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Women in the Medieval Monastic World
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Women in the Medieval Monastic World show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Women in the Medieval Monastic WorldThere has long been a tendency among monastic historians to ignore or marginalize female participation in monastic life, but recent scholarship has begun to redress the balance, and the great contributions made by women to the religious life of the Middle Ages are now attracting increasing attention. This interdisciplinary volume draws together scholars from Spain, Italy, France, the Low Countries, Germany, Transylvania, Scandinavia, and the British Isles, and offers new insights into the history, art history, and material culture, and the religiosity and culture of medieval religious women.
The different chapters within this book take a comparative approach to the emergence and spread of female monastic communities across different geographical, political, and economic settings, comparing and contrasting houses that ranged from rich, powerful royal abbeys to small, subsistence priories on the margins of society, and exploring the artistic achievements, the interaction with neighbours and secular and ecclesiastical authorities, and the spiritual lives that were led by their inhabitants. The contributors to this volume address issues as diverse as patronage and relationships with the outside world, organizational structures, the nature of Cistercian observance and identity among female houses, and the role of male authority, and in doing so, they seek to shed light on the divergences and commonalities upon which the female religious life was based.
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L'écrit et le livre peint en Lorraine, de Saint-Mihiel à Verdun (IXe-XVe siècles)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:L'écrit et le livre peint en Lorraine, de Saint-Mihiel à Verdun (IXe-XVe siècles) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: L'écrit et le livre peint en Lorraine, de Saint-Mihiel à Verdun (IXe-XVe siècles)Les manuscrits médiévaux de Lorraine, trésors du patrimoine graphique de cette région, étaient au coeur du colloque qui s’est tenu durant l’automne 2010 à l’abbaye bénédictine de Saint-Mihiel (Meuse). Les actes présentés dans cet ouvrage portent sur une large série de productions locales et exogènes qui ont toutes pour dénominateur commun, l’histoire politique, institutionnelle, intellectuelle, spirituelle et artistique de Verdun et de l’abbaye de Saint-Mihiel au Moyen Âge. La question du livre et de l’écrit est abordée en trois volets thématiques et chronologiques allant des origines carolingiennes jusqu’aux productions enluminées du XVe siècle. Si certains documents sont bien connus, comme le traité de Verdun, d’autres demeuraient à ce jour totalement ou partiellement inédits, tels le manuscrit dit « du pseudo Athanase » (Saint-Mihiel, Bibliothèque municipale, ms Z 28) ou le graduel de Saint-Mihiel (Saint-Mihiel, Bibliothèque municipale, ms Z 73).
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Legati, delegati e l’impresa d’Oltremare (secoli XII-XIII) / Papal Legates, Delegates and the Crusades (12th-13th Century)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Legati, delegati e l’impresa d’Oltremare (secoli XII-XIII) / Papal Legates, Delegates and the Crusades (12th-13th Century) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Legati, delegati e l’impresa d’Oltremare (secoli XII-XIII) / Papal Legates, Delegates and the Crusades (12th-13th Century)While the huge historiographical production on medieval crusades mainly stresses the part played by princes, the aristocracy and military orders, the proceedings of the international congress held at the Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan on 9th-11th March 2011 focus on a topic which has received far less attention: the importance of the popes and their delegates in the organization before departure and the conduct of the armies sent to liberate the Holy Land in the 12th and 13th centuries. The recent revival of studies on the representation of the Supreme Pontiff has led to reconsider the actions of the papal governement in the crusades. In this volume, fourteen specialists throw new light on the clerks and prelates (cardinals, legates, nuncios, papal chaplains, etc.) who were commissioned by the popes to set up and lead crusades, on their origins and careers, on their methods of preaching and collecting taxes, on their diplomatic relations, on the obligations of their missions and their liberty to act, etc. Devoting greater attention to papal delegates will help to better understand the complex inner history of the military pilgrims to Jerusalem.
Maria Pia Alberzoni is Professor of medieval history at the Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (Italy). Pascal Montaubin is Maître de conférences in medieval history at the Université de Picardie-Jules Verne in Amiens (France).
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