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In Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation, Zrinka Stahuljak explores the connections and fissures between the history of sexuality, nineteenth-century views of the Middle Ages, and the conceptualization of modern France. This cultural history uncovers the determinant role that the sexuality of the Middle Ages played in nineteenth-century French identity.Stahuljak's provocative study of sex, blood, race, and love in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical and historical literature demonstrates how French medicine's obsession with the medieval past helped to define European sexuality, race, public health policy, marriage, family, and the conceptualization of the Middle Ages. Stahuljak reveals the connections between the medieval military order of the Templars and the 1830 colonization of Algeria, between a fifteenth-century French marshal and the development of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's theory of sadism, between courtly love and the 1884 law on divorce. Although the developing discipline of medieval studies eventually rejected the influence of these medical philologists, the convergence of medievalism and medicine shaped modern capitalist French society and established a vision of the Middle Ages that survives today.

Medical anthropology --- Social archaeology --- Medievalism --- Sex --- Heredity --- National characteristics, French. --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Archaeology --- Civilization, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Ancestry --- Descent --- Inheritance (Biology) --- Pangenesis --- Biology --- Breeding --- Atavism --- Eugenics --- Genetics --- Mendel's law --- Natural selection --- French national characteristics --- History --- History. --- Anthropological aspects --- Methodology --- Cultural Studies. --- European History. --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies. --- World History.

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La médiéviste Zrinka Stahuljak nous présente dans son essai un Moyen Âge empli d’enseignements pour notre propre société. Se penchant à la fois sur l’époque médiévale et sur l’époque néo-libérale, elle met au jour les rapports que nous entretenons aux mots et à la littérature, à leur histoire, et aide à faire comprendre les questions liées à la politique culturelle ainsi qu’à la préservation et au financement du patrimoine. Au fil de ces pages, c’est l’impérieuse nécessité de poursuivre les enseignements de la littérature et de l’histoire du Moyen Âge qui prend forme. Zrinka Stahuljak enseigne la littérature et la civilisation médiévales à l’Université de Californie à Los Angeles (UCLA). Elle a publié en France L’Archéologie pornographique. Médecine, Moyen Âge et histoire de France (PUR, 2018) et Les Fixeurs au Moyen Âge. Histoire et littérature connectées (Le Seuil, 2021), et aux États-Unis, Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages (2005) et Medieval Fixers: Translation Across the Mediterranean, 1250-1530 (à paraître).

Moyen Âge --- Littérature --- Politique culturelle

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"In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak issues a challenge to scholars working in medieval studies to account for the history of translation, and to experts in translation studies to read the work of medievalists. Focusing on the term "fixer," she unpacks modern uses of the words "interpreter" and "translator" and restores them to their premodern origins: as an active agent who performed a wide range of tasks, as insider informant, local guide, broker of knowledge, and transmitter of art. For Stahuljak, the fixer was a multifunctional intermediary, not a mere translator or interpreter (in the restricted modern sense), but an enabler, facilitator, and mediator, the engine driving the exchange of multiple linguistic, social, cultural, and topographic forms of knowledge. She proposes a paradigmatic shift for both medieval literary history and for the history of translation to confront and interrogate each other in their core disciplinary practices, which promote national, political, and colonial agendas masked as neutrality. Surveying a variety of texts from 1250 to 1500, including crusade treatises and travel writings, accounts of pilgrims and spies, chronicles and romances in both prose and verse, and traversing an impressive range of languages, including Latin, Middle French, German, Italian, and Spanish, Stahuljak asks both medievalists and translation studies scholars to reconsider their assumptions and methods as a way to reconstruct a premodern, precolonial, inclusive world literature"--

Translating and interpreting --- Translators --- Mediators (Persons) --- Intercultural communication --- Literature, Medieval --- Social aspects --- History --- History and criticism

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Une étude sur la construction de la sexualité médiévale par le XIXe siècle impliquée dans la constitution de la nation et de lʹEmpire, et dans la définition de la race, de lʹhygiène, du mariage et de la famille, qui pointe le rôle central de la médecine et de ses praticiens dans l'invention d'une généalogie médicale imaginaire de la race française et de ses maladies et vices héréditaires.--[Memento]

Sex customs --- Medievalism --- Social archaeology --- Medical anthropology --- History --- Influence --- Vie sexuelle --- Moyen âge --- Étude et enseignement --- Aspect médical --- Vie sexuelle -- France --- Moyen âge -- France

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History as a science --- France