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Comment concevoir qu’un livret d’opéra ait pu être réécrit pour des marionnettes ou sous forme de pantomime ? Peut-on imaginer qu’une œuvre lyrique ait suscité plus de huit parodies ? Sait-on que Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette avaient leur parodiste attitré ? Les réécritures comiques d’opéra, représentées sur les théâtres de la foire et des boulevards comme à la Comédie-Italienne de Paris et sur les théâtres privés, connaissent une vogue étonnante au siècle des Lumières. Parodier l’opéra, ce n’est pas écrire contre l’opéra, mais plutôt participer à sa promotion en jouant le double jeu de la critique et du divertissement. Les parodistes comme Fuzelier, Favart, Romagnesi ou Despréaux, manient autant l’art des vaudevilles que celui du pastiche, et possèdent une riche culture littéraire et musicale. Des opéras de Lully à ceux de Gluck, rares sont les œuvres à succès qui n’ont pas été parodiées. Retracer l’histoire de cette pratique permet d’entrer dans les arcanes de la vie théâtrale des Lumières, où les frontières entre culture populaire et culture élitiste sont brouillées, où l’opéra, l’opéra-comique et la parodie évoluent sans se quitter des yeux. Taxée de « mauvais genre » par certains, décrite comme un « spectacle gai, varié et même magnifique » (d’Argenson) par d’autres, la parodie d’opéra n’est pas un épiphénomène ; ce qui se joue avec elle, tout au long du XVIIIe siècle, c’est une certaine idée du théâtre comique en musique.

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"The fifteen medieval Latin parodies edited in this volume are among the liveliest from a lively age of satire and literary mischief. That medieval clerical life was often high-spirited and entertaining was a secret the official Church was not eager to reveal. Thus, apart from a few exceptions, such as the drinking songs of the Carmina Burana (famously and anachronistically revived by Carl Orff), the medieval Latin of religion and the schools is rarely regarded as a repository of madcap humour. Instead it typically gives the impression of a medium of sombre and utilitarian literature, the dryness relieved by occasional flights of sophisticated love poetry. As the lingua franca of the medieval world, and above all of the medieval Church, Latin can certainly lay claim to innumerable works that prize worthiness above entertainment value. But the examples of clerical and scholarly merrymaking edited in this book--representatives of a widespread tradition--are testimony that the educated were just as fond of revelry as their more secular and plebeian contemporaries."--

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In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day-care centers, impregnating girls for infant sacrifice, brainwashing adults, and even controlling the highest levels of government. As historian of religions David Frankfurter listened to these sinister theories, it occurred to him how strikingly similar they were to those that swept parts of the early Christian world, early modern Europe, and postcolonial Africa. He began to investigate the social and psychological patterns that give rise to these myths. Thus was born Evil Incarnate, a riveting analysis of the mythology of evilconspiracy. The first work to provide an in-depth analysis of the topic, the book uses anthropology, the history of religion, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, to answer the questions "What causes people collectively to envision evil and seek to exterminate it?" and "Why does the representation of evil recur in such typical patterns?" Frankfurter guides the reader through such diverse subjects as witch-hunting, the origins of demonology, cannibalism, and the rumors of Jewish ritual murder, demonstrating how societies have long expanded upon their fears of such atrocities to address a collective anxiety. Thus, he maintains, panics over modern-day infant sacrifice are really not so different from rumors about early Christians engaging in infant feasts during the second and third centuries in Rome. In Evil Incarnate, Frankfurter deepens historical awareness that stories of Satanic atrocities are both inventions of the mind and perennial phenomena, not authentic criminal events. True evil, as he so artfully demonstrates, is not something organized and corrupting, but rather a social construction that inspires people to brutal acts in the name of moral order.

Good and evil --- Ritual abuse --- Conspiracies --- Demonology --- Public opinion --- History. --- Public opinion --- History. --- Public opinion --- History. --- Public opinion --- History. --- Alien abduction. --- Angel Heart. --- Angra Mainyu. --- Anton LaVey. --- Apocalyptic literature. --- Apologetics. --- Armor of God. --- Backbiting. --- Blasphemy. --- Blood libel. --- Cannibalism. --- Cataclysm (Dragonlance). --- Catharism. --- Child abuse. --- Child sacrifice. --- Child sexual abuse. --- Christian fundamentalism. --- Compendium Maleficarum. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Counterculture. --- Crime. --- Daeva. --- Deal with the Devil. --- Debbie Nathan. --- Demon. --- Demonic possession. --- Demonology. --- Devourer. --- Disgust. --- Dismemberment. --- Ethnic violence. --- European witchcraft. --- Evocation. --- Exorcism. --- Expurgation. --- Falsity. --- Familiar spirit. --- Gluttony. --- God. --- Heresy. --- Incest taboo. --- Incest. --- Indication (medicine). --- Individual terror. --- Infanticide. --- Jacob Frank. --- Judensau. --- Maleficent. --- Malleus Maleficarum. --- Manichaeism. --- Martha Corey. --- Mass hysteria. --- Matthew Hopkins. --- Michael Langone. --- Michelle Remembers. --- Mind control. --- Murder. --- Necrophilia. --- Obscenity. --- Onoskelis. --- Orgy. --- Parody. --- Perversion. --- Pierre de Lancre. --- Pornography. --- Posttraumatic stress disorder. --- Promiscuity. --- Proscription. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychotherapy. --- Rape culture. --- Religion. --- Rite. --- Robert Calef. --- Sacrilege. --- Salem witch trials. --- Satanic ritual abuse. --- Satanism. --- Sexual inversion (sexology). --- Sexual violence. --- Social criticism. --- Spiritual warfare. --- Spitting. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supreme crime. --- Tanya Luhrmann. --- Theistic Satanism. --- This Present Darkness. --- Torture chamber. --- Torture. --- Totem and Taboo. --- Traditional witchcraft. --- Trickster. --- Ventriloquism. --- Violence and the Sacred. --- War. --- Warfare. --- Witch trials in the early modern period. --- Witch-hunt. --- Witchcraft.