Brepols Online Books Medieval Miscellanea Collection 2019 - bob2019mime

The fifth to the ninth centuries were a formative period around the Mediterranean, in which new forces were redefining traditional social divisions. This volume will look at these centuries through the lens of inclusion and exclusion as social forces at work on the self, the community, and society as a whole. For late antique and early medieval societies, inclusion and exclusion were the means of redrawing the boundaries of cultural and political discourse, and ultimately, of deciding how resources - material, spiritual, and intellectual - were allocated.

This is the first of two volumes to explore inclusion and exclusion as processes affecting Mediterranean communities. Contributions to the present volume look at how distinctions were fostered through both space and text, along ethnic and religious lines, and at the level of both ecumenical councils and individual friendships. By examining a wide range of social and cultural phenomena, from historiography and political partisanship to private religious worship and the performance of the feast, the chapters of this volume illustrate the exceptional range of ways that late antique and early medieval people negotiated their place in a changing world, and brought a new one into being.

Les rapports entre Judaïsme au Moyen Âge ont été souvent présentés comme conflictuels. Or, il n’en a pas toujours été ainsi. Aussi cet ouvrage s’attache-t-il à mettre en évidence la synergie entre Judaïsme et christianisme à cette époque. Des auteurs comme Maïmonide et Eckhart ont, sur ce plan, un rôle décisif.

Contrairement aux scribes « de bibliothèque », les scribes « d'archives » - l'étiquette désigne ici de façon ouverte tous les acteurs de la pratique scripturaire dans le champ foisonnant des sources documentaires - sont très souvent les auteurs intellectuels des textes qu'ils tracent sur le parchemin ou le papier. Pour beaucoup d'entre eux, l'acte quotidien d'écrire n'est donc pas une fin en soi, ni même forcément un aspect prédominant du labeur ; ils exercent une ou plusieurs fonction(s) qui dépasse(nt) parfois très largement le cadre de cette activité technique. La palette de leurs profils socioprofessionnels présente une infinie variété, marquée par d'énormes écarts de statut et de prestige que le seul maniement commun de l'écriture ne saurait gommer. Qui étaient-ils vraiment ? Même si les médiévistes à l'œuvre dans les archives les côtoient intimement à travers leurs productions écrites, bien peu de recherches leur ont été dédiées : l'historiographie se contente trop souvent d'images d'Épinal qui masquent la complexité et la diversité des situations de terrain. Certes, la plupart des scribes se dérobent à l'historien, frappés d'anonymat. D'autres, cependant, se laissent saisir à la faveur d'une carrière saillante ou d'un dossier loquace : en reconstituant leurs parcours, ce volume collectif vise à jeter les fondements d'une histoire sociale des « scribes d'archives » dans l'Occident latin du second Moyen Âge.

Zum Gedenken an Person und Wirken von Otto Gerhard Oexle (28. August 1939 - 16. Mai 2016).

Die Erforschung der Erinnerungskultur der vormodernen Gesellschaften Europas ist untrennbar mit Otto Gerhard Oexle, Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte in Göttingen von 1987 bis 2004, verknüpft: Er hatte das Totengedenken des Ancien Régime als ‘totales soziales Phänomen’ und ‘Memoria’ als Exempel der transdisziplinären Historischen Kulturwissenschaften erkannt und erforscht. Dieser Band vereint Beiträge von Kollegen, Freunden und Schülern, die Themen, Thesen und Anregungen von Otto Gerhard Oexle aufgreifen - erweiternd, vertiefend und fortführend. Der Band führt einen Nachruf mit Beiträgen zusammen: eine ‘Schülerbiographie’ in Auseinandersetzung mit Otto Gerhard Oexle, zu Stiftung und Memoria in universalhistorischer Perspektive, über Memoria in textilen Schenkungen des Früh- und Hochmittelalters, zu Deutungsschemata der ‘mittelalterlichen Gesellschaft’ in Weltgerichtsbildern, über Stadtbau und Memoria im Italien des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, zu Ernst Robert Curtius und den Mittelalterbildern des 20. Jahrhunderts, zum Historismus, über das Gesetz vom Sinai in literarischen Verarbeitungen, bis hin zur Kultur der Erinnerung an die verfolgten und ermordeten Juden in den Niederlanden unter dem NS-Regime.

