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"Ad Ingenii Acuitionem". Studies in Honour of Alfonso Maierù
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:"Ad Ingenii Acuitionem". Studies in Honour of Alfonso Maierù show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: "Ad Ingenii Acuitionem". Studies in Honour of Alfonso MaierùThe papers presented in this volume in honour of Alfonso Maierù cover some of the major topics of his research area. The institutional and intellectual life of university training in the Middle Ages, including the peculiar tradition of related works, is the focus of the papers by Louis Jacques Bataillon, William J. Courtenay, Jacqueline Hamesse, Zénon Kaluza, Loris Sturlese and Olga Weijers. Three papers, by Jacopo Costa, Pasquale Porro and Thomas Ricklin, deal with philosophical problems in Dante’s Monarchia and Convivio. The complex interrelations between logic and the other main aspects of medieval philosophy, with a particular attention to theology, metaphysics and natural philosophy, are the core of the other papers by Stefano Caroti, Sten Ebbesen, Barbara Faes de Mottoni, Simo Knuuttila, Alain de Libera, Olga Lizzini, Costantino Marmo, Claude Panaccio, Ivan Bendwell, Irène Rosier-Catach, Lambert Marie de Rijk, Leonardo Sileo, Luisa Valente, and Albert Zimmermann.
A larger number of friends and colleagues of Alfonso Maierù than those who appear as contributors and editors of this volume have warmly welcomed its publication. We could say, therefore, that it is absolutely contingent that the Editors are: Stefano Caroti (Università degli Studi di Parma), Ruedi Imbach (Université de Paris-Sorbonne), Zénon Kaluza (Centre d’Études des Religions du Livre, C.N.R.S), Loris Sturlese (Università degli Studi di Lecce) and Giorgio Stabile(Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”).
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"L'Honneur de la Maréchaussée"
Maréchalat et maréchaux en Bourgogne des origines à la fin du XVe siècle
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:"L'Honneur de la Maréchaussée" show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: "L'Honneur de la Maréchaussée"« Le duc a pour son principal officier pour la guerre le maréchal de Bourgogne. Et se conduit par sa main le fait de la guerre avant tous les autres ». C'est ainsi qu'Olivier de La Marche, vers 1474, définit le rôle d'un personnage- clé de 1 'État bourguignon. Or, malgré l 'importance de la fonction et la masse des sources conservées, la « maréchaussée » de Bourgogne n' avait guère, jusqu' à présent, retenu l 'attention des chercheurs. C 'est donc une lacune historiographique non négligeable qui est désormais comblée. L'etude de l'office de maréchal de Bourgogne à la fin du Moyen Age est d'abord celle d'une institution, de ses origines domestiques lointaines -le mariscalcus du Haut Moyen Age était un valet d'écurie- et de l'évolution qui en fit l'un des grands offices politiques et militaires de la Cour de Bourgogne. Mais cette étude ne peut être seulement d' ordre institutionnel et doit, aussi, être d'ordre social. II est impossible, en effet, d'étudier une fonction sans s'intéresser aux hommes qui l'ont incarnée. Les maréchaux de Bourgogne des XIV e et xv e siècles furent des représentants de cette noblesse d'armes qui constitua l'un des piliers de l'État bourguignon. Parmi eux, des hommes comme Guy de Pontailler, Jean III de Vergy et Thibaud IX de Neufchâtel furent des personnalités marquantes de l'entourage ducal. Leurs origines familiales, leurs alliances lignagères, leur implantation régionale, leur carrière étaient autant de critères guidant le choix du prince au moment de leur nomination ; il est donc indispensable de reconstituer ce faisceau de données si l 'on veut comprendre ce que le duc attendait du titulaire de sa maréchaussée et ce qu, était la nature de cette fonction.
Un travail sur le maréchal de Bourgogne ne se conçoit pas sans un recours à la démarche comparative. Du XII e au XV e siècle, dans nombre de principautés du royaume de France et de son voisinage immédiat, se développa une maréchaussée comparable à celle de Bourgogne. Dans certains cas l'office, devenu héréditaire, se mua en une dignité purement honorifique, mais dans d'autres cas il connut le même destin que le maréchalat bourguignon et devint une fonction politique et militaire de premier plan, revendiquée par la noblesse mais étroitement contrôlée par le pouvoir princier : ainsi en Bretagne, en Lorraine, en Savoie. La comparaison de l'évolution institutionnelle, du contenu de la fonction, du profil individuel des titulaires de l 'office s 'avère riche d 'enseignements. En mettant en lumière un type d'institution jusqu'ici mal connu, la présente étude contribue à mieux cerner la réalite des États princiers de la fin du Moyen Age.
Bertrand Schnerb est Professeur d'Histoire médievale à l'Université de Lille 3. II a publié, entre autres ouvrages, L' Etat bourguignon, 1363-1477 (Perrin, 1999).
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"Parcourir l'éternité". Hommages à Jean Yoyotte
Tomes I et II
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:"Parcourir l'éternité". Hommages à Jean Yoyotte show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: "Parcourir l'éternité". Hommages à Jean YoyotteJean Yoyotte (1927-2009), directeur d’études à l’EPHE, section des sciences religieuses, professeur au Collège de France, directeur de la Mission des fouilles de Tanis pendant vingt ans, fut un immense savant dont les curiosités multiples et intarissables ont fait qu’il n’y a guère de thèmes et de périodes de l’histoire, de la géographie et de la pensée religieuse de l’Égypte ancienne qu’il n’ait abordés à un moment ou un autre de sa carrière. Il eut cependant des sujets de prédilection qu’il n’a jamais abandonnés et pour lesquels il fut un initiateur et un maître hors pair. C’est lui qui suscita l’intérêt, qui ne s’est jamais démenti depuis, pour la Troisième Période Intermédiaire, et plus généralement le premier millénaire avant notre ère, époque longtemps négligée, voire tenue en mépris, par nombre d’égyptologues. Il développa avec bonheur la « géographie religieuse » sous tous ses aspects : monographies régionales, géographie sacerdotale telle que la donnent à voir les processions des temples, particulièrement à l’époque ptolémaïque, analyse des « titres spécifiques » sacerdotaux éclairant les cultes locaux qui se développèrent dans toutes les villes d’Égypte. Il fut particulièrement attentif aux « relations extérieures » de l’Égypte, contribuant ainsi à rendre caduque l’idée d’un pays autarcique, indifférent aux cultures autres. L’acribie de sa méthode qui faisait passer au crible de l’analyse tous les documents, même ceux en apparence les plus insignifiants, lui permettait de remettre en cause des « vérités » mal établies sur des prémisses douteuses. L’étendue de son érudition l’autorisait à des rapprochements inédits et fructueux portant la lumière sur le nom d’une localité, la raison d’un culte obscur. Pour honorer sa mémoire, de très nombreux égyptologues ont souhaité apporter leur contribution dans leur champ propre, venus de pays et d’horizons différents, de toutes les générations, depuis ses amis de jeunesse jusqu’à ses derniers étudiants, en passant par la succession de ses élèves et disciples. Ainsi, leurs recherches témoignent de l’influence prégnante, directe ou indirecte, qu’a eue la pensée de Jean Yoyotte au fil du xxe siècle et jusqu’à maintenant sur toute l’égyptologie. Sans qu’aucun ne se soit concerté, on voit aussi se dessiner à travers ces articles touchant des thèmes très divers, des fils qui s’entrelacent et qui évoquent la figure de l’égyptologue disparu.
Christiane Zivie-Coche, ancien membre scientifique de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire, directeur d’études à l’EPHE, section des sciences religieuses.
Ivan Guermeur, ancien membre scientifique de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire, chargé de recherche au CNRS (UMR 5140 « Archéologie des sociétés méditerranéennes », CNRS, université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III), chargé de conférences à l’EPHE, section des sciences religieuses.
