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Este libro reúne las traducciones anotadas de las obras hagiográficas latinas publicadas en el volumen Hagiographica hispana regnorum Aragonum et Castellae Legionisque saeculorum IX-XIII (Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis, vol. 310), publicado en 2022. Se trata de las más importantes Vidas, traslados de reliquias y colecciones de milagros compuestas en la Edad Media en los monasterios de San Juan de la Peña, San Millán de la Cogolla y San Zoilo de Carrión en honor de san Indalecio (uno de los siete míticos evangelizadores de Hispania); dos santos de época visigoda, san Felices de Bilibio (maestro de San Millán) y el propio san Millán; y dos santos medievales: san Voto y san Félix de Zaragoza (fundadores de lo que más tarde sería San Juan de la Peña). Los otros dos escritos del volumen son dos Vidas dedicadas a san Urbez (eremita aragonés de posible origen francés) y, sobre todo, al famoso patrón de la ciudad de Madrid, san Isidro Labrador. La mayoría de estas traducciones son las primeras que se han realizado en una lengua moderna.

La reconnaissance de la sainteté et sa propagation par l’écrit et l’image dépendent étroitement de la conjoncture sociale et politique : les saints ont du pouvoir et le pouvoir a ses saints. Issues du congrès international organisé à Poitiers en 2008, les contributions de ce volume analysent les enjeux du culte des saints dans les stratégies du pouvoir ecclésiastique et laïc en Occident du VII e au XV e siècle. La représentation de la sainteté et ses usages sont abordés selon plusieurs axes : la légitimation du pouvoir par le prestige des saints du passé ; l’hagiographie instrumentalisée dans les luttes idéologiques et politiques ; le rapport entre l’iconographie, la mise en valeur des reliques et le contexte historique. Ce bilan des recherches récentes jette un nouvel éclairage sur la question fondamentale de l’imbrication du religieux et du politique à l’époque médiévale

L’auteur

Edina Bozóky est maître de conférences à l’Université de Poitiers, membre du Centre d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale. Elle a publié La politique des reliques de Constantin à Saint Louis (Paris) et Le Moyen Âge miraculeux (Paris, 2010) et a édité avec A.-M. Helvétius Les reliques : objets, cultes, symboles (Turnhout, 1999). Elle dirige la collection Culture et société médiévales aux Éditions Brepols

This volume gathers fourteen new essays devoted to Old English prose saints’ lives from the late Anglo-Saxon period. Moving from diverse methodological approaches and building on the most recent developments in primary and secondary scholarship, the contributions comprehensively consider the texts and contexts of the vernacular hagiographic output both by Ælfric, the major hagiographer of his day, and by anonymous authors. By means of a comprehensive scrutiny of the Latin source-texts, including the often neglected Vitas Patrum, as well as of both the historical and manuscript context, this collection contributes to outline the late Anglo-Saxon sanctorale and to advance our knowledge of the literary culture and intellectual history of pre-Conquest England and beyond.

Contributors:Roberta Bassi, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr., Claudio Cataldi, Catherine Cubitt, Giuseppe D. De Bonis, Maria Caterina De Bonis, Claudia Di Sciacca, Concetta Giliberto, Joyce Hill, Susan Irvine, Loredana Lazzari, Patrizia Lendinara, Rosalind Love, Winfried Rudolf.

In this publication, attention is devoted to the technical aspects in the work of Hans Vredeman de Vries. Throughout his long career, he has perfected his skills as a painter, architect, fortification engineer and hydraulic engineer. Those technical aspects are considered not so much as discrete characteristics, but rather as a particular way in which this late sixteenth- century artist from the Low Countries typically dealt with a number of disciplines of the technical and applied arts. Indeed, from a predominantly traditional approach to his work, too much emphasis has until now been placed on his highly personal contribution to the dissemination of ornamental elements, whereby typical Renaissance characteristics, such as technical innovation and engineering, are relegated to the background.

During Hans Vredeman de Vries's lifetime, attempts began to be made to define the arts and the sciences. Defining the demarcation criteria of the sciences would continue to gain in importance especially at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With his work, Vredeman de Vries raised Architectura together with all its technical acquisitions to the level of both the Artes and the Scienciae. Attempts were even made to establish some kind of hierarchy. Yet the artist never strictly separated fine and applied arts, nor did he explicitly distinguish between theory and practice. It was the intention of Vredeman de Vries to aim towards an equilibrium between the sciences and the arts. A team of thirteen distinguished art and architectural historians from North America, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium focus upon Vredeman de Vries's diverse manifestations of knowledge: urbanism, fortification works, hydraulics, interior decoration, architecture (its practical and technical aspects), inlay work and furniture, tapestry and the use of scientific instruments. One author points out that the similarity between such 'technical' practices and the structure of, for example, sixteenth-century rhetorical practices, forces us to consider Vredeman de Vries not simply as an architect, an engineer, or a designer, but above all as an experimenter in multiple disciplines and various fields.

Cette recherche se positionne dans la continuité d’une première étude portant sur le collier-menit dans les temples ptolémaïques et publiée dans la collection Monographies Reine Élisabeth. Ce collier, qui est un des objets sacrés d’Hathor, porte également le nom de l’entité divine du même nom, forme d’Hathor de Dendara et d’Edfou dont cette étude fait l’objet. En tant que forme d’Hathor, quels sont les termes, les parures, les actions, la gestuelle, qui pouvaient la différencier de la grande Hathor, si toutefois cela est envisageable, ces deux divinités étant intimement associées ?

Une partie de cette recherche porte sur l’étude de la chapelle du collier-menit. Les textes et les épithètes de la déesse ont été ici analysés d’un point de vue stylistique afin d’essayer de comprendre la démarche des hiérogrammates et la raison d’être d’une telle chapelle dédiée à Hathor la Menit, sachant que pour les deux autres formes secondaires d’Hathor : « Hathor-chef-du-grand-siège » et « Hathor-uraeus », il n’en existe point.

Hathor la Menit est la récipiendaire de nombreuses offrandes, qui ont été étudiées et contextualisées, afin de comprendre son implication dans chacune de ces scènes et de cerner au mieux la personnalité de cette déesse. Son étude dans le temple d’Edfou s’imposait afin de comprendre comment elle était perçue dans ce temple apollonopolitain.

