Le compagnonnage de sir philip sidney et d'hubert languet ou le reve brise d'une europe reformee
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Abstract EN:
This study tried to precise the exact nature of the influence of hubert languet upon sir philip sidney. The first one, mainly known as the author of the vindiciae contra tyrannos, tried to transmit the intellectual and spiritual heritage of melanchton, of whom languet was a disciple, to this young lord traveling on the continent for his grnad tour. Aiming at the political initiation of this exceptionnal mind, languet wanted to keep uninterrupted such a spiritual filiation in order to extend to all europe a possible foedus evangelicum. This heir of a mighty and well introduced family seemed to be promised to a brilliant position in the state. He would then be able able to encourage a more active participation of england to a protestant league. This disciple fully satisfied the hopes of his mentor, their correspondence being the best proof. But the various setbacks of the protestants during the seventies of the sixteenth century created among the most zealous activists a burst of heroism in front of this tragic challenge of history which seemed to threaten the work of protestantism. Sideney was brought up in such a perspective, but, for a long time, he was forbidden to enter the lists by the queen's disfavour. He sublimated his chivalrous enthousiasm by expressing literarily his moral and political precoccupations, mostly in his arcadia.
Abstract FR:
On s'est attache dans le cadre de cette etude a cerner la nature et la portee de l'influence exercee par hubert languet sur sir philip sideney. Connu surtout comme l'auteur des vindiciae contra tyrannos, languet tenta de transmettre l'heritage intellectuel et spirituel de melanchton dont il fut le disciple, tout en initiant le jeune anglais a la vie politique et diplomatique europeenne. Heritier d'une famille puissante et fort en cour, cet esprit hors de pair semblait promis aux plus hautes charges de l'etat. Il pourrait ainsi influer dans le sens d'une participation active de l'angleterre a la ligue evangelique qui devait faire contre-poids a rome. L'eleve combla les esperances de son mentor, leur correspondance l'atteste. Mais les revers que connut la cause protestante durant les annees soixante-dix du seizieme siecle, provoquerent chez ses plus ardents defenseurs un sursaut d'heroisme afin de relever le defi tragique auquel l'histoire semblait soumettre l'oeuvre de la reforme. Sidney fut nourri dans cette perspective, mais longtemps empecher par defaveur royale de pouvoir entrer dans la lice, il sublima cette ardeur chevaleresque contrariee en confiant au champ litteraire l'expression de ses preoccupations morales et politiques. L'arcadie etant a cet egard son oeuvre maitresse.