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"Scribere sanctorum gesta"
Recueil d’études d’hagiographie médiévale offert à Guy Philippart
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:"Scribere sanctorum gesta" show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: "Scribere sanctorum gesta"Dans les études hagiographiques comme dans d’autres domaines de l’histoire médiévale, il s’avère indispensable de retourner aux sources, et d’abord aux manuscrits et aux œuvres qu’ils véhiculent. Le manuscrit ancre le texte dans un contexte particulier, informe sur les milieux dans lesquels il a été produit ou reçu, documente sur les stratégies qui ont présidé à sa diffusion. À qui sait lire les apparats critiques et les descriptions codicologiques, il apporte une moisson d’informations. Lorsqu’ils sont regroupés en ensembles — ensembles des exemplaires d’une même œuvre, ensembles des exemplaires d’une même collection, ensembles de collections apparentées —, les textes hagiographiques acquièrent un intérêt plus large encore, éclairant les champs culturel, social ou économique à la lumière de l’histoire de leur édition. En la matière, les travaux de Guy Philippart sont à placer au premier plan de la recherche des trente dernières années. Songeons à sa contribution fondamentale à la typologie des légendiers médiévaux, à la base de données «Légendiers latins», qui a donné naissance à la BHLms, et à l’Histoire internationale de la littérature hagiographique en cours de publication. C’est tout naturellement autour de la littérature hagiographique, en particulier les thèmes de l’écriture — de la réécriture — et de l’édition manuscrite des textes hagiographiques médiévaux, que quatre de ses anciens étudiants ont réuni une trentaine de spécialistes de renommée internationale. Le résultat? Une collection d’études qui aborde un large éventail de problématiques actuelles. Au-delà de l’hommage au chercheur et à l’enseignant, ce livre se veut aussi témoignage d’amitié.
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"Tout le temps du veneour est sanz oyseuseté"
Mélanges offerts à Yves Christe pour son 65ème anniversaire par ses amis, ses collègues, ses élèves
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:"Tout le temps du veneour est sanz oyseuseté" show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: "Tout le temps du veneour est sanz oyseuseté"Pour honorer le professeur Yves Christe, des chercheurs de six pays se sont réunis et ont fait le bilan de leurs recherches sur des sujets chers au dédicataire de ce volume: l’iconographie chrétienne, l’Apocalypse, les manuscrits des Bibles moralisées, le conditionnement des œuvres par rapport à leur contexte historique et liturgique, et l’histoire de leur conservation. Cet assemblage dessine un panorama d’une grande richesse, passionnante pour toute personne s’intéressant à l’art chrétien et à la civilisation du Moyen Age. Yves Christe est l’un des meilleurs spécialistes de l’iconographie paléochrétienne et médiévale; ses travaux sur l’Apocalypse et le Jugement dernier font autorité.
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"Tu Felix Austria, nube"
La dynastie de Habsbourg et sa politique matrimoniale à la fin du Moyen Age (XIIIe-XVIe siècles)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:"Tu Felix Austria, nube" show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: "Tu Felix Austria, nube"[TOI, HEURESE AUTRICHE, CONCLUS DES MARIAGES. À la mort de Maximilien Ier en 1519, la dynastie de Habsbourg est parvenue à s'imposer durablement à la tête du Saint Empire Romain Germanique, monarchie électorale à laquelle elle avait accédé sous Rodolphe Ier en 1273. En deux siècles et demi, elle est aussi parvenue à rassembler patiemment un ensemble patrimonial sans pareil, passant d'un simple comté alémanique aux fondements d'un « Empire sur lequel le soleil ne se couchait jamais ». De prestigieux héritages, particulièrement bourguignon et espagnol, hongrois et bohéme, furent récupérés suite à une heureuse politique matrimoniale, sans guerre de conquête. Sur huit générations, l'étude exhaustive des 58 mariages aboutis et de plus de 110 projets échafaudés recherche les motivations (territoriales, financières, militaires, religieuses) et les circonstances (soutiens ou oppositions diplomatiques) pour faire la part entre calcul visionnaire et hasard biologique. Tout en évitant l'extinction dynastique et la parcellisation domaniale, les chefs de famille devaient jouer sur « l'échiquier matrimonil » en fonction de la démographie (nombre d'enfants et sexe), des règles eccléssiastiques et nobiliaires, des rapports territoriaux. Les étapes de l'engagement matrimonial (enquêtes, promesses de mariage, fiançailles, procurations) et ses implications financières (dots, contre-dots, dons du matin, douaires) permettent de brosser un tableau général des mariages, cet aspect essentiel de la parenté et de l'histoire d'une grande famille à la fin du Moyen Âge.
Cyrille Debris, né en 1973, est agrégé de l'université en histoire et docteurès lettres.
,Sa politique matrimoniale a permis à la dynastie de Habsbourg d'agrandir son patrimoine et d'accéder à l'Empire. Les motivations (territoriales, financières, militaires, diplomatiques) et les circonstances (soutiens ou oppositions) permettent de faire la part du hasard et du choix politique. Tout en évitant et l'extinction biologique et la parcellisation domaniale, les chefs de famille devaient jouer sur l'" échiquier matrimonial " en fonction de la démographie (nombre d'enfants, sexe), des règles ecclésiastiques et nobiliaires, du rapport des forces territoriaux. Sur huit générations, entre Rodolphe I et Maximilien I (1273 - 1519), tous les projets matrimoniaux sont étudiés, aboutis (58 mariages) ou non (110 projets), ainsi que les étapes de l'engagement matrimonial (enquêtes, promesses de mariage, fiançailles, procurations) et leurs implications financières (dots, contre-dots, Morgengabe, douaires). L'ouvrage a été récompensé par l’Académie Française avec la médaille d’argent 2006 du Prix François Millepierres (Histoire et Sociologie).
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'Fama' and her Sisters
Gossip and Rumour in Early Modern Europe
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:'Fama' and her Sisters show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: 'Fama' and her SistersThe essays in this collection demonstrate how Fama and her sisters, gossip and rumour, were central in private and public discourses about state and society in early modern Europe. In an era when oral, scribal, visual, and print cultures competed to satisfy a growing public demand for ‘news’, gossip and rumour informed people about the actions and morals of their social and political elites, and they commonly enabled people who did not usually participate in politics to engage with the public discourses about religion, governance, and society which shaped their lives and the state. So while gossip and rumour might be scurrilous and entertaining, they nonetheless performed a vital political function, regulating communal and political behaviour in the upper social echelons, as well as in neighbourhoods lower down the social scale where they might constitute a form of popular justice. This timely interdisciplinary study explores how gossip and rumour functioned dualistically at all levels of the early modern state and society either to advance or to defame reputations, and thereby shape public opinion.
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'God Wants It!'
The Ideology of Martyrdom in the Hebrew Crusade Chronicles and its Jewish and Christian Background
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:'God Wants It!' show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: 'God Wants It!'During the first months of the First Crusade, groups of crusaders attacked the Jewish communities in the Rhineland, forcing them to choose between death and conversion. Many converted, but others chose to die as martyrs. Among these, some were killed by the crusaders, some killed themselves, each other, or even their own children in order to prevent forcible conversion. These events are described in a number of Latin accounts, but also in three Hebrew chronicles and in a number of Hebrew liturgical poems. These Hebrew chronicles introduce many new ideas connected to martyrdom which are not found in earlier Jewish martyr texts. They also differ considerably from contemporary texts on martyrdom, written by Jews living under Muslim rule.
