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"Such accounts of Gilles's sudden metamorphosis into a sadist and murderer upon reading Suetonius, sometimes accompanied by Gilles's confession, can also be found in works of scientific popularization written by doctors, for instance in Dr. Hayès's 1891 book La pédérastie, historique, conséquences funestes de ce vice honteux and Dr. Cabanès's 1899 La flagellation dans l'histoire et la littérature. However, it is only in 1903, in Dr. Fauconney's Physiologie du vice, son histoire à travers les âges, that we find the exact title, previously not mentioned, of Suetonius's book that inspired the killings: "Reading the Vie des douze empereurs romains, by Suetonius, aroused this powerful lord to imitate their monstrous debauchery.""--Pornographic Archaeology (2012) by Zrinka Stahuljak, page 113

"This radical disagreement between Michéa and Calmeil, divided along the lines of a genius who cannot be insane and a lunatic whose projects fortuitously but accidentally coincide with the liberation of the homeland, continued in the same period with the liberation of the homeland, continued in the same time period between Brierre de Boismont and Maury."--Pornographic Archaeology (2012) by Zrinka Stahuljak

"Joan and Gilles, where Joan was a degenerate genius and Gilles a degenerate criminal [...] I contend, were inextricably bound together, and to the point that the shining symbol of national regeneration that Joan of Arc came to be could not stand on its own merits, but only in contrast to the degenerate Gilles de Rais."--Pornographic Archaeology (2012) by Zrinka Stahuljak

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Pornographic Archaeology Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation (2012) is a book by Zrinka Stahuljak.

The book investigates how nation building in France evolved, and focuses on courtly love vs fabliaux and Joan of Arc vs. Gilles de Rais.

The title "pornographic archaeology" comes from Histoire de la prostitution () by Paul Lacroix from the following sentence: "Le document judiciaire [...] nous permet de fixer certains points d'archéologie pornographique" (English: "The legal document [...] allows us to fix certain points of pornographic archaeology").

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Introduction: Sex and Nation

Part I. Sex and Blood
1. "Pathologic Archaeology": An Introduction
2. "Pathologic Genealogy": Biological Heredity and Medieval Kinship

Part II. Sex and Race
3. Symbolic Archaeology: Sex in the Colonies
4. Gilles and Joan, Criminal and Genius: Medical Fictions and the Regeneration of the French Race

Part III. Sex and Love
5. "Pornographic Archaeology": An histoire des moeurs
6. Courtly Love, Courtly Marriage, and Republican Divorce

Epilogue. From Pornography to Archaeology: Priapus at the Cluny Museum


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In Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation, Zrinka Stahuljak explores the connections and fissures between the history of sexuality, nineteenth-century views of the Middle Ages, and the conceptualization of modern France. This cultural history uncovers the determinant role that the sexuality of the Middle Ages played in nineteenth-century French identity.
Stahuljak's provocative study of sex, blood, race, and love in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical and historical literature demonstrates how French medicine's obsession with the medieval past helped to define European sexuality, race, public health policy, marriage, family, and the conceptualization of the Middle Ages. Stahuljak reveals the connections between the medieval military order of the Templars and the 1830 colonization of Algeria, between a fifteenth-century French marshal and the development of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's theory of sadism, between courtly love and the 1884 law on divorce. Although the developing discipline of medieval studies eventually rejected the influence of these medical philologists, the convergence of medievalism and medicine shaped modern capitalist French society and established a vision of the Middle Ages that survives today.
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