Magistrat chrétien et absolutisme républicain à l’apogée de la puissance bernoise (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)

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2005

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État réformé ; absolutisme républicain ; République de Berne ; Guerre des paysans (1653) ; Egodocument.. ; magistrat chrétien


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Danièle Tosato-Rigo, « Magistrat chrétien et absolutisme républicain à l’apogée de la puissance bernoise (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) », Caliban, ID : 10.3406/calib.2005.1539


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When joining the Reformation in 1528, the government of the Bernese Republic established a State Church. It also became the guardian of religion and was responsible for the citizens’ salvation. An analysis of Their Excellencies’ mandates — in particular regarding French-speaking areas — shows, beyond the common phrases reminding us of the divine right devolved upon the Magistrate, that they enjoyed power prerogatives directly inspired by the Reformers’ doctrine. In Zwingli’s view of society, an important part was played by parishes. This is the "democratic" leaven in the protestant doctrine. The rejection of all ecclesiastical hierarchy went together with the clear definition of a visible church, represented by a congregation divided, under the leadership of a minister, into parishes. Wasn’t tension inevitably bound to mount between a "Very Christian Magistrate" whose absolutist urge kept increasing throughout the XVIIth century, and parishioners clinging to their communal privileges and able to find in the protestant doctrine reasons to assess and rebel against the Magistrate’s power proportionately to his respect of religion ? The present paper proposes to analyse this tension through an evocation of the Peasants’ War which opposed in 1653 the "Very Christian Magistrate" and his insurgent rural subjects : a conflict in which ministers, far from taking up their parishioners’ demands, resolutely stood on the side of power.

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