The purpose of the present study is as follows: to outline the most salient features of this new ideology of martyrdom found in the Hebrew Crusade Chronicles and how it differs from earlier Jewish tradition; to try to trace the roots of these new ideas, both by showing how the Chroniclers develop earlier Jewish ideas and also how they borrow notions and concepts from their Christian surroundings; to show what rhetorical means the Chroniclers use in order to present these innovations as firmly anchored in tradition; to attempt to explain why this ideology develops at this particular time and place, and thereby contribute some further methodological reflections on the nature of religious change, especially in a situation of persecution and oppression; to challenge the old paradigm that the Ashkenazic Jewish communities lived in isolation from their non-Jewish surroundings, and to suggest that a serious study of any medieval Jewish text must take into consideration the culture and current notions of the non-Jewish community in which the text was composed.
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'Homo considera'. La pastorale lyrique de Philippe le Chancelier
Une étude des conduits monodiques
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:'Homo considera'. La pastorale lyrique de Philippe le Chancelier show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: 'Homo considera'. La pastorale lyrique de Philippe le ChancelierAu tournant du XII e et du XIIIe siècle, les thématiques moralisatrices tiennent une place importante dans les sources musicales parisiennes, particulièrement dans la pratique du conductus. L’analyse d’une sélection de conduits monodiques moraux attribués à Philippe le Chancelier révèle les qualités oratoires et rhétoriques de cette production tant par le texte que par la musique. Les deux entretiennent une relation complexe qui peut être de valoriser les sons des mots, d’en clarifier le sens ou encore de mettre en place une construction savante, à l’intention des esprits habitués aux subtilités de la poésie rythmique latine et des mélodies du plain-chant. Le désir de communication du message moral impose ses règles et ses figures, comme autant de techniques apprises au contact d’autres pratiques du discours, notamment celle du sermon. Les capacités du prédicateur à structurer son message et le fonder sur un substrat culturel scolaire et biblique se trouvent ainsi réinvesties dans l’élaboration de ces constructions lyriques. Ainsi, par la collaboration de tous ces moyens, la pastorale se loge là où le discours peut trouver une efficacité nouvelle, dans la musique des mots et la déclamation de la voix chantée.
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'Paradise Lost' and Republican Tradition from Aristotle to Machiavelli
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:'Paradise Lost' and Republican Tradition from Aristotle to Machiavelli show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: 'Paradise Lost' and Republican Tradition from Aristotle to MachiavelliThis major interdisciplinary study re-examines the political thought of John Milton, one of the celebrated proponents of the ‘Commonwealth and Free State’ that was established in England in the mid-seventeenth century. Walker shows that in his epic poem, Paradise Lost (1667), Milton presents a heterodox Protestant vision of politics. This vision differs radically from the vision of politics presented by republicans from Aristotle to Machiavelli, and by Milton himself in his major political prose. The study is based on close readings of primary texts and scholarship in literary criticism, philosophy, theology, and the history of political thought. It is thus a powerful challenge to the current consensus on Milton’s republicanism, his Christian humanism, and the shape of his oeuvre. It is, in addition, an important contribution to our understanding of a tradition of political thought that continues to inform modern republics.
Dr William Walker is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media & Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales. He completed an Honours BA and MA in English literature at the University of Western Ontario, and a PhD in English literature at The Johns Hopkins University. His research is focused on Locke, Milton, and the history of republican political thought.
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'The Devout Belief of the Imagination'
The Paris 'Meditationes Vitae Christi' and Female Franciscan Spirituality in Trecento Italy
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:'The Devout Belief of the Imagination' show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: 'The Devout Belief of the Imagination'This volume examines the late medieval devotional text Meditationes Vitae Christi through an analysis of its most important manuscript, known by its present location and catalogue number as Paris Bibliothèque Nationale Ms. ital. 115. As Flora argues, Ms. ital. 115, the oldest and most extensively illustrated copy of the Meditationes, was originally made in or near Pisa c. 1350 and tailored very specifically for a group of Franciscan nuns. Flora suggests the manuscript’s probable uses in practices of performative devotion and affective response, and the relationship between its imagery and other works of art made for religious women, shedding new light on the history of female monasticism in medieval Italy.
Holly Flora is Assistant Professor of Art History at Tulane University, and is the author of Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting (The Frick Collection, 2006) as well as studies on illustrated manuscripts and devotional art in late medieval Italy.
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'Vie et miracles de saint Josse' de Jean Miélot
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:'Vie et miracles de saint Josse' de Jean Miélot show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: 'Vie et miracles de saint Josse' de Jean MiélotVie et Miracles de saint Josse was written in 1449. Jean Miélot was a translator and writer in the service of the Dukes of Burgundy. The manuscript, which was written by the author himself, is preserved in the Royal Library of Brussels, no. 10958. The greater part of the text is a translation, but a few pages of the manuscript have been copied by Miélot from other sources, and some parts have been composed by Miélot himself. Another manuscript, which is a copy of the original, is preserved in the Municipal Library of Valenciennes. Only a few pages of the manuscript have been published before.
Saint Josse (Jodocus, Judocus) was born in Brittany about 600, son to a local king. He left his home for Picardy, where he met Duke Haymon. He was ordained and served Haymon for seven years. Afterwards he withdrew to the solitude along the river Canche, where he built a hermitage, which was transformed into a church by the Duke. After his death on the 13th of December c. 668, his body was buried in his church. Saint Josse has been venerated in large parts of Europe, not only in France, Belgium and Great Britain, but also in the countries along the Rhine; in the south as far as Slovenia and in the north as far as Scandinavia. Even in the fourteenth century, he was well-known in England - Chaucer's Wife of Bath swears by God and by Seint Joce.
His life was written in latin in several versions, the first from about 800. Pierre de Beauvais wrote the first Life of Saint Josse in French, in octosyllabic verses, in the beginning of the thirteenth century. In the introduction to this edition the relationship of the latin lives and Miélot's translation is discussed. There is also an investigation of the author's language and style. Miélot's vocabulary is large and contains several words which have not been attested before. The text is followed by explanatory notes, an index of proper names and a glossary. The illustrations at the end of the edition consist of thirteen of the miniatures of the Brussels manuscript and three drawings representing Miélot and his workroom, taken from another Miélot manuscript, preserved in the Royal Library of Copenhagen.
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774, ipotesi su una transizione
Atti del seminario di Poggibonsi, 16-18 febbraio 2006
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:774, ipotesi su una transizione show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: 774, ipotesi su una transizioneIn questo volume sono editi gli atti del I seminario organizzatonel 2006 dal Centro interuniversitario per la storia e l’archeologia dell’alto medioevo (SAAME). Al centro del seminario è stato un tema di grande importanza per storia italiana: la conquista franca del regno longobardo e le sue conseguenze in tutti i campi, dai mutamenti politici - indagati soprattutto dal punto di vista della loro rappresentazione - ai mutamenti nell’insediamento rurale e urbano (dalle campagne toscane a capitali come Roma e Ravenna), a quelli nelle attività artistiche (la costruzione di edifici di prestigio) e culturali (epigrafia, documenti, codici, produzione normativa), nella circolazione monetaria (le zecche, i mancosi) e nei flussi commerciali (con in primo piano l’Adriatico). Inoltre si è tentato di inserire la ‘transizione’ italiana, ossia il passaggio della penisola sotto la dominazione carolingia, nell’ambito di un quadro europeo, prendendo in considerazione, con alcuni affondi tematici, la Turingia, la Baviera, l’Austrasia e infine la Spagna, dove è avvenuta un’altra fondamentale transizione, quella tra Visigoti e Musulmani.
Il titolo del libro, che fa riferimento ad una data precisa fornita dalla storia politica, l’anno 774, può apparire paradossale per presentare i risultati di un seminario nel corso del quale sono state interrogate allo stesso modo fonti scritte e fonti archeologiche, e va inteso in senso soprattutto simbolico, come un’ovvia allusione ad un altro anno cardine, il 751, anch’esso oggetto di indagini recenti. Ma al tempo stesso tale riferimento è utile per ribadire l’assoluta necessità di coordinare insieme, ai fini della ricostruzione del passato, i tempi e i risultati della storia politica (in questo caso il passaggio dai Longobardi ai Carolingi), dell’archeologia, della numismatica, della storia della documentazione scritta, della storia dell’arte e di tutte le altre storie.
