Raphaële Garrod researched Jesuit emotions with Professor Yasmin Haskell at The University of Western Australia (UWA) (2012–2014). She is investigating lexis and theories of emotions as they were spelled out at the French Jesuit collège of La Flèche, where Descartes was educated, before focusing on their enactment or subversion in the pedagogical, and ultimately, political practices of the French Jesuits. Her sources consist of textbooks in rhetoric, psychology, and theology, as well as treatises of meditational practice and of moral edification, school-plays and occasional literature (poetry, orations). This research is providing her with some of the building blocks of her current project, a history of prudence in early modern France which will nuance traditional historiographical accounts of the French Grand Siècle by highlighting the importance of emotions in the very fabric of the not so transparent subject of the Age of Reason.
Contact
raphaele.garrod@uwa.edu.au
Research
Jesuit Emotions
Publications
Books
Garrod, Raphaële, Cosmographical Novelties in French Renaissance Prose (1150–1630): Dialectic and Discovery. Turnhout: Brepols ‘Early European Research’, 2016.
- See review by Dario Tessicini (Durham University) in the Journal of the Northern Renaissance.
Edited Volumes
Haskell, Y. and R. Garrod, eds. Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia and the Americas. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Garrod, Raphaële, and Paul J. Smith, eds. Natural History in Early Modern France: The Poetics of an Epistemic Genre. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Refereed Journal Articles
Garrod, Raphaële, 'Idolatry and Accommodation: “Histoires” and Their Natural-Philosophical Interpretations in Simon Goulart’s Commentaires et annotations sur la Sepmaine de Du Bartas (1583)'. Journal of the History of Ideas Volume 74.3 (July 2013):361–80 | 10.1353/jhi.2013.0023.
Garrod, Raphaële, 'On Fish: Natural History as Spiritual materia medica: Calvinist Pastoralism in Pierre Viret’s Instruction Chrestienne (1564)'. Perspectives on Science 20.2 (2012): 227–45.
Book Chapters
Haskell, Y. and R. Garrod. ‘Introduction: Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions Between Europe, Asia and the Americas’. In Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia and the Americas, edited by Y. Haskell and R. Garrod. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Garrod, R. ‘Senecan Catharsis in Nicolas Caussin’s Felicitas (1620): A Case Study in Jesuit Reconfiguration of Affects’. In Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia and the Americas, edited by Y. Haskell and R. Garrod. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Garrod, Raphaële, ‘The Natural-Historical Rejuvenation of Emblematics: The Moral Pedagogy of Nicolas Caussin’s Polyhistor Symbolicus’. In Natural History in Early Modern France: Poetics of an Epistemic Genre, edited by R. Garrod and P. J. Smith, pp. 120–39. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Garrod, Raphaële. ‘Conceptual Eclecticism and Ethical Prescription in Early Modern Jesuit Discourses about Affects: Suárez and Caussin on Maternal Love’. In Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100–1800, edited by S. Broomhall, pp. 180–96. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Garrod, Raphaële, ‘Aristotelianism and Scholasticism’, ch.45 in part IV: ‘Latin and Philosophy’ of the Encyclopedia of Neo-Latin Studies, edited by J. Bloemendal, C. Fantazzi and P. Ford, pp. 589–602. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
Fruet, Raphaële, ‘Jesuit Teachings on Topics: The First Book of the De arte rhetorica libri tres’ in Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period, Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Revolt, edited by M. B. Bruun and D. Cowling, pp. 19–38. Leuven: Peeters, 2011.
Web-Based Publications
An Annotated Bibliographical Database on Jesuit Emotions - Webmaster and compiler with Prof. Yasmin Haskell and Makoto Takao, PhD student (live 15 September 2015). Omeka interface.
‘Meanings of Mourning: What Sense for Sensus?’Blog entry, ARC CHE ‘History of Emotions’ Blog, Jan.2013
Invited Talks
10–13 August 2014: ‘Early Modern Literature, History of Emotions: What is at Stake in the Anachronism?’, 'The Future of the History of Ideas’ Workshop, Sydney Intellectual History Network, University of New South Wales, Sydney
23–25 November 2013: ‘Disciplining the Passions in the Age of Reason: The Rhetoric of Exemplum in the Pedagogy of the Jesuit Nicolas Caussin (1583–1651)’, collaboratory ‘Arts and Rhetorics of Emotions in Early Modern Europe’
ARC CHE node, Department of English, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
24 October 2013: ‘The Jesuit Pedagogy of Prudence in the Seventeenth Century: Nicolas Caussin and Polyhistory (1618)’, Research Seminar, Centre for the History of European Discourses, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Conference Papers
7–8 March 2014: ‘Pathos, Excess and Catharsis in Nicolas Caussin’s Felicitas (1620): A Case Study in Jesuit Reconfiguration of Affects’, ‘Changing Hearts: Jesuit Performance of Emotions in Europe, Asia and the Americas’ symposium, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK
12–16 February 2013: ‘The King’s Heart: The Jesuit Politics of Mourning in the Lacrymae', Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Conferences
7–8 March 2014: with Yasmin Haskell: ‘Changing Hearts: Jesuit Performance in Europe, Asia and the Americas’
Trinity College (7–8 March) University of Cambridge, UK
Performances
8 March 2014: Coordinator with Jonathan Sells (Solomon’s knot baroque collective) for the staging of 'Mulier Fortis: A Jesuit School Musical Drama', Trinity College (7–8 March) University of Cambridge, UK