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The unique Arabic version of the Iberian canon law code 'Collectio Hispana', preserved in a mid-eleventh-century manuscript of the Royal Library of El Escorial, has been deemed “the most distinguished and characteristic” work of medieval Andalusi Christian writing. It represents an exceptional source witness to the internal legal organisation of Christian communities in Muslim-dominated al-Andalus as well as to their acculturation to Islamicate environments. Yet, the Arabic collection has received only little scholarly attention so far. This volume presents the results of a recent interdisciplinary research project on the Arabic canon law manuscript, flanked by contributions from neigbouring fields of research that allow for a comparative assessment of the substantial new findings. The individual chapters in this volume address issues such as the origins of the Arabic law code and its sole transmitting manuscript, its language and translation strategies, its source value for both the persistence and transformation of ecclesiastical institutions after the Muslim conquest, or the law code's position in the judicial practice of al-Andalus. The volume brings together the scholarly expertise of distinguished specialists in a broad range of disciplines, e.g. history, Arabic and Latin philology, medieval palaeography and codicology, archaeology, coptology, theology and history of law.

Erasmus Schetz, Gaspar Ducci, and Gilbert van Schoonbeke. Contemporaries made it indisputably clear that these three moneymakers were exceptional, from different perspectives and for different reasons, but all commentators implicitly or explicitly referred to their unique economic achievements, and they were right to do so. The exceptional careers of the three protagonists shed light on the potential of the most dynamic economic centre of Europe - and the world - during early globalization. Precisely because their economic initiatives were far more ambitious than what other businessmen in Antwerp could or would consider or achieve, their careers are ideal vantage points for observing and analysing ‘capital at work’. They also provide an opportunity to examine how commercial capitalism changed and/or was transformed, and in what measure the three protagonists extended the frontiers of capitalism.

Le présent volume dédié à la mémoire du Cardinal Julien Ries comporte deux parties : la première concerne la vie et l'oeuvre du prélat. Elle contient les contributions de plusieurs spécialistes de l'histoire des religions qui ont bien connu le Cardinal et ont eu le bonheur de travailler avec ce grand savant qu'il convient de ranger aux côtés de Franz Cumont, de Georges Dumézil ou encore de Mircéa Eliade. Sa réflexion sur l'Home Religiosus à la lumière des découvertes le plus récentes est essentielle. La bibliographie du Cardinal est impressionante et témoigne d'une activité débordante sur le plan universitaire; son enseignement tout comme ses recherches dans le cadre de l'Université catholique de Louvain, du Centre d'Histoire des religions qu'il y fonda, ou encore de l'Université du Sacré Coeur à Milan ont fait forte impression. Mais la personnalité universitaire du Cardinal J.Ries ne doit pas l'emporter sur l'homme d'Eglise. le « Pastor bonus » qu'il fut, le curé de campagne aimé et respecté.

La deuxième partie de l'ouvrage comporte la traduction actualisée et commentée de textes provenant de l'ancien Orient (monde anatolien, égyptien, iranien) et mettant en lumière la fonction sacerdotale dans l'Antiquité, à savoir le rôle et les devoirs du prêtre, la hiérarchie sacerdotale, son influence sur la société ainsi que son rôle politique et culturel.

This book discusses the significance of the Carmelite liturgy as practised in the Kraków convent over a period of some four hundred years. Specifically, it examines the liturgical contents of five medieval Carmelite choir books from the Kraków convent and another choir book from this collection which is now in Wroclaw, and discusses their contents (especially their significant feasts), in terms of the Carmelite order's historical self-understanding and established liturgical tradition. Carmelite Liturgy and Spiritual Identity outlines the role of liturgy in the life of the Kraków convent and in relationship to the apostolic activity of these mendicant friars. It argues that the order's unique liturgical tradition, one which remained distinctive even after the Council of Trent, was crucial to their self-understanding. It also articulates how the liturgical practices of the Kraków Carmelites made a significant contribution to the spiritual life of the city and its people.