Haymon d’Auxerre est l’un des plus prolifiques commentateurs de la Bible au IXe siècle et l’un de ceux dont on connaît le moins la biographie. L’ouvrage offre une mise au point sur ce que l’on sait de l’homme et du milieu dans lequel il œuvre, en tant que maître en sciences scripturaires et en tant qu’auteur de traités sur la Bible. Un panorama du renouveau de l’exégèse à l’époque carolingienne montre l’importance de ce genre littéraire alors : c’est celui que se réserve l’élite des gouvernants de l’Église - rois, empereurs, clercs et moines -, au moment où l’on prend conscience de la richesse de la matière patristique, perçue comme un héritage à ordonner et à faire fructifier. L’autorité d’Haymon, célébrée par son élève Heiric, est d’autant plus remarquable qu’il ne semble pas avoir dédicacé ses œuvres, contrairement à une habitude répandue chez ses contemporains. L’exégèse du maître révèle un ensemble de représentations politiques originales au milieu du ixe siècle, annonciateur de la pensée grégorienne : réformateur, Haymon se concentre, plus que les autres carolingiens, sur l’interprétation des prophètes dont il réitère la parole, clamant leurs avertissements, exhortant avec leurs mots les détenteurs du pouvoir. Le moine, le savant et le réformateur se rejoignent ainsi dans la figure du pasteur idéal de l’Église universelle qu’Haymon cherche à incarner.

Christine de Pizan (1364-1431) has been recognized as a poet, early humanist and feminist precursor but rarely as political theorist whose works were intended to have a direct impact on the tumultuous politics of her time. The essays in this collection focus on Christine as a political writer and provide an important resource for those wishing to understand her political thought. They locate her political writing in the late medieval tradition, discussing her indebtedness to Aristotle, Aquinas and Augustine as well as her transformations of their thought. They also illuminate Christine’s ‘political epistemology’: her understanding of political wisdom as a part of theology, the knowledge of God. New light is thrown on the circumstances which prompted Christine to write on political issues and on her attitude to Isabeau of Bavaria. These essays show that Christine’s originality consisted in her capacity to modify and feminize the tradition of Christian Aristotelianism through the use of elements of Christian imagery, in particular Mariology, in order to construct an image of the virtuous and prudent monarch which had lost the explicitly manly and warlike character of the Aristotelian phronimos. This reconfigured image of the monarch lent itself to the extension which she developed in her more feminist works, which demonstrated the prudence of women and their capacity, in times of need, to function as authoritative political figures.

The important contribution of Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1455–1517) to the genre of the proper of the mass has long been recognised. His work in this genre, collected in the monumental posthumously published Choralis Constantinus, was considered a landmark even in the sixteenth century. Yet Isaac’s magnum opus was by no means isolated. The mass proper played a much greater and more significant musical and symbolic role in the landscape of later-medieval and Renaissance music-making than is currently acknowledged. The present collection of fifteen essays offers new insights into both Isaac's mass propers themselves, which are still shrouded by many enigmas, and their context within broader later-fifteenth and sixteenth-century mass proper traditions. The circumstances under which Isaac's mass propers were composed, performed, and transmitted are discussed afresh, as is the striking late-sixteenth-century reception that the Choralis experienced. Studies of previously unknown or little-examined mass proper collections from countries as widely seperated as Portugal and Poland, as well as of the transformation of the genre in Lutheran territories and in the hands of William Byrd, show that Isaac's enterprise, though the largest of its kind, was built on and embedded in a strong and ongoing tradition of proper settings and cycles.

The Graeco-Roman Decapolis city of Gerasa was a flourishing centre of population from the Late Hellenistic up to the Early Islamic period. It was also home to a vibrant ceramics industry. Kilns found throughout the city, with a concentration in the Hippodrome, suggest that Gerasa was in fact a mass-production centre in the Decapolis region over a number of centuries, manufacturing a vast array of material to suit the changing needs of daily life.

Drawing on finds yielded during excavations by the Danish-German Northwest Quarter Project and other archaeological projects, as well as the research undertaken within the Ceramics in Context project, this volume evaluates the pottery from Gerasa produced in the Late Hellenistic and Roman periods. Typology, development over time, and variations in the Gerasene pottery are explored, and rare examples of imported material are analysed in order to shed light both on the inner workings of the city, and on the networks that extended beyond Gerasa’s walls. The contributions gathered here examine the archaeology and history of Gerasa and assess ceramic remains alongside other finds from both the city and neighbouring urban centres. In doing so, they seek to contextualize this material in a broader cultural and historical context, and to improve our understanding of consumption, trading, and networks in the wider Decapolis area.

Henri de Lubac (1896-1991) est une figure éminente de la théologie du XXe siècle. Pourtant, sa nomination comme consulteur du Concile, dès sa période préparatoire, fut pour lui comme pour ses amis une surprise. Il avait, en effet, surtout depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale, subi des mesures très sévères de la Compagnie de Jésus, allant jusqu’à lui interdire l’enseignement et les publications théologiques. Le concile pouvait alors apparaître comme une réhabilitation, voire comme une occasion pour le père de Lubac de mettre en œuvre le ressourcement théologique auquel il tenait tant. Le jésuite s’avère un bon guide pour saisir les enjeux d’un Concile auquel il donnait beaucoup d’importance, tant la sortie d’un modèle théologique à bout de souffle lui semblait impératif pour parler aux hommes de son temps. Pourtant, dès l’époque conciliaire, une inquiétude de plus en plus vive le saisit sur ce qui lui semble une mauvaise compréhension de l’aggiornamento à l’œuvre. Autant de débats qui n’étaient pas près de s’éteindre.

This book shares the fruits of several years of research on the Advent Hymns of the Roman Office. It provides an opportunity to gain fresh insights into the gradual development of the liturgical season of Advent and the particular characteristics assumed in its Roman form. The journey of the exquisite treasure of the Western Church that is the Latin hymn is explored before each of the three Advent hymns of the Roman Office is mined for its theology and rich scriptural associations. Its sometimes rocky journey through successive revisions of the Roman Office is considered through the lens of the three Advent hymns. Finally, a number of important pastoral issues dealing with the celebration of the Advent Season in our contemporary Church are considered, taking into account the nature of Advent as revealed in the traditional hymn texts, the liturgical reforms following the Second Vatican Council and current liturgical texts for Advent.