The culmination of over a decade’s research on verbal culture in the pre- and post-Conversion medieval North at Bergen’s Centre for Medieval Studies, this volume traces the movement of words and texts temporally, geographically, and intellectually across different media and genres. The contributions gathered here begin with a reassessment of how the unique verbal cultures of Scandinavia and Iceland can be understood in a broader European context, and then move on to explore foundational Nordic Latin histories and vernacular sagas. Key case studies are put forward to highlight the importance of institutional and individual writing communities, epistolary and list-making cultures, and the production of manuscripts as well as runic inscriptions. Finally, the oral-written continuum is examined, with a focus on important works such as Íslendingabók and Landnámabók, Old-Norse Icelandic translated romances, and the development of prosimetra. Together, these essays form a state-of-the-art volume that offers new and vital insights into the role of literacy in the Norse-speaking world.

How were early medieval people connected to each other and to the wider world? In this collection, archaeologists and historians working in very different areas of early medieval Europe explore diverse evidence - from landscape and burial archaeology to charters and chronicles - to discuss the relationships that constituted neighbourhoods and the roles these played in the processes of state formation that can be observed in the peripheries of the Frankish world. What these case-studies teach us, the contributors argue, is that polities are formed not through the exclusive operation of either top-down or bottom-up agencies, but from the interplay between them. By exploring the ways in which local knowledge, social ties, and understandings of landscape interacted with higher-level authorities and institutions, we can gain real insights into the nature of early medieval power and people’s experiences of it.

Marking the culmination of a collective effort that has spanned over a decade and three funded projects, this volume brings together case-studies from Spain, Italy, England, northern Frankia, Norway, and Iceland to offer a comparative view of polities and neighbourhoods in early medieval Europe. Drawing on new research, and offering new perspectives driven by an interdisciplinary approach, this volume is of relevance to a range of disciplines including archaeology, history, onomastics, geography, and anthropology.

In the first two decades of the fifteenth century, the Hussite religious reform movement emerged in Bohemia; it used one of the realm's vernacular languages, Czech, both to disseminate its reform ideas, and to establish strong foundations for the reform. The vernacular became a significant strategy for identification, capable of binding together disconnected religious, ethnic, political and regional identities and generating a very potent aggregate of identifications. This volume considers material from the second half of the fourteenth century to the first half of the sixteenth, beginning with the so-called Hussite ‘forerunners’ and ending with the early German reformation. Individual essays discuss the various functions of the vernaculars in different text types, social situations and religious and political contexts. Together, they correct former assumptions about the topic and provide a basis for further study of Hussite vernacular theology and contribute to the transformation of scholarly narratives about the Hussite movement by including works of vernacular religious education among the most important source material. It offers a basis for the comparative research on the role of the vernaculars in late medieval European religious reform movements.

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?

Nineteen scholars join forces to pay tribute to one of the leading scholars in Byzantine studies, Father Joseph A. Munitiz. As one of the founders of the Series Graeca of the Corpus Christianorum and because of his own exemplary work, Joe Munitiz had and has a lasting impact on the development of Byzantine studies. There is no better way to honour him and his work than to offer him a Festschrift with contributions that mimic his quality, passion, and curiosity.

The Festschrift contains several "firsts": the first English translation of Eustathius' Letter concerning the Two Natures against Severus, and the first critical editions (and studies) of an anonymous iambic canon on St John Chrysostom, of letter Z of the Etymologicum Symeonis, of some additions to letter A in the Florilegium Coislinianum, of a possible credo of Metrophanes of Smyrna, of a letter by Nicolas Pepagomenos to Gregory Palamas, and of Maximus Confessor's Tomos to Stephen of Dor against the Ekthesis.

The innovative studies in this volume deal with the Slavonic and Greek catenae on the Song of Songs, with Athanasius Letter to Marcelinus, with an ascetic miscellany in a thirteenth-century Atheniensis, with the so-called 'First Chapter Titles' in the second recension of the Florilegium Coislinianum, with the date of composition of the Maximia Corpus, with Raimundus Lullus' knowledge of Byzantium, with the reception of the Catalogue of Inventors in Gregory of Nazianzus' fourth oratio, and with Titus of Bostra's polemic against the Manicheans.