Canada Collects: Treasures from Across the Nation

At the heart of the complex political network developed by the French with the Canadian Aboriginal Peoples from the 17th century onwards, treaties remain, after the British Conquest in 1760, essential to secure the new relationships between the English and Native Peoples. However, at that time already a shift in their use was noticeable. Being in principle, as diplomatic tools, the tangible proof of each signatory's autonomy, they rapidly became the means for the spreading out of an overwhelming colonial power over native nations, extension almost achieved in Central and East Canada at the end of the second half of 19th Century. Analyzing the political signification of these treaties shift in meaning between the end of New France in 1760 and the first Indian Act in 1876, this paper aims to analyze why they were to be inscribed in a process of colonial subjugation, territorial dispossession being just one of the many expressions of it.

2001

The Festschrift is a collection of 47 essays on subjects related to Prof. Kouymjian’s interest over the years written by colleagues, friends, and students. Included in the selection that follows are the front cover, the titlepage, acknowledgements, Table of Contents, Preface, the editor’s Introduction, Bibliography of the honoree’s works, Tabula Gratulatoria, and back cover.

Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā, 2015

Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine, 2018

Le rire a joué, en France, dans la deuxième moitié du 19e siècle et la première moitié du 20e siècle, un rôle stratégique crucial dans le combat anticlérical et antireligieux. De cet usage polémique du rire est résultée toute une production culturelle qu’on a distinguée d’une littérature « savante », qui mènerait la lutte contre la religion sur un tout autre plan, celui de la raison affrontant l’obscurantisme et le préjugé. Dans cet article, on essaye de montrer, à partir d’une analyse des contributions relevant de la « psychologie de la religion » ou « hiéropsychologie » publiées dans la Revue de l’hypnotisme, qu’il existe aussi un « ridicule savant », dont les formes, les codes et les usages sont caractéristiques du rire anticlérical que l’on peut associer au « matérialisme médical ».

A. Lossky-G. Sekulovski (red.), Traditions Recomposées: Liturgie et doctrine en harmonie ou en tension. 63. Seminaire d' études liturgiques, Paris, Institut St. Serge, 21-24 june 2016, Münster , 2017

Utopian Studies, 2014

This essay explores the ways in which the notion of “everyday life” helps us stage a theoretically productive encounter between modernism/modernity and utopia within the context of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary history. Taking Virginia Woolf's critique of Edwardian writers as its starting point, it examines the hidden historical dimensions of the very idea of the everyday, its connection to modernity and, at the same time, to boredom as a specific symptom of that modernity. To illustrate the implications of this theoretical framework for literary study, I turn to two of the most emblematic texts of modernist and utopian aesthetics: James Joyce's Ulysses and William Morris's News from Nowhere. Whereas in Joyce, technical and formal experimentation becomes a means of capturing daily life (including utopian daydreaming) in terms of an oscillation between capitalist commodification and the restlessness of bored distraction, Morris grasps everyday life as both steeped in boredom and removed from the suffering and restlessness associated with it. Thus, utopia reverses the modernist logic of innovation, making “novelty” not a formal dimension of the literary text but one that pertains to its projected, anticipated content: life beyond the determinations of capitalist modernity.

2019

This Element is a contribution to the ongoing debate on what it meant to publish a book in manuscript. It offers case-studies of three twelfth-century Anglo-Norman historians: William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth. It argues that the contemporary success and rapid attainment of canonical authority for their histories was in significant measure the result of successfully conducted publishing activities. These activities are analysed using the concept of a 'publishing circle'. This concept, it is suggested, may have wider utility in the study of authorial publishing in a manuscript culture. Follow the link (DOI) to access the publication.