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A Bibliography of Works on Medieval Communication
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Bibliography of Works on Medieval Communication show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Bibliography of Works on Medieval CommunicationThis bibliography of works on medieval communication offers a survey of work in a field of study which, from the 1960s onwards, has seen an ever-increasing number of monographs, collections of miscellanies and articles in learned journals being published every year. It provides a guide to this astonishing output by offering a list of more than 6.700 publications under sixteen headings. Because of the overlap of these headings, a comprehensive Index of subjects, place names and personal names is provided, which will allow the user to quickly find publications relevant to his research. A short Introduction precedes the bibliography. Progress in the field of study over the past two decades is outlined, with attention to those recent developments which have proved the most productive. At the same time, something is said about the growing insights which have led the bibliography’s organisation to be changed substantially since its previous edition in 1999, which already numbered 1.580 items. Not only the more than fourfold increase in the number of items made a new edition necessary therefore, but also new ideas about the best ways of organising the knowledge that is to be gained from the contents of studies of medieval communication.
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A Catalogue Raisonné of Scientific Instruments from the Louvain School, 1530-1600
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Catalogue Raisonné of Scientific Instruments from the Louvain School, 1530-1600 show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Catalogue Raisonné of Scientific Instruments from the Louvain School, 1530-1600This object-based study concentrates on scientific instruments made in Louvain between c. 1530 and c.1600, a period in which the university fell from the peak of its importance into a state of decline. The instruments are characterised by elaborate decoration and by numerous technical innovations. The book comprises two parts: an introduction followed by a catalogue raisonné of almost ninety instruments from the Louvain masters, both signed and unsigned ones. The introduction outlines the circumstances of the foundation of this ‘Louvain school of instrument makers’, which entailed the merging of an intellectual center (based in the university) and a material culture (based in the workshops). A similar symbiosis occurred elsewhere in Europe, but never on the scale of Louvain. The presence of the Spanish Court in Brussels around 1540-1550 helped to provide the workshops with important commissions. Their role as a Maecenas is also discussed. The most important instrument makers were Gerard Mercator, Michael Piquer, Gualterus Arsenius, Adrian Descrolières and Adrian Zeelst. Little was previously known about these men - apart perhaps from Mercator - and even less about the output of their workshops. This book attempts to present for the first time a comprehensive survey of these workshops and how they may have influenced one another.
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A Catalogue of Byzantine Manuscripts in their Liturgical Context: Challenges and Perspectives
Collected Papers resulting from the expert meeting of the Catalogue of Byzantine Manuscripts programme held at the PThU in Kampen, the Netherlands on 6th-7th November 2009.
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Catalogue of Byzantine Manuscripts in their Liturgical Context: Challenges and Perspectives show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Catalogue of Byzantine Manuscripts in their Liturgical Context: Challenges and PerspectivesThe world of Byzantine manuscripts is fascinating but also confusing. Although they play an important part in modern studies on the history of Christian liturgy and on the textual history of the Bible, a clear overview of the vast amount of these manuscripts in their many different forms is lacking. A new approach in their cataloguing is called for. The present volume brings together a number of specialists in the field of Byzantine, liturgical and Biblical studies with the aim to develop a new methodology for codicological research of the Byzantine manuscripts, taking seriously the original environment of the integral codices in the monasteries and the churches in which they were manufactured and functioned.
Prof. dr. Klaas Spronk is Head of the Research Department Sources of the Protestant Theological University (PThU), location Amsterdam, and chairman of the CBM Academic Board.
Prof. dr. Gerard Rouwhorst is Professor of Liturgical History at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology and member of the Department of Biblical Sciences and Church History of that institution. He is member of the CBM Academic Board.
Dr. Stefan Royé is member of the Research Department Sources of the Protestant Theological University (PThU), location Amsterdam, and CBM programme coordinator and secretary of the Academic Board.
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A Cathedral of Constitutional Law
Essays on the Earliest Constitutions of the Order of Preachers
With an English Translation of Fr Antoninus H. Thomas’s 1965 Studyshow More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Cathedral of Constitutional Law show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Cathedral of Constitutional LawThe Belgian Dominican friar Antoninus Hendrik Thomas published a critical reconstruction of the earliest Constitutions of the Dominican Order. He identified meticulously where Saint Dominic and his first brothers had borrowed material from other religious and secular juridical systems, as well as where they had been original, thus uncovering the foundational charism of the Order. Even today, researchers in the field regard Fr Thomas’s work as indispensable. Unfortunately, many of his insights are difficult to access for a wider audience, since Fr Thomas wrote his work in his native language, Dutch. To mark the eighth centenary of the death of Saint Dominic in 2021, the Belgian Dominican province therefore decided to publish Fr Thomas’s work in an English translation, as well as to complement this with a selection of essays written by contemporary experts, who – from their particular perspectives – engage with Fr Thomas’s main insights. The essays deal with the historiographical tradition to which Fr Thomas belonged, the Premonstratensian, Cistercian and secular sources of the Constitutions, the manuscript tradition and editing process of the earliest Constitutions, and their reception in the first century of the Order and by the late medieval observant movement.
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A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval Iraq
Riccoldo da Montecroce's Encounter with Islam
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval Iraq show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval IraqThis book analyses the events of a decade long encounter between an Italian Dominican, Riccoldo da Montecroce (c. 1243–1320), and the Muslims of Baghdad, as recounted by the friar himself. While many of Riccoldo’s views of the Muslims are consonant with those of his medieval confrères, the author examines the much more ambivalent sections of his writings, such as his praise-filled descriptions of Muslim praxis, his obvious love of Qur’anic Arabic, his frequent references to personal encounters with Muslims, and his candid descriptions of the wonder and doubt which these confrontations often elicited. The author argues that the tensions and inconsistencies inherent in Riccoldo’s account of Islam should not be viewed as defects. Rather, she contends, their presence illustrates the complex nature of interreligious encounter itself. In addition to a critical discussion, this volume provides — for the first time — English translations of two remarkable Riccoldian texts: The Book of Pilgrimage (Liber peregrinationis) and Letters to the Church Triumphant (Epistolae ad ecclesiam triumphantem).
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A Cosmic Liturgy: Qumran's 364-Day Calendar
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Cosmic Liturgy: Qumran's 364-Day Calendar show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Cosmic Liturgy: Qumran's 364-Day CalendarThis work shows how the importance of Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday in the 364-day Qumran calendar is based on the Priestly creation narrative in Genesis and the myth of a cosmic covenant established between God and the angels on the first day. The myth of the apostasy of the angels guiding the seven planets was used to explain the discrepancy between the 364-day calendar and observation. The Epistle of Jude makes it possible to situate this work in relation to both Jubilees and the Book of the Watchers and confirms the use of the 364-day calendar in the earliest years of the nascent Church.
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A Gathering of Medieval English Recipes
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Gathering of Medieval English Recipes show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Gathering of Medieval English RecipesThis book is a collection of medieval English culinary recipes which have not been edited before. Some of them come from brief collections which have not been previously published, or are found in isolation or very small groups in manuscripts which do not contain such collections. Others come from collections which have been used, or viewed, primarily for collation, but which contain other recipes which had not yet been noted.
It was the author's object to gather together all the recipes which had not been edited and published, or are not currently being edited by others, to make the record of English recipes of this period as complete as possible. The volume concludes with a supplement to the recently published Concordance of English Recipes: Thirteenth Through Fifteenth Centuries, adding all the "new" recipes to that Concordance, except for a few which are so fragmentary as not to deserve listing.