This volume presents essays exploring how the Carolingians (ca. 700-ca. 900 CE) - a regime known especially for concerns over imperial power, order, and moral correction - fostered a remarkable era of experimentation in medieval Europe. The scholars featured here ask new questions and conduct their own methodological experiments to uncover some of the many ways that people innovated within the Carolingian world. To that end, numerous themes are covered in this volume: culture and society, family and politics, religion and spirituality, literature and historiography, law and hierarchy, epistemology and science. This array of scholarly experiments reveals some of the range and depth of Carolingian invention. Furthermore, the essays consider how Carolingian innovation can be found in places both more and less known today, employing novel approaches to unearth some unexpected, even uncanny phenomena. This volume consequently offers a defamiliarizing view of the Franks, unveiling them as a people whose seemingly straightforward imperialism and reform were effective precisely because they stimulated and nurtured potent, creative impulses. In fact, one might argue that the Carolingian world’s conservative, moralizing authorities - despite, or perhaps at times because of, their determination to instil correct thought and behaviour in their subjects - fostered many varieties of experimentation. Collectively, the authors of this volume seek to inspire new thinking about the Carolingians, while modelling alternative approaches and potential avenues for future research. Carolingian Experiments overall encourages readers to see that much remains unexplored, unknown and even unexpected about the Carolingians and their world.

Les études qui composent ce recueil ont été prononcées le 6 octobre 2017 au Monastero degli Olivetani de Lecce, en hommage à Giulia Belgioioso, au moment où la fondatrice du Centro Dipartimentale di studi su Descartes ‘Ettore Lojacono’ quittait à la fois son enseignement et la direction du centre qu’elle avait créé.

Le titre qui les réunit - Cartesius edoctus - suffit à dire l’essentiel pour un savant professeur qui a toujours su laisser la première place à celui qui a fait l’objet principal de ses recherches et de ses leçons : mais si elle a inlassablement enseigné Descartes et le cartésianisme, Giulia Belgioioso a aussi fait du Salente un « nouveau royaume » cartésien en y développant ses propres études, en y organisant des rencontres internationales et en établissant, pour parler comme Fénelon, « toutes les plus utiles maximes de gouvernement » pour les recherches des nombreux jeunes chercheurs qu’elle a formés et des équipes qui ont travaillé à l’oeuvre commun, en particulier à l’édition magistrale de Tutte le lettere et des Opere et Opere postume. La fondation du Centro, en 1998, très vite devenu l’alter ego du Centre d’études cartésiennes de la Sorbonne, a fourni le complément institutionnel des avancées méthodologiques évoquées plus haut.

Ce recueil d’articles est un hommage : loin cependant d’être purement formel, il entend se concentrer strictement sur les axes principaux de l’activité de recherche de Giulia Belgioioso. Ce faisant, il révèle en réalité un monde entier : on s’aperçoit en effet immédiatement, ne fût-ce qu’en feuilletant le volume, que les études qui y figurent envisagent les aspects les plus importants à la fois de la philosophie de Descartes et de l’histoire du cartésianisme, comprenant également des documents inédits. La démarche conduit donc de la deuxième Méditation (Igor Agostini) à Paolo Mattia Doria (Jean-Robert Armogathe) ; de la mathesis universalis (Frédéric de Buzon) à Christine de Suède (Carlo Borghero) ; des questions de méthode et de la visée apologétique (Vincent Carraud) à L’Homme (Dan Garber) ; du mythe du solipsisme (Denis Kambouchner) à saint Augustin et Montaigne (Jean-Luc Marion) ; d’un échantillon sur philosophie et médecine dans le XVIIe siècle français (Fabio Sulpizio) aux débats sur l’eucharistie à Port-Royal (Martine Pécharman) et à la condamnation d’un lockien italien (Marta Fattori). Une série de témoignages de collègues, élèves et amis complète l’ouvrage.

En 1231 et 1232 cinq scribes copient presque toutes les chartes reçues depuis la fin du XI e siècle par le chapitre cathédral de Langres. Ce cartulaire constitue une remarquable collection d'actes, qui éclaire l'histoire d'une grande seigneurie ecclésiastique, située aux confins de la Champagne, de la Bourgogne et de la Lorraine, du royaume de France et de l'Empire. Document sur la seigneurie et la féodalité, il éclaire aussi la gestion d'un patrimoine considérable, et en particulier l'usage de l'écrit en cette matière.

