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Les élites et leurs espaces
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Les élites et leurs espaces show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Les élites et leurs espacesVenant à la suite du volume sur «les élites au haut Moyen Âge: crises et renouvellements», cet ouvrage analyse le rapport des élites à la distance et à l’espace. Laissant de côté les concepts de noblesse ou d’aristocratie, on adopte ici celui d’élite, emprunté à la sociologie, pour faire porter l’étude sur tous ceux qui, d’une manière ou d’une autre, exercent un pouvoir social lié à l’excellence, que ce soit celle de la naissance et du sang, ou celle de la capacité, dans telle ou telle activité, à se distinguer et à en tirer prestige, richesse ou honneur. Historiens des textes et archéologues croisent les approches et examinent la relation qu’entretiennent les élites avec les notions d’espace, de territoire et de distance — une relation changeante selon le contexte politique et économique, et qui vaut comme critère de hiérarchisation sociale. L’espace ici étudié peut être lâche ou structuré, fini ou ouvert. On le voit être transformé en territoire, à l’initiative de personnes et de groupes. En même temps, les auteurs prennent en compte l’idée de distance: les élites la maîtrisent, elles contrôlent, modèlent, fondent des zones d’influence ou des territoires. L’étude du rapport des diverses élites à la distance, à l’espace et aux lieux de pouvoir permet ainsi de renouveler profondément l’approche du phénomène élitaire en privilégiant la pratique par rapport aux critères théoriques et juridiques de la distinction. La présente enquête est conduite sur la longue durée, depuis la fin du monde antique jusqu’au XIe siècle, et couvre une bonne partie de l’Europe (Allemagne, Angleterre, Espagne, France, Italie).
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Livres et lectures de femmes en Europe entre moyen âge et renaissance
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Léon IX et son temps
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Léon IX et son temps show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Léon IX et son tempsLe pontificat de Léon IX (1049-1054) marque un tournant dans l’histoire de l’Eglise. Energique et déterminé, Léon IX voyage au sud comme au nord des Alpes, tient de nombreux conciles, fait sentir même aux évêques le poids de l’autorité romaine, tente de mener une politique cohérente face aux Normands et aux Byzantins, réforme la vieille chancellerie pontificale… Il lance ainsi, dans le respect de l’autorité impériale, la réforme de l’Eglise qui deviendra ensuite la réforme grégorienne.
Saisissant le prétexte du millénaire de sa naissance, un colloque réuni à Strasbourg en juin 2002 a fait le point sur les origines, la personnalité, l’action et l’entourage de ce pape, ainsi que sur les sources, narratives, diplomatiques, épistolaires, nécrologiques, archéologiques et autres, de l’histoire de son pontificat.
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Making and breaking the rules: succession in medieval Europe, c. 1000-c.1600. Établir et abolir les normes: la succession dans l’Europe médiévale, vers 1000-vers 1600
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Making and breaking the rules: succession in medieval Europe, c. 1000-c.1600. Établir et abolir les normes: la succession dans l’Europe médiévale, vers 1000-vers 1600 show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Making and breaking the rules: succession in medieval Europe, c. 1000-c.1600. Établir et abolir les normes: la succession dans l’Europe médiévale, vers 1000-vers 1600Les stratégies familiales au Moyen Âge recourent à un vaste éventail de dispositifs destinés à assurer la survie de la famille et du pouvoir qu’elle gère parfois. Mariages, alliances, processus d’adoption même permettent de conserver et d’étendre l’identité familiale, que ce soit sous la forme de la lignée ou de la parenté large; mais ce sont sans doute les stratégies adoptées au moment des successions qui sont les plus cruciales pour la perpétuation des familles. Les études réunies ici tentent de confronter et de comparer les systèmes de succession en vigueur dans les différentes régions d’Occident, de la Russie à l’Irlande, de la Scandinavie à la péninsule Ibérique. Dans le cas des successions princières, elles démontrent que l’étude du principe électoral permet de mieux comprendre, a contrario, ce qui fait la force du sentiment dynastique, jamais absent. Et la comparaison avec d’autres domaines où jouent les processus de succession, qu’il s’agisse de l’Église ou de l’office, vient alimenter des interrogations nouvelles sur les formes du désir de pérennité.
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Manuscripts and Monastic Culture
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Manuscripts and Monastic Culture show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Manuscripts and Monastic CultureEach of the studies in this volume draws upon a manuscript, or a group of manuscripts, that shed light on the practice of monastic life during this period of reform. Many, but not all, of the papers focus on the monastery of Admont in central Austria. Admont was one of the most important spiritual, cultural, and intellectual centres in the high Middle Ages, and its magnificent library still houses an extensive collection of manuscripts - a rich resource both for the history of the monastery and for the broader history of medieval religious life. The book brings together the work of an international group of scholars whose work touches on various aspects of twelfth-century Admont, and the broader movement for reform and renewal in Germany and Austria.
With the publication of Charles Homer Haskin’s important work, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (1933), came a new way of looking at the civilization of the high Middle Ages. Scholars have since investigated many aspects of this revival: the rise of the universities, the development of canon law, the emergence (or re-emergence) of a heightened sense of human individuality, and the revival of religious fervour that has been labelled a reformation before the Reformation. Much of this scholarly work has focused on northern-central Italy, France, and England. Germany, however, has been little studied in this context, in part because the nature and trajectory of the reform there differed from that seen elsewhere in Europe. The essays in the book both explore connections between Germanic lands and the wider western European context, and consider the unique spiritual and intellectual climate of Germany’s monasteries.
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Princely Virtues in the Middle Ages
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Princely Virtues in the Middle Ages show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Princely Virtues in the Middle AgesThe contributors to this book examine the diverse roles played by moral virtues in the political writing of the Later Middle Ages. Medieval political thought has a long tradition of scholarship, and its ethical dimension has always received sustained attention. This volume specifically concentrates on the meaning and function of virtues in a political context, a theme which has thus far been neglected. The authors deal with Latin texts (occasionally in combination with vernacular ones) from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries that define, legitimize, or criticize secular rule by using catalogues of virtues, originating from ancient philosophy as well as Christian moral theology. The contributions discuss various aspects related to this theme, such as the relation between the virtues of rulers and general moral precepts; the tension between secular or philosophical perspectives on virtue and Christian moral thought; the use of moral virtues for political ends; the balance between praise of the prince’s virtues and criticism of his vices; and so forth. The medieval texts under discussion are of French, German, English, Italian, and Spanish origin, and vary from educational treatises and historiography to moral theology and political philosophy.
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Religious and Laity in Western Europe, 1000-1400
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Religious and Laity in Western Europe, 1000-1400 show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Religious and Laity in Western Europe, 1000-1400This volume examines forms of interaction between monastic or mendicant communities and lay people in the high Middle Ages in Britain, France, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia. The nineteen papers explore these issues in geographically and chronologically diverse settings in a way that no English-language collection has yet attempted. It brings together the latest research from established as well as younger historians. The first section ‘Patrons and Benefactors: power, fashion, and mutual expectations’ examines lay involvement in foundations, the rights held by patrons, and how they used these powers, as well as networks of relationships within broader groups of benefactors. The authors demonstrate how changing fashions shaped the fortunes of particular orders and houses and explore how power relations between different types of patrons and benefactors - royal figures, kinship, and other social groupings - affected the mutual expectations of the various parties. The second section of the volume, entitled ‘Lay and Religious: negotiation, influence, and utility’, shows how lay people’s ideas of the role of religious houses could impact upon their patronage of, and support for, monastic or mendicant institutions. Conversely, religious communities offered multi-faceted benefits - practical, intellectual, or spiritual - for the secular world. The book concludes by focusing on the rapid growth of confraternities, their relation to their urban mendicant and monastic contexts, and how the role and forms of confraternities evolved in the late medieval period.
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Text, Image, Interpretation:
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Text, Image, Interpretation: show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Text, Image, Interpretation:In emulation of Professor Éamonn Ó Carragáin, who has, over the last few decades, demonstrated how words and images together join in that extraordinary cultural achievement which is the Ruthwell Cross, the volume seeks to transcend the established methods of the single discipline.
The twenty-six essays draw together insights from fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, and liturgy to reflect on the literature and material culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The first section looks outwards from the insular context, to medieval Rome, more generally to western Europe, and backwards to the world-geography of the ancient world; its illustrations include colour plates to illumine the hangings, clothing and vestments extant from Anglo-Saxon England. A range of texts is considered in the central section, Latin, English, and Old Norse. The third section focuses on sculpture, buildings and the insular landscape, juxtaposing the sculptured stonework of Northern Britain with early Christian monuments and remains from Ireland; among the illustrations are striking coloured photographs of Irish ecclesiastical sites. The contributors are from Canada, the United States, Italy, Britain, and Ireland.
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Texte et discours en moyen français
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Texte et discours en moyen français show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Texte et discours en moyen françaisC’est dans le cadre du renouveau de la linguistique diachronique et de l’attention croissante portée au moyen français que s’inscrivent les présentes études sur la linguistique textuelle du moyen français. Quels sont, dans cette période, les éléments linguistiques contribuant à la structuration du texte? Comment la cohésion textuelle et la continuité thématique sont-elles assurées? Les contributions réunies ici explorent ces domaines, en décrivant l’emploi d’une série de connecteurs, modalisateurs et signes de ponctuation et en analysant les mécanismes sous-jacents au fonctionnement des expressions anaphoriques et des constructions topicalisantes et focalisantes.
Le présent volume, qui est le fruit du XIe colloque international sur le moyen français tenu à Anvers (19-21 mai 2005), offre une analyse originale et détaillée des outils linguistiques dont dispose le moyen français pour rendre accessible son discours.
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The Crisis of the Oikoumene
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Crisis of the Oikoumene show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Crisis of the OikoumeneThe sixth-century theological controversy over the ‘Three Chapters’, which centred on the nature of Christ, provoked one of the most serious and long-lived religious schisms of the early Middle Ages. The fault lines ran not only between the Byzantine imperial court and the papacy, but between Rome and the churches in the former western empire’s successor states. In Italy, the schism endured into the seventh century, and the repercussions were felt long thereafter. Though rooted in the complexities of christological debate, the tensions reveal the growing political as well as cultural divide between Byzantium, Rome, and the West. Thus the controversy is critical for our understanding of the late-antique and early-medieval Mediterranean world, and of the inheritance of empire in western Europe and North Africa. This book presents ten chapters by an international group of scholars who examine different facets of the Three Chapters Controversy and its profound impact on these regions.
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The Medieval Cathedral of Trondheim
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Medieval Cathedral of Trondheim show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Medieval Cathedral of TrondheimMedieval cathedrals and the various practices connected to them form an important and complex part of the European cultural heritage. The buildings themselves and their reception into the modern arts ensure their presence within today’s cultural memories and sensibilities. In the mid-twelfth century, a new archbishop’s seat was erected in the Norwegian city of Trondheim (or Nidaros) in the far north of Europe. This interdisciplinary volume, written by scholars of history, architecture, and liturgy, explores the medieval cathedral of Trondheim as a local construction in a European context. As a see of the Western Church, it was set in an international Latinate culture. At the same time, the construction of the building itself and the ritual practices in and around it were influenced by local political, religious, and cultural conditions. The relationship between the physical construction of a cathedral and its function in medieval liturgical and other ritual practices is a topic of wide relevance for architectural and liturgical scholarship. The so-called Ordo Nidrosiensis, the thirteenth-century ordinal of the province of Nidaros, is an immense help in interpreting the architectural construction and sacred space of Nidaros Cathedral and the Ordo is dealt with in many of the articles. In accordance with general medieval practice, both the Nidaros ordinal and this volume may be described as international in content but edited with regard to local considerations.
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The Medieval Translator. Traduire au Moyen Age
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Medieval Translator. Traduire au Moyen Age show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Medieval Translator. Traduire au Moyen Age[Fundamental to all translation work, the concept of “displacement” allows one to take into account the multiple successive states inhering in a single text, and to interpret these variations. Translation is, in effect, a form of transfer; more specifically, it involves a movement from one context to another, be it national, social, political, historical, linguistic or religious. The texts examined here illustrate, each in their unique way, the relationship between contextual change and audience. They are also the product of subtle interactions between a variety of elements, the result of which is a “reinvention” of their respective roles and uses over time. For example, a text intending to entertain may also have educational outcomes; a book of local miracles may attract pilgrims and contribute to the economic life of a monastery; a text and its translations may at some point be appropriated for polemical purposes, while a library of translated texts founded on humanist principals may also serve political ends.
Furthermore, each successive adaptation and its accompanying annotations impacts upon the tonality of a text. While this diversity of meanings may inspire some (such as the medieval poet Marie de France), it moreover raises a number of important and difficult questions for the modern translator. How, for example, does one translate the “harmonics” underlying a series of mystical puns? The “solution” usually involves a compromise that both enhances and undermines the translated text.
