Disputer, décider, décréter Controverse oratoire et politique religieuse dans les possessions bernoises au début du XVI^e siècle

This article concerns the recourse to religious disputations by Bernese authorities to impose their religious line. They employed disputes to refute the tenets of the radical Reformation and to neutralize the clergy faithful to Rome after the conquest of the Pays de Vaud. The examination of these conferences reveals how the magistrates could relegate the adversaries as bad Christians against a majority that had expressed itself within an assembly that spoke under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.