How does one construct a saint and promote a cult beyond the immediate community in which he or she lived? Italian mendicants had accumulated a good deal of experience in dealing with this politically explosive question. The posthumous description of the life of Francis of Assisi (d. 1226) written by the Master General of the order, Bonaventure (d. 1274), could be regarded as paradigmatic in this regard. A similarly massive intervention in the production and diffusion of a cult can be observed in the case of the Dominican tertiary, Catherine of Siena (d. 1380), who in many respects (e.g. the imitation of Christ and her stigmatization) ‘competed’ with Francis of Assisi. Raymund of Capua (d. 1399), the Master General of the order, established the foundation for the dissemination of the cult by writing the authoritative life, but it was only the following generation that succeeded in establishing and disseminating the cult on a broad basis by means of copies, adaptations, and translations. The question of how to make a cult, which stands at the centre of this volume, thus presents itself in terms of the challenge of rewriting a legend for different audiences. The various contributions consider the role, not only of texts in many dfferent vernaculars (Czech, English, French, German, and Italian), but also of images, whether separately or in connection with one another.

Celts, Gaels, and Britons offers a miscellany of essays exploring three closely connected areas within the fields of Celtic Studies in order to shed new light on the ancient and medieval Celtic languages and their literatures. Taking as its inspiration the scholarship of Professor Patrick Sims-Williams, to whom this volume is dedicated, the papers gathered together here explore the Continental Celtic languages, texts from the Irish Sea world, and the literature and linguistics of the British languages, among them Welsh and Cornish. With essays from eighteen leading scholars in the field, this in-depth volume serves not only as a monument to the rich and varied career of Sims-Williams, but also offers a wealth of commentary and information to present significant primary research and reconsiderations of existing scholarship.

This volume is an homage to the great intellectual contribution made by Loris Sturlese to the field of history of medieval philosophy. Its point of departure lies in a methodological line, which Sturlese has maintained throughout his whole academic career: the importance in the historical and conceptual reconstruction of medieval philosophical thought of focusing not only on the classical, most famous centers of knowledge production and transmission, but also on the often-neglected peripheries, which during the Middle Ages were increasingly more relevant in propelling the circulation of texts and ideas. In this volume, the notions of ‘center’ and ‘periphery’ are not understood in a merely geographical sense, but also in conceptual, linguistic, historical and literary terms. The richness of this approach is demonstrated by the broad spectrum of the contributions, which range from Islamic philosophy to Italian Renaissance, including the reception of ancient philosophy and of Arabic scientific works in the Latin world, and up to eighteenth-century French geography. Special attention is devoted to the philosophical thought developed in the German area. The volume does not lack in giving space to important medieval figures, such as Dante, as well as to more general philosophical notions, such as the concept of rationality.

The volume explores connections, ruptures, relations and affinities through the analysis of paradigmatic figures, places and topics within the micro- and macro-histories of philosophy.

La Renaissance est marquée par un grand mouvement de rationalisation du savoir. La science sert de référence à l'art, qui par sa mathématisation, tente de s'approcher le plus possible de la certitude absolue dont elle fournit le modèle. Les sciences intermédiaires, disciplines d'application de la mathématique, telles que la mécanique, l'optique, l'abaque, se développent, permettant de nombrer le réel, parallèlement aux instruments de précision qui accroissent l'efficacité de la technique. D'autres disciplines, telles que le droit ou l'histoire, cherchent de même à élaborer les principes et la méthode de leur certitude propre. Il est toutefois des domaines, tels que la foi ou l'acte moral, où la certitude ne s'étalonne pas sur la vérité de la science, mais trouve en son coeur l'incertitude fondatrice de l'expérience humaine. En tentant, dans la recherche du bien et du mal, du beau et du laid, de conjurer la relativité et la précarité de la vie, l'intelligence humaine ne saurait fait l'économie du doute qui la distingue de la machine et fonde sa grandeur. C'est à cette tension jamais résolue, mise en évidence par l'humanisme de la Renaissance, que cet ensemble de contributions se propose de réfléchir.