This volume presents a selection of twenty-eight papers delivered at the Seventh International Conference dedicated to The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, which took place at the University of Paris III — Nouvelle Sorbonne in July 2004. The period covered by the texts and their translations extends from antiquity to the present day. The literary and critical breadth of these papers, as well as the rigorous interrogation of the modern translation theory, illustrates the remarkable vitality and diversity of current scholarship in this field.
,Au cœur de toute activité de traduction, le concept de déplacement permet de rendre compte des multiples états successifs d’un même texte et d’en interpréter les variations. Toute traduction est en effet une translation, c’est-à-dire un changement d’environnement, que ce dernier soit national, social, politique, historique, linguistique ou ecclésial. Les textes examinés ici témoignent chacun à sa manière des transformations qu’ils ont subies lorsque, changeant de langue, de style ou d’époque, ils ont changé de destinataires. La dynamique qui les traverse se nourrit de subtils côtoiements: un désir légitime de divertir peut fort bien s’accommoder d’une intention didactique; un recueil de miracles locaux peut attirer des pèlerins, contribuant ainsi à la vie économique d’un monastère; un texte et ses traductions peuvent devenir l’objet d’utilisations polémiques; se constituer en humaniste une bibliothèque de traductions peut aussi servir un dessein politique.
Par ailleurs les transpositions successives et leurs gloses, comme en musique, entraînent des changements de tonalité. Ce ‘surplus’ de sens qu’encourage Marie de France pourra cependant se heurter à des résistances: comment par exemple préserver d’une langue à l’autre toutes les harmoniques que libère un enchaînement de jeux de mots mystiques? Ainsi l’inévitable compromis qui s’imposera au traducteur sera souvent le choix d’un enrichissement doublé d’une déperdition.
Ce volume présente une sélection des communications entendues lors du septième colloque international consacré à la théorie et la pratique de la traduction des textes au Moyen Age qui s’est tenu à l’Université de Paris III — Sorbonne Nouvelle en juillet 2004. La période couverte par ces textes et leurs traductions s’étend de l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours. Ce sont au total vingt-huit études qui sont ici proposées. La richesse des domaines abordés, la haute technicité des analyses, de même que la place faite aux questionnements de la traductologie moderne illustrent la remarquable vitalité des études actuelles relatives aux multiples aspects de la traduction des textes médiévaux.
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The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre
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The Old English Homily
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Old English Homily show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Old English HomilyThe quarter-century that has passed since Paul Szarmach’s and Bernard Huppé’s groundbreaking The Old English Homily and its Backgrounds (1978) has seen staggering changes in the field of Anglo-Saxon homiletics. Primary materials have become accessible to scholars in unprecedented levels, whether digitally or through new critical editions, and these have generated in turn a flood of secondary scholarship. The articles in this volume showcase and build on these developments. The first five essays consider various contexts of and infuences on Anglo-Saxon homilies: patristic and early medieval Latin sources, continental homiliaries and preaching practices, traditions of Old Testament interpretation and adaptation, and the liturgical setting of preaching texts. Six studies then turn to the sermons themselves, examining style and rhetoric in the Vercelli homilies, the codicology of the Blickling Book, sanctorale and temporale in the works of Ælfric, and the challenges posed by Wulfstan’s self-referential corpus. Finally, the last entries take us past the Conquest to discuss the re-use of homiletic material in England and its environs from the eleventh to eighteenth century. Together these articles offer medieval scholars a new Old English Homily, one that serves both as an introduction to key figures and issues in the field and as a model of studies for the next quarter-century.
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The Rural History of Medieval European Societies
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Rural History of Medieval European Societies show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Rural History of Medieval European SocietiesThis collection gathers together a range of scholars who reflect on recent historiographical developments in medieval rural history within their respective countries. Each contribution provides a survey of a recent area of research, as well as documenting its significant results, and offering perspectives for future investigations. This international approach not only provides a deeper insight into how medieval rural studies relates to current debates in the social sciences, but it also highlights the connections between specific national historical traditions and present-day research issues in their historical contexts. By comparing different European regions it is possible to see more clearly the similarities and the differences which lie between them; this volume therefore constitutes a truer means of constructing syntheses and for identifying fruitful lines of future research.
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The World of Marsilius of Padua
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The World of Marsilius of Padua show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The World of Marsilius of PaduaPerhaps no author of the Latin Middle Ages has been the subject of so much controversy and even vitriol than Marsilius of Padua (c. 1275-1342/43). As author of the notorious heretical tract, the Defensor Pacis, Marsilius became an infamous figure throughout the intellectual and political centres of Europe during his own lifetime. His magnum opus, a sharply pointed dissection of the damage done to earthly political life by the incursions of the papacy and a plea for conciliar ecclesiology, was repeatedly condemned during the fourteenth century and in later years. Yet the treatise continued to be disseminated and received translation into several vernacular languages. During the Reformation, Marsilius and his Defensor Pacis enjoyed another round of acclamation and denunciation, depending upon one’s confession. In July 2003, a group comprising many of the world’s most renowned scholars of medieval political thought gathered for a ‘Marsilius of Padua World Congress’. The contents of the present volume represent a compendium of innovative scholarly contributions to the understanding of Marsilius, his life and times, and his lasting impact on Western thought. Included are chapters that reflect a range of recent, ground-breaking research by both senior scholars and the future leaders in the field. After a general survey of the current state of scholarship on Marsilius, the volume divides into three thematically organized sections, covering a variety of historical, textual, methodological, theological, and theoretical questions. In all of the essays, readers will discover the wealth and complexity of Marsilius’s thought as well as the startling range of approaches and methods of interpretation taken in the study of his work. The volume’s selection of authors is international in scope and represents the first interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration in the field of Marsilian studies to occur in the twenty-first century.
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University, Council, City. Intellectual Culture on the Rhine (1300-1550)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:University, Council, City. Intellectual Culture on the Rhine (1300-1550) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: University, Council, City. Intellectual Culture on the Rhine (1300-1550)Stretching from Basel to Cologne, the Rhine formed the geographical axis of a broad cultural realm in the late Middle Ages, lending vitality not only to its cities and universities but also to the two great Councils to which it played host. Already in the fourteenth century, the lives of such famous German mystics as Meister Eckhart, Heinrich Seuse and Johannes Tauler testify to the presence of an advanced intellectual culture in the cities of the upper and lower Rhine. In the fifteenth century, the most famous Councils of the late Middle Ages took place along the Rhine, namely the Councils of Constance and Basel, which formed loci of intellectual exchange and which became seedbeds of philosophical ideas that engaged and influenced such participants as Heymericus de Campo and Nicholas of Cusa. With the establishment of the Universities of Cologne (1388), Freiburg (1457), Basel (1459) and Mainz (1476), the intellectual culture of this region took an institutional form that continues to exist to this day, and symbolizes the stability of the intellectual culture of the Rhineland. The main purpose of this volume is to explore the intellectual richness and vitality of the Rhineland in its various facets and on its different levels.
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Voisinages, coexistences, appropriations
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Voisinages, coexistences, appropriations show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Voisinages, coexistences, appropriationsFruit des travaux du colloque intitulé «Groupes sociaux et territoires urbains (Moyen Age-16e siècle)» organisé en décembre 2004 à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, cet ouvrage rassemble douze contributions originales consacrées aux dynamiques sociales de l’espace urbain en Europe de l’ouest durant le bas Moyen Âge.
Dans sa première partie, l’ouvrage montre la structuration à long terme de l’espace urbain par les stratégies d’occupation de groupes dominants: chapitres canoniaux, élites scabinales, métiers (Tours, Namur, Trévise). Il confronte ce processus d’appropriation à la capacité de réagencement matériel ou symbolique déployée par certains acteurs urbains. Accident aléatoire (Tortosa), circonstances politiques (Bruges), modulation des rapports à la ville (Ratisbonne) redessinent les territoires respectifs, rallument sans cesse la lutte pour la maîtrise de l’espace et de ses éléments signifiants.
Dans sa seconde partie, l’ouvrage donne à penser la société urbaine dans ses relations avec des horizons plus lointains. Dans un premier temps sont abordées les relations des villes avec leur arrière-pays, sur lequel les groupes citadins dominants réinventent sans cesse les modalités économiques et juridiques de leur contrôle (Bruxelles, Chieri, Dijon). Dans un second temps, sont considérées les armatures urbaines de certains territoires (Brabant, Hainaut, Saint-Empire) dont la vivacité économique dépend de l’intensité des relations marchandes.
Les articles réunis ici éclairent, souvent d’un jour nouveau, non seulement l’histoire singulière des villes concernées mais plus fondamentalement les processus et les logiques à l’œuvre dans l’agencement et le réagencement permanent des espaces urbains.
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Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Weaving, Veiling, and DressingChristianity is a religion of clothing. To become a priest or a nun is to take the cloth. The Christian liturgy is intimately bound with veiling objects and revealing them. Cloths hide the altar, making it all the more spectacular when it is revealed. Fragments of imported silk cradle the relic, thereby giving identity to the dessicated bone. Much of that silk came from the east, meaning that a material of Islamic origin was a primary signifier of sanctity in Christianity. Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing brings together twelve essays about text and textile, about silk and wool, about the formation of identity through fibre. The essays bring to light hitherto unseen material, and for the first time, establish the function of textiles as a culturally rich way to approach the Middle Ages. Textiles were omnipresent in the medieval church, but have not survived well. To uncover their uses, presence, and meanings in the Middle Ages is to reconsider the period spun, draped, clothed, shrouded, and dressed. Textiles in particular were essential to the performance of devotion and of the liturgy. Brightly dyed cloth was a highly visible maker of meaning. While some aspects of culture have been studied, namely the important tapestry industry, as well as some of the repercussions and activities of cloth guilds, other areas of textile studies in the period are yet to be studied. This book brings an interdisciplinary approach to new material, drawing on art history, anthropology, medieval text history, theology, and gender and performance studies. It makes a compelling miscellany exploring the nature of Christianity in the largely uninvestigated field of text and textile interplay.
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Études d’exégèse carolingienne: autour d’Haymon d’Auxerre
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Études d’exégèse carolingienne: autour d’Haymon d’Auxerre show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Études d’exégèse carolingienne: autour d’Haymon d’AuxerreL’interprétation juste de la Bible constitue l’un des principaux enjeux de la renaissance carolingienne. Révéler le sens du Livre, en partie déterminé par la tradition exégétique, revient à fournir aux réformateurs modèles et prescriptions. En cela, l’exégèse est une source majeure non seulement pour l’histoire culturelle, mais aussi pour l’histoire des représentations. Pourtant, les commentaires bibliques demeurent, aujourd’hui encore, peu utilisés par les historiens, en partie parce que les textes sont souvent inédits.
C’est à ces sources que s’attache le présent volume, rassemblant les contributions d’un atelier de recherches tenu à Auxerre les 25 et 26 avril 2005. Le champ balayé par ces études, centrées sur la figure d’un exégète carolingien majeur, Haymon d’Auxerre, est vaste: critique d’authenticité, examen de la tradition manuscrite, comparaison avec les sources et les contemporains du moine d’Auxerre pour comprendre la spécificité de sa pensée. Il en résulte une connaissance plus fine non seulement de l’exégèse du maître auxerrois, mais aussi des échanges entre lettrés carolingiens et de la postérité médiévale de leurs œuvres.
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Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Christians and Christianity in the Holy LandThis volume fills a major desideratum in historical scholarship on the religious history of the Holy Land. It presents a synthesis of our knowledge of the history of Christianity and the various churches that coexisted there from the beginnings of Christianity to the fall of the Crusader Kingdoms. It also offers analytical studies of major topics and problems. While the first part is organized chronologically, the second follows a thematic plan, dealing with the major themes pertaining to the topic, from various points of view and covering several disciplinary fields: history, theology, archaeology, and art history. The volume represents the outcome of an international project initiated by Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi of Jerusalem, and the contributors are leading experts in their fields.
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Ecriture et réécriture des textes philosophiques médiévaux
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Ecriture et réécriture des textes philosophiques médiévaux show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Ecriture et réécriture des textes philosophiques médiévauxPhilosophe et paléographe, Colette Sirat s’est illustrée dans ces deux domaines pendant toute sa carrière académique. Un fil conducteur relie d’ailleurs ces deux secteurs d’activité: les manuscrits qui sont toujours à la base de ses recherches, fournissant ainsi les sources mêmes et les documents de première main de ses études philosophiques.