Il Convegno, articolato in quattro sezioni (I. L'Ermetismo filosofico, II. L'Ermetismo filosofico nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento, III. L'Ermetismo arabo ed ebraico, IV. L'Ermetismo operativo: astrologia, magia, alchimia), è stato il primo ad affrontare in tutta la loro ampiezza i problemi testuali e storiografici legati alla diffusione dell'ermetismo nella cultura medioevale. La partecipazione di studiosi di formazione diversa e la varietà degli argomenti e degli ambiti linguistici hanno dato luogo a un confronto importante, dal quale sono scaturiti affreschi inediti di ampio respiro, esplorazioni puntuali di percorsi fino a oggi sconosciuti, conferme significative, ipotesi e dibattiti su grandi temi (dalla religione alla filosofia, dalla magia all'alchimia).I contributi degli autori sono accompagnati dal censimento dei manoscritti dei testi ermetici latini, da una bibliografia ermetica e dall'indice delle opere attribuite a Ermete. Il censimento dei manoscritti, I testi e i codici di Ermete nel Medioevo latino, a cura di Paolo Lucentini e Vittoria Perrone Compagni, offre uno strumento unico per l'investigazione diretta dei testi editi o inediti, che appartengono a categorie diverse (versioni greco-latine di scritti risalenti all'età ellenistica e poi imperiale, versioni arabo-latine in gran parte provenienti dalla cultura harraniana e dalla tradizione islamica, apocrifi latini composti nei secoli XII-XIV) e delineano la letteratura più conosciuta e diffusa dell'ermetismo medievale latino. La Bibliografia ermetica, a cura di Ilaria Parri, costituisce uno strumento di rapida e agevole consultazione (ricerche sulla tradizione manoscritta; grandi opere di storia della filosofia, della scienza e della letteratura; singoli contributi che analizzano aspetti particolari) per l'approfondimento documentario ed ermeneutico dei temi trattati nel presente volume. L'indice delle opere attribuite a Ermete offre un ampio panorama degli scritti e dei titoli riferiti al Trismegisto nel Medioevo latino, arabo ed ebraico.

The aim of the present edition of Harvey Nedellec's De quattuor materiis is to make a collection of texts available that can throw some more light upon the ongoing debates around 1300 about some highly controversial issues, including the plurality of forms, the relationship between being and essence, the significance (or superfluity) of the intelligible species, and the intellect's priority to the will. Harvey's polemic interventions, which are explicitly directed against the ontological positions held by Henry of Ghent, are the more interesting as they are coloured by a manifest animosity against his opponent and the Ghentian way of doing philosophy in general. The author's attitude is most prominent in the first tract of the collection presented in the first volume, De formis. In order to put the impact of this tract into a larger perspective, Harvey's extensive treatise De unitate formae substantialis in eodem supposito has been added.

About the author: L.M. de Rijk (1924) is emeritus professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy of Leiden University. He was a member of the Dutch Parliament (Senate 1956-1991) and is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). He is the author of a large number of publications, particularly on Ancient and Medieval philosophy, including John Buridan's Lectura Erfordiensis in I-VI Metaphysicam (Brepols 2008).

The Ruralia, Volume 9, includes thirty papers dealing with the various aspects of social and economic hierarchy in the rural settlement in medieval Europe mainly from archaeological point of view. The authors from 15 countries provide a broad overview of the current issues, complemented for the most part by extensive bibliographies. Very important are also the high quality figures.

The main topics include the differentiation of rural social and economic structure, refl ected, for example, in the building culture and various aspects of everyday life. The topic of discussion is the hierarchy of power and the many ways it is presented in archaeology. The focus is on the manor houses and manorial farms, as well as the grain mills in rural areas and the impact of mining activity.

The Ruralia, Volume 9, represents one of the current fields of European archaeological research and offers a solid foundation for further comparative studies.

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the only medieval woman known to have authored systematic works of exegesis, composed fifty-eight little-studied Expositiones euangeliorum, homilies on twenty-seven Gospel passages. Hildegard described her divine charge to restore the tottering faith of her era through the revelation of hidden mysteries in the Scriptures. She was to continue the exegetical tradition of the Fathers and to construct moral fortifications with the words of Scripture in order to defend her sisters against the forces of evil. Hildegard of Bingen and her Gospel Homilies constitutes the first in-depth study of Hildegard’s Expositiones and of her exegesis, preaching, and use of sources. It explores the Expositiones in the context of Hildegard’s intellectual and cultural milieu and underscores the central role of biblical interpretation in the seer’s works. Furthermore, this book re-examines Hildegard’s self-depiction in the context of monastic education for women, the magistra’s exchange with her mentors and friends, and her rich use of divine voice to empower her own expression. This is a new, exciting, and erudite study on one of the most influential female mystics.

The sixteenth century was a time of great religious turmoil in Europe, during which the critical positions within the Catholic Church led to a definitive break between Christians. One of the major controversies pertained to the cult of the saints, since in 1523 Martin Luther denied the mediating role of the saints and repudiated what he considered excesses in their devotions.

The studies presented in this volume examine the impact of the Reformation on hagiography in the Hispanic sphere. They investigate how theological positions and controversy were projected onto literature, and how literature incorporated theological discourse, explicitly or implicitly. Unsurprisingly, the Catholic Church reaffirmed the hagiographical tradition, but to what extent was hagiographical literature, specifically Hispanic literature, affected by reformist approaches? This book explores issues less evident and hitherto neglected: for example, Hispanic Catholic authorities and authors, influenced by the denunciations of the excesses of the cult of saints and hagiographical “fables,” publicly declared the purging of apocryphal elements in saints’ lives; in practice, however, they grappled with the difficulty of applying theoretical criteria to such an enormous subject. As a result, certain contradictions arose between these criteria and the commitment to the hagiographical tradition, which some even sought to expand and update. This complex tension is brought out by the studies gathered here in the fields of hagiographical prose in Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish, in Iberia and in America, without neglecting the role of the theater in the dissemination of saints’ legends.