La polyphonie chantée au chœur de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris à la fin du XIIe siècle a profondément marqué son temps et la virtuosité dont ont fait preuve les chanteurs dans le maniement de leur art, l’audace des scribes qui ont consigné l’organum dans une notation mesurée alors totalement inédite et l’intérêt que les intellectuels y ont porté, accordent à la polyphonie parisienne une place remarquable dans l’histoire de la musique occidentale.

Cet ouvrage explique comment les chantres de la nouvelle église de Paris ont réussi à exécuter ces majestueuses fresques qui enflammèrent l’imagination des médiévaux par leur étonnante splendeur et qui suscitent toujours autant d’enthousiasme de nos jours.

La musique médiévale entretient d’étroites relations avec les sciences du langage, puisant en elles les éléments de son développement technique et reposant sur une mémoire sans cesse exercée. Cette étude concerne l’ars musica dans ses relations avec les arts du trivium et la mémoire et veut ancrer les compositions dans le contexte intellectuel et éducatif qui a permis leur éclosion et leur développement. Elle montre ainsi comment les clercs de Notre-Dame ont utilisé des procédés rhétoriques d’ornementation afin d’élaborer un discours musical complexe et vise à comprendre dans quelles circonstances, comment et à quelles fins, les chantres ont composé une très haute manifestation de la Parole chantée.

This volume of essays concentrates on the effects of preaching in late medieval and early modern Europe, particularly through the concept of charisma, a term introduced into the discussion of religion and politics by Max Weber. Used by Weber, the term indicates the power of a person to move others to action, to animate and mobilize them. The late medieval and early modern periods witnessed the emergence of preachers who became powerful public figures central to the mobilization of populations towards religious reform or crusades. Such preachers were also enmeshed in civic life and the life of courts. Super-preachers like Bernardino of Siena and John of Capestrano shaped opinion on a wide range of issues: the ethics of business, marriage and gender relations, attitudes towards minorities, the poor and social responsibility, as well as the role of kings and other rulers in society. Preaching events were the mass media of the day, and in their wake could follow pogrom, lay revival, crusade, peace movement, or reconciliation within a faction-riven city. The power of these events was great and not merely confined to the Christian community. This volume introduces for the first time a comparative dimension which looks at the theme of charisma and religious authority in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim preaching traditions.

This book is based on an international conference held in the capital of Hainault to celebrate the city of Mons as European Capital of Culture (2015). For the first time, through a range of interdisciplinary studies, the magnificent festivals created to honour Prince Philip of Spain as he journeyed across Europe to receive his sovereignty of the Low Countries are brought to life. The splendour of entries in the cities of Northern Italy (such as Genoa and Milan) was challenged by the civic allegories of triumph displayed throughout the Low Countries in Ghent, Antwerp, and Amsterdam. Outpacing all that magnificence were the entertainments prepared by Mary of Hungary at Binche: triumphal arches, martial feats of arms, balls, masquerades, and castle-stormings entertained Emperor Charles V and his son Prince Philip.The essays in this volume reconstitute the political and social context of these extraordinary celebrations and focus on the purpose and role of festival in the changing political strategies of Charles V. They are illustrated with a total of 36 b&w and 36 colour images.Contributors: Sydney Anglo, Francesca Bortoletti, Stijn Bussels, Tobias Capwell, José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, Félix Labrador Arroyo, Margaret M. McGowan, R. L. M. Morris, Jessie Park, Yves Pauwels, M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado, Margaret Shewring, Hugo Soly, Lisa Wiersma.

L'abbaye de Remiremont, fondée vers 620, était une des plus grandes abbayes lotharingiennes, et aussi la principale institution religieuse féminine de Lorraine. Son recrutement dans la noblesse lui a perrnis d' établir des relations économiques et spirituelles avec toute l'aristocratie, jusqu'aux souverains, ainsi qu'en témoigne le célèbre Liber memorialis. Ses archives ont beaucoup souffert, de sorte que c'est dans un très grand nombre de dépôts d'archives et de bibliothèques qu'il faut chercher les originaux et des copies, très diverses d'ailleurs quant à leur date et leur forme.

