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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).