Pendant plus de quarante ans, Jean-Robert Armogathe, titulaire de la chaire « Histoire des idées religieuses et scientifiques dans l'Europe moderne », a publié dans l’Annuaire de l’Ecole pratique des hautes études un résumé annuel de ses conférences hebdomadaires à la section des sciences religieuses. S’appuyant sur des documents rares ou inédits, tirant parti de recherches internationales souvent originales, cet ensemble contient à la fois une somme de connaissances sur les origines de l’Europe moderne dans leurs composantes philosophiques, théologiques et scientifiques et de nombreuses suggestions de recherches. De la théologie du concile de Trente à la théorie de la vision oculaire, l'ouvrage aborde les thèmes principaux de la réflexion philosophique, religieuse et scientifique du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle ; si l'on y rencontre les noms les plus connus de cette période fondamentale dans la formation de la pensée occidentale moderne (Bellarmin, Descartes, Leibniz, Bayle et bien d'autres), l'ouvrage met également en valeur l'apport de penseurs moins connus (Paolo Sarpi, Giulio Cesare Vanini Franciscus Gomarus, Zeger-Bernhard van Espen et d'autres). Complété par la liste des trois cents publications scientifiques qui ont accompagné son enseignement, enrichi d’un index analytique des matières et des noms (plus de huit cents entrées), ce volume constitue de la sorte une introduction savante et claire à ce champ de recherches.

Jean-Robert Armogathe, né à Marseille en 1947, est directeur d’études à l’École pratique des hautes études (sciences religieuses), où il enseigne depuis 1970. Il a dirigél’Histoire générale du christianisme (2 vol., PUF, 2010) et publié une édition critique des Pensées (1670) de Pascal (avec D. Blot, Champion, 2010) et la Correspondance de Descartes (Tel, Gallimard, 2012). Sa dernière publication est La nature du monde. Science nouvelle et exégèse au XVIIe siècle (PUF, 2007).

Pour faire suite à la Refonte de l'Histoire littéraire des Bénédictins de Saint-Maur, réunissant entre autres les travaux de Dom Tassin, d'Ulysse Robert et d'Ursmer Berlière, l'auteur des quatre volumes parus précédemment en 2004-2006, 2008, 2010 et 2014, a décidé d'acquiescer à la demande (cf. préface au tome III) de Monsieur Emmanuel Poulle, ancien directeur de l'École des chartes, aujourd'hui décédé, de produire séparément un Index Nominum des moines écrivains de la Congrégation de Saint-Maur, permettant un repérage plus aisé des notices les concernant. Ce dernier volume propose également un Catalogue complet des Monastères de la Congrégation d'ancien régime, classés par provinces ecclésiastiques et plusieurs cartes, gravures ou illustrations.

Raoul Glaber, né vers 990 et mort vers 1046/47 fut moine à Auxerre, Dijon et Cluny. Écrites entre 1031 et 1047, ses Histoires ne sont pas un simple assemblage d'anecdotes pittoresques. Elles visent à décrire et analyser les changements survenus en Occident autour de l'an Mil. En rupture avec la littérature antérieure, Raoul abandonne le schéma de l'histoire nationale pour éclairer une époque, les années 980-1020, et un processus, l'unification de l'Occident et son ouverture vers d'autres mondes, l'Islam, Byzance ou les pays slaves.

Interesado en las hazañas de los grandes caudillos de la Antigüedad, el aragonés Alfonso de Liñán (†1468) tradujo las Historiae Alexandri Magni de Quinto Curcio al castellano a partir de la versión italiana de Pier Candido Decembrio. El texto se conserva todavía en la Biblioteca Nacional de España, bajo la signatura BNE Mss/7565. Testimonio valioso para el estudio de la traducción medieval y sus funciones, el códice recuerda sobre todo la fascinación de aquel lectorado por Alejandro Magno, ya conocido en la literatura castellana desde el Libro de Alexandre. En los albores del Renacimiento, el macedonio va a ser un modelo para una nobleza que debe definirse bajo nuevos criterios. El presente volumen ofrece el estudio y la edición de esta traducción y desvela los intereses de un noble aragonés por la figura alejandrina.

Jean de Nostredame est connu pour la publication en 1575 des Vies des plus celebres et anciens poetes provençaux que la critique médiéviste a souvent critiqué ou dénigré pour ses « inventions ». Camille Chabaneau avait mis au jour des proses historiographiques qui révélaient l’ampleur d’un travail historique et littéraire, d’une pensée linguistique au cœur du XVIe siècle provençal. Par l’édition des Memoires Historiques, réalisée d’après le manuscrit original d’Aix-en-Provence, la place de Jean de Nostredame est ainsi considérablement réévaluée. Nous ne sommes pas en présence d’un « faussaire », mais d’un humaniste provençal dont l’œuvre et l’action ont été méconnues, négligées, et que l’on doit relire à l’aune de nos connaissances actuelles. Jean de Nostredame devient ainsi un historien et un écrivain dont la pensée s’est effacée, et ce à cause de la situation particulière des lettres occitanes, tombant en quelque sorte dans « un trou de la pensée littéraire et linguistique ». Il n’est que justice aujourd’hui de le redécouvrir et d’apprécier ce que furent son œuvre et sa pensée.

Jean-Yves Casanova est professeur à l’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour. Il est notamment l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages et études critiques sur la littérature occitane, du XVIe siècle à l’œuvre de Frédéric Mistral.

The volume discusses Central European and Eastern Central European historiographies of the High and Late Middle Ages. It deals with histories written in a time which brought about a profound differentiation of medieval societies in these regions. As new social classes achieved economic and political power, the demand for reassuring identifications grew more pressing. Narratives of the past were tailored specifically for distinct social groups, often using vernacular languages instead of the universal language of elite education, Latin.

The volume pays attention to the interplay between languages and focuses on the strategies that individual works developed in order to balance the many alternative modes of identification. Filling a significant scholarly gap, the volume offers important insights into narratives of identification written in Latin and in the various vernaculars emerging as the new political languages of the period.

This volume explores the extent to which the reinstitution of the Empire in Western Europe brought about new ways of reconciling the multitude of post-Roman identities with the way the past was shaped in historiographical narratives. From universal histories to local chronicles, and from narratives that support Carolingian rule to histories with a more local focus, the centralization of power and authority in the course of the eighth and ninth centuries forced those who engaged with their own past and that of their community to acknowledge the new situation, and situate themselves in it. The contributions in this volume each depart from a single source, event, or community, and relate their findings to the broader issue of whether the rise of the multi-ethnic Carolingian court allowed for more inclusive narratives to be created, or if their self-proclaimed place at the centre of the Frankish world actually created a context in which local communities were given new tools to assert themselves.

