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Les doyens ruraux, aussi appelés archiprêtres, doyens de chrétienté ou vicaires forains, sont des agents locaux au service des évêques, constituant un échelon intermédiaire entre ce dernier et la paroisse. Ils jouent un rôle très important dans l’administation du diocèse, dans le contrôle des bénéfices ecclésiastiques, du clergé local et des habitants du diocèse. Ils disposent de leur propre juridiction et assurent de nombreuses tâches d’exécution commandées par les autorités diocésaines, notamment le tribunal épiscopal. Ils réunissent régulièrement leurs collègues, avertissent, sanctionnent, jugent, produisent des écrits et des preuves, pour eux mêmes et pour autrui. Ils sont des maillons indispensables de la transmission d’informations entre les autorités diocésaines et la société locale. Le diocèse est en général découpé en circonscriptions qui leur sont confiées. Pourtant, ils n’ont guère retenu l’attention des historiens jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Ce livre a pour ambition de mettre dans la lumière ces doyens de chrétienté et de lever le voile, à partir d’études de cas régionales et de synthèse thématiques plus larges, sur leur apparition et leur place dans les diocèses médiévaux, leur activité, leurs rapports avec les autres acteurs de l’Église et leur rôle dans la société chrétienne. Ces questions sont abordées sur la longue durée, de l’époque carolingienne aux Temps modernes, dans une grande partie de l’Europe occidentale, de l’Italie à l’Angleterre, en passant par le royaume de France. Les doyens s’y révèlent véritablement, pendant des siècles, comme les « moyens » de la juridiction ecclésiastique, aux deux sens de ce terme.

This book consists of 36 contributions, all of them intended as a memento for professor Ante Milošević in honour of his 70th birthday. The first part of the book with 5 contributions are depicting the bio-bibliography of the celebrant, and two homages. Thirty-one contributions are original scientific papers dealing with problems in disciplines of history, art history and archaeology in the chronological span from prehistory to early modern times, connected to the territory of today’s Croatia or its neighbouring regions in European context, which is why they are especially relevant for the Croatian national scientific community and its development. Therefore, the scientific impact of this book will be important.

For more than a millenium, singers in churches, monasteries, and private chapels across Europe have closed their worship with the joyful musical exclamation Benedicamus Domino (‘Let us Bless the Lord’). This moment has sounded in song many times a day: at the end of the Mass, the Office hours, outside the church walls in celebratory processions, as well as in informal sacred, devotional, and festive contexts. Benedicamus Domino was uniquely associated with an unprecedented amount of creative freedom in the sacred rituals of the Christian West: plainchant melodies could be adopted at will from other parts of the liturgy, and this moment inspired a proliferation of poetic and polyphonic elaborations from the eleventh century on.

This collection of essays brings together interdisciplinary contributions from eighteen scholars, illuminating the wide range of ritual, musical, poetic, manuscript, and generic contexts for the Benedicamus Domino versicle in the period c.800­–1650. Individual chapters engage with the evidence of liturgical commentaries and Patristic texts, Ordines, and hagiographies. They present and analyse musical and textual embellishments of the Benedicamus Domino, as well as their written traces and material contexts, with several sources discovered or discussed in detail here for the first time. Encompassing a wide geographical and generic scope, this volume reveals unsuspected continuities and contrasts in the history of the Benedicamus Domino versicle in medieval and early modern Europe.

Around the turn of the first millennium, the political and religious landscape of Central Europe began to change dramatically. As the decentralized pagan societies along its borders became Christian, the polity that later became the Holy Roman Empire began to expand significantly according to the principles of the Imperium Christianum — an idea that first originated with Charlemagne, but that was consciously revived by Emperor Otto I and his predecessors as a way of extending power and authority into the Empire’s newly converted eastern fringes. This acculturation was effective, and societies began to actively adopt the new ideology and social order on their own initiative.

Drawing on material first presented at conferences held in the Department of Archaeology at Charles University, Prague, this volume draws together researchers working on different yet connected events along the Empire’s eastern frontier, and the often-overlooked part of society who nevertheless participated in these events, in particular commoners and the rural population. The papers gathered here cover affairs of the early state and church, networks of archaeological and historical heritage, and archaeological, historical, and digital investigations, to offer a blend of both synthetic archaeological and historical overviews and more focused geographical and thematic case studies that explore the role of Christianization in the centralization processes that occurred at the edge of the Ottonian-Salian world. The result is a forward-looking volume that seeks to explore new approaches to historical narratives, in particular by emphasizing the importance of archaeological material in examining early state formation and religious change. Moreover, it is the first synthetic study to directly compare the north-east and south-east peripheries of the later Holy Roman Empire, making it possible to shed new light on these lands at the periphery of Western Christendom.

Cet ouvrage, qui se réalise en l’honneur de la professeure Marie-Anne Vannier, dans une perspective interdisciplinaire, réunit les experts sur les grands thèmes qu’elle a parcourus : les Pères de l’Église, les mystiques rhénans et Nicolas de Cues, les études juives et orthodoxes, l’histoire de la mystique et la réflexion systématique sur la relation entre théologie et mystique en centrant les propos autour de la conformation au Christ. L’ouvrage prend en compte des recherches récentes et se déploie comme une étude originale de théologie mystique, structuré comme un parcours historique qui s’étend des origines judéo-chrétiennes à nos jours, et se termine par des réflexions systématiques sur la relation entre théologie et mystique.