The POLEN Laboratory (POwers, LEtters, Norms) – UR 4710
Currently managed by Gabriele Vickermann-Ribémont, the POLEN Laboratory (POwers, LEtters, norms) is strongly multidisciplinary-focused, since it gathers researchers in literature, historians, legal historians, civilizationists, linguists and anthropologists.
POLEN’s overall research project concerns the issues of power and authority in their different guises and forms (political power, religious authority, social practices, cultural, literary and artistic models, legal frameworks and judicial norms etc.). It also addresses their different modes of expression, representation and diffusion (texts, images and all forms of symbolic and artistic production). These topics raise a contrario, questions of contestation, subversion and marginality.
This general project is addressed in particular ways by the different component research groups according to their particular focus and the research fields of their members.
POLEN'S RESEARCH TEAMS :
- CESFiMA : Centre for Research into the Late Middle Ages (managed by Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira)
The construction of norms and models by centres of authority and learning; the diffusion, contestation and reconstruction of knowledge, norms and models.
- CLARESS : From the Classical Age to the Restoration of the French Monarchy (managed by Gaël Rideau)
Private and public practices of writing and reading; the writings of the inner self; authority and the written word; the interaction of the public and the private in written practices.
- CEPOC : Centre for Contemporary Political Studies (managed by Noëlline Castagnez)
The types and norms of political discourse; the social and cultural connections between literature and politics; memory and its written expression; non-discursive political writing (images, rituals, ceremonies).
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The POLEN laboratory is part of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Val de Loire.