In many countries in Northern and Eastern Europe, the period after 1000 saw the emergence of new Christian kingdoms. This process was soon reflected in works of historiography that traced the foundation and development of the new polities. Many of these texts had a lasting impact on the formation of political, ethnic, and religious identities of these states and peoples.

This volume deals with some of these earliest histories narrating the past of the new polities that had emerged after 1000 in Northern, East Central, and Eastern Europe, as well as in the Adriatic regions. They have often been understood as ‘national histories’, but a closer look brings out the differences in their aims and construction. One question addressed here is to what extent these historians built on models of identification developed in earlier historiography. The volume provides an overview of several fundamental texts in which identities in the new Christian kingdoms were negotiated, and of recent research on these texts.

This versatile collection of essays sets out to underline the new visual agenda in today’s research into history and the history of art. The impact of alternative imagery, of image databases and of computer-generated material has effectively revealed a separate resource-category, offering further definitions of meaning and information and requiring new methodologies of interpretation. The volume’s subtitle, ‘Towards a New Iconology’, makes the point that our conventional approaches towards the image may no longer be adequate. Its nineteen contributions all represent a moving-away from the tradition passed down ever since Gregory the Great famously pronounced images to be the Bible of the illiterate. On the contrary, the authors of this volume demonstrate that images constitute another world altogether, with its own ideology and store of information, and with its own emotional charge and seductive qualities. History and Images contains articles by eminent scholars from Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA.

Doreen Waugh was a native Shetlander and a well-renowned scholar of Old Norse and Gaelic place-names in Northern Scotland and the Northern Isles. Not only did Waugh’s research significantly advance scholarly understanding of the ‘Viking’ settlement of the North Atlantic, her generosity with both her time and knowledge inspired and motivated a wide range of scholars from a variety of disciplines, from archaeology and history to historical geography, linguistics, and place-name studies.

Based on - and written in tribute to - Waugh’s work, this interdisciplinary volume draws together essays covering Northern Scotland, the Northern Isles, and beyond, both during and after the early medieval period. The contributions gathered here draw on Waugh’s wider-ranging research interests to offer a range of novel insights into the many communities, cultures, and customs that have characterized and connected the Northern Isles and their North Atlantic neighbours.

Hoards are among the most enigmatic of archaeological finds. The term ‘hoard’ itself has been applied to different assemblages across space and time, from the Stone Age into the modern era, with an inventory that typically includes artefacts made of valuable raw materials, to which significant symbolic meanings can also be assigned. Archaeologists have been trying to understand this phenomenon for much of the last century, sometimes emphasizing the universal nature of hoards, but more typically focusing on specific regions, chronologies, and finds. They have, for the most part, used results derived from typolo-chronological methods. Contemporary archaeology has, however, developed a broad spectrum of paradigms and methods, and hoardresearch in the twenty-first century draws on an increasingly wide range of approaches.This volume presents examples of research that make use of these multi-faceted approaches through a focus on European hoards of metal objects dating to the Bronze and Iron Ages. The contributors to this volume make use of diverse methods, among them archaeometallurgical analyses, studies of use- and production-wear, destruction patterns, and landscape archaeology, but together, their common denominator is the search for a methodological toolkit that will allow researchers to better understand the phenomenon of hoard-deposition more broadly.

Die unter dem lapidaren Titel "Alsace" erschienene umfangreiche Monographie von Dominique Varry und Claude Muller, beide hervorragende Kenner dieser Gebiete des religiösen Ostens, entspricht voll und ganz den aufgestellten Kriterien. Ihr ßs, breit ausladend zwischen Vogesen und Deutschem Reich, spiegelt ein konfessionelles und sprachliches Mosaik wider, dass Hoch- und Niederrhein sowie Belfort bis zu den germanischen und helvetischen Grenzen einschließt. Es ist ihnen gelungen, die Geschichte einer "Nähe" zu schreiben, die bis auf die kantonale Ebene -eine administrative und religiöse Einheit, die alle Umwälzungen des elysäischen Schicksals überdauert hat- hinabreicht. Sie versuchen nicht, uns etwas vorzumachen.

Schritt für Schritt arbeiten sie sich mit der Vorsicht eines Chartsten an eine Wirklichkeit heran, deren komplexe Reichhaltigkeit mehr denn einen ihrer Vorgänger entmutigt hat. Tafeln, Karten und Graphiken untermauern eine zuverlässige Analyse, die einem eiligen Leser wohl als zu genau erscheinen mag. Nichtsdestoweniger maßen sie sich nicht an, die Geschichte des Elsass wahrend der Revolution neu zu schreiben, vielmehr wollen sie, im Hinblick auf zwingende weil gemäßigte Neubewertungen, bis heute vernachlässigte oder unbekannte Materialen aufspüren. Nach Dominique Varry und Claude Muller und wegen ihrer mehrjährigen Nachforschungen, erhalten die ständig wiederholten Kontroversen um ein Elsass der Eidverweigerer, denen eine Handvoll vorzugsweise ausländischer Konstitutioneller gegenübersteht, eine neue Dimension. Diese wird noch erweitert durch den vor kurzem erschienenen ersten Band dieser Reihe, den Alfred Minke dem Gebiet zwischen Maas, Rhein und Mosel gewidmet hat. Von einem Band zum andern sind die dank einer konvergierenden Betrachtungsweise des pastoralen Rahmens erzielten Ergebnisse sicherlich nicht zufällig

How can we uncover the traces of oral culture in medieval sources when the oral matter we possess survives only in written form? Is it the case that only the written persists while the oral is lost? What was the status of orality in medieval society? The studies in this volume (five chapters in French and two in English) examine the links between the oral and the written traditions in medieval literature. They do this by means of the analysis of literary sources from very diverse backgrounds, both geographically and linguistically speaking: the investigation ranges from medieval Spain, through the Byzantine Empire and the Crusader states, to late medieval and early modern Turkey. This interdisciplinary enquiry by an international group of scholars enables us to define the modes of transmission of medieval texts and how they were memorized as well as to decipher how they were read and appropriated. In addition, the book suggests a methodological basis for research into indices of orality and for analysis of the intertextual links between literary works. This enquiry, undertaken within the framework of the international Homo Legens project, provides an efficacious tool for the study of the practices of reading and writing.