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A Late Fiteenth-Century Commonplace Book
Edited from Cambridge University Library Ms Gg. 6.16
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Late Fiteenth-Century Commonplace Book show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Late Fiteenth-Century Commonplace BookThis edition presents the full text of a personal collection of temporale Middle-English sermons, compiled by a parish priest for his own use (preserved in Cambridge University Library MS Cg.6.16). It also includes the notes and fragments of sermons or exempla found at the beginning of the manuscript with a purpose of giving insight into the way a parish priest would compile materials. This manuscript has attracted attention because it perserves versions of these sermons' early stages. The current edition is therefore complementary to editions of later versions of the same sermons. The introduction provides a discussion of these sermons' textual history and the circumstances in which they were possibly preached. Explanatory notes, a glossary, and indexes complete the edition.
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A Latin-Polish Sermon Collection and the Emergence of Vernacularisation
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Latin-Polish Sermon Collection and the Emergence of Vernacularisation show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Latin-Polish Sermon Collection and the Emergence of VernacularisationThis monograph offers an analysis of the so-called Kazania augustiańskie (‘The Augustinian sermons’), a unique manuscript which represents a very early phase in the vernacularisation of medieval Polish textual culture, when vernacular or bilingual texts started to manifest their independent development. The relationships between Latin and the Polish vernacular in this text, surviving in a contemporary manuscript, sheds light on the ways in which Latin determined the development of written Polish in the textual genre of the sermon. The detailed and multifaceted analysis of the linguistic features of the Kazania augustiańskie contributes to the continuing discussion in medieval studies on the emergence of the earliest texts in the vernacular languages and on the preconditions and dynamics of vernacularisation.
At a first glance this book may appear to be the tale of a single manuscript, told solely from the point of view of a historian of language. However, it also explores both the birth of a particular medieval text and, more generally, the growing ability to compose vernacular texts. This capacity, which developed over the medieval period, was based on Latin models; over the centuries it contributed to vernacular texts becoming a fundamental component of European culture.
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A Mendicant Sermon Collection from Composition to Reception
The 'Novum opus dominicale' of John Waldeby, OESA
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Mendicant Sermon Collection from Composition to Reception show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Mendicant Sermon Collection from Composition to ReceptionThis study analyzes in detail the Novum opus dominicale of John Waldeby, a member of the convent of the Augustinian friars in York. This unedited collection of some sixty sermons for Sundays and major feasts is extant in two manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford), MSS Laud misc. 77 and Bodley 687. The present study places the work and the preacher within the wider context of mendicant preaching as mass communication in the Middle Ages. In doing so, it focuses on the educational environment which encompasses conventual education and preaching to the laity, and on the library in which this model sermon collection was compiled and used, identifying the role and meticulous design of the mendicant library collection. Through a detailed examination of sermon form in conjunction with Robert of Basevorn’s Forma praedicandi, it tries to disentangle the intricate considerations involved in the processes of sermon composition and reveals the strategies of interpretation and communication in the use of exempla and imagery in preaching. It investigates the careful organization of Waldeby’s work as a cycle of sermons for an entire year. In this way, it makes possible a deeper understanding of a wide range of complex issues from composition to reception through the prism of this important fourteenth-century sermon collection.
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A New Commentary on the Old English ‘Prose Solomon and Saturn’ and ‘Adrian and Ritheus’ Dialogues
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A New Commentary on the Old English ‘Prose Solomon and Saturn’ and ‘Adrian and Ritheus’ Dialogues show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A New Commentary on the Old English ‘Prose Solomon and Saturn’ and ‘Adrian and Ritheus’ DialoguesWho was not born, was buried in his mother’s womb, and was baptized after death? Who first spoke with a dog? Why don’t stones bear fruit? Who first said the word ‘God’? Why is the sea salty? Who built the first monastery? Who was the first doctor? How many species of fish are there? What is the heaviest thing to bear on earth? What creatures are sometimes male and sometimes female? The Old English dialogues The Prose Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Ritheus, critically edited in 1982 by J. E. Cross and Thomas D. Hill, provide the answers to a trove of curious medieval ‘wisdom questions’ such as these, drawing on a remarkable range of biblical, apocryphal, patristic, and encyclopaedic lore.
This volume (which reprints the texts and translations of the two dialogues from Cross and Hill’s edition) both updates and massively supplements the commentary by Cross and Hill, contributing extensive new sources and analogues (many from unpublished medieval Latin question-and-answer texts) and comprehensively reviews the secondary scholarship on the ancient and medieval texts and traditions that inform these Old English sapiential dialogues. It also provides an extended survey of the late antique and early medieval genres of ‘curiosity’ and ‘wisdom’ dialogues and florilegia, including their dissemination and influence as well as their social and educational functions.
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A Platonic Pythagoras. Platonism and Pythagoreanism in the Imperial Age
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Platonic Pythagoras. Platonism and Pythagoreanism in the Imperial Age show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Platonic Pythagoras. Platonism and Pythagoreanism in the Imperial AgeCarlos Lévy, La question de la dyade chez Philon d’Alexandrie - Francesca Calabi, Filone di Alessandria e Ecfanto. Un confronto possible - Daniel Babut, L’unité de l’Académie selon Plutarque. Notes en marge d’un débat ancien et toujours actuel - Pierluigi Donini, Tra Academia e pitagorismo. Il platonismo nel De genio Socratis di Plutarco - Christoph Helmig, The Relationship Between Forms and Numbers in Nicomachus’ Introduction to Arithmetic - Dominic O’Meara, Hearing the Harmony of the Spheres in Late Antiquity - Elena Gritti, Insegnamento pitagorico e metodo dialettico in Proclo - Alessandro Linguiti, Prospettiva pitagorica e prospettiva platonica nella filosofia della natura di Proclo - Carlos Steel, Proclus on Divine Figures. An Essay on Pythagorean-Platonic Theology
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A Primordio urbis
Un itinerario per gli studi liviani
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Primordio urbis show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Primordio urbisDa duemila anni gli Ab Urbe condita libri di Tito Livio (Padova 59 a.C. - 17 d.C.) non cessano di porre a lettori e studiosi di tutto il mondo enormi e affascinanti interrogativi. L'ambizioso progetto dello storico, narrare tutta la storia di Roma dalla sua fondazione all'età contemporanea, ha dato origine a un'opera immensa per estensione e complessità. Le Storie di Livio si fondano su un potente intreccio di istanze letterarie, storiografiche e ideologiche, che ne fa una delle opere più influenti della latinità. I contributi raccolti nel volume, provenienti da svariati ambiti del sapere umanistico, si confrontano con l'opera di Livio in una prospettiva multidisciplinare, integrando competenze, suggestioni e punti di vista. A studi di carattere filologico-letterario si affiancano così approfondimenti storici, giuridici, archeologici e storico-artistici, con particolare attenzione alla fortuna dell'opera liviana in età medievale e moderna.
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A Question of Life and Death. Living and Dying in Medieval Philosophy
Acts of the XXIII Annual Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, Leuven, 11–12 October 2018
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Question of Life and Death. Living and Dying in Medieval Philosophy show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Question of Life and Death. Living and Dying in Medieval PhilosophyLiving and dying are essential concepts in Aristotelian natural philosophy and psychology. It is then no surprise that when the libri naturales were translated into Latin from the twelfth century onwards, this gave birth to an extensive interpretative tradition in the Latin West in which life and death as conceived by Aristotle were theorized and reflected upon, for example in the numerous commentaries of the De Anima but also of the Parva Naturalia. Yet the medieval inquiry into living and dying is not limited to natural philosophy nor the Aristotelian tradition but can also be found in ethics, metaphysics, theology, medicine and others domains. Many topics are addressed in the volume: radical moisture and the possibility of increasing lifespan, suicide, essence of life, contrast between life of the body and life of the soul, future life, and so on. The volume is also a hommage to Pieter De Leemans, an eminent specialist of the Latin translations of Aristotle’s books on natural philosophy, who was the intitiator of this scientific project.