La richesse de l' abbaye et ses importantes relations l' ont amenée à recevoir de nombreuses chartes, et à en concéder à plusieurs autres abbayes. C'est l' ensemble de ces actes, au nombre de 171 jusqu' en 1231, que Jean Bridot édite ici. Son travail reprend, complète et affine une première publication, assez confidentielle, qu'il avait donnée en 1980.

A côté du Liber memorialis édité par E. Hlawitschka, des documents nécrologiques réunis par M.-0. Boulard et d'un remarquable ensemble de notices de tradition dont la publication est préparée par Michel Parisse, ce recueil de chartes constitue le quatrième grand volet des sources romarimontaines médiévales.

Historien de la philosophie et de la théologie du Moyen Âge tardif, spécialiste des xiv e et xv e siècles, Zénon Kaluza a profondément marqué les études médiévales des dernières décennies. Ses travaux portent sur plusieurs grands thèmes de l’histoire doctrinale du Moyen Âge, notamment le «platonisme» parisien et pragois, les méthodes et les langages de la philosophie et de la théologie, les contextes institutionnels du savoir et, enfin, la question du rapport entre l’Église et l’État. Pour rendre hommage à l’homme et à son œuvre, ses collègues et amis lui offrent ce recueil d’articles. Réunies sous le titre de Chemins de la pensée médiévale, ces études explorent différents aspects de l’histoire de la philosophie et de la théologie ainsi que, dans une perspective plus large, de l’histoire intellectuelle et sociale du Moyen Âge. Par l’ampleur de son orientation thématique, le présent volume offre une excellente présentation de l’état actuel de la recherche sur la pensée médiévale.

This book offers a way of reading maps of the Holy Land as visual imagery with religious connotations. Through a corpus of representative examples created between the sixth and the nineteenth centuries, it studies the maps as iconic imagery of an iconic landscape and analyses their strategies to manifest the spiritual quality of the biblical topography, to support religious tenets, and to construct and preserve cultural memory.

Maps of the Holy Land have thus far been studied with methodologies such as cartography and historical geography, while the main question addressed was the reliability of the maps as cartographic documents. Through another perspective and using the methodology of visual studies, this book reveals that maps of the Holy Land constructed religious messages and were significant instruments through which different Christian cultures (Byzantine, Catholic, Protestant, and Greek Orthodox) shaped their religious identities. It does not seek to ascertain how the maps delivered geographical information, but rather how they utilized the geographical information in formulating religious and cultural values.

Through its examination of maps of the Holy Land, this book thus explores both Christian visual culture and Christian spirituality throughout the centuries.

Widely recognized as one of the main characteristics of Latin Aristotelianism, the ‘Christianisation’ of Aristotle from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century has received as yet little attention. Aiming to answer the need for a more systematic investigation, the articles here collected approach Christian readings of the Stagirite’s works from different perspectives. Setting aside abstract discussions about ‘degrees of orthodoxy’, they address a few specific questions: which ‘images’ of Aristotle were offered by Medieval and Renaissance interpreters, and in particular how did some of them argue that — far from being a pagan or even an impious thinker — he did not contradict the truths revealed by Holy Scripture? Which strategies did they adopt to harmonize Aristotelian philosophy with Christian religion, or at least to avoid their clash? How did they conceive the task of expounding Aristotle’s thought? How did they understand and apply the distinctions, developed since the mid-thirteenth century, between the point of view of the philosophers and that of the believers, between what is true ‘speaking naturally’ and what is true ‘according to faith’? Were these distinctions — and other disclaimers or cautionary statements — effective in protecting masters that taught Aristotle’s texts from accusations of heresy? To what extent were ideas issuing from Christian theology integrated within the Peripatetic worldview, or even treated within Aristotelian commentaries?

