social\, cultural\, and political context of 
 the Protestant Reformation\, with special attention to Francophone materia
 l.\n\nThe Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early M
 odern France (University of North Carolina Press\, 2004) is an examination
  of the links between the witness of the French law courts\, the figure of
  the witness in theological writings\, the eyewitness narrator of Francoph
 one travel literature\, and the witness-as-narrator in French literary and
  philosophical texts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The book’
 s analyses highlight the tense coexistence between traditional ethical mod
 els of witnessing inherited from medieval precedents\, on the one hand\, a
 nd an epistemic conception of witnessing\, according to which eyewitnessin
 g gained special prestige as a depersonalized\, quasi-objective form of te
 stimony\, on the other.\n\nForgetting Differences: Tragedy\, Historiograph
 y and the French Wars of Religion (Edinburgh University Press\, 2015) is a
  study of the rhetoric of reconciliation in the wake of France’s civil w
 ars (1562–1598). Taking contemporaneous juridical and theological concep
 tions of pardon\, amnesty\, and reconciliation as a point of departure\, t
 he book identifies parallels between historiographical method and tragic a
 esthetics in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. The tandem evoluti
 on of these discourses was centrally conditioned by the challenge of repre
 senting civil war in a way that would be perceived simultaneously as truth
 ful and as non-polemical.\n\nCurrent projects include Dispassionate Truths
 : The Rise of Unmemorable History\, which tracks the relationship between 
 the “memorable” and the “true” in the larger body of early modern 
 European historiography\, and The Library of the Enlightened Ethnographer\
 , which examines the reception of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europea
 n travel literature in eighteenth-century anthropology and ethnography.\n\
 n\n\nThis lecture is presented as part of Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms\,
  a lecture series hosted by Barbara Fuchs (University of California\, Los 
 Angeles) and Andrew Devereux (University of California\, San Diego) and sp
 onsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- &amp\; 18th-Century Studies.
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