Romains et latins : récit et histoire de la Haute République jusqu'à l'abolition de la Ligue latine (509-338 av. J.-C.)
Auteur / Autrice : | Nicolas L. J. Meunier |
Direction : | Bernard Mineo, Lambert Isebaert |
Type : | Thèse de doctorat |
Discipline(s) : | Langues et littératures anciennes |
Date : | Soutenance en 2015 |
Etablissement(s) : | Nantes en cotutelle avec Université catholique de Louvain |
Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : | École doctorale Cognition, éducation, interactions (Nantes) |
Partenaire(s) de recherche : | Laboratoire : Centre de Recherches en Histoire Internationale et Atlantique (Nantes) - Centre d'étude des mondes antiques (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique) |
autre partenaire : Université Nantes-Angers-Le Mans - COMUE (2009-2015) |
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Résumé
This study is made up of two parts, aiming to combine two approaches often dissociated within modern historiography : a narrative and a historical one. The version of history handed down by tradition about the Early Republic is structured around the struggle of the orders and more specifically around three bones of contention : the issue of debts , the agrarian laws and the sharing of the consular power. These three temes have been selected as the approach paths in both parts of this study. The research carried out in this way has led to a better understanding of how tradition was elaborated from a narrative point of view : it first confirms taht the concordia-discordia concepts are the basis of the whole construction of the narrative, then demonstrates the existence of a set of four master patterns for staging one of the four possible types of social struggle (traditional or inverted patricio-plebeian struggle, patricio-patrician or plebeio-plebeian struggle) : such variation can be explained by the fact that many historical elements available to the narrator did not fit the traditional theme of the struggle of the orders. Secondly, our research shows that these narrative tools were used to reinterpret a history that was not that of Rome alone, but of the Latin League as a whole : with the key to interpretation previously identified, but also thanks to many contradictions pervading the narrative, it is possible to trace the stages of formation of the federal army and institutions, but also the various means used by Rome to gradually get hold of the Latin League.