Discussing these and related questions, the ten contributors to this volume examine relevant doctrines of outstanding thinkers – Roger Bacon (Chiara Crisciani), Siger of Brabant and Henry of Ghent (Pasquale Porro), Dante Alighieri (Gianfranco Fioravanti); offer a fine analysis of some commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics (Iacopo Costa), the Politics (Stefano Simonetta) and the libri naturales (Amos Corbini); suggest innovative interpretations of the genesis of the Liber de bona fortuna (Valérie Cordonier) and of the condemnation of 1277 (Dragos Calma); inspect minor but significant figures of the Italian Renaissance such as Ludovico Beccadelli (Pietro Rossi) and Cesare Crivellati (Luca Bianchi).

À l’occasion du départ à la retraite de Paul-Hubert Poirier de son poste de professeur en patrologie et en histoire de l’Église à la Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses de l’Université Laval, collègues, amis et anciens étudiants se sont réunis pour lui rendre hommage. Les vingt-sept contributions recueillies, qui s’illustrent par la variété des thèmes abordés et par leur grande qualité scientifique, témoignent de l’étendu des intérêts de Paul-Hubert Poirier pour les domaines touchant de près ou de loin le christianisme des premiers siècles, des quatre coins de la Méditerranée. Les articles rassemblés intéresseront tant les spécialistes de l’histoire et de la littérature des premiers siècles chrétiens, que ceux du christianisme syriaque, copto-égyptien et éthiopien, de la philosophie antique, du gnosticisme et du manichéisme.

This volume fills a major desideratum in historical scholarship on the religious history of the Holy Land. It presents a synthesis of our knowledge of the history of Christianity and the various churches that coexisted there from the beginnings of Christianity to the fall of the Crusader Kingdoms. It also offers analytical studies of major topics and problems. While the first part is organized chronologically, the second follows a thematic plan, dealing with the major themes pertaining to the topic, from various points of view and covering several disciplinary fields: history, theology, archaeology, and art history. The volume represents the outcome of an international project initiated by Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi of Jerusalem, and the contributors are leading experts in their fields.

Chronicle, Crusade, and the Latin East offers a collection of essays exploring three closely connected thematic areas: the narrative traditions surrounding the early crusading movement, the influence of these textual traditions on wider processes of medieval historical writing and storytelling, and the history of crusading and the Latin East.

In recent years, the field of crusade studies has witnessed a significant groundswell of scholarly work, with particular emphasis on the narrative construction of crusading deeds in text and song, of the important role played by memory and memorialisation in transmitting crusading tales and promoting participation, and the nature of life in the Latin states of the East. This volume not only engages with, and offer fresh insights into, these topics, but also serves as a monument to the career of Susan B. Edgington, who has done so much to increase modern understanding of crusade narratives and the crusading past, and who has made a significant impact on the careers of many scholars. The collection of essays gathered here by established and early career historians, Edgington’s friends and students, thus furthers the study of both crusading as narrative and crusading as a lived experience.

La chronique de l'auteur connu sous le nom de Frédégaire est une source essentielle pour la connaissance des règnes mérovingiens. Le chroniqueur a pourtant été longtemps méprisé : sa langue était considérée comme barbare, et ses qualités d'historien étaient jugées de piètre valeur. Les recherches récentes ayant renouvelé l'étude de cette période, on a voulu tirer de l'oubli un auteur trop longtemps mal compris. Le lecteur trouvera donc ici, accompagnée du texte latin (selon l'édition de J.M. Wallace-Hadrill) et d'une abondante annotation, la traduction de la partie originale de la chronique et de ses continuations carolingiennes, qui poursuivent le récit jusqu'en 768. Une introduction substantielle défend l'hypothèse d'un chroniqueur unique écrivant vers 660, situe la chronique dans son contexte historique et l'appréhende à la fois comme une œuvre d'histoire et de littérature. Une étude spéciale est consacrée à la langue de l'auteur, témoin des mutations que connaît le latin au milieu du VIIe siècle. Olivier Devillers est un spécialiste d'historiographie romaine et Jean Meyers de langue et de littérature latines du Haut Moyen Âge. L'un et l'autre enseignent à l'Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III).