République ou commune de Marseille ? Des usages politiques médiévalistes révélateurs de la construction de l’objet historique
This paper aims to assess how history, as a science, has participated in producing and disseminating a set of representations stemming from medievalism which lies at the heart of the leftist vision of Marseille’s identity. Indeed, Alèssi Dell’Umbria’s book Une histoire universelle de Marseille descr...
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| Language: | English |
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Université Lumière Lyon 2
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Frontière·s |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/frontieres/1787 |
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| Summary: | This paper aims to assess how history, as a science, has participated in producing and disseminating a set of representations stemming from medievalism which lies at the heart of the leftist vision of Marseille’s identity. Indeed, Alèssi Dell’Umbria’s book Une histoire universelle de Marseille describes the communal period as the origin and matrix of Marseille’s independent and rebellious spirit, as he seeks to write the history of contemporary systems of oppression from a very local point of view. In fact, the way in which scholars constructed the object ‘commune of Marseille’ as medieval history became a science made room for such a reinterpretation: it was (and still is) limited to the period when the commune was fully independent and thus closely linked to the idea of freedom. Since then, there has been no critical examination of the ideological and political underpinnings of such a scientific construct and its consequences for the academic history of medieval Marseille. Therefore, this paper will outline the social conditions of this object and the academic and political positions of the scholars who constructed it, in order to shed some light on the affinities that led to the political appropriation of medieval Marseille by the Left. |
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| ISSN: | 2534-7535 |