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Record W2205015129 · doi:10.33137/rr.v38i3.26153

Playing with Fire: Narrating Angry Women and Men in the <i>Heptameron</i>

2015· article· en· W2205015129 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Emily E. Thompson

Bibliographic record

VenueRenaissance and Reformation · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicRenaissance Literature and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPassionAngerDenunciationPsychoanalysisFeelingPsychologyArtLiteratureHumanitiesSocial psychologyPoliticsLawPolitical science

Abstract

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In De Ira, Seneca dedicates three books to the denunciation of anger, a passion he insists serves no necessary purpose and leads to countless ills. Certainly Marguerite de Navarre acknowledges the violent potential of this passion in the stories of the Heptaméron. Yet her devisants not only justify some forms of anger in the stories they tell, they also freely give expression to their own anger during the ensuing discussions. The historian Natalie Zemon Davis even cites the Heptaméron as an example of a literary text that allows sixteenth century readers to imagine a menacing, yet justifiable female anger. A systematic study of references to anger in the Heptaméron indeed reveals a gendered revision of Seneca’s and Aristotle’s ideas on anger. Women with a distinctly feminine honour to defend take their place beside angry male warriors. And women are depicted as capable both of expressing anger and of controlling it. Marguerite’s choice of words, her sequencings of stories, and the arguments she expresses through her devisants suggest ways in which anger can be useful to both sexes. A necessary outlet for intense feeling, a controlled anger can balance a sense of noble self-affirmation with the self-abnegation required for social harmony and Christian salvation.
 Avec son De Ira, Sénèque consacre trois livres à la dénonciation de la colère, une passion qui, selon lui, entraîne tous les maux sans avoir une seule fonction utile. Au seizième siècle, Marguerite de Navarre reconnaît le danger de cette passion et illustre son potentiel violent dans son Heptaméron. Néanmoins, les « devisants » qui racontent ces nouvelles justifient parfois des cas de colère, et ne se privent pas d’exprimer leur propre colère lors des discussions qui suivent chaque nouvelle. L’historienne Natalie Zemon Davis va jusqu’à prétendre qu’avec l’Heptaméron, Marguerite permet aux lecteurs du seizième siècle de concevoir une colère féminine, à la fois acceptable et menaçante. Une étude exhaustive des références à la colère dans l’Heptaméron, révèle effectivement une révision féminine des idées de Sénèque et d’Aristote portant sur la colère. À côté des soldats furieux, Marguerite met en scène des femmes prêtes à défendre un honneur féminin. Ces femmes se montrent capables non seulement de ressentir la colère mais aussi de la contrôler. Avec un lexique particulier, des regroupements thématiques des nouvelles et les opinions qu’elle fait circuler parmi ses « devisants », Marguerite évoque une utilité, quoique limitée, de la colère. Son recueil de nouvelles donne le jour à une colère qui soulage d’autres passions nocives et tente d’équilibrer, d’une part, une affirmation du moi noble, et de l’autre, une dénégation du soi requise par l’Église et par la vie commune.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.861
Threshold uncertainty score0.332

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.210
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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