Gil Bartholeyns

University of Lille · Faculty of Humanities

Gil Bartholeyns prend pour point de départ la façon dont une norme technocratique, une formule qui opère comme un paramètre, est appliquée sans souci de la forme : le taux de mortalité journalier doit être inférieur à 1 % + 0,06 % multipliés par l’âge d’abattage du troupeau exprimé en jours. Comme l’a souligné Georges Canguilhem1, tout se passe com...

Le corps est une métaphore centrale dans le christianisme et la société médiévale : Incarnation, groupes sociaux… Mais le vêtement est la métaphore de tous les corps. Il est aussi omniprésent dans les propos savants sur la conception de la personne et, cela est moins étonnant mais trop peu relevé, dans les modèles de comportements en raison de sa f...

Een interview tussen Alain Dierkens en Gil Bartholeyns. Religie, overtuigingen, verschijningen, spiritualiteit, mirakels ... zijn onderwerpen die de historicus onmiddellijk aanzetten om zijn aanpak in vraag te stellen. Wanneer hij het christendom en de religieuze waarden bestudeert gebruikt hij tegenover deze manifestaties, willens nillens, een wet...

Let’s imagine a summer day of monk John living in the sixth century, in a monastery in southern Italy, under the very finicky Rule of the Master. The objects and domestic order (cloakroom, tools, lighting, bedding, manufacturing...) allow him to observe a religious life: paradox of a spiritual aspiration made by things and attention to things. By t...

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is regrettedVintage photographies with colors addedPhotography is believed to be a medium for nostalgia. During the last few years, making “vintage” photographs and, more surprisingly, the coloring of black and white photos have become part of the practice of the making of nostalgic objects. I will la...

Once upon a time in the wonderful world of images, a few brave engineers discovered how to turn light into digital signals. But they were unaware that their invention would eventually lead to the pixellation of our entire visual world and that this new technology would soon create upheaval in the longstanding pairing of image and time.

L’objectif principal du programme SAS (Signs and States) est de construire une sémiologie de l’État et c’est en fonction de cet objectif qu’ont été choisis les thèmes traités dans le cadre des conférences qui ont déjà été organisées : rituels, connotations, langages, poids de l’implicite, vérité, valeurs…, toutes notions qui, à l’exception toutefoi...

Pour les médiévistes s’intéressant à l’histoire de l’économie, la question de la nature des transactions intervenant entre les individus est centrale. S’ils admettent en règle générale que les règles de l’échange marchand ne s’appliquent pas toujours et que, en particulier, la rencontre de l’offre et de la demande est bien loin de rendre compte de...

Goods are deeply essential to life and to the reproduction of society. In Medieval times, people had a specific vocabulary for this fact. The irreplaceability of certain objects was acknowledged at a symbolic level in two domains. One of these was the domain of the sacred: certain objects seem to have been indispensable for the performance of ritua...

Le jeu de rôles grandeur nature est une activité encore méconnue qui s'institutionnalise et dont les animateurs objectivent la culture et les valeurs tout en cherchant des reconnaissances publiques. Dans ce parcours, le PCI pourrait être considéré comme une opportunité. L'article explore cette hypothèse mais l'approche se veut neutre, cherchant moi...

Un paradis epistemologique Tout etait si simple lorsque les peuples de la Terre se retrouvaient decrits et figures ensemble dans ces ouvrages savants que l’on appelait « recueil d’habits ». Lointain, familier et passe n’etaient pas encore devolus a des disciplines particulieres. Le contemporain de Montaigne pouvait, sans solution de continuite, con...

Historians live in the belief that history and memory are the only modes of existence of the past in society, and that the way we use the past is essentially ideological and patrimonial. But the fact is that the past appears in a large number of works of art and practices devoid of any historicity, as an aesthetic and dramatic category. Working fro...

Historical anthropology has been defined as a history of the collective as opposed to a political and elitist narrative history. The advent of “a history of the ordinary” has exposed a paradox because the conditions of historical knowledge, such as documentary evidence or transmission, as well as the writing of history, are focused on discontinuity...

If we confront social theories of constraint with each other, flat contradictions appear. The only way of resolving these is to deny that the theories are descriptively sufficient and to put forward alternatives at a higher level of complexity. Thus, identifying the limits and conceptions imposed by the theories on us as thinkers about constraint i...

If we confront social theories of constraint with each other, flat contradictions appear. The only way of resolving these is to deny that the theories are descriptively sufficient and to put forward alternatives at a higher level of complexity. Thus, identifying the limits and conceptions imposed by the theories on us as thinkers about constraint i...

The aim of this short essay is to provide a reason for writing. To reflect upon the meaning of literary experience--i.e., upon what it is to create and what it is that is created--is also to problematise this reflection. The first two parts of the essay (le rapport critique, le rapport genetique) concern this issue. The third part (le rapport ontol...

The genre of the ‘historical film’, or ‘history film’, is protean to such a degree that it is possible to grasp its true nature only by studying the relationships it entertains with history, which is the sole common denominator capable of validating it and of providing an angle of attack for dealing with questions (such as ‘Does this film conform t...