scholarly journals THE PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE OF THE FRENCH CIVIL CODE OF 1804: THE CONSTITUTION OF A RELIGIO CIVILIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Angel Asensio Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Order ◽  
Moral Law ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Right Reason ◽  
The French Revolution

Abstract: The preface to the French Civil Code of 1804 announced a New Order based on Right Reason and the political-legal values of the French Revolution, in an attempt to replace the role which churches had traditionally played in the morality of society. Moreover, the new civil law was presented as a substitute for moral law and religion with the aim of taking their place in that burgeoning society. One-dimensional law came into being in order to regulate all aspects of life and was ultimately to do away with the sin/crime dichotomy..Key words: Law, religión, sin, crime

scholarly journals THE PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE OF THE FRENCH CIVIL CODE OF 1804: THE CONSTITUTION OF A RELIGIO CIVILIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ángel Asensio Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Order ◽  
Moral Law ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Right Reason ◽  
The French Revolution

Abstract: The preface to the French Civil Code of 1804 announced a New Order based on Right Reason and the political-legal values of the French Revolution, in an attempt to replace the role which churches had traditionally played in the morality of society. Moreover, the new civil law was presented as a substitute for moral law and religion with the aim of taking their place in that burgeoning society. One-dimensional law came into being in order to regulate all aspects of life and was ultimately to do away with the sin/crime dichotomy..Key words: Law, religión, sin, crime

scholarly journals THE PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE OF THE FRENCH CIVIL CODE OF 1804: THE CONSTITUTION OF A RELIGIO CIVILIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ángel Asensio Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Order ◽  
Moral Law ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Right Reason ◽  
The French Revolution

Abstract: The preface to the French Civil Code of 1804 announced a New Order based on Right Reason and the political-legal values of the French Revolution, in an attempt to replace the role which churches had traditionally played in the morality of society. Moreover, the new civil law was presented as a substitute for moral law and religion with the aim of taking their place in that burgeoning society. One-dimensional law came into being in order to regulate all aspects of life and was ultimately to do away with the sin/crime dichotomy..Key words: Law, religión, sin, crime

Among the Romantics: E. P. Thompson and the Poetics of Disenchantment

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Epstein
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Abstract Theory ◽  
The French Revolution

AbstractThis article examines key themes in the political and intellectual life of E. P. Thompson. It argues for the centrality of romanticism to his work; it focuses on his unfinished study of the early Romantics. Thompson drew parallels between socialist hopes and disappointments of his own day and the reactions of the early romantic poets to the failed promise of the French Revolution. This article charts the trajectory of the early Romantics as they moved from political engagement to retreat, and relates this trajectory to Thompson's own politics. Thompson discerned a pattern whereby intellectuals and artists moved through stages from political engagement to disenchantment and then to “apostasy” or default. Disenchantment could be a productive condition; at issue was how the poet handled the “authenticity of experience,” how disenchantment was dealt with in verse. Both Thompson and the Romantics privileged the concept of “experience” which they set in opposition to abstract theory. The article's final section turns to themes that Thompson had intended to address but left unfinished, including shifting views of patriotism and the defeated cause of women's rights. For Thompson the romantic impulse was ultimately linked to utopian desire, to the capacity to imagine that which is “not yet.”

Exile, Imprisonment, or Death

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Swann
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
Civil Strife ◽  
Royal Authority ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Cultural Origins ◽  
The French Revolution

Between the assassination of Henri IV in 1610 and the French Revolution of 1789, thousands of French nobles, including members of the royal family, courtiers, bishops, generals, and judges suffered internal exile, imprisonment, or even death for having displeased their sovereign. For most that punishment was independent of the legal system and was the result of a simple royal command or a written order, known as a lettre de cachet. Yet rather than protest, the victims were willing to obey, spending months, even years in disgrace without any knowledge of when, or even if, their ordeal would end. Their punishment was for many a terrible personal blow, striking at the heart of their own identity and relationship to the king, and it threatened the future of their families, friends, and political allies. This book is the first in-depth study of political disgrace, which was intrinsic to the exercise of royal power, drawing on the mystique of monarchy and the ideologies of divine right, patriarchy, and justice that underpinned royal authority. It explores the rise and consolidation of a new model of disgrace amongst the nobility for which obedience to the king gradually replaced the rebellious attitudes fostered during the years of religious and civil strife. Yet for all the power of royal disgrace, it was always open to challenge and in the course of the eighteenth century it would come under a sustained attack that tells us much about the political and cultural origins of the French Revolution.

The French exiled clergy in England and national identity, 1790–1815

1982 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 397-407
Author(s):  
D. T. J. Bellenger
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
New Order ◽  
External Influences ◽  
The French Revolution

Revolution confuses nationality. The French Revolution drove from France’s shores many émigrés who carried the conviction that they, rather than the masters of the new order, enshrined the true France. This sentiment was encouraged by the experience of exile which produced an exaggerated consciousness of Frenchness, especially among the clergy.This paper has two intentions. Firstly it wishes to show how internal and external influences worked on the exiles in England to create a mentality of deep separation. Secondly it wishes to hint at the implications of this separation especially in that highly developed sense of religio-national identity which became so clear a characteristic of the emigration.

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