La mort dans le haut-vallespir : 17e, 18e siecles et 1ere moitie du 19e siecle; approche des sensibilites et des mentalites religieuses
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Abstract EN:
A mediterranean mountain district, yet comprising both urban centres and industrial activities, upper vallespir is a border country much devoted to its catalanism because of its roots and the proximity of spanish catalonia. In this area with special particularism, the study of death from a. D. 1600 to a. D. 1850 shows a heavy ceremonial which is both mediaeval and baroque, within the daily setting of a strict catholicism linked with the manifestation of an esternalized collective piety. But from the point of view of the individual, death goes along with a spirituality which develops itself with the catholic reform spread by a local clergy strongly influenced and attracted by spanish catalonia. Despite the permanence of an exuberant, even boisterous religiosity, the christian in upper vallespir is driven, in a more feminine than masculine intimacy, toward a more enlightened, more interiorized religion. In his her ultimate move toward god, his her faith becomes progressively more personal but also more exacting.
Abstract FR:
Terroir montagnard et mediterraneen qui n'exclut toutefois ni le milieu urbain ni l'activite industrielle, le haut-vallespir est un "pays" frontalier tres attache a sa catalanite du fait de ses racines et de la proximite de la catalogne espagnole. Dans cet espace au particularisme tres marque, l'etude de la mort revele, de 1600 a 1850, un lourd ceremonial, a la fois medieval et baroque, dans le cadre quotidien d'un catholicisme intransigeant, attache aux manifestations d'une piete collective fortement exteriorisee. Mais sur le plan individuel, la mort s'accompagne d'une spiritualite qui progresse avec la reforme catholique diffusee par un clerge local ultramontain. Malgre la permanence d'une religiosite exuberante voire tumultueuse, le chretien du haut-vallespir est ainsi conduit, dans un intimisme plus feminin que masculin vers une religion plus eclairee, plus interiorisee. Pour son ultime demarche vers dieu, sa foi se fait progressivement plus personnelle, mais plus exigeante aussi.