The present volumes contain a number of studies first presented at the XIV International Congress of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, July 24-28, 2017, Porto Alegre, Brazil - which happened to be the first SIEPM Congress in Latin America and the first in the Southern Hemisphere. In 65 essays on current research questions in Latin, Jewish, and Arabic Philosophy, and Early Modern Scholasticism, the contributors explore the general theme of "Homo - Natura - Mundus: Human Beings and their Relationships," and lead us to new perspectives. These essays relate to the following areas of interest: the human being’s self-understanding as a rational creature in multiple relationships (with God, the other, the community, the fellow and the different); the human being’s place in the natural world and the possibility of relating to nature through knowledge; medieval philosophical traditions and the challenges introduced by the "discovery" of the "New World" (dominium, war, hierarchies, and new areas of concern with respect to justice, the human good, and the law). Thus, these volumes offer a unique sample of scholarly studies that work with the idea of "relationships" in two distinct, but not opposing, directions. Firstly, they explore the ways in which human beings, according to the reach of their soul’s powers, construct their self-understanding and existence in relation to God, themselves, others and the natural world. Secondly, they explore the ways in which the philosophical bases for the understanding of these relationships were challenged by the transportation of medieval ideas to the "New World" and by the reception of these ideas in early modern times.

Richard Rolle was perhaps the most influential English spiritual writer of the late Middle Ages. This volume provides references to the more than 600 surviving medieval books that offer the primary evidence for his works and their transmission.

Hope Allen's Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, now nearly a century old, is a foundational work of English palaeography. This volume extends Allen's most basic contribution, her catalogue of manuscripts conveying Rolle's works.

From its earliest beginnings in the homes of its members, the church has been the ‘house’ of God, and the episcopal and monastic institutions in which many of God’s professed servants and officials dwell have been seen as religious ‘houses’. The church’s history is accordingly the history of an institution largely conceived of as a household. In recent years, secular life and lifestyles in late antiquity and the Middle Ages have been illuminated through renewed attention to the economic and social history of households, while scholarship on women has produced studies of the lives and the devotional reading of laywomen and women religious. This volume is a pioneering collection that unites study of the household with women’s religious practices as a focus of enquiry. It moves beyond consideration of the church’s roles in women’s history to the impact of women’s householding on the history of the church.

The closure of religious houses, in varying circumstances, affected all of Europe at some point between the sixteenth and nineteenth century. At different times and in different countries the consequences were widely varied, in some cases preserving medieval and early modern collections intact, in others abandoning books to their fate, or transferring them piecemeal into new ownership to serve different cultural purposes. Integral preservation or dispersal may each be viewed in positive or negative terms. For religious and political history there are many, and bigger, factors involved, and the effects of secularization worked on many things beside libraries and books. None the less, by focusing on books and libraries through these changes a particular narrative emerges of great cultural importance. It is the most important book-historical story for the survival and accessibility of Europe's heritage of the written word, one that interacts with major historical themes and still connects with future issues for the continuing role of books and libraries in the European heritage.

A conference held in Oxford in 2012 brought together thirty experts in different aspects of this process or with knowledge of its impact in different countries and at different periods. The result was to bring together and share for the first time the similar and different experiences of different European countries, from Portugal and Spain in the west to Poland and Ukraine in the east, from Finland and Sweden in the north to Naples in the south, with ramifications stretching to North and South America. While reading this volume of collected essays, the reader may notice a disparity in the evidence that each author has been able to bring to bear upon their subject. Provenance research is well advanced in some territories, less so in others. In the decade since the conference and this publication, there have been some attempts to bridge certain gaps. But in general, there has been little new work in the years since the conference took place. The editors anticipate that this publication will stimulate further research, bridging some of the gaps visible in the evidence presented in this volume. Multiple avenues for further investigation open up, indeed, in historical and cultural studies, such as the impact of the secularization on nonreligious libraries, and the change in attitude with respect to certain disciplines and even to erudition itself.

Si l’on ne sait toujours pas qui se cache sous le pseudonyme de l’auteur du Livre du royaume de Sicile, son texte nous trace un tableau saisissant des soubresauts qu’a connus le royaume après la mort de Roger II (1154).

La personnalité éminente du premier roi de Sicile disparue, on voit les forces centrifuges affronter les forces centripètes dans une lutte acharnée, entre rébellions, complots, assassinats et répression. Représentées d’abord par l’aristocratie des différentes provinces, les forces centrifuges subissent finalement un cuisant échec dans leur combat contre Guillaume Ier (1154-1166), ce qui consolide le pouvoir central et permet au roi d’exclure de la gestion des affaires les membres de la noblesse.

Par des décisions malhabiles, la régente, Marguerite de Navarre, ranime cependant l’opposition et les rancœurs des grands écartés par le roi défunt et se tourne alors vers les Transalpins, Français ou Normands, membres de sa famille. C’est l’expulsion systématique de ces étrangers, au moyen d’intrigues, de complots et de révoltes, que l’auteur, souvent témoin oculaire, nous fait vivre dans la deuxième partie de son ouvrage, avec la victoire finale des forces centripètes : le règne de Guillaume II (1166-1189) pourra se dérouler sous le signe de la stabilité politique dans un royaume dirigé, à partir de Palerme, par un cercle étroit de natifs du royaume fidèles au monarque. Quinze années de troubles politiques ont favorisé l’émergence d’une prise de conscience identitaire susceptible de transformer les régions hétéroclites de l’Italie du sud, conquises ou héritées par Roger II, en un tout au destin commun.

« En ce temps-là maìtre Guillaume de Champeaux, qui était archidiacre de Paris, homme instruit et religieux, prit l'habit des chanoines réguliers avec certains de ses disciples hors des limites de la ville de Paris, en un lieu où il y avait une chapelle dédiée à saint Victor martyr et il commença à batir un monastère de clercs. Après que Guillaume ait été nommé à l'éveché de Chalons, le vénérable Gilduin, son disciple, devint le premier abbé. Sous son gouvernement, beaucoup de clercs nobles, instruits tant dans les lettres profanes que divines, se dirigèrent vers ce lieu pour y vivre, parmi lesquels maìtre Hugues fleurit tout particulièrement, tant dans la science des lettres que dans une humble vie religieuse. Il écrivit de nombreux livres qu'il n'y a pas lieu d'énumérer, tant ils sont répandus ». Rien n'est à retoucher dans ces lignes par lesquelles le chroniqueur précis qu'est Robert de Torigny décrivait les origines de Saint-Victor et présentait l'artisan majeur de la renommée de cette abbaye qui fut aussi une école: centre d'enseignement, et parmi les plus fameux du XIIe siècle; école de pensée que distingue une ambiance intellectuelle et spirituelle spécifique; école de vie intérieure, où les exercices spirituels donnent à l'expérience religieuse de s'épanouir. Hugues de Saint-Victor a doté cette École de Saint-Victor de sa physionomie propre. C'est à la personnalité du Maìtre età l'atmosphère qu'il a su créer qu'on a voulu ici introduire.

