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dc.contributor.authorMoriceau, Jean-Marc-
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-08T09:59:21Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-05T00:47:54Z-
dc.date.available2013-03-08T09:59:21Z
dc.date.available2020-10-05T00:47:54Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.issn0870-4147-
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/9701-
dc.description.abstractAlors que des oppositions s’élèvent entre partisans et adversaires du loup, la question de la dangerosité du prédateur sur l’homme laisse perplexe. À quoi correspond l’image négative du prédateur? Quelle contribution l’historien peut-il apporter selon ses sources et ses méthodes de travail? À l’issue d’une collecte de 5 400 cas d’attaques sur l’homme, survenues surtout entre 1580 et 1880, on saisit la chronologie et la distribution spatiale du risque. Avérées mais anciennes, statistiquement faibles mais anthropologiquement insupportables, ces agressions opposent en fait les loups prédateurs, qui considèrent l’homme comme une proie occasionnelle, et les loups enragés qui frappent la population sans discernement. Récurrentes dans un environnement peu sécurisé, les attaques des premiers ont donné corps à la croyance aux «Bêtes féroces», au cours d’épisodes dramatiques (1594-1600, 1693-1694, 1746-1750, 1764-1767, 1814- -1819). Davantage circonscrites dans le temps et dans l’espace, les attaques des seconds ont semé une psychose d’autant plus durable qu’elles annonçaient une maladie incurable jusqu’au dernier tiers du XIXe siècle. La confusion entre ces deux ordres de réalité a forgé, pour Canis Lupus, une image négative qui se délite depuis qu’elle s’est éloignée – pour le cas de la France – de toute matérialité.fra
dc.description.abstractIn a context of stark opposition between defenders and opponents of the wolf, the extent to which this particular predator is dangerous for humans is still an open question. What lies beneath the negative perception of the wolf ? What should be the historian’s contribution, based on historical sources and historical methods ? Thanks to a database of 5,400 cases of wolf attacks on humans having occurred in France between 1580 and 1880, it is now possible to grasp the chronological evolution and spatial evolution of wolf-related risks. Undeniably real, though mostly belonging to a remote past, and statistically rare, though anthropologically intolerable, these attacks point to two opposite groups, predatory wolves ocasionally preying on humans on one hand, rabid wolves striking indiscriminately a whole population on the other. The attacks of the first kind occured regularly in an unsafe environment, and gave rise to tales of «Ferocious Beasts» in times of dramatic crisis (1594-1600, 1691-1694, 1746-1750, 1764-1767, 1814-1819). The second kind was spatially and chronologically less widespread, but sowed the seeds of mass hysteria, all the more persistent since the underlying sickness it forebode remained without a cure before the last third of the XIXth century. The confusion between these two different realities gave Canis Lupus its negative aura, significantly dimmed recently however since it has entirely lost its material basis, at least in France.eng
dc.language.isofr-
dc.publisherInstituto de História Económica e Social, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra-
dc.subjectPredatory wolfeng
dc.subjectRabid wolfeng
dc.subjectFerocious beasteng
dc.subjectHistorical methodologyeng
dc.subjectAnimal dangerosityeng
dc.subjectAnthropophagous riskeng
dc.subjectLoup prédateurfra
dc.subjectLoup enragéfra
dc.subjectBête férocefra
dc.subjectMéthodologie historiquefra
dc.subjectDangerosité animalefra
dc.subjectRisque anthropophagiquefra
dc.titleUn problème d’environnement rural: La dangerosité du loup en France. Du Moyen Âge au xxe sièclefre
dc.typeArticle-
uc.publication.collectionRevista Portuguesa de História nº 41-
uc.publication.firstPage11-
uc.publication.issue41-
uc.publication.lastPage32-
uc.publication.locationCoimbra-
uc.publication.journalTitleRevista Portuguesa de História-
dc.identifier.doi10.14195/0870-4147_41_1-
uc.publication.sectionNúcleo temático: História Rural-
uc.publication.orderno3-
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