Brepols Online Books Medieval Miscellanea Collection 2015 - bob2015mime
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Early Medieval Ireland and Europe: Chronology, Contacts, Scholarship
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Early Medieval Ireland and Europe: Chronology, Contacts, Scholarship show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Early Medieval Ireland and Europe: Chronology, Contacts, ScholarshipThe pivotal role of Ireland in the development of a decidedly Christian culture in early medieval Europe has long been recognized. Still, Irish scholarship on early medieval Ireland has tended not to look beyond the Irish Sea, while continental scholars try to avoid Hibernica by reference to its special Celtic background. Following the lead of the honorand of this volume, Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, this collection of 27 essays aims at contributing to a reversal of this general trend. By way of introduction to the period, the first section deals with chronological problems faced by modern scholars as well as the controversial issues relating to the reckoning of time discussed by contemporary intellectuals. The following three sections then focus on Ireland’s interaction with its neighbours, namely Ireland in the insular world, continental influences in Ireland, and Irish influences on the Continent. The concluding section is devoted to modern scholarship and the perception of the Middle Ages in modern literature.
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Economies, Public Finances, and the Impact of Institutional Changes in Interregional Perspective
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Economies, Public Finances, and the Impact of Institutional Changes in Interregional Perspective show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Economies, Public Finances, and the Impact of Institutional Changes in Interregional PerspectiveThe way and extent to which differences in economic systems and stages of development, and the impact of institutional changes affected the political economy and fiscal systems of regions, or vice versa, is the overall theme of this volume. One major problem is the non-convergence of economic regions, financial networks, political borders and fiscal systems. The question is whether a set of variables is supra-regional, interregional, regional, local or even a mix of all of these. These questions have broad implications for our understanding of urban society and the relations between town and countryside. This volume contains studies about economic, financial and political structures, and developments in different regions of the Low Countries and the Lower Rhine area in a regional comparative perspective during the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.
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Espace sacré, mémoire sacrée. Le culte des évêques dans leurs villes (IVe-XXe siècle)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Espace sacré, mémoire sacrée. Le culte des évêques dans leurs villes (IVe-XXe siècle) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Espace sacré, mémoire sacrée. Le culte des évêques dans leurs villes (IVe-XXe siècle)L’histoire de bien des villes européennes a été façonnée par une ou plusieurs figures saintes dont les relations aux villes-vraies ou imaginées- ont eu des conséquences spirituelles et pratiques. La topographie de la ville, son économie, ses établissements, sa liturgie, sa réputation, et même le développement de la fierté civique des habitants, se sont forgés dans une association idiosyncratique du saint et de sa ville. La figure de l’évêque-saint, en adéquation avec ses prérogatives spirituelles et temporelles extraordinaires, représente une catégorie particulière dont ce livre a voulu tracer les contours. Le topos de la sainteté épiscopale préjuge la plupart du temps de rapports passionnels entre l’évêque et sa ville, parfois conflictuels même tant l’écart entre la sainteté vécue ou du moins ressentie peut entrer en contradiction avec une population souvent versatile mais soucieuse cependant de participer par capillarité à la sainteté de son chef de diocèse.
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Exclure de la communauté chrétienne
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Exclure de la communauté chrétienne show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Exclure de la communauté chrétienneL’excommunication et l’anathème, « condamnation à la mort éternelle », théoriquement plus grave mais en réalité devenu rapidement synonyme, sont attestés dès les débuts du christianisme et suivent d’abord une évolution parallèle à celle de la pénitence : ils deviennent progressivement de moins en moins publics et de plus en plus renouvelables, devenant par là-même des instruments privilégiés du contrôle social par la pression exercée sur l’individu retranché de la communauté chrétienne.
Cet ouvrage s’interroge à la fois sur la législation ecclésiastique dans la longue durée - pour quelle faute encourt-on l’excommunication entre le IVe et le Xe siècle ? - et sur la pertinence de son application suivant les différents espaces, afin d’évaluer les modalités de la mise en place de cette norme canonique. Il permet de comprendre comment l’excommunication sert à définir et à délimiter les communautés et il étudie les formules et les rituels mis en oeuvre.
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Expulsion and Diaspora Formation: Religious and Ethnic Identities in Flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Expulsion and Diaspora Formation: Religious and Ethnic Identities in Flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Expulsion and Diaspora Formation: Religious and Ethnic Identities in Flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth CenturyThe eleven essays brought together in this volume explore the relations between expulsion, diaspora, and exile between Late Antiquity and the seventeenth century. The essays range from Hellenistic Egypt to seventeenth-century Hungary and involve expulsion and migration of Jews, Muslims and Protestants. The common goal of these essays is to shed light on a certain number of issues: first, to try to understand the dynamics of expulsion, in particular its social and political causes; second, to examine how expelled communities integrate (or not) into their new host societies; and finally, to understand how the experiences of expulsion and exile are made into founding myths that establish (or attempt to establish) group identities.
John Tolan is professor of history at the University of Nantes (France) and member of the Academia Europæa. He is author of numerous articles and books in medieval history and cultural studies, including Petrus Alfonsi and his Medieval Readers (1993), Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination (2002), Sons of Ishmael: Muslims through European Eyes in the Middle Ages (2008), and Saint Francis and the Sultan: The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter (2009). He is director of a major project funded by the European Research Council, “RELMIN: The legal status of religious minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean world (5th-15th centuries)” (www.relmin.eu).
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