Ses publications ont fait date tant dans l’histoire de la philosophie juive que dans les études de paléographie hébraïque et d’histoire de l’écriture. Le thème de ce volume la préoccupe depuis bien longtemps. En effet, la manière d’écrire des textes au moyen âge, la réécriture constante pour beaucoup d’entre eux, constitue un sujet encore peu étudié, bien qu’il s’agisse d’un trait essentiel de la culture écrite de cette époque. Il a été limité aux textes philosophiques, domaine dans lequel ce phénomène est particulièrement présent et qui est l’un des terrains de chasse de la récipiendaire.
Dans tous ses travaux, on découvre les mêmes traits fondamentaux, dont une grande curiosité intellectuelle, une largeur de vue due à un vaste programme de lectures dans des domaines très divers et une richesse d’idées nouvelles sont peut-être les plus marquants.
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Gautier de Coinci
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Gautier de Coinci show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Gautier de CoinciGautier de Coinci (c. 1177-1236) was a Benedictine prior, a poet and composer, and the author of several very popular religious works, including a large collection of Miracles of the Virgin in French, which enjoyed a wide circulation during the Middle Ages. Gautier drew on multiple Latin sources for his work, embellishing and personalizing them as he adapted them to his poetic design. Conceiving of his collection of miracles as a complete work, Gautier carefully organized the tales into two books, framing each with authorial exordia and lyrics praising the Virgin. In addition to its obvious literary interest, the subsequent manuscript tradition offers a remarkable panorama of medieval manuscript production, in particular due to the fascinating combination of text, music and illustration. Bringing together a select group of scholars from multiple disciplines (including art history, musicology, and literary studies), this collection of essays explores complementary aspects of Gautier, his works, and his manuscripts. The volume offers both breadth and depth in its examination of Gautier de Coinci and his Miracles de Nostre Dame. It promises to redefine Gautier studies through its interdisciplinary consideration of the varied facets of his work as it makes available to scholars and students the first interdisciplinary examination of this key figure in medieval vernacular religious culture.
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Grant risee?
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Grant risee? show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Grant risee?Celebrating the work of Brian J. Levy in the realm of comedy and humour in the Middle Ages, this collection of twenty essays explores unusual, unexpected or unacknowledged elements of humour in medieval literature and art. Scholars from Britain, France, Italy, the USA, Denmark, and the Netherlands consider comic elements taking an unusual form; a comic presence in unexpected places; comic elements intentionally or unintentionally hidden; comic elements surprisingly vaunted; a comic presence in standard contexts which stands out for a particular reason; comic elements which are for some reason controversial; comic elements as yet unidentified or unacknowledged; a commonly acknowledged comic presence which is in fact no such thing. Essays in English and French deal with a broad range of subjects. If the Roman de Renart is particularly well represented amongst these essays, other subjects make up the majority of the book. These include: Cicero’s De Oratorei; the Mannekin pis; late-medieval wall paintings; German and French Drama; fabliaux; vernacular pious tales and dits; the romance epic Richard Coeur de Lyon; Les Quinze joyes de mariage; bestiaries; and misericords. Sometimes shocking, often surprising, and always intriguing, the medieval comic presence rarely corresponds to our expectations and assumptions. This book shows that in numerous cases the medieval joke is actually on the modern scholar.
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Insignis Sophiae Arcator
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Insignis Sophiae Arcator show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Insignis Sophiae ArcatorSome thirty years ago Michael Herren burst on the medieval Latin scene with his edition and translation of the notoriously difficult Hisperica Famina, and followed this a few years later with his translation of the prose works of Aldhelm. Notice was given that a junior scholar, unafraid to tackle some of the most obscure, complex, and arcane Latin, wished to make it accessible to non-Latinists as well as to those Latinists who lacked his particular skills. Not content with labouring alone in that field, Herren gathered scholars in Toronto to a conference on “Insular Latin Studies,” the proceedings of which he published two years later. Over the years he shed considerable light on such obscure texts and authors as Virgilius Maro Grammaticus, John Scottus Eriugena, and the Cosmographia by the pseudonymous Aethicus Ister. His research trail led him again and again to Ireland, and the Irish contribution to early medieval Latinity and to English, Carolingian, and even Italian culture. Recognizing the rich diversity of medieval Latin, Herren in 1990 founded The Journal of Medieval Latin and has, as its editor, provided a home for medieval Latinists of all stripes.
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Intellect et imagination dans la philosophie médiévale / Intellect and Imagination in Medieval Philosophy / Intelecto e imaginação na Filosofia Medieval
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Intellect et imagination dans la philosophie médiévale / Intellect and Imagination in Medieval Philosophy / Intelecto e imaginação na Filosofia Medieval show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Intellect et imagination dans la philosophie médiévale / Intellect and Imagination in Medieval Philosophy / Intelecto e imaginação na Filosofia MedievalLe XIème Congrès International de Philosophie Médiévale de la Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (S.I.E.P.M..) s’est déroulé à Porto (Portugal), du 26 au 30 août 2002, sous le thème général: Intellect et Imagination dans la Philosophie Médiévale. A partir des héritages platonicien, aristotélicien, stoïcien, ou néo-platonicien (dans leurs variantes grecques, latines, arabes, juives), la conceptualisation et la problématisation de l’imagination et de l’intellect, ou même des facultés de l’âme en général, apparaissaient comme une ouverture possible pour aborder les principaux points de la pensée médiévale. Les Actes du congrès montrent que «imagination» et «intellect» sont porteurs d’une richesse philosophique extraordinaire dans l’économie de la philosophie médiévale et de la constitution de ses spécificités historiques. Dans sa signification la plus large, la théorisation de ces deux facultés de l’âme permet de dédoubler le débat en au moins six grands domaines: — la relation avec le sensible, où la fantaisie/l’imagination joue le rôle de médiation dans la perception du monde et dans la constitution de la connaissance; — la réflexion sur l’acte de connaître et la découverte de soi en tant que sujet de pensée; — la position dans la nature, dans le cosmos, et dans le temps de celui qui pense et qui connaît par les sens externes, internes et par l’intellect; — la recherche d’un fondement pour la connaissance et l’action, par la possibilité du dépassement de la distante proximité du transcendant, de l’absolu, de la vérité et du bien; — la réalisation de la félicité en tant qu’objectif ultime, de même que la découverte d’une tendance au dépassement actif ou mystique de toutes les limites naturelles et des facultés de l’âme; — la constitution de théories de l’image, sensible ou intellectuelle, et de ses fonctions.
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Jean Wauquelin
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Jean Wauquelin show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Jean WauquelinWauquelin, «escripvaing» de ce grand mécène que fut le duc de Bourgogne, est longtemps resté dans l’ombre de son jeune confrère, David Aubert. Son œuvre embrasse cependant des champs variés, qui accueillent aussi bien des traductions que des compilations et des mises en prose. Les éditions récentes de certains de ses textes, et les études auxquelles elles ont donné lieu, permettent de mieux connaître cet auteur aujourd’hui. Répondant parfaitement aux désirs de ses différents commanditaires, son œuvre s’inscrit dans les courants de pensée et les idéologies de l’époque.
Mais Wauquelin ne fut pas seulement un auteur. Il participa lui-même aux étapes de l’élaboration matérielle des manuscrits dont son atelier assurait la transcription et la reliure, tandis que l’illustration était confiée à des artistes réputés, résidant notamment à Bruges.
Le colloque interdisciplinaire qui lui fut consacré à Tours, en septembre 2004, avait pour ambition d’éclairer toutes les facettes de son activité et de la situer dans les pratiques d’écriture mais aussi «éditoriales» de son temps. Les articles qu’il a inspirés sont accompagnés ici d’une bibliographie exhaustive.
Cette présentation en un volume de l’ensemble des connaissances que l’on peut considérer comme acquises sur Wauquelin, dans des domaines aussi divers que la philologie, la linguistique, la littérature, la codicologie ou l’histoire de l’art, voudrait susciter des interrogations et ouvrir la voie à de nouvelles recherches.
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La méthode critique au Moyen Âge
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:La méthode critique au Moyen Âge show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: La méthode critique au Moyen ÂgeLe Moyen Âge est considéré par beaucoup comme l’«âge de la foi». Aujourd’hui, on insiste plus volontiers sur les progrès qu’il a fait accomplir à la pensée, aux techniques, aux sciences. Mais peut-on parler pour autant d’une réflexion critique, voire, comme le suggère le titre un peu provocateur de ce livre, d’une méthode critique, c’est-à-dire d’une attitude consciente permettant un discernement dans les données de la foi, de l’histoire ou de la science? Les études rassemblées ici montrent que cette réflexion critique a bien eu lieu durant tout le Moyen Âge et qu’elle s’est exercée dans les domaines de la critique textuelle, de la critique des faits, de la critique d’authenticité et de la critique doctrinale. Si la critique historique se montre parfois hésitante, on sera peut-être surpris de constater que c’est dans le champ du religieux que l’esprit critique s’exerce le plus intensément et le plus rigoureusement, qu’il s’agisse de l’établissement du texte de la Bible, du rejet de certaines superstitions ou de la mise à l’épreuve de toutes les thèses de la théologie, y compris des plus fondamentales. Deux contributions portant sur le xvi e siècle, considéré comme le début de l’esprit critique, montrent que le Moyen Âge soutient bien la comparaison. Cet esprit critique se développe en effet dans tous les domaines, surtout à partir des contradictions entre autorités: que faire quand deux autorités de même niveau s’affrontent? Les auteurs du Moyen Âge ne se sont pas résolus à l’aporie et, après avoir examiné tous les aspects d’une «question» (théologique, scientifique, historique…), ont toujours cherché une solutio, manifestant ainsi une liberté qui nous étonne.
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La prière en latin, de l’Antiquité au XVIe siècle : formes, évolutions, significations
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:La prière en latin, de l’Antiquité au XVIe siècle : formes, évolutions, significations show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: La prière en latin, de l’Antiquité au XVIe siècle : formes, évolutions, significationsÀ un moment où plusieurs travaux sont consacrés à la prière et où cette question semble de plus en plus intéresser la communauté scientifique, une trentaine de spécialistes — littéraires, linguistes, historiens, philosophes, théologiens — se sont réunis à Nice afin d’étudier les formes, les évolutions et les significations de la prière en latin, depuis ses origines étrusco-italiques jusqu’à la Réforme protestante. C’est ainsi plus de vingt siècles de textes eucologiques latins qui sont abordés, selon des perspectives et des approches différentes mais complémentaires, dans un dialogue riche de débats.
L’ouvrage présente tout d’abord, sur un objet central dans l’histoire de l’Occident latin, corpus des sources et problématiques: écriture et oralité, liturgie et dévotion personnelle, ruptures et continuités entre la prière païenne et chrétienne… Il illustre ensuite la rencontre entre des chercheurs de disciplines diverses qui ont entrepris d’étudier la prière latine dans toutes ses harmoniques, ainsi que sa place dans différentes sociétés: civilisation romaine, Antiquité chrétienne, Moyen Âge occidental, Réforme protestante et réaction catholique. Ce livre offre enfin une large matière à réflexions pour tous ceux qui s’intéressent au sacré et à son expression.
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La vie culturelle, intellectuelle et scientifique à la cour des Papes d’Avignon
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:La vie culturelle, intellectuelle et scientifique à la cour des Papes d’Avignon show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: La vie culturelle, intellectuelle et scientifique à la cour des Papes d’AvignonSi nous sommes bien informés concernant la vie scientifique et l’importance de la médecine à la Cour des Papes pendant le 13e siècle, il n’en va pas de même à propos de la Cour des Papes d’Avignon. Aucune étude d’ensemble n’a paru jusqu’à présent et la vie culturelle, scientifique et intellectuelle qui s’y déroula reste encore peu connue à bien des égards.
Afin de pallier cette lacune, plusieurs chercheurs ont accepté de présenter le résultat de recherches ponctuelles afin de donner un premier aperçu de la richesse de ce milieu. Les exposés illustrent la dimension interdisciplinaire du projet et portent surtout sur la bibliothèque des Papes, la production de manuscrits et les débats théologiques qui eurent lieu à Avignon. En outre, on trouvera un nouvel inventaire des manuscrits de Clément VI réalisé à l’aide de découvertes récentes ainsi que l’édition critique inédite de quelques textes susceptibles de mieux mettre en lumière les débats théologiques qui se déroulèrent à la Cour des Papes.
Les différents Papes eurent chacun leur politique et leurs intérêts. Mais de manière générale, on peut dire que sous leur pontificat la vie culturelle, scientifique, intellectuelle et artistique se développa de manière brillante. Il reste à espérer que ce volume incitera les chercheurs à montrer dans des recherches futures qu’il reste encore bien des aspects à mettre en lumière et bien des découvertes à faire dans les manuscrits et les archives.
