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L'empire : Une histoire politique du Christianisme
L’Empire est la première histoire politique en BD de la plus vieille institution du monde : l’Eglise. Comment le message originel d’amour et de tolérance du Jésus de l’Evangile a-t-il pu inspirer à la fois les guerres de religions et les monastères qui accueillaient les pèlerins, les pauvres et les malades, les croisades sanglantes avec leurs cortèges de malheurs et tout à la fois, François d’Assise qui parlait aux oiseaux, l’horreur de l’Inquisition et la naissance de l’Université, la décadence des papes Borgia et les fresques de Michel Ange ? Durant ces deux mille ans d’histoire politique, l’Eglise et les papes ont transformé et façonné notre société et notre culture politique. Des décisions de souverains pontifes prises durant le Moyen-Age ou des approches philosophiques et spirituelles, nées il y a plus de mille cinq cents ans, sont toujours d’actualité et structurent nos institutions politiques sans que nous le sachions ! Magnifiquement illustré, plein d’humour, distant et critique, L’Empire est le fruit de vingt années de travail scientifique et académique d’Olivier Bobineau, chercheur reconnu, membre du laboratoire «Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités» de la Sorbonne et du CNRS.
- GenresBande Dessinée
168 pages, Hardcover
Published November 12, 2015
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March 10, 2022
Fascinante. Principalmente para quem consegue acreditar que as igrejas são feitas e geridas por
homens bons, maus e péssimos.
homens bons, maus e péssimos.
November 25, 2021
Lousy translation, it seems more concerned with perpetuating common misconceptions and points of view than portraying reality.
For example, it considers the (french) suppression of the Templar order as “the end” of the soldier-monk, a theme that the author clearly does not know about, understand and so does not explain enough - he mentions only the Templars, forgetting other very significant ones (Hospitalers, for example) and more local ones that had great impact on their regions (see the Order of Saint James in Spain, the Order of Christ in Portugal or the Teutonics in north-east Europe) throughout many years to come.
The Inquisition is also the usual “bête noir”, without the context that it used much less torture than secular powers of those days, not mentioning how relevant it actually was for the establishment of what we now call due process.
It also spends a long time dwelling on the scandals and the “establishment of a different” Church” - losing along the way the thread that to combat those scandals, the Church had to coordinate thousands of clerics and lay folk, with different cultures, different rules and subject to very different difficulties throughout the 12 centuries this volume covers.
While the author does mention some of the most important contributions to culture, such as missionary work, canon law, schools and universities, Truce of God, etc., some of those themes are mentioned almost en passant, often without any further explanation than implying it was all somehow important just for the centralised Church, rather than its relevance for the many that were protected by such developments.
For example, it considers the (french) suppression of the Templar order as “the end” of the soldier-monk, a theme that the author clearly does not know about, understand and so does not explain enough - he mentions only the Templars, forgetting other very significant ones (Hospitalers, for example) and more local ones that had great impact on their regions (see the Order of Saint James in Spain, the Order of Christ in Portugal or the Teutonics in north-east Europe) throughout many years to come.
The Inquisition is also the usual “bête noir”, without the context that it used much less torture than secular powers of those days, not mentioning how relevant it actually was for the establishment of what we now call due process.
It also spends a long time dwelling on the scandals and the “establishment of a different” Church” - losing along the way the thread that to combat those scandals, the Church had to coordinate thousands of clerics and lay folk, with different cultures, different rules and subject to very different difficulties throughout the 12 centuries this volume covers.
While the author does mention some of the most important contributions to culture, such as missionary work, canon law, schools and universities, Truce of God, etc., some of those themes are mentioned almost en passant, often without any further explanation than implying it was all somehow important just for the centralised Church, rather than its relevance for the many that were protected by such developments.
May 10, 2022
O tema é bastante complexo, mas o trabalho de pesquisa é muito bom. Parece simplificado por ser apresentado sob a forma de banda desenhada, mas não deixa de ser uma óptima forma de fazer chegar um trabalho científico a um maior número de pessoas.
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