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A Radical Turn? Re-appropriation, Fragmentation, and Variety in the Post-Classical World (3rd-8th c.)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Radical Turn? Re-appropriation, Fragmentation, and Variety in the Post-Classical World (3rd-8th c.) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Radical Turn? Re-appropriation, Fragmentation, and Variety in the Post-Classical World (3rd-8th c.)This thematic issue draws on the papers presented at the conference “Radical Turn? Subversions, Conversions, and Mutations in the Postclassical World (3rd-8th c.)” that took place last autumn in Brno, Czech Republic. Its aim is to contribute to the rehabilitation of the period of “Late Antiquity”, which has often been neglected in scholarly circles as a mere transitional period between the classical past and the medieval future. Individual papers reflect on the cultural production of this period from the perspectives of different disciplines (art history, classical philology, archaeology, and history), offering new insights on various aspects of late antique.
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A Scholar's Paradise
Teaching and Debating in Medieval Paris
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Scholar's Paradise show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Scholar's ParadiseThis volume offers the general reader a synthesis of academic life in Paris during the first centuries of its existence. These early years were a period of excitement, discovery and intellectual freedom. Perhaps never again would a community of scholars engage in teaching and debate in such an astonishingly new and fresh world, with people, texts and ideas multiplying rapidly and surrounded by an equally rapidly developing city. From the perspective of the twenty-first century, it seems an enviable period, a time when optimism and eager research still went hand in hand with the idea that the whole of existence might be encompassed by the human mind.
Here, Olga Weijers offers a comprehensive re-working of her 1995 publication (Le maniement du savoir. Pratiques intellectuelles à l’époque des premières universités), which has been re-organized, extended to include less technical subjects, updated and translated into English.
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A Sociophilological Study of Late Latin
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Sociophilological Study of Late Latin show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Sociophilological Study of Late LatinSociophilology combines traditional detailed philological expertise with the broader insights of modern sociolinguistics. Late Latin is the native language, both spoken and written, of the former Roman Empire in the Early Middle Ages, sometimes also regarded as being 'Early Romance'. By the thirteenth century Late Latin had split conceptually, from being a single complex living language, into several different living Romance languages, as well as the 'dead' language we now call 'Medieval Latin'. The complex aspects of these developments have been central to Roger Wright's research for many years; this sociophilological study of Late Latin places many texts, authors, scribes and linguistic developments in a coherent historical, intellectual and educational context. The book is presented in six sections, with four chapters in each: Late Latin, Medieval Latin and Romance; Texts and Language in Late Antiquity; The Ninth Century; Italy and Spain in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries; Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Spain; Sociophilology and Historical Linguistics; followed by a Conclusion, a lengthy bibliography, and an index. The whole presents a vitally important intrinsic component of a thousand years of European cultural history, seen from unusually wide historical and linguistic perspectives.
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A Spectacle for a Spanish Princess
The Festive Entry of Joanna of Castile into Brussels (1496)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Spectacle for a Spanish Princess show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Spectacle for a Spanish PrincessOn the evening of 9 December 1496, Princess Joanna, Infanta of Castile, reaches the outskirts of Brussels where a procession of secular and ecclesiastical dignitaries welcomes her. After having been married to Philip the Fair in Lier, Joanna travelled to Brussels by herself. Equipped with torches and processional crosses, the citizens accompany her all the way to the heart of the city, the large market square with its magnificent town hall. The Berlin manuscript 78 D5 is the first illustrated report of an entry concentrating on one single lady. The manuscript is a treasure to all those interested in urban culture of the Early Modern period. The author of the festival booklet compares the well-lit city with the splendours of Troy and Carthage. Twenty-eight stage sets, or Tableaux Vivants, and an elaborate procession mirror the costly intellectual program presented to the sixteen-year-old princess. The carefully planned theatrical productions underscore themes of marriage, female virtues and the politics of war and peace. The program includes entertainments, soundscapes, and pyrotechnic amusements. The Latin texts are made available in English translation. The entire manuscript, with its sixty-three folios, is reproduced in colour. Eleven leading scholars present their new findings on this spectacular entry from an interdisciplinary approach.
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A Supplement to Morton W. Bloomfield et al., 'Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D.'
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Supplement to Morton W. Bloomfield et al., 'Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D.' show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Supplement to Morton W. Bloomfield et al., 'Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D.'This volume advances the utility of Morton W. Bloomfield et al., Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D. (1979) by correcting, supplementing, adding to, or deleting information in this commonly-used reference guide to medieval Latin manuscripts of an ethical or pastoral character. Careful attention is paid to updating the identification of texts and their authorship and references to critical editions of works on the vices and virtues. Many new manuscript witnesses and over 500 new texts are added to those found in the earlier catalogue and a number of short texts on vices and virtues are edited here for the first time.
Richard Newhauser, Arizona State University-Tempe, is the author of Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (2007) and editor of The Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities to Individuals (2005) and In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages (2005).
István Bejczy is the author of The Cardinal Virtues in the Middle Ages: A Study in Western Moral Thought from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Centuries (forthcoming) and editor of several volumes of articles on medieval virtue ethics.
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A catalogue of works pertaining to the explanation of the creed in Carolingian manuscripts
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A catalogue of works pertaining to the explanation of the creed in Carolingian manuscripts show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A catalogue of works pertaining to the explanation of the creed in Carolingian manuscriptsThe catalogue identifies works used to explain the creed in Carolingian collection volumes compiled for the instruction of the clergy. It includes both edited and unedited works and some recently edited in a companion volume to this one, Explanationes Symboli aeui Carolini (CC CM, 254). The catalogue shows that the teaching of the creedal faith was assembled from snippets of, or whole, patristic works, homilies, personal professions of faith, and works of many other genres. In the past, we have had little concept of the range of works known to those responsible for teaching the faith at the parish and missionary level of the Carolingian world. In this catalogue crucial attention is paid to the contents of the manuscripts as a whole in which the creed explanation is found and how these collection volumes may have functioned. It is hoped that the manuscript descriptions will be of benefit to students and specialists working on other kinds of texts for the education of the clergy.
Dr Susan Keefe is Associate Professor of Church History at Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC.
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A l'aube de la peinture moderne
Vers un nouvel humanisme, de Byzance à l'Italie
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A l'aube de la peinture moderne show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A l'aube de la peinture moderneIl s’agit de revisiter ici une phase cruciale de l’histoire de la peinture dans une optique bien spécifique. On se démarque en effet d’une vision ayant crédité de manière trop exclusive l’Italie des environs de 1300 d’une « révolution » ouvrant la voie à la modernité. En revenant sur ce qui a préludé à cela dans la Péninsule même, et surtout en accordant une égale attention à ce qui a simultanément – ou antérieurement, à maints égards – été produit dans le monde byzantin, on tend à un radical rééquilibrage de la perspective. C’est alors dans sa véritable dimension que se perçoit l’évolution artistique de l’époque, en lien étroit avec un contexte politico-religieux tout à fait particulier : celui d’une installation des Latins à Constantinople et dans plusieurs territoires de l’Empire d’Orient, et d’un projet de réunion des obédiences catholique et orthodoxe ; avec, dans ce cadre, une décisive action des nouveaux Ordres Mendiants vite implantés dans tout le monde méditerranéen et développant une prédication réellement accessible au plus grand nombre, étayée – chez les Franciscains au premier chef – par une imagerie traduisant la geste du Christ et des saints sur le mode le plus crédible, incorporant précisément les avancées déjà opérées à cette fin dans la zone orientale.