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Les élites au haut moyen âge
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Les élites au haut moyen âge show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Les élites au haut moyen âgeL’ouvrage propose un objet d’étude fascinant et paradoxal à la fois, celui des crises et du renouvellement des élites au haut Moyen Âge. Laissant de côté les concepts de noblesse on d’aristocratie, il adopte celui d’élites, emprunté à la sociologie, et braque ainsi le projecteur sur tous ceux qui d’une manière ou d’une autre exercent, dans leur champ, un pouvoir social lié à l’excellence, que ce soit celle de la naissance et du sang, on celle de la capacité, dans une activité quelconque, à se distinguer et à en tirer prestige, richesse ou honneur, celle du savoir enfin. Il prend donc en compte les élites du royaume autant que celle du village, les ecclésiastiques comme les laïcs. Reprenant l’idée de circulation des élites, il recherche les processus qui ont permis aux élites de survivre aux crises et de continuer d’asseoir leur domination quand le changement est si fort qu’il affecte l’ensemble de la société. L’enquête a été conduite sur la longue durée, depuis la fin du monde antique jusqu’au XIe siecle, et dans diverses régions (Espagne, France, Allemagne, Italie). Elle s’est attachée à des moments particuliers de mutation, à des types de crises, à des groupes d’élites en difficulté, à des familles qui ont connu une ascension rapide avant de s’effacer lentement… Les crises ont exacerbé la compétition sociale, elles ont aussi accéleré la mobilité et le renouvellement des élites. Indubitablement, les élites out survécu aux crises en tant que groupes dominants, mais assurément, dans la durée, elles ne se composaient ni des mêmes groupes, ni des mêmes familles.
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L’image dans la pensée et l’art au Moyen Age
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:L’image dans la pensée et l’art au Moyen Age show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: L’image dans la pensée et l’art au Moyen AgeChaque année, depuis l’an 2000, un colloque pluridisciplinaire organisé par Rencontres Médiévales européennes permet l’approfondissement des études sur l’art et la liturgie au Moyen-Âge, principalement aux xii e et xiii e siècles. Ce sont les différentes composantes de la pensée religieuse qui sont ainsi cernées et qui se révèlent être une part importante de l’originalité de la civilisation européenne. Ce n’est pas une culture morte qui est exhumée mais bel et bien les points de repère qui font cruellement défaut à la société actuelle.
L’image pour l’image est un produit du xxi e siècle. Le tourbillon de représentations visuelles qui matraquent certains individus à toute heure, en tous lieux, avec des conséquences dramatiques parfois, est l’apanage malheureux de notre époque. Nos ancêtres, eux, se donnaient le temps de réfléchir à ce que signifiait ce à quoi ils allaient donner forme. C’est pourquoi l’image religieuse médiévale nous frappe autant, non seulement par son côté esthétique, mais parce qu’elle est lourde de spiritualité et de sens. Les hommes avaient ainsi conscience d’appartenir à une même société car ils savaient que, derrière chaque image, l’histoire racontée était la leur.
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L’écrit et le manuscrit à la fin du Moyen Âge
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:L’écrit et le manuscrit à la fin du Moyen Âge show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: L’écrit et le manuscrit à la fin du Moyen ÂgeDu XIVe au début du XVIe siècle, le processus de création littéraire dévoile un nouveau rapport de l’auteur à son œuvre sous-tendu par le souci de donner corps à un livre, de donner vie à un objet qui transmettra un écrit. Cette singulière préoccupation véhicule un étonnant acte de foi en l’avenir, en une permanence que les aléas de la tradition manuscrite, voire de la réception contemporaine, démentent parfois. Centrées sur la préoccupation pour la matérialité jusque dans ses plus infimes détails, les contributions rassemblées dans ce volume font revivre les auteurs médiévaux et leurs œuvres dans le concret de l’espace manuscrit, et leur confèrent ainsi un nouvel éclairage, que n’apporte pas la seule lecture littéraire. Trente spécialistes de l’histoire du livre et de la littérature présentent, dans ce volume issu du 2e colloque international du Groupe de recherche sur le moyen français de l’Université catholique de Louvain (12, 13 et 14 mai 2005), un discours original et stimulant sur les rapports du codex et de ses contextes.
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Making and Marketing: Studies of the Painting Process in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Workshops
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Mary of Oignies
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Mary of Oignies show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Mary of OigniesMary of Oignies (1177-1213) was one of the first of the holy women who transformed religious life in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Living as a beguine and a free anchoress, she offered spiritual and temporal guidance to people from a diverse range of social stations and professions, including high clerics and common lay-people. Indeed, contemporary and later accounts reveal that Mary of Oignies greatly influenced the medieval Christian world.
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Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Narrative and History in the Early Medieval WestThis collection deliberately brings together work which is chronologically, geographically and generically diverse. Texts studied include traditional narrative historiography, alongside poetry, chronicles, charters, dispute settlements and hagiography. The essays range from Italy and Frankia to Scandinavia and England, as they examine texts produced from the seventh to the early twelfth century. In exploring the nature and function of narrative in texts, which modern scholars use to study the Middle Ages, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume integrate social, political, intellectual and literary history. Each essay and the volume as a whole illustrate that narrative form offers both new vantage points on the Middle Ages and new opportunities for collaborative study.
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People and Space in the Middle Ages, 300-1300
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:People and Space in the Middle Ages, 300-1300 show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: People and Space in the Middle Ages, 300-1300This book compares community definition and change in the temperate zones of southern Britain and northern France with the starkly contrasting regions of the Spanish meseta and Iceland. Local communities were fundamental to human societies in the pre-industrial world; crucial in supporting their members and regulating their relationships, as well as in wider society. While geographical and biological work on territoriality is very good, existing archaeological literature is rarely time-specific and lacks wider social context; most of its premises are too simple for the interdependencies of the early medieval world. Historical work, by contrast, has a weak sense of territory and no sense of scale; like much archaeological work, there is confusion about distinctions - and relationships - between kin groups, neighbourhood groups, collections of tenants and small polities.
The contributors to this book address what determined the size and shape of communities in the early historic past and the ways that communities delineated themselves in physical terms. The roles of the environment, labour patterns, the church and the physical proximity of residences in determining community identity are also examined. Additional themes include social exclusion, the community as an elite body, and the various stimuli for change in community structure. Major issues surrounding relationships between the local and the governmental are investigated: did larger polities exploit pre-existing communities, or did developments in governance call local communities into being?
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Plantagenêts et Capétiens: confrontations et héritages
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Plantagenêts et Capétiens: confrontations et héritages show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Plantagenêts et Capétiens: confrontations et héritagesAu printemps 1204, Aliénor d’Aquitaine s’éteint tandis que les armées de Philippe Auguste conquièrent l’Anjou et la Normandie. La disparition de la reine coïncide avec l’effondrement de l’Empire Plantagenêt, tout comme, une cinquantaine d’années auparavant, son remariage avec Henri II avait présidé à la naissance de ce conglomérat disparate de territoires de l’Ouest de la France et des îles britanniques. Épouse, mère ou veuve, Aliénor est le personnage clef de cette construction géopolitique, qui est avant tout une histoire de famille. Il en va de même dans le combat acharné qui oppose les Plantagenêts, sa nouvelle dynastie d’adoption, aux Capétiens de Louis VII, dont elle fut jadis la femme, et de Philippe Auguste, son beau-fils. Le conflit entre les deux maisons touche directement des principautés territoriales du continent. Les lignages aristocratiques de Normandie, Bretagne, Anjou, Poitou et Gascogne participent ainsi à ces luttes, qu’attisent parfois les fils d’Henri II ou le neveu de Jean Sans Terre, en révolte contre leur père ou oncle. Enfin, pour mieux gouverner et pour donner de l’éclat à leur cour, les Plantagenêts s’entourent d’intellectuels promouvant une culture originale. Parenté, guerre et savoir aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles sont au cœur de cet ouvrage.
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Representations of Power in Medieval Germany
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Representations of Power in Medieval Germany show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Representations of Power in Medieval GermanyThis book brings together a group of leading experts on the political history of Germany and the medieval Empire from the Carolingian period to the end of the Middle Ages. Its purpose is to introduce and analyze key concepts in the study of medieval political culture. The representation of power by means of texts, buildings and images is a theme which has long interested historians. However, recent debates and methodological insights have fundamentally altered the way this subject is perceived, opening it up to perspectives unnoticed by its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century. By taking account of these debates and insights, this volume explores a series of fundamental questions. How was power defined in a medieval context? How was it claimed, legitimized and disputed? What were the moral parameters against which its exercise was judged? How did different spheres of political power interact? What roles were played by texts, images and rituals in the maintenance of, and challenges to, the political order? The contributors bring varied and original approaches to these and other questions, illuminating the complex power relationships which determined the changing political history of medieval Germany.
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Stucs et décors de la fin de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge (Ve-XIIe siècle)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Stucs et décors de la fin de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge (Ve-XIIe siècle) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Stucs et décors de la fin de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge (Ve-XIIe siècle)Le stuc, un art à part entière
L’importance du stuc comme matériau et processus de décor a longtemps été ignorée. Les diverses contributions à ce colloque permettent, pour la première fois, d’en saisir la portée sur une longue durée. Avec ses origines antiques ou moyen-orientales, ses croisements avec la peinture ou la sculpture, sa diversité dans une grande partie de l’Europe, sa présence est désormais perçue comme permanente entre le iv e et le xii e siècle. Une meilleure connaissance de sa fabrication grâce à de nombreuses analyses en laboratoire, une relecture d’ensembles jusque-là peu étudiés comme Disentis, ou découverts par l’archéologie comme Vouneuil-sous-Biard, Bordeaux ou Arles-sur-Tech, illustrent mieux aujourd’hui cette conception particulière de l’art du relief transmise et sans cesse renouvelée depuis l’Antiquité tardive.
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Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Teaching and Learning in Northern EuropeThe essays in this collection focus not on texts but on people, specifically on teachers and their students, beginning with the late Carolingian era and continuing through the creation of monastic and secular schools in the centuries before the first universities. Central to the articles in this volume are the schools and communities of Northern France and England, including Reims, Bec, Soissons, and Canterbury, whose patterns of thought and learning gave shape to intellectual endeavours throughout medieval Europe. In addition to some of the most prominent personalities of the day (among them Gerbert of Reims, Lanfranc and Anselm of Bec, Ivo of Chatres, and John of Salisbury), the contributors examine those teachers and students who worked in the shadows: figures like the biblical exegete Richard of Préaux and the musical innovator Theinred of Dover. The focus throughout the volume is on personalities and personal relationships, thus recreating the human connections that lay behind medieval humanism and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance. Taken together, the essays here create a coherent and compelling picture of the tumultuous time before the universities came to organize and take control of teaching and learning, a seminal period when teaching methods and curricula grew out of the particular experience of specific teachers and their interactions with their students.
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Transforming the Medieval World
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Transforming the Medieval World show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Transforming the Medieval WorldWhen viewed retrospectively, the period between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries was a phase of European history that was characterized by a radical and fundamental media transformation. Before this time, the vast majority of the population had never encountered the written word in their day-to-day activities. From the beginning of the second millennium, however, texts began to appear in, and influence, almost every sphere of human life. Medieval written texts were subject to revision, copying, embellishments, and deletions; they were read silently and aloud, and they were recited in a variety of contexts. The multimedia environment offered on the CD visualizes these textual transformations and illustrates the adaptability and dynamism of writing and its reception. The uses of writing in this early phase of intensive European literacy are analysed in eleven separate multimedia presentations, which are almost all based on research carried out by the Special Research Unit (SFB) between 1986 and 1999. The CD also contains an anthology of important essays, which provide the user with further reading materials, as well as a general bibliography. The book which accompanies the CD-ROM facilitates the use of the CD itself, and provides the various multimedia presentations in written format. As such, Transforming the Medieval World will be invaluable to both scholars and students interested in medieval literacy.
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Urban Theatre in the Low Countries
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Urban Theatre in the Low Countries show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Urban Theatre in the Low CountriesThis collection of essays by international scholars focuses on the vernacular urban culture of the Chambers of Rhetoric in the Low Countries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Reflecting social, religious, and economic realities at a time of fundamental change, the Rhetoricians’ plays also reveal a range of poetic and theatrical conventions that make them an important source of information both on practical stagecraft and on the role of theatre in the urban community, as seen in their involvement in civic processions or the organization of drama competitions. The volume sets the Rhetoricians’ drama in the cultural life of the provinces of the Low Countries during a period dominated by ruling foreign dynasties: the Burgundian dukes and then the Habsburg dynasty, most prominently the Emperor Charles V and his son King Philip II of Spain. It was a time of intense religious controversy which gave rise to debates both on and off stage. These debates, far from damaging Rhetorician culture, actually stimulated its activities and development to such an extent that Rhetoricians became representative voices for their time. The admixture of entertainment and education offered by the Chambers to their own members - and to a wider public - was one which, though originating in a medieval context, soon became linked with humanist and Renaissance thinking. This volume illustrates how, as a consequence, the Chambers of Rhetoric contributed to the development in the Low Countries of an increasingly articulate society.
