Emeritus Professor of modern history, University of Manchester, Great-Britain
Octobre 2012 à juin 2013
Born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1948, Joseph Bergin took his BA and MA degrees at University College Dublin, before spending three years at the University of Cambridge where he completed his Ph.D in 1977. From 1978 until 2011 he taught early modern history at the University of Manchester (UK), where he held the chair of early modern history from 1996 until his recent retirement. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996 and a Correspondant (foreign) of the Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) in 2011. His research focuses on France during the long seventeenth century, and he has written several books and numerous articles on the connections between religion, politics and society during this period. His most recent book, Church, society and religious change in France 1580-1730 (2009) was awarded the Médaille des Antiquités de France by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2010. In 2011, he was elected a Correspondant étranger of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Politics and religion in France, from the end of the wars of religion to the Jansenist crisis (about 1590 - about 1730)
The Edict of Nantes was only one landmark in the complicated and conflictual relations between religion and politics in early modern France. In gallican France, the protestants were not the only set of actors who played a part of shaping the politico-religious landscape during the long seventeenth-century. My intention is to examine these overlapping developments in relation to each other, and especially to show how they influenced one another. If the seventeenth century was heir to the murderous conflicts of the sixteenth, it was much more than that. In the context of a re-sacralised monarchy, the powerful recovery of Catholicism, the emergence of the Jansenist conflict, and the anti-protestant campaigns before and after 1685 - to name only four factors - new ideas and realignments emerged, which in their turn provided the background to the debates that would characterise the French Enlightenment. This project/book will investigate the multiple connections between religion and politics from the latter years of the wars of religion to the pre-Enlightenment (circa 1590 to circa 1730).
BERGIN, Joseph. Church, Society and religious change in France 1580-1730. New Haven Conn., London : Yale University Press, 2009. 506 p.
BERGIN, Joseph.
Crown, Church and Episcopate under Louis XIV. New Haven Conn., London : Yale University Press, 2004. 544 p.
BERGIN, Joseph. The Making of the French Episcopate 1589-1661. New Haven Conn., London : Yale University Press, 1996. 761 p.
BERGIN, Joseph. L'Ascension de Richelieu. Paris : Payot, 1994. 367 p.
BERGIN, Joseph. Pouvoir et Fortune de Richelieu. Paris : Robert Laffont, 1987. 382 p.