Après un panorama historiographique faisant le point sur les positions plus ou moins anciennes et leur impact jusqu’à nos jours, on aborde en premier lieu ce qu’il en a été des conceptions et fonctions dévolues à l’image, trop volontiers considérées comme différentes d’un milieu à l’autre. Puis on affronte le champ de l’iconographie en propre, avec les accents spécifiques qui y sont portés. Ensuite vient l’examen des divers aspects formels (et des moyens techniques mis en œuvre) ; examen non moins capital puisque ce sont le naturalisme et l’expressivité de la figure, ainsi que son insertion dans un espace tridimensionnel, qui visent à une communication plus efficace avec le fidèle ; cela par la forte sollicitation de ses sens, pour sa profonde imprégnation de ce qui s’offre à sa vue. On peut, dans cette démarche, reconnaître une authentique humanisation de la foi. Et il s’avérait donc essentiel de souligner que, dans cette mutation où l’image s’est trouvée investie d’un rôle majeur, la contribution de la chrétienté byzantine a été aussi déterminante que celle de l’Italie.
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A la cour de Bourgogne. Le duc, son entourage, son train
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A la cour de Bourgogne. Le duc, son entourage, son train show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A la cour de Bourgogne. Le duc, son entourage, son trainLa recherche historique manifeste de nos jours une curiosité renouvelée pour le vaste champ des pouvoirs. Au-delà d'une perspective proprement politique, on cherche aujourd'hui à cerner tout ce qui inspire, conforte, justifie ou met en question ces pouvoirs. Si l'autorité s'incarne dans un prince, celui-ci fût-il censé l'exercer pleinement et cultiver ainsi son prestige, elle n'est et ne peut toutefois jamais être l'apanage d'un solitaire.
Autour du gouvernant gravitent des familiers, conseillers, officiers, auxiliaires, serviteurs, personnel de décision ou de simple exécution, chacun selon ses tâches et ses capacités.. Les services domestiques côtoient les figures de proue de la cour et des conseils. Fêtes et deuils les rassemblent dans des célébrations où l'image du maître prend toujours sa place. Des uns, on requiert l'obéissance et le dévouement; des autres, on exige la compétence. Dans ces milieux, on lit et on produit, et cela aussi contribue à forger et à entretenir l'image. Et puis le prince et les siens ne se cloîtrent pas: il est des circonstances où les contacts directs avec les gouvernés contribuent à mieux éclairer aux yeux de la rue ce qu'est et ce que veut montrer d'elle l'autorité, parée de ses atours.
Le présent volume a pour objectif d'illustrer la manière dont, sous ces divers angles, les pouvoirs étaient pensés et vécus chez les princes de Bourgogne.
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AL. Rivista di studi di Anthologia Latina
Journal of Philology applied to Late Latin Poetry
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:AL. Rivista di studi di Anthologia Latina show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: AL. Rivista di studi di Anthologia LatinaAL. Rivista di studi di Anthologia Latina is a thematic journal dedicated to the philological study of late Latin texts, primarily poetic works. Since its inaugural issue in 2010, the journal has aimed to fill a significant gap in the panorama of scientific publications in this field, offering a platform for philological research on the Latin anthology and the neighbouring fields of philological and literary research. In addition to articles and notes, the journal includes sections that feature contributions on the manuscript tradition, the fortune of the Anthologia Latina and late Latin literature, as well as book reviews.
More information about this journal on Brepols.net
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Abbatiat et abbés dans l’ordre de Prémontré
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Abbatiat et abbés dans l’ordre de Prémontré show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Abbatiat et abbés dans l’ordre de PrémontréLe présent volume rassemble une vingtaine de communications données lors du 25e colloque du Centre d’Études et de Recherches Prémontrées, tenu à l’abbaye de Tongerlo (Belgique). La thématique de cette rencontre était double: d’une part examiner, au long de l’histoire d’un ordre religieux ancien (xii e-xxi e siècles) le fonctionnement du régime abbatial, avec ses évolutions spirituelles, juridiques, sociales, liées aux transformations du monde où les communautés se meuvent. D’autre part, proposer comme une galerie de portraits d’abbés, significatifs des diverses époques de l’histoire norbertine. Cette douzaine de figures permet de réfléchir encore à la nature de la fonction, à la manière dont les abbés eux-mêmes conçoivent et investissent leur rôle.
Dans cette passionnante enquête sur un matériau vivant et diversifié, la quantité et la qualité des sources varient aussi: tandis que l’époque médiévale contient beaucoup d’inconnues (les «listes abbatiales» elles-mêmes sont peu assurées, à haute époque), la période moderne et contemporaine fait apparaître des champs de recherche tout à fait inexplorés: il manque encore non seulement une prosopographie générale, mais aussi une étude approfondie des cursus honorum, des modes et pratiques d’élections, des rapports souvent conflictuels entre le pouvoir central, le pouvoir local, et la «base».
La complexité du pouvoir abbatial (spirituel, pastoral, économique, politique) se dessine à travers ces études, et cet ouvrage se veut autant un état de la question qu’une invitation à de nouvelles recherches dans un domaine peu exploré de l’histoire monastique ou canoniale.
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Abbon de Fleury
Un moine savant combatif (vers 950-1004)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Abbon de Fleury show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Abbon de FleuryIl y a mille ans, le 13 novembre 1004, à la Réole, sur les bords de la Garonne, mourait un abbé de Fleury, Abbon. Sa mort violente pour la cause de la réforme monastique le fit vénérer d'emblée comme un martyr. Aujourd'hui nous nous apprêtons à célébrer le millénaire de cet événement.Abbon, né vers 950 à Orléans, fut un des grands moines de son siècle, entraînant son monastère dans la ferveur et le travail, soutenant d'autres monastères sur ce chemin. Abbés, moines, chanoines, mais également les princes venaient le consulter, confiants dans sa science du droit et son discernement. Elu abbé de Fleury en 988, il participa à plusieurs conciles où il se distingua par des prises de position très fermes en faveur du monde monastique.Abbon fut un savant réputé, l'un des plus connus de son époque, un de ceux par qui nous a été transmise la science de l'Antiquité. Il exerça une influence sur la législation de son temps, dans le respect du droit, au service de la liberté de tous, et il fut ainsi un précurseur de l'effort que notre époque s'attache à promouvoir.En outre, par ses voyages en Angleterre et en Italie, par ses relations multiples à travers l'Occident, Abbon est déjà, d'une certaine manière, une figure européenne.
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Abbon, un abbé de l’an Mil
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Abbon, un abbé de l’an Mil show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Abbon, un abbé de l’an MilBien que l’œuvre littéraire et scientifique d’Abbon de Fleury (v. 950-1004) ait été aussi importante que celle de son célèbre contemporain Gerbert (devenu le pape Sylvestre II), l’abbé du monastère fleurisien restait cependant mal connu. Le colloque organisé en 2004 pour célébrer le millénaire de sa mort a voulu donner un souffle nouveau aux études abboniennes. Les contributions, qui s’articulent autour de deux thèmes principaux, vie monastique, religion et culture, abordent la plupart des domaines dans lesquels s’est exercée la compétence d’Abbon: astronomie, comput, musique, droit canon, hagiographie, histoire… Sont également traitées des questions touchant à l’ecclésiologie et à la réforme monastique ou concernant le monastère lui-même et son temporel ou un autre monastère orléanais, Saint-Mesmin de Micy. De ces «éclairages entrecroisés» ressort un portrait renouvelé de ce grand abbé, à la fois homme de science et chercheur d’unité, unité de l’Église, unité de son monastère et de l’ordre bénédictin.