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"Scribere sanctorum gesta"
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:"Scribere sanctorum gesta" show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: "Scribere sanctorum gesta"Dans les études hagiographiques comme dans d’autres domaines de l’histoire médiévale, il s’avère indispensable de retourner aux sources, et d’abord aux manuscrits et aux œuvres qu’ils véhiculent. Le manuscrit ancre le texte dans un contexte particulier, informe sur les milieux dans lesquels il a été produit ou reçu, documente sur les stratégies qui ont présidé à sa diffusion. À qui sait lire les apparats critiques et les descriptions codicologiques, il apporte une moisson d’informations. Lorsqu’ils sont regroupés en ensembles — ensembles des exemplaires d’une même œuvre, ensembles des exemplaires d’une même collection, ensembles de collections apparentées —, les textes hagiographiques acquièrent un intérêt plus large encore, éclairant les champs culturel, social ou économique à la lumière de l’histoire de leur édition. En la matière, les travaux de Guy Philippart sont à placer au premier plan de la recherche des trente dernières années. Songeons à sa contribution fondamentale à la typologie des légendiers médiévaux, à la base de données «Légendiers latins», qui a donné naissance à la BHLms, et à l’Histoire internationale de la littérature hagiographique en cours de publication. C’est tout naturellement autour de la littérature hagiographique, en particulier les thèmes de l’écriture — de la réécriture — et de l’édition manuscrite des textes hagiographiques médiévaux, que quatre de ses anciens étudiants ont réuni une trentaine de spécialistes de renommée internationale. Le résultat? Une collection d’études qui aborde un large éventail de problématiques actuelles. Au-delà de l’hommage au chercheur et à l’enseignant, ce livre se veut aussi témoignage d’amitié.
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"Tout le temps du veneour est sanz oyseuseté"
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:"Tout le temps du veneour est sanz oyseuseté" show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: "Tout le temps du veneour est sanz oyseuseté"Pour honorer le professeur Yves Christe, des chercheurs de six pays se sont réunis et ont fait le bilan de leurs recherches sur des sujets chers au dédicataire de ce volume: l’iconographie chrétienne, l’Apocalypse, les manuscrits des Bibles moralisées, le conditionnement des œuvres par rapport à leur contexte historique et liturgique, et l’histoire de leur conservation. Cet assemblage dessine un panorama d’une grande richesse, passionnante pour toute personne s’intéressant à l’art chrétien et à la civilisation du Moyen Age. Yves Christe est l’un des meilleurs spécialistes de l’iconographie paléochrétienne et médiévale; ses travaux sur l’Apocalypse et le Jugement dernier font autorité.
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Abbatiat et abbés dans l’ordre de Prémontré
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Abbatiat et abbés dans l’ordre de Prémontré show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Abbatiat et abbés dans l’ordre de PrémontréLe présent volume rassemble une vingtaine de communications données lors du 25e colloque du Centre d’Études et de Recherches Prémontrées, tenu à l’abbaye de Tongerlo (Belgique). La thématique de cette rencontre était double: d’une part examiner, au long de l’histoire d’un ordre religieux ancien (xii e-xxi e siècles) le fonctionnement du régime abbatial, avec ses évolutions spirituelles, juridiques, sociales, liées aux transformations du monde où les communautés se meuvent. D’autre part, proposer comme une galerie de portraits d’abbés, significatifs des diverses époques de l’histoire norbertine. Cette douzaine de figures permet de réfléchir encore à la nature de la fonction, à la manière dont les abbés eux-mêmes conçoivent et investissent leur rôle.
Dans cette passionnante enquête sur un matériau vivant et diversifié, la quantité et la qualité des sources varient aussi: tandis que l’époque médiévale contient beaucoup d’inconnues (les «listes abbatiales» elles-mêmes sont peu assurées, à haute époque), la période moderne et contemporaine fait apparaître des champs de recherche tout à fait inexplorés: il manque encore non seulement une prosopographie générale, mais aussi une étude approfondie des cursus honorum, des modes et pratiques d’élections, des rapports souvent conflictuels entre le pouvoir central, le pouvoir local, et la «base».
La complexité du pouvoir abbatial (spirituel, pastoral, économique, politique) se dessine à travers ces études, et cet ouvrage se veut autant un état de la question qu’une invitation à de nouvelles recherches dans un domaine peu exploré de l’histoire monastique ou canoniale.
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Alain de Lille, le docteur universel
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Alain de Lille, le docteur universel show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Alain de Lille, le docteur universelNé aux alentours de 1120, surnommé le «Docteur universel», Alain de Lille doit ce titre à ses talents de philosophe, de théologien, de prédicateur et de poète, ainsi qu’à l’étendue de ses connaissances. Celui dont l’épitaphe dit qu’«il a su tout ce que l’homme pouvait savoir» est à lui seul un résumé des intérêts multiples de son temps. Sa pensée est le point de rencontre des grands courants philosophico-théologiques du XIIe siècle; au fait des dernières avancées techniques dans les arts libéraux, il demeure en même temps un parfait témoin de l’humanisme littéraire. A l’occasion du huitième centenaire de sa mort, il était nécessaire de réexplorer la synthèse qu’a opérée Alain des savoirs de cette époque charnière, et de rappeler les pistes et les problématiques qu’il a ouvertes, peu avant le grand essor universitaire du XIIIe siècle.
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Autour de Guillaume d’Auvergne († 1249)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Autour de Guillaume d’Auvergne († 1249) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Autour de Guillaume d’Auvergne († 1249)Évêque de Paris de 1228 à 1249, Guillaume d’Auvergne figure parmi les personnalités qui ont contribué de manière importante à animer la vie culturelle de la première moitié du xiii e siècle. Témoin et acteur des crises intellectuelles et institutionnelles qui ont secoué l’Université à cette époque, proche de la cour de saint Louis et des milieux mendiants de la capitale capétienne, membre de la commission qui a prononcé la condamnation officielle du Talmud, Guillaume a été un remarquable penseur et un pasteur zélé. Son œuvre imposante témoigne de la diversité de ses intérêts et de l’originalité, dans bien des domaines, de sa démarche. Le prélat parisien est cependant davantage célèbre que connu. La seule monographie qui lui a été consacrée, celle de Noël Valois, date de 1880, et la plupart de ses écrits doivent encore être consultés dans une édition du xvii e siècle. Cet ouvrage n’a pas l’ambition de proposer une étude exhaustive sur la place et le rôle de l’évêque de Paris dans la culture médiévale. Les articles qui le composent permettent néanmoins d’explorer, parfois avec l’appui de textes encore inédits, quelques-unes des nombreuses facettes d’une œuvre à la fois complexe et fascinante.
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Borders, Barriers, and Ethnogenesis
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Borders, Barriers, and Ethnogenesis show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Borders, Barriers, and EthnogenesisThis collection addresses an audience of early medievalists with an interest in material culture and its use in building ethnic boundaries. The traditional concept of frontier is a subject of current debate by historians and archaeologists alike, but sometimes without reference to each other. For instance, the social and cultural construction of (political) frontiers remains outside the current focus of post-processualist archaeology, despite the significance of borders for the representation of power, one of the most popular topics with archaeologists interested in symbols and ideology. Similarly, historians of the early Middle Ages have only recently developed an interest in the political manipulation of cultural difference across state frontiers. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this new direction of research is the emphasis on political frontiers as crucial for the creation, rather than separation, of ethnic configurations. Recent work on the relation between monastic communities and political frontiers has shown the potential for a study of frontier symbolism. The idea of the present volume grew out of the realization that there was a great deal of new work being done in this direction which deserved a wider audience. This was true both of studies of late antique frontiers and of more recent research on medieval frontier societies. In addition, several authors address the issue of religious identities and their relations with ethnicity and state ideology. In that respect, the book is directed to a large audience, particularly because of its wide geographical range, from Iberia and the Balkans to Cilicia and Iran.
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Cinquante années d’études médiévales. À la confluence de nos disciplines
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Cinquante années d’études médiévales. À la confluence de nos disciplines show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Cinquante années d’études médiévales. À la confluence de nos disciplinesEn 2003, le Centre d’Études supérieures de Civilisation médiévale de Poitiers a célébré ses cinquante années d’existence par la tenue d’une série de manifestations scientifiques et culturelles dont un grand colloque international au titre évocateur, retenu pour la présente publication: Cinquante années d’études médiévales. À la confluence de nos disciplines.
Les Actes de ce colloque, qui a reflété la place prééminente du CESCM au sein des études médiévales internationales ainsi que la diversité et la richesse du travail interdisciplinaire produit par les équipes de recherche et les services documentaires du Centre, constituent donc un ouvrage de référence non seulement pour les domaines abordés mais aussi pour la médiévistique en général.
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Corpo e anima, sensi interni e intelletto dai secoli XIII-XIV ai post-cartesiani e spinoziani
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Corpo e anima, sensi interni e intelletto dai secoli XIII-XIV ai post-cartesiani e spinoziani show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Corpo e anima, sensi interni e intelletto dai secoli XIII-XIV ai post-cartesiani e spinozianiI contributi raccolti nel volume permettono di ricostruire alcuni nuclei storico- dottrinali sulla natura dei sensi interni e sulle complesse relazioni anima-corpo; tale problema attraversa l’intera storia della filosofia, dalla tarda antichità fino al radicale mutamento di prospettiva operato da Cartesio, Spinoza, Malebranche e dai grandi maestri del Seicento. Da queste ricerche emergono le differenze semantico-concettuali e le diverse valutazioni della phantasia, della imaginatio, intesa come cogitatio, o ragionamento estimativo e valutativo, e degli altri sensi interni — mutamenti e novità introdotti soprattutto grazie alla mediazione dei filosofi e degli scienziati arabi. Questi nuovi orizzonti del filosofare costituiscono, secondo modalità gnoseologiche e ontologiche variabili da un filosofo all’altro, il sostrato delle noetiche e delle metafisiche della tradizione aristotelica medievale e rinascimentale. Per quanto concerne la filosofia moderna, gli studi qui condotti mostrano come il nesso anima-corpo non si costituisca attraverso la zione della sensibilità interna o esterna intesa nei modi tradizionali delle correnti filosofiche tardo-antiche e medievali, ma si configuri piuttosto come problema dell’identità della persona psico-fisica e della sua stessa individualità. Tali ricerche evidenziano, quindi, da una parte quanto sia complesso l’orizzonte delle teorie delle funzioni mediane della psiche, tra intelletto e senso; dall’altra, come esse non siano riducibili agli stereotipi modelli interpretativi monisti o dualisti — fisicisti o spiritualisti — tanto della tradizione antica e medievale quanto di quella moderna.
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Du métier des armes à la vie de cour, de la forteresse au château de séjour : XIVe-XVIe siècles
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Du métier des armes à la vie de cour, de la forteresse au château de séjour : XIVe-XVIe siècles show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Du métier des armes à la vie de cour, de la forteresse au château de séjour : XIVe-XVIe sièclesCe premier colloque au château fort d’Écaussinnes-Lalaing était consacré à l’étude des transformations de l’architecture extérieure et intérieure des forteresses pendant cette période cruciale où l’évolution des armes à feu rendit obsolètes les anciens systèmes de défense. Un constat général de la forme des tours de défense précède l’examen des premières modifications des traditionnelles archères au profit de l’usage des canons. Le Hainaut joue un rôle politique important durant cette période et beaucoup de petits et grands seigneurs se font bâtir des résidences et places fortes. D’un panorama global à l’approche de cas précis, tels ceux de Beersel, Écaussinnes-Lalaing et Écaussinnes-d’Enghien, le parcours est riche d’interrogations et de recherches nouvelles. Lalaing, Croÿ, Egmond, proches du pouvoir, voyagent et content leurs découvertes des aménagements d’autres castels. Entraînés sur les routes de France, d’utiles comparaisons avec les châteaux de Ravel et de Tarascon, ont pu être tentées, quant à leur structure, mais aussi quant à leurs décorations peintes ou à la fonction des cheminées. L’appartenance à ces grandes familles impose une approche héraldique ou de la carrière de chefs de guerre célèbres, tels Florent d’Egmond et Adrien de Croÿ. L’érudition de l’époque ne manque pas à l’appel avec l’examen de la bibliothèque d’un fonctionnaire bourguignon. Costumes et parures sont également à l’honneur avec un examen du récit d’Olivier de La Marche, ou des bijoux de la société dijonnaise. Enfin, l’étude de l’inscription de l’un des plus célèbres monuments funéraires de l’époque, celui de Philippe Pot, permet de retracer l’ensemble d’une carrière ainsi que les motivations et l’acte politique post mortem de ce personnage emblématique.