Pourquoi associer, dans le titre de cet ouvrage, les catégories, usuelles au Moyen Âge, de clercs et de laïcs aux « humanistes », un mot qui n’apparaît dans les documents qu’à l’extrême fin du XVe siècle ? La juxtaposition des trois termes nous rappelle que ces admirateurs et imitateurs des auteurs antiques que nous nommons humanistes appartenaient tant à l’un qu’à l’autre des deux « genres de chrétiens » définis depuis la réforme grégorienne. Ce sont bien des laïcs, en effet, qui ont lancé le mouvement humaniste à Padoue au XIIIe siècle, mais par la suite, des clercs, des frères et des moines y participèrent également.

À la différence d’une historiographie qui a bien souvent privilégié les ruptures et les oppositions entre clercs et laïcs, entre scolastiques et humanistes, les auteurs de ce livre s’intéressent aux continuités, tout en s’affranchissant d’une approche exclusivement littéraire ou philosophique qui est dominante en particulier pour les “grands” humanistes. En prenant en compte les personnages “mineurs” ou les oeuvres “mineures” de grands auteurs, il s’agit également de “démonumentaliser” les oeuvres littéraires et de les examiner du point de vue des échanges féconds entre clercs et laïcs qui ne cessèrent, entre le XIIIe et le début du XVIe siècle, de nourrir la culture urbaine italienne. Les prises de position des humanistes sont ici systématiquement replacées dans le cadre de dynamiques sociales et de réseaux construits.

Les quinze contributions de ce volume ont été regroupées en quatre sections : les deux premières privilégient une analyse des modèles discursifs - c’est le cas pour l’art de la parole, ainsi que pour les champs de l’hagiographie et de la philologie biblique et patristique -, tandis que les deux autres sections privilégient plutôt une approche en termes de réseaux d’appartenance et de posture vis-à-vis des pouvoirs institutionnalisés.

Le volume aborde sous différents angles la fortune et l’influence de l’œuvre d’Hérodote à la Renaissance, dès sa première réception humaniste et ses traductions, puis l’impact sur l’historiographie renaissante. La représentation des fastes perses et des rites guerriers des Scythes offrent matière première à la narration des historiens, mais c’est surtout dans la confrontation avec Thucydide et sur la fonction émotionnelle du récit historique que se joue la modélisation de l’histoire, à une époque où l’écriture historique implique un choix idéologique précis. De même, la géographie et la cartographie, qui s’élaborent alors au contact de la découverte de nouveaux mondes, restent redevables à l’héritage hérodotéen, ces disciplines ouvrant le vaste champ de l’observation ethnographique qui allait nourrir moralistes et philosophes. Les frontières d’un champ du savoir à un autre sont ténues et cette porosité des discours permet la diffusion des idées et des arguments à des fins que l’ouvrage se propose d’analyser.

Les auteurs / Jean Boulègue, Susanna Gambino Longo, Brigitte Gauvin, Violaine Giacomotto Charra, Jean Eudes Girot, Antonio Guzman Guerra, Alice Lamy, Frank Lestringant, Dennis Looney, Stefano Pagliaroli, Pascal Payen, Luigi Alberto Sanchi, Carlo Varotti

Il volume intende offrire uno sguardo d’insieme sui Porretani, protagonisti di una fase importante e ancora poco conosciuta della storia del pensiero medievale, attraverso un approfondimento progressivo che va dalla storia alle opere al pensiero. La ricostruzione di questo quadro storico prende le mosse nel primo capitolo dall’analisi della percezione, da parte degli storici della filosofia e della teologia, dell’esistenza, dei componenti e del valore della cosiddetta “scuola porretana”, categoria storiografica piuttosto problematica, cui è preferibile la dizione “Porretani”, capace di mettere in luce insieme la pluralità e il comune richiamo all’insegnamento di Gilberto di Poitiers (o Gilberto Porreta). Il secondo capitolo contiene l’esposizione delle tappe più importanti della storia stratificata di questo movimento filosofico e teologico, attraverso la ricognizione di testimonianze dirette e indirette della tradizione porretana nelle fonti coeve al caposcuola. Sono tratteggiate le figure degli allievi di Gilberto, dei divulgatori della sua opera, dei suoi sostenitori, dei suoi ammiratori. Il terzo capitolo del libro offre le informazioni essenziali relative alle opere riconducibili, in gradi e toni diversi, all’insegnamento di Gilberto, distinguendo la prima produzione logico-teologica ‘di scuola’ in senso stretto, l’insieme degli scritti di coloro che raccolgono e rielaborano l’eredità speculativa di Gilberto, i tenaci difensori dell’ortodossia gilbertina, attivi alla fine del secolo in ambienti spesso molto distanti da quelli del maestro. Sulla base di questi tre livelli di ricerca (la critica, la storia, le fonti) si sviluppa la seconda parte della ricerca, in cui si verifica la consistenza dottrinale della scuola, individuando alcuni percorsi speculativi e metodologici particolarmente significativi, funzionali all'elaborazione scolastica della scienza divina: il fondamento ontologico, il corpus delle teorie logico-grammaticali, la dottrina epistemologica, la definizione dei parametri del discorso teologico, la pianificazione della materia teologica. Chiude il lavoro un’ampia bibliografia delle fonti e della letteratura secondaria.