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Absence/Souvenir. La relation à autrui chez Emmanuel Lévinas et Jacques Derrida
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Absence/Souvenir. La relation à autrui chez Emmanuel Lévinas et Jacques Derrida show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Absence/Souvenir. La relation à autrui chez Emmanuel Lévinas et Jacques DerridaC’est à partir d’un dialogue avec la phénoménologie husserlienne et heideggerienne que Lévinas et Derrida élaborent leurs conceptions de l’identité du moi : une identité précaire qui se trouve et se perd dans l’appel, la mémoire et la fidélité à autrui.
Dans ce cadre, il semble légitime de suivre d’abord le parcours de Lévinas, en retraçant sa volonté de poursuivre la phénoménologie de Husserl dans un sens plutôt éthique qu’ontologique. Ceci étant, la conception lévinassienne du moi et de l’autre s’éloigne de plus en plus de l’expérience phénoménologique. Car l’autre devient une épreuve traumatique qui forge le moi et qui laisse en lui une trace ineffaçable de culpabilité au moment de sa mort.
C’est à partir de là que Derrida construit sa réflexion sur le deuil impossible, à savoir celui qui ne saurait jamais se faire entièrement parce que l’autre, même après sa mort, habite le moi comme un étranger incrypté au plus profond de lui.
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Accountability in Late Medieval Europe
Households, Communities, and Institutions
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Accountability in Late Medieval Europe show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Accountability in Late Medieval EuropeThis volume brings together studies of late medieval accountability in both the domestic and the public realms. It traces practices of accountability across the social spectrum, from households to small businesses to communal and regnal administrations, highlighting the intersections between competing conceptions of personal and institutional responsibility. Focusing on France and Italy from the thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, the case studies follow territorial officers, consular agents, and town notables co-opted into local governance from Avignon and Marseille to Tuscany and the Venetian and Genoese overseas territories. The studies explore both personal and institutional accounting registers, as well as records of a textual nature, such as rulebooks and inquests, in an effort to reflect the range of records and procedures relied on to achieve a measure of accountability in late medieval Europe.
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Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe: Records, Procedures, and Socio-Political Impact
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe: Records, Procedures, and Socio-Political Impact show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe: Records, Procedures, and Socio-Political ImpactAccounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe traces the momentous transformation of institutions and administration under the impact of accounting records and procedures, c. 1250-1500. The volume’s focus on the materiality and organising logic of a range of accounts is complemented by close attention to the socio-political contexts in which they functioned and the agency of central and local officials.
The volume is divided into three parts: the role of financial accountability in the political designs of late medieval states, the uses of accounts auditing and information management as tools for governance, and their impact on the everyday life of local communities. Covering both the centre and the periphery of medieval Europe, from England and the Papal curia to Savoy and Transylvania, the case studies evince the difficult passage from the early experiments with financial accounts towards an accountability of office.
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Achard de Saint-Victor métaphysicien
Le De unitate Dei et pluralitate creaturarum
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Achard de Saint-Victor métaphysicien show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Achard de Saint-Victor métaphysicienAprès plus de 800 ans d'oubli paraissait, il y a une trentaine d'années, un chef d'œuvre de la philosophie médiévale - si ce n'est de la pensée occidentale dans son ensemble -, le De unitate Dei et pluralitate creaturarum d'Achard de Saint-Victor, devenu évêque d'Avranches en 1161, dans l'édition et la traduction de son unique exemplaire padouan que procurait Emmanuel Martineau en 1987.
C'est pour marquer cette renaissance qu'a été rééditée cette première édition et organisé le colloque dont le présent ouvrage publie les actes. Il rassemble des contributions nécessairement modestes et partielles, mais pionnières, dont le seul but est d'initier à l'explication d'un traité d'une audace, d'une complexité et d'une puissance spéculative exceptionnelles : « génial entrelacs de spiritualité hyper-augustinienne et de métaphysique hyper-platonicienne », où il s'agit de rien de moins que de penser l'uni-distinction essentielle de la Sagesse divine.
Puisse ce volume de la collection Ad argumenta. Quaestio Special Issues ouvrir à d'autres études qui donneront à leur tour le goût de cette sagesse sans laquelle la vérité ne saurait être saisie « par elle-même » : ipsa generalis, qua omnes sapiunt, sapientia.
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Acquisition through Translation
Towards a Definition of Renaissance Translation
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Acquisition through Translation show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Acquisition through TranslationThe definition of translation in Renaissance Europe is here proposed as a process of acquisition: the book studies how a number of European languages, finding their identification in the newly evolving concept of nation, shape their countries’ vernacular libraries by appropriating ancient and contemporary classics.
The emergence of standard modern languages in early modern Europa entailed a competition with the dominant Latin culture, which remained the prevalent medium for the language of science, philosophy, theology and philology until at least the eighteenth century. In this process, translation played a very special role: in a number of significant instances we can identify in the undertaking of a specific translation a policy of acquisition of classical - and by definition authoritative - texts that contributed to the building of an intellectual library for the emerging nation. At the same time, the transmission of ideas and texts across Europe constructed a diasporic and transnational culture: the emerging vernacular cultures acquired not only the classical Latin models, incorporating them in their own intellectual libraries, but turned their attention also to contemporary, or near-contemporary, vernacular texts, conferring on them, through the act of translation, the status of classics. Through the examination of case studies, that take into account both literary and scientific texts, this volume offers an overview of how early modern Europe developed its vernacular national literatures, following the model suggested in the late Middle Ages, through a process of acquisition and translation.
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Acquérir, prélever, contrôler: Les ressources en compétition (400-1100)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Acquérir, prélever, contrôler: Les ressources en compétition (400-1100) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Acquérir, prélever, contrôler: Les ressources en compétition (400-1100)Les ressources matérielles sont un élément de première importance de la compétition au Haut Moyen Âge, en étant l’arrière-plan, souvent le moyen, parfois l’enjeu de la compétition elle-même. D'une part, la compétition conduit ou souvent impose de mobiliser des ressources, d’autre part, ses formes sont affectées par la disponibilité ou la rareté des ressources. Elles sont donc un point d’observation privilégié pour comprendre les systèmes de valeurs et les règles, souvent implicites, qui président alors aux actions des élites. Ce volume est le résultat du troisième colloque organisé à Rome par le groupe international de recherches sur la compétition dans les sociétés médiévales (400-1000). En croisant des perspectives qui tiennent de l’anthropologie et de certaines lignes de l’histoire économique, ce livre prend en considération les formes du rapport entre compétition et ressources dans une grande variété de milieux sociaux et institutionnels de l’Europe occidentale du haut Moyen Âge, de la famille aux élites politiques et religieuses, aux sociétés rurales, aux communautés artisanes et marchandes.
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Across the Mediterranean Frontiers:
Trade, Politics and Religion, 650-1450
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Across the Mediterranean Frontiers: show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Across the Mediterranean Frontiers:Using insights derived from the works of the great annaliste historian Fernand Braudel and those of David Abulafia, this volume aims at presenting a fully-rounded picture of the Medieval Islamic Mediterranean between the years 650 and 1450. It ranges from discussions on Islamic Spain and Sicily through essays on economic and cultural exchange to an examination of Islamic and western politics and religious thought. It also surveys work and warfare in some of the most fascinating centuries of the medieval period and concludes with a profound assessment of the Islamic sources and their transmission. This is a magisterial volume which no historian of the Mediterranean will wish to be without.
Dionisius A. Agius is Senior Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Leeds. He is author and editor of several books. His research interests include Arabic dialectology, the semantics of material culture in medieval Arabic travel and geography literature and the medieval Mediterranean.
Ian Richard Netton is Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Leeds. He is author or editor of several books in the field of Middle Eastern Studies. His principal research interests are Islamic philosophy and theology, Sufism and Medieval Islamic travellers. His interest in Mediterranean Studies was aroused by his studies of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa and Ibn Jubayr.
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