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Emotions in the Heart of the City (14th-16th century)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Emotions in the Heart of the City (14th-16th century) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Emotions in the Heart of the City (14th-16th century)Whoever is curious about emotions and their expression in the Old Regime has to discover Johan Huizinga’s works. From his point of view, even if it is a real challenge to comprehend the world of the mind and of the sentimental life, historians of medieval and early modern societies cannot help themselves from examining character studies to reconcile daily life and historicity. Anglo-Saxon studies have proved since the beginning of the seventies that we can give historical meaning to fierce emotions like anger and fear, to mental suffering characterized by tears and pain, or even to the sudden feeling of aesthetic pleasure, mystical ecstasy and delight… all those emotions which put the breath of life into anonymous people crowded into our historical studies. Outside the debates of psycho-history, our study views the topic of emotions from the angle of social construction and civilization’s process.
The town reveals itself as an ideal context within which to articulate values, mentalities, customs and aesthetics. From the marketplace to the court of justice, from the procession route to the scaffold, from the theatre stage to the scene of riots, the town concentrates in its heart a public space where both delicate and strong emotions are repeatedly enacted. The purpose of this book is to develop different approaches —according to sphere, events, social categories, social relations, gender, etc.— and thus to suggest a more precise analysis of emotion as a means of communication inside the town. Three urban social «spheres» where divergent emotions were publicly expressed, manipulated, discussed and represented are put into focus: that of the urban revolt, that of the urban administration of justice and that of the staging of urban theatre and poetry.
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Forms of Servitude in Northern and Central Europe
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Forms of Servitude in Northern and Central Europe show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Forms of Servitude in Northern and Central EuropeIt was once assumed that nearly all agricultural labourers in medieval Europe were serfs. Serfdom was distinct from slavery in that serfs could contract legitimate marriages, hold personal property and could not be moved around at will. Historians more recently moved away from examining servile condition and its implications and focused on the seigneurial regime and village society with little regard for the influence of status.
In the Middle Ages and indeed in all pre-industrial societies, the vast majority of the population tilled the land. We are still not in a good position to evaluate how noble and ecclesiastical landlords received revenues from lands they were only indirectly engaged in farming, despite this being a basic factor that governed medieval society. What kind of agricultural system provided the impetus for economic growth that so dramatically increased the number of cities and volume of trade?
There is no modern, synthetic book on medieval serfdom that compares regions or draws general conclusions about it. This work attempts such a synthesis and also shows avenues of future research, but most importantly it is intended to reorient attention to the importance of serfdom in the structure of medieval society.
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From Dead of Night to End of Day: The Medieval Customs of Cluny
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:From Dead of Night to End of Day: The Medieval Customs of Cluny show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: From Dead of Night to End of Day: The Medieval Customs of Cluny[Au cœur des divers articles de cet ouvrage collectif sont quatre coutumiers, rédigés au cours d’une centaine d’année environ à partir de la fin du Xe siècle, qui décrivent la vie quotidienne et liturgique de l’abbaye de Cluny. Deux objectifs principaux motivèrent la création de ce volume: premièrement mettre en valeur la richesse inégalée des coutumiers monastiques pour les chercheurs, à commencer par les médiévistes, toutes disciplines confondues, et deuxièmement faciliter l’emploi de ces sources qui peuvent paraître à première vue difficiles d’un abord. Seule une approche multidisciplinaire pouvait permettre d’illustrer tout l’éventail d’informations contenues dans ces sources; c’est pourquoi les éditrices ont réuni des études extrêmement variées mais complémentaires, qui mettent bien en valeur la richesse de ces écrits. Parmi les thèmes principaux abordés en ce livre se trouvent la genèse et la transmission des coutumiers, la relation entre ces textes et la pratique, l’information qu’ils offrent sur la fonction des espaces monastiques ainsi que la ritualisation de la vie communautaire.
,At the heart of the various articles in this book are four customaries, compiled over the course of nearly a hundred years beginning at the end of the tenth century, that describe daily life and liturgy at the abbey of Cluny. Two principal objectives motivated the creation of the present volume of essays: first, to bring out the unequaled richness of these monastic customaries for scholars, primarily medievalists in all disciplines; and second, to facilitate the use of these sources, which can be challenging at first sight. Drawing upon the multiple disciplines needed to account for the full range of information presented by the customaries, the editors have brought together varied and complementary approaches to these multifaceted documents. Among the principal themes common to the studies in this volume are the genesis and transmission of the customaries, the relationship between texts and practice, and the evidence they offer for the function of monastic spaces as well as for the ritualization of communal life.
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Guerre, pouvoirs et idéologies dans l’Espagne chrétienne aux alentours de l’an mil
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Guerre, pouvoirs et idéologies dans l’Espagne chrétienne aux alentours de l’an mil show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Guerre, pouvoirs et idéologies dans l’Espagne chrétienne aux alentours de l’an milDepuis l’invasion arabo-berbère de la Péninsule ibérique en 711, les sociétés hispaniques chrétiennes sont très affectées par la guerre. Aux alentours de l’an mil, cette guerre prend une nouvelle dimension. Après une période de conflits internes et de défaites, culminant lors des fameux raids d’al-Mansûr, les principautés chrétiennes prennent l’offensive.
A cet égard, l’an mil constitue bien un tournant dans l’histoire de l’Espagne chrétienne. Vers le milieu du onzième siècle, la Reconquista est en marche, tandis que quatre forces politiques s’imposent: les royaumes de León, de Pampelune et d’Aragon, et les comtés catalans. La multiplication des conflits influe très fortement sur l’organisation des pouvoirs civils, et implique des enjeux fondamentaux dans la genèse des Espagnes chrétiennes médiévales, qui connaissent alors de profondes mutations culturelles, juridiques et idéologiques.
Les 26, 27 et 28 septembre 2002, plusieurs historiens et historiens de l’art venus de France, d’Espagne et d’Allemagne se sont retrouvés au Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale de Poitiers et à Angoulême pour travailler sur ces thèmes. Ils ont suivi trois axes de recherche, qui structurent les actes de ce colloque: la rencontre des mondes chrétien et musulman, la guerre comme enjeu de pouvoir et la dimension religieuse des idéologies.
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Healing the Body Politic
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Healing the Body Politic show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Healing the Body PoliticChristine de Pizan (1364-1431) has been recognized as a poet, early humanist and feminist precursor but rarely as political theorist whose works were intended to have a direct impact on the tumultuous politics of her time. The essays in this collection focus on Christine as a political writer and provide an important resource for those wishing to understand her political thought. They locate her political writing in the late medieval tradition, discussing her indebtedness to Aristotle, Aquinas and Augustine as well as her transformations of their thought. They also illuminate Christine’s ‘political epistemology’: her understanding of political wisdom as a part of theology, the knowledge of God. New light is thrown on the circumstances which prompted Christine to write on political issues and on her attitude to Isabeau of Bavaria. These essays show that Christine’s originality consisted in her capacity to modify and feminize the tradition of Christian Aristotelianism through the use of elements of Christian imagery, in particular Mariology, in order to construct an image of the virtuous and prudent monarch which had lost the explicitly manly and warlike character of the Aristotelian phronimos. This reconfigured image of the monarch lent itself to the extension which she developed in her more feminist works, which demonstrated the prudence of women and their capacity, in times of need, to function as authoritative political figures.
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Household, Women, and Christianities
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Household, Women, and Christianities show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Household, Women, and ChristianitiesFrom its earliest beginnings in the homes of its members, the church has been the ‘house’ of God, and the episcopal and monastic institutions in which many of God’s professed servants and officials dwell have been seen as religious ‘houses’. The church’s history is accordingly the history of an institution largely conceived of as a household. In recent years, secular life and lifestyles in late antiquity and the Middle Ages have been illuminated through renewed attention to the economic and social history of households, while scholarship on women has produced studies of the lives and the devotional reading of laywomen and women religious. This volume is a pioneering collection that unites study of the household with women’s religious practices as a focus of enquiry. It moves beyond consideration of the church’s roles in women’s history to the impact of women’s householding on the history of the church.
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Imagining the Book
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Imagining the Book show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Imagining the BookImagining the Book offers a snapshot of current research in English manuscript study in the pre-modern period on the inter-related topics of patrons and collectors, compilers, editors and readers, and identities beyond the book. This volume responds to the recent development and institutionalization of ‘History of the Book’ within the wider discipline. Scholars working in the pre-printing era with the material vestiges of a predominantly manuscript culture are currently establishing their own models of production and reception. Research in this area is now an accepted part of twenty-first century medieval studies. Within such a context, it is frequently observed that scribal culture found imaginative ways to deal with the technological watersheds represented by the transition from memory to written record, roll to codex, or script to print. In such an ‘eventful’ environment, texts and books not infrequently slip through the semi-permeable boundaries laboured over by previous generations of medievalists, boundaries that demarcate orality and literacy; ‘literary’ and ‘historical’; ‘religious’ and ‘secular’; pre- and post-Conquest compositions, or ‘medieval’ and ‘Renaissance’ attitudes and writings. Once texts are regarded as offering indices of community- or self-definition, or models of piety and good behaviour (and the codices holding them statements of prestige and influence), the book historian is left to contemplate the real or imagined importance and status of books and writing within the larger socio-political, often local, milieux in which they were once produced and read.
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In principio erat verbum
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:In principio erat verbum show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: In principio erat verbumPaul Tombeur a, pendant les nombreuses années de son enseignement à l’Université Catholique de Louvain, à Louvain-la-Neuve, été un professeur extraordinaire, passionné, exigeant, stimulant, curieux…
Plusieurs des médiévistes qu’il a formés se sont réunis pour lui rendre hommage. De manière très diverse, mais toujours à partir de textes latins, puisque la diversité chronologique et thématique du latin est très chère à Paul Tombeur. Avec Augustin et Grégoire, Odon de Cluny, Hugues de Saint-Victor, Etienne Langton, Thomas d’Aquin…, mais aussi Gautier de Thérouanne, Honorius Augustodunensis, les commentaires liturgiques du XIIe s., les chartes françaises ou flamandes, c’est bien un latin très divers qui est ici mis à l’honneur. Et qui l’est de manière très diverse, puisque les contributions portent sur la théologie, la philosophie, l’hagiographie, la liturgie, la langue, le droit, la diplomatique…
Un autre point commun entre les auteurs de ces Mélanges est que, comme Paul Tombeur, ils ont mis au cœur de leur recherche et de leur réflexion le texte, et plus encore le mot, qu’ils étudient le plus souvent à l’aide des bases de données informatisées (Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts, Thesaurus Formarum…), dont ils montrent à quel point elles peuvent renouveler les études médiévales.
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Les relations culturelles entre chrétiens et musulmans au Moyen Age
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Les relations culturelles entre chrétiens et musulmans au Moyen Age show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Les relations culturelles entre chrétiens et musulmans au Moyen AgeLe réveil est brutal. L’Europe somnolait sur son passé et sur ce qu’elle croyait acquis à tout jamais. Voilà que lui revient en boomerang une affaire qu’elle croyait avoir réglée une fois pour toutes, depuis les temps, ô combien lointains! de la bataille de Poitiers et ceux, plus récents, de la bataille de Lépante à laquelle elle associait toujours le nom de Cervantès.
L’Islam est de nouveau présent, non plus du fait de la conquête militaire mais de l’arrivée par vagues successives d’une population musulmane qui s’installe. Notre société, jusqu’à maintenant, n’avait pas pris tellement en compte cette situation.
Les problèmes sont là et se feront chaque année, plus compliqués, plus ardus à résoudre.
Au durcissement de la foi de certaines couches de la population musulmane répond une douce tiédeur de nos croyances chrétiennes ancestrales que nous sommes même parfois honteux de reconnaître.
Que faire, sinon reprendre notre histoire, étudier les relations culturelles qui se sont établies entre chrétiens et musulmans dès le Moyen Âge.
Notre propos aujourd’hui est de revenir aux sources des religions chrétienne et musulmane et de reprendre les discussions théologiques et philosophiques qui ont eu lieu dès le Moyen Âge.
Quels sont les points où il y a divergence fondamentale entre chrétiens et musulmans?
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Multicultural Europe and Cultural Exchange
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Multicultural Europe and Cultural Exchange show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Multicultural Europe and Cultural ExchangeContemporary criticism focuses on contested issues at the borders and in the interstices of cultures. Medieval and Early Modern European culture, previously conceived as monolithic, is now being reconceived as heterogeneous, a site of tensions, contest, accommodation, and subversion. The essays in this volume describe a Europe that is multicultural in fact, and trace the exchanges between cultural groups, subcultures and dominant cultures, and between individuals and the cultures that they inhabit.