Tra Omero e Virgilio, passando attraverso la tragedia, l'epos enniano, l'epigramma e il registro epigrafico, la tradizione etiologica e didascalica e la formularità giuridica, la silloge properziana guadagna grazie a questo XXII Convegno una nuova primazia nel macrotesto augusteo. La sua poetica appare meno rettilinea, ma più dialogante, alla ricerca di una via per uscire dalla gabbia dello stereotipo erotico: e se non così 'difficile' come in passato risulta la sua adesione alle direttive augustee, più ricca appare la strumentazione posta in atto da Properzio per nutrire la propria vocazione, per cercare una strada autonoma: far risuonare nella propria la voce virgiliana ma con un mutato orientamento, una nuova discorsività. Del resto, dobbiamo prepararci a pensare in termini rinnovati o perlomeno più definiti lo stesso personaggio Properzio: un Sesto Properzio finanzia in età augustea o giulio-claudia la costruzione in Assisi di un teatro probabilmente legato alla Domus Musae. Così, la prosopografia properziana si profila strettamente intrecciata alla storia della letteratura di età imperiale, e può gettare luce anche sui possibili consumatori di poesia elegiaca.

This collection of essays explores the representation of human identity in early modern English writing. The book engages with questions of identity conceived in literary, religious, social, and historical contexts. It addresses a number of important topics in early modern studies today: women’s writing, motherhood, religion, travel writing, and nationalism. Anne-Marie Strohman examines mother figures in the Old Arcadia and the New. Allyna E. Ward considers discourses of Tudor historiography in Anne Dowriche’s The French Historie. Marion Wynne-Davies discusses the representation of Ireland in the writings of Edmund Spenser and Elizabeth Cary. Ryan Hackenbracht turns to Hobbes’ Hebraism and the Last Judgment in Leviathan. Jayne Elisabeth Archer considers the manuscript remains of Lady Ann Fanshawe. Lisa Hopkins looks at theatrical representations of England’s empire in Europe. Anna Suranyi examines national identity in travel literature. From the intimacy of the mother-daughter relationship to the politics of national conflicts and international relations, the book broadens knowledge of the complexities of identity as represented in a selection of significant writings in English from the early modern period. Introduction by Lori Anne Ferrell; afterword by Mary Polito.

Based on the evidence of epigraphic material in combination with monumental painting, this book explores important dedicatory inscriptions (9th-beginning of the 13th c.) from Macedonia and Thrace, which have so far been investigated mainly from a philological-historical standpoint, thus neglecting the major issue of Middle Byzantine patronage. Through patron inscriptions and textual sources, the role and the motives of military officials in the patronage of defensive and fortification works, and the manner of publicizing them, are examined systematically. Patronage is looked at through the ideological messages that the donors endeavor to promote in a local society or monastic community, and which echo their relationship with the state and their views on education and faith. Interesting methodologically is the co-examination of the various categories of inscriptions in combination with historical texts and donor portraits, which opens up new avenues of research for the study of the interdisciplinary material in question.

This volume brings together the contributions delivered at the International Seminar held in Palermo and Castelvetrano-Selinunte in Sicily on 17-19 November 2005. The Seminar was organized by the Officina di Studi Medievali in collaboration with the Dipartimento di Civiltà Euro-Mediterranee, the Dipartimento di Studi Storici e Artistici and the Dipartimento di Beni Culturali at the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia at the University of Palermo, under the patronage of the Region of Sicily and the Italian Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali.

The contributions address four different themes: 1. Ramon Lull in Sicily at the time of Frederick III; 2. the Opera tuniciana et messanensia of Ramon Lull; 3. Sicily, the Mediterranean and Frederick III; 4. the Ars amativa boni by Ramon Lull. All the contributions - written in English, French, Italian and Spanish - are provided with an abstract in English.

The Seminar was organized in honour of Fernando Domínguez Reboiras who for many years has been the scientific co-ordinator and unceasing promoter of the critical edition of the Latin works of Ramon Lull (ROL) in the Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis series. Alessandro Musco organized the Seminar and was responsible for the scholarly co-ordination of the present volume. Marta Romano supervised the editorial process and was responsible for the indexes.

The practice of commentary upon authoritative texts is a prominent and fundamental feature of all teaching and learning during the Middle Ages. The roots of medieval commentaries made upon important philosophical texts lay in antiquity, but commentaries upon such texts — both ancient and more recent — flourished as never before during the late Middle Ages. Subsequently, beyond the end of the Middle Ages, the appeal and the habit of commentary declined, and to the point that today a considerable effort is required to understand medieval commentaries — their genres, their techniques, their evolution, their extraordinary persistence in use over many centuries — and perhaps too to understand the much diminished importance of the practice of commentary on select texts in current academic scholarship. The Philosophical Commentary in the Latin West (XIII-XV Centuries) proved to be a rich, varied and seemingly inexhaustible theme for the Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy. The contributors who were invited discussed commentaries on texts of medicine, alchemy, biology, psychology, physics, ethics and politics as well as theology. The medieval commentators themselves were Arabs and Jews as well as Christians.

This book examines a cultural revolution that took place in the Scandinavian artistic landscape during the medieval period. Within just one generation (c. 1340-1400), the Augustinian monastery of Helgafell became the most important centre of illuminated manuscript production in western Iceland. By conducting interdisciplinary research that combines methodologies and sources from the fields of Art History, Old Norse-Icelandic manuscript studies, codicology, and Scandinavian history, this book explores both the illuminated manuscripts produced at Helgafell and the cultural and historical setting of the manuscript production.

Equally, the book explores the broader European contexts of manuscript production at Helgafell, comparing the similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence of Norwich and surrounding East Anglia in England, northern France, and the region between Bergen and Trondheim in western Norway. The book proposes that most of these workshops are related to ecclesiastical networks, as well as secular trade in the North Sea, which became an important economic factor to western Icelandic society in the fourteenth century. The book thereby contributes to a new and multidisciplinary area of research that studies not only one but several European cultures in relation to similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence. It offers a detailed account of this cultural site in relation to its scribal and artistic connections with other ecclesiastical and secular scriptoria in the broader North Atlantic region.

This volume offers a unique exploration into the cultural history of the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period by examining the region through the prism of Christian-Muslim encounters and conflicts and the way in which such relationships were represented in art works from the time. Taking images from the period as its starting point, this interdisciplinary work draws together contributors from fields as varied as cultural history, art history, archaeology, and the political sciences in order to reconstruct the history of a region that was often construed in the Early Modern period as a ‘borderland’ between religions. From discussions of borders as both physical construction and mental construct in the Mediterranean to case studies exploring the Battle of Lepanto, and from analyses of art work produced from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries to a consideration of the influence of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin, the chapters gathered together in this insightful volume provide a new approach to our understanding of Early Modern Mediterranean history.