Brepols Online Books Medieval Miscellanea Collection 2019 - bob2019mime

La carrière de Simon de Montfort - seigneur français, earl anglais, croisé en Terre sainte et dans le Midi de la France - n’a pas cessé de marquer ses contemporains et sa postérité. Bien de ses compagnons d’armes ont vu en lui le plus pieux et le plus courageux des héros, le modèle du chevalier du Christ (miles Christi). Cette image prestigieuse a cours de son vivant et après son prétendu martyre au service du combat contre la dépravation hérétique. Cependant, dans les contrées occitanophones et dans la péninsule Ibérique, sa réputation devient aussi celle d’un brigand, d’un barbare, d’un intrus étranger, cupide et sans scrupules. Les actes du colloque tenu à Poitiers en 2018 reviennent sur sa vie et sur son lignage afin de comprendre l’homme dans toutes ses contradictions : le croisé incorruptible en Terre sainte, mutilant toute une garnison en Languedoc, le vainqueur du roi d’Aragon, soumettant toutes ses conquêtes au roi de France, le spoliateur des seigneurs légitimes du Midi, protégeant les veuves et le clergé local, le membre d’un puissant lignage franco-normand dont son héritage se perpétue dans toute l’Europe. Simon est à la fois le produit de son temps et l’agent de son devenir, un conquérant et un perdant. Caractère sombre et puissant, il semble être à l’image de son emblème héraldique: un lion à la queue fourchée.

By exploring communication and social practices employed during negotiations at the papal court, this volume sheds light on a wide range of sources for studying the high and late medieval papacy. Analyzing the terminology and practice of the ‘stilus curiae’ in documents from all parts of Europe, this volume puts forward a new understanding of negotiation and conflict resolution at the papal court in the Middle Ages. ‘Stilus curiae’ usually refers to the language and style of curial documents, and it is often used to describe the customary application of legal procedure in court practice. The authors of this volume, however, argue for a broader understanding of ‘stilus curiae’ as an umbrella term that encompasses all forms of communication and social practices used during negotiations at the papal court. This volume (the first of two) publishes the results of a research network funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Through analysis of the concept(s) of the ‘stilus curiae’, the chapters throw new light on a wide range of sources from the High and Late Middle Ages, including chronicles, biographic and polemic texts, as well as administrative sources, such as letters of petitioners and proctors, speeches, and financial records of ambassadors. Thus, the volume offers a new approach towards the papacy between 1100 and 1500.

The purpose of this volume is to question traditional notions of city space in pre-modern Europe (with its stress on space being incorporated, regulated and integrated, dominated by its merchants and crafts), and to investigate how far it was in fact economically and politically pluralistic with a great variety of functions and juridictions. The volume examines comparatively the range of different urban spaces in and outside the medieval and early modern city from gardens, farmland and wasteland to industrial sites, poor and rich suburbs, shooting grounds, green space, grey space and military zones. Case studies cover cities in France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, England, Portugal and the Middle East. We ask: how far was the pre-modern city a compact city? Or was it in fact a ‘subaltern city’, as geographers have recently proposed, where many urban spaces were contested and the municipality has to be seen as only one key spatial actor?