The critical works in this volume are drawn from a variety of disciplines: art history, literary studies, history and historiography, and cultural studies. A number are interdisciplinary, examining topics of cultural studies as diverse as fashion, rhetorical self-fashioning, and the history of architecture, all in the context of their surrounding contexts. A special strength of this volume is the visual impact of its three illustrated articles. These essays will appeal to all who see the importance of reconceiving European history in terms of contemporary multicultural perspectives, as well as to those who are specially interested in medieval architecture, the history of fashion, French and English Renaissance literature, Hebraic studies, and medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean history.
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Orality and Literacy in the Middle Ages
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Orality and Literacy in the Middle Ages show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Orality and Literacy in the Middle Ages“The most important part of the title of this book is the word ‘and’.” These words form the memorable conclusion to D.H. Green’s study Medieval Listening and Reading, they encapsulate how, in the Middle Ages, orality and literacy are not to be considered as two separate and largely unrelated cultures or modes of textual transmission, but as elements in a mutual interplay and interpenetration. In this volume, scholars from Britain, Germany and North America follow Green’s insistence on the conjunction of medieval orality and literacy, and show how this approach can open up new areas for investigation as well as help to reformulate old problems. The languages and literatures covered include English, Latin, French, Occitan and German, and the essays span the whole of the period from the early Middle Ages through to the fifteenth century.
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Prêcher la paix et discipliner la société
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Prêcher la paix et discipliner la société show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Prêcher la paix et discipliner la sociétéLa paix donnée par le Christ aux fidèles selon le verset de Jean (14, 27) — «Je vous laisse la paix, je vous donne ma paix» — fut envisagée, au Moyen Âge, en fonction de la capacité qu’avaient les hommes de l’établir au sein de la société et de la sauvegarder. La paix était étroitement liée à une théologie de la domination, renvoyant à Dieu tout en servant de fondement à divers modèles d’autorité et d’obéissance.
C’est de cette paix prêchée pour discipliner et ordonner la société qu’il est surtout question dans ce livre, qui s’ouvre par une étude sur le sens et les usages des concepts de paix et de guerre entre l’Antiquité classique et l’Empire chrétien. La période envisagée ensuite — xiii e-xv e siècles — est celle du renforcement, en Europe occidentale, des institutions urbaines, de la monarchie et de la papauté.
Les études réunies ici ne se limitent pas aux productions savantes; elles tentent aussi de comprendre les relations entre idéologie et pratiques sociales, entre propagande et réception, entre discours et mécanismes de discipline sociale, entre prédication et mouvements collectifs, en observant comment les éléments majeurs énoncés dans les traités se sont glissés dans la parole publique.
À une époque où l’on assiste à l’essor de toutes sortes de prises de parole et à un certain impérialisme de la prédication, le discours sur la paix pose la question des modalités de la rencontre des champs ecclésiastique et laïque dans ce genre de discours: quant au statut des personnes qui prennent la parole (clercs ou laïcs), aux lieux (l’église, la place publique, le conseil urbain, le parlement), aux formes (le sermon ou la harangue), à la langue (latin ou vulgaire), ou encore aux sources (références aux Anciens et à l’Écriture).
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Ramon Llull und Nikolaus von Kues: Eine Begegnung im Zeichen der Toleranz - Raimondo Lullo e Niccolò Cusano: Un incontro nel segno della tolleranza
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Ramon Llull und Nikolaus von Kues: Eine Begegnung im Zeichen der Toleranz - Raimondo Lullo e Niccolò Cusano: Un incontro nel segno della tolleranza show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Ramon Llull und Nikolaus von Kues: Eine Begegnung im Zeichen der Toleranz - Raimondo Lullo e Niccolò Cusano: Un incontro nel segno della tolleranza[Il presente volume raccoglie i contributi d’un Congresso Internazionale su Raimondo Lullo e Niccolò Cusano, svoltosi dal 25 al 27 novembre 2004 a Bressanone e Bolzano (Alto Adige/Sudtirolo).
Gli articoli, quattordici in tutto, indagano, sotto il profilo storico e sistematico, il perdurevole influsso esercitato dallo studioso maiorchino Raimondo Lullo sui diversi ambiti del pensiero del vescovo di Bressanone, nella cui biblioteca a Kues nessun altro autore è rappresentato con tale frequenza come Lullo. In particolare viene dato ampio spazio all’analisi critica dei modelli di dialogo interreligioso sviluppati da entrambi i pensatori.
,Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Beiträge eines Internationalen Kongresses zu Ramon Llull und Nikolaus von Kues, der vom 25.-27. November 2004 in Brixen und Bozen (Südtirol) stattfand.
Die insgesamt vierzehn Beiträge untersuchen den nachhaltigen Einfluß des mallorquinischen Gelehrten auf den Brixner Bischof — in dessen Kueser Bibliothek kein anderer Autor so häufig vertreten ist wie Lullus — in historischer und systematischer Absicht für die verschiedenen Bereiche des cusanischen Denkens. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der kritischen Würdigung der Modelle, die beide Denker für das Gespräch zwischen den Religionen entwickeln.
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Reading Images and Texts
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Reading Images and Texts show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Reading Images and TextsRelations between images and texts have benefited from an increase in scholarly attention. In medieval studies, art historians, historians, codicologists, philologists and others have applied their methods to the study of illuminated manuscripts and other works of art. These studies have shifted from a concern about the contents of the messages contained in the artefacts (e.g. in iconography) to an interest in the ways in which they were communicated to their intended audiences. The perception of texts and images, their reception by contemporaries and by later generations have become topics in their own right. According to some, medieval images may be ‘read’. According to others, the perception of images is fundamentally different from that of texts. The analysis of individual manuscripts and works of art remains the basis for any consideration of their transmission and uses. The interactions between non-verbal and verbal forms of communication, more in particular the relations between visual symbols other than writing and the recording of speech in writing, are important for the evaluation of both images and texts.
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Religion, Culture, and Mentalities in the Medieval Low Countries
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Religion, Culture, and Mentalities in the Medieval Low Countries show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Religion, Culture, and Mentalities in the Medieval Low CountriesLudo Milis graduated from Ghent University in 1961 as the last student of François-Louis Ganshof, who in the years after Henri Pirenne’s retirement was the most prominent representative of the famous “Ghent School” of medieval history. Milis’s own academic career at Ghent span four decades in which he followed in the footsteps of his masters, yet also explored new directions. Like his predecessors, Milis always attached great importance to the critical examination of primary sources, but for him, such work must serve broader historical inquiry guided by a precise set of questions and methodological rigor. His interests lay primarily in the study of religious and cultural history, which previously had been neglected at Ghent; he was also a pioneer in the history of mentalities in the Low Countries. Milis’s research and thought found expression in several books, among which his Angelic Monks and Earthly men. Monasticism and its Meaning to Medieval Society (Boydell, 1992), translated into many languages, was probably the most influential.
This collection contains eleven essays published between 1969 and 1990. Most of them appeared in Dutch or French and have now been translated into English; two essays previously published in English were newly edited. All provide unique insight in the major themes of Milis’s work: the religious history of the Low Countries during the early and high Middle Ages, as well as the problem of religious conversion and persuasion; the rise of regular canons in the eleventh and twelfth centuries (also the subject of his doctoral dissertation on the order of Arrouaise, published in 1969); the uses of power and ideology; and the history of French Flanders. All bear witness to Milis’s inspiring ability to ask original, probing questions and to write historical syntheses accessible to a wide audience.
The collection is presented to Ludo Milis by his students on the occasion of his retirement and his sixty-fifth birthday.
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Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth CenturyRewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century offers analytical introductions to the biographical and academic trajectories as well as the scholarly contributions of the most important medievalists of the 20th century, privileging the contexts in which their influential texts in modern medieval studies were articulated and their effect on subsequent approaches to the field. The volume pays tribute to the medievalists-historians, philologists, literary critics, philosophers, historians of art and science, and theologians-whose work effectively forged contemporary academics and acknowledges a debt of gratitude for the trail they blazed in the twentieth century. An introductory essay provides a comprehensive examination of the development of historiographical perspectives on medieval studies as shaped by the subjects of the volume, contextualizing the individual chapters and offering a critical reconsideration of the manifold ways in which medievalism has been inscribed. The chapters in the book develop from interdisciplinary and transversal strategies which reflect the kind of originative work enacted by both the subjects of the volume and the scholars who write about them. A concluding essay summarizes the place of the medievalists in relation to their professional identity, to the time in which they worked, and to the national spaces that marked their scholarly production.
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Rituals, Images, and Words
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Rituals, Images, and Words show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Rituals, Images, and WordsThis collection of essays by Australian scholars offers a wealth of contemporary perspectives on cultural communication amongst men and women in late medieval and early modern Europe. Essays dealing with Florence and Venice, with Rome, Lucca, Ferrara, and Bologna, as well as with Germany, England, and Lorraine, draw attention to the array of cultural expressions which competed for space and influence across European societies of the period.
These rich studies demonstrate the vitality of cultural production during a period of rapid and often violent transition. Variously focused on formal religious rites, on painting, sculpture, and woodcuts, on sermons, poetry, and letters, the contributors pursue cultural meaning as a matter of social identity and social context - as a performance that can be shown to affirm and also exclude particular topical values. Rituals, Images, and Words highlights the complex and subtle power of rhetorical forms in the history and historiography of late medieval and early modern Europe.
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Royautés imaginaires
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Royautés imaginaires show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Royautés imaginairesL’imaginaire ne se réduit pas au chimérique, au non-être. Depuis l’Antiquité, artistes, poètes et philosophes pressentent qu’il procède du désir et appartient en premier lieu au registre de l’individuel: forces pulsionnelles, messages de soi à soi, le rêve et bientôt la création n’ont pas attendu le discours de la psychanalyse ou des diverses sciences de la culture pour forger leurs mondes autour de la réalité partagée. Les sociétés à leur tour se sont lancées par cette voie dans la quête de leur identité et ont assigné à leurs mythes le soin d’exprimer leur structure. Pour autant, le lecteur s’apercevra au fil des douze communications assemblées ci-après que les royautés évoquées ressortissent rarement du pur imaginaire et conservent jalousement un lien organique avec leur référent concret. Il conviendrait davantage de parler de la royauté comme objet d’imagination, en ce qu’elle représente le point de fixation suprême du désir.
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Saints, Scholars, and Politicians
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Saints, Scholars, and Politicians show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Saints, Scholars, and PoliticiansOver the past eighteen years, gender has become a major analytical tool in medieval studies. The purpose of this volume is to evaluate its use and to search for ways in which to improve and enhance its value. The authors address the question of how gender relates to other tools of medieval research. Several articles criticize the way in which an exclusive focus on gender tends to obscure the impact of other factors, for instance class, politics, economy, or the genre in which a source is written. Other articles address ‘wrong’ ways of using gender, for instance monolithic or anachronistic views of what constitutes differences between men and women. The intention is that this selection of case studies further establishes and enhances the indispensability of gender as an analytical tool within medieval studies.
The volume has been produced in recognition of the work of the Groningen medievalist, Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, on the occasion of her sixty-fifth birthday. She is the person primarily responsible for introducing to the Netherlands gender as a legitimate and useful tool in medieval studies. The contributors are medievalists from a range of countries and different backgrounds. They were selected in order to test Dr Mulder-Bakker’s ideas on methodology and interdisciplinarity through a series of case-studies.
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Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle AgesLimiting itself to the vital centuries when the late Roman West reshaped itself into a first “Europe”, the conference on which the volume is based explored the dominant understanding of human nature in that era: that human existence was both body (in the visible world of material things) and soul (in the invisible world of spirit). This was a legacy of pre-Christian elements handed down from Greek philosophy and the Hebrew Scriptures. Assimilating it to indigenous cultures in the Roman West, many alien to the ancient Mediterranean world, precipitated sea-changes in the conception of human psychology. Ensuing frictions sparked extraordinary expressions of creativity in words and visual images. It also created dangerously subversive disequilibria in the collective mentality within élites and between them and majority cultures. The papers in this volume investigate numerous configurations of a new culture taking shape in that volatile environment. They contribute to continuing debates about the cognitive co-ordination of words and pictorial images, and to cross-disciplinary dialogues in such disparate fields as art history, religious literature, mysticism, and cultural anthropology.
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Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Text and Controversy from Wyclif to BaleText and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale reflects and develops Anne Hudson’s pioneering work in textual criticism and religious controversy from the late medieval period to the Reformation. Written by newly emergent as well as internationally recognised scholars, the volume explores the wide spectrum of religious thought and practices between c. 1360 and c. 1560. Many essays, following the methodology of Anne Hudson’s scholarship, engage in the close study of manuscripts and archival holdings, disclosing new material and offering significant re-evaluation of documentary evidence and neglected texts. At a time of urgent calls for the reform of the Church, both in Britain and in mainland Europe, the voices of heresy can not always be distinguished from those of orthodox critics. Anne Hudson’s coinage of the term ‘grey area’ to describe the indeterminate boundary between radical orthodoxy and heterodoxy provides the lead for investigations into theological debate, devotional habits, and censorship. The volume significantly redefines our understanding of texts, history, and controversies from Wyclif to Bale.
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Bilan et perspectives des études médiévales (1993-1998)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Bilan et perspectives des études médiévales (1993-1998) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Bilan et perspectives des études médiévales (1993-1998)Le bilan des études médiévales en Europe dressé lors du Ier Congrès européen d’Etudes médiévales organisé pour la première fois à Spolète en mai 1993 n’avait pas pu couvrir tous les domaines de notre discipline. Aussi le IIème Congrès a-t-il continué ce bilan en s’attachant par priorité à traiter des sujets peu ou insuffisamment couverts en 1993. Ce fut le cas de l’histoire politique, de l’archéologie médiévale, de l’histoire économique et sociale, de l’histoire religieuse, de la spiritualité et de l’hagiographie, de la philologie et de la littérature latines du moyen âge, de l’histoire de l’art, de l’étude des manuscrits, de la philosophie et de la théologie, de l’histoire des sciences, de la musique et de la liturgie, des études byzantines ainsi que du passage du moyen âge à la Renaissance.
Les bilans contenus dans cet ouvrage sont l’œuvre des meilleurs spécialistes en la matière. Ils permettent de voir les progrès réalisés de 1993 à 1998 ainsi que les lacunes qui existent encore dans certaines disciplines. Ils inciteront surtout de jeunes chercheurs à entreprendre des études dans des domaines encore mal connus.
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Duns Scot à Paris, 1302-2002
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Duns Scot à Paris, 1302-2002 show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Duns Scot à Paris, 1302-2002Le colloque «Duns Scot à Paris, 1302-2002» (2-4 septembre 2002) a commémoré le sept centième anniversaire de l’arrivée, à l’Université de Paris, de Jean Duns Scot, l’une des rares dates connues dans la vie du plus grand philosophe et théologien du tournant des XIIIe et XIVe siècles. Il a permis de faire le point des dernières découvertes historiques et philologiques, et de donner un état des recherches scotistes en cours, qui ont connu un essor rapide et même inattendu ces dernières années. Après une introduction de caractère historique (‘Paris, 1302’), l’on trouvera dans ce volume une succession d’études portant sur la logique, l’épistémologie et la sémantique (2e partie), la métaphysique (3e partie), l’éthique et la psychologie (4e partie), la théologie (5e partie). La sixième partie enfin (‘Paris 2002’) compare les contributions de Duns Scot aux réflexions contemporaines (sur le temps, autrui, le langage). Cet volume est un instantané des travaux les plus récents: à la fois un bilan des connaissances sur la fin du XIIIe siècle, une série d’interprétations originales et une somme d’analyses philosophiques.
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Exile in the Middle Ages
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Exile in the Middle Ages show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Exile in the Middle AgesExile in the Middle Ages took many different forms. As a literary theme it has received much scholarly attention in the Latin, Greek and vernacular traditions. The historical and legal phenomenon of exile is relatively unexplored territory. In the secular world, it usually meant banishment of a person by a higher authority for political reasons, resulting in the exile leaving home for a shorter or longer period. Sometimes an exile did not wait to be expelled but left of his or her own accord. Leaving home to go on pilgrimage, or, in the case of women to marry, could be experienced as a form of exile. In the ecclesiastical sphere, two forms of exile stand out. Monasticism was often seen as a form of spiritual (permanent) exile from the secular world. Excommunication was a punishment exercised by the Church authorities in order to eject persons (often only temporarily) from the community of Christians. Banishment as a form of social punishment is therefore the central theme of this volume on Exile in the Middle Ages. The book covers the period of the central Middle Ages from ca. 900 to ca. 1300 in Western Europe, though some chapters have a wider remit. The genesis of the volume was a series of presentations delivered at the Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2002, which was devoted to the theme of Exile.
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Finances et financiers des princes et des villes à l’époque bourguignonne
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Finances et financiers des princes et des villes à l’époque bourguignonne show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Finances et financiers des princes et des villes à l’époque bourguignonneGérer les finances des princes et des villes est devenu à la fin du moyen âge l’affaire de professionnels de l’argent et de ses techniques. Ces hommes dont les employeurs requièrent compétence et loyauté appartiennent au monde en pleine ascension des officiers, des «fonctionnaires». Les nécessités de la guerre et de la paix, les coûts des armées et de la diplomatie, l’entretien et le fonctionnement des rouages du gouvernement et de l’administration, les aléas et les pressions de la situation économique, tout cela donne un sens à leur travail et requiert leur vigilante attention.
Accroître des moyens matériels, par des expédients ou des réformes durables, rendre plus performants des outils de gestion, voilà des objectifs qui peuplent ces pages, à travers plus d’un siècle et demi du passé des anciens Pays-Bas. Les études publiées regorgent ainsi d’apports nouveaux pour l’histoire de l’impôt, de l’emprunt, des rentes, du crédit et du commerce de l’argent. Elles éclairent aussi une face essentielle des relations entre gouvernants et gouvernés, dictées par des recettes et dépenses mais en même temps orientées par ceux qui y pourvoient et en font carrière.
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Functions and Decorations: Art and Ritual at the Vatican Palace in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
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Hugues de Saint-Cher († 1263), bibliste et théologien
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Hugues de Saint-Cher († 1263), bibliste et théologien show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Hugues de Saint-Cher († 1263), bibliste et théologienSi l’action du cardinal Hugues de Saint-Cher († 1263) a parfois suscité l’intérêt des historiens, il s’agit ici du premier ouvrage concernant l’œuvre de cet auteur, dont la place est pourtant capitale dans l’évolution de la pensée en Occident chrétien au xiii e siècle. Ce maître dominicain de la deuxième génération assimile le brillant héritage du xii e siècle et prépare l’essor qui va suivre dans le domaine des études bibliques et de la théologie, avec le développement de l’enseignement universitaire. Les différents aspects de son œuvre sont examinés dans ce volume, qui réunit les spécialistes de l’histoire intellectuelle du xiii e siècle. Le commentaire biblique de Hugues, ou Postille, imprimé jusqu’au xviii e siècle, a connu une fortune étonnante; il est, tout comme les concordances et le correctoire biblique diffusés sous son nom, le résultat d’un travail collectif, dirigé par le maître lors de son séjour parisien au couvent de Saint-Jacques. L’œuvre théologique, comportant le premier véritable commentaire des Sentences et de nombreuses quaestiones, aborde les problèmes de fond de la pensée chrétienne comme des aspects plus pratiques. Le point est fait également sur ses sermons, moins connus mais dont le rôle a été important. Ainsi, cet ouvrage, issu d’un colloque international tenu à Paris en mars 2000, apporte-t-il une contribution majeure à l’histoire de la pensée dans la première moitié du xiii e siècle.
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Le médiéviste et la monographie familiale: sources, méthodes et problématiques
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Le médiéviste et la monographie familiale: sources, méthodes et problématiques show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Le médiéviste et la monographie familiale: sources, méthodes et problématiquesLongtemps cantonnée à un cercle restreint de savants soldés par des mécènes en mal de reconnaissance sociale ou en quête d’exemption fiscale, puis rejetée par les courants historiographiques les plus novateurs du XXe siècle, la monographie familiale connaît de nos jours un regain de faveur parmi les médiévistes. L’irruption de la prosopographie en histoire sociale et le prestige retrouvé de la micro-histoire sont pour beaucoup dans cette évolution, favorable à l’éclosion d’études qui retracent le devenir d’un groupe familial déterminé. De nouvelles problématiques accompagnent ce changement épistémologique. En effet, l’arbre généalogique ne saurait plus cacher la forêt de l’histoire totale de la famille, conçue souvent comme le plus déterminant des éléments de tout système social. C’est à partir de sources diplomatiques, mais aussi d’écrits de nature généalogique, que le groupe de parenté et ses relations sont habituellement appréhendés par les chercheurs. L’étude de cette documentation exige des techniques érudites particulières, dont l’usage quotidien fait rarement l’objet d’une réflexion de méthode. Cette approche, en même temps concrète et abstraite, du métier de l’historien est au cœur de cet ouvrage.
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L’Université de Médecine de Montpellier et son rayonnement (XIIIe-XVe siècles)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:L’Université de Médecine de Montpellier et son rayonnement (XIIIe-XVe siècles) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: L’Université de Médecine de Montpellier et son rayonnement (XIIIe-XVe siècles)Fréquenté par des étudiants venus de tous les pays, recrutant des maîtres eux-mêmes d’origines diverses, le studium de Montpellier s’est imposé dès le xiii e siècle comme l’un des grands centres européens des études médicales, formant des praticiens compétents, assurés, après y avoir conquis leurs grades, d’accomplir des carrières brillantes, du moins pour la plupart d’entre eux, fondées sur le prestige intellectuel, la considération sociale et l’aisance financière.
Dès le xiii e siècle, l’Université de médecine a été dotée de statuts. Elle a pu dès lors développer la formation des futurs praticiens sur des bases institutionnelles solides, attirant vers elle des professeurs renommés, tels Bernard de Gordon, Gérard de Solo, Arnaud de Villeneuve, Guy de Chauliac, Jean de Tournemire.
L’élaboration du savoir médical, outre le recours classique aux auctoritates antiques et arabes, s’est également souciée d’intégrer, à Montpellier, l’apport des disciplines voisines, telles la chirurgie et l’astrologie. Parmi les pathologies, les maladies de l’œil et la lèpre ont fait l’objet d’une attention particulière, tandis que les thérapeutiques, mettant en œuvre notamment les régimes de santé et intégrant la médecine montpelliéraine dans le cadre des pratiques universelles, ont pu harmonieusement combiner l’expérience et la réflexion savante. Forte de sa renommée et du rayonnement de son enseignement, la médecine montpelliéraine a ainsi construit une pensée dont les manuscrits conservés témoignent de la diffusion et illustrent l’influence que Montpellier, en ce domaine comme en d’autres, a exercée en Europe à la fin du Moyen Age.
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Maistresse of My Wit
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Maistresse of My Wit show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Maistresse of My WitThis volume explores the reciprocal relationships that can develop between medieval women writers and the modern scholars who study them. Taking up the call to ‘research the researcher’, the authors indicate not only what they bring to their study from their own personal experience, but how their methodologies and ways of thinking about and dealing with the past have been influenced by the medieval women they study. Medieval women writers discussed include those writing in the vernacular such as Christine de Pizan and Margaret Paston, those writing in Latin such as Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, and Birgitta of Sweden, and the works transcribed from women mystics such as Margery Kempe, Hadewijch, and Julian of Norwich. Attention is also given to medieval women as the readers, consumers and patrons of written works. Issues considered in this volume include the place of ethics, interestedness and social justice in contemporary medieval studies, questions of alterity, empathy, essentialism and appropriation in dealing with figures of the medieval past, the permeable boundaries between academic medieval studies and popular medievalism, questions of situatedness and academic voice, and the relationship between feminism and medieval studies. Linked to these issues is the interrelation between medieval women and medieval men in the production and consumption of written works both for and about women and the implications of this for both female and male readers of those works today. Overarching all these questions is that of the intellectual and methodological heritage - sometimes ambiguous, perhaps even problematic - that medieval women continue to offer us.
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Medieval Memory. Image and Text
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Medieval Memory. Image and Text show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Medieval Memory. Image and TextScholars of medieval literary and cultural history have grown more aware of the crucial role of memory in the production, reception and functioning of texts and manuscripts. We owe this to the pioneering studies of Frances Yates and, more recently, Mary Carruthers and Susan Hagen.
Historical linguists for their part try to describe the linguistic means by which listeners and readers are enabled to store the information flow in their memories.
The relationship between medieval texts and memory is at the centre of this book. Seven historians of literature, three linguists and one art historian have contributed eleven essays, subsumed under three sections. The first section, ‘Memory Texts’, discusses genres that belong to medieval mnemonics. In the second and most extensive section, ‘Memory Aspects in Texts’, the focus is on literature and, more particularly, on how attention for mnemonics can enhance our insight into the form, composition and functioning of literary texts and manuscripts. Mental and visual images play a central role here. ‘Text Memory’, the final section, analyses medieval (French) literary discourse as a fabric of reference chains, in which different grammatical markers generate and organise mental representations in the memory.
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Metaphysics in the Twelfth Century
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Metaphysics in the Twelfth Century show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Metaphysics in the Twelfth CenturyAlthough metaphysics as a discipline can hardly be separated from Aristotle and his works, the questions it raises were certainly known to authors even before the reception of Aristotle in the thirteenth century. Even without the explicit use of this term the twelfth century manifested a strong interest in metaphysical questions under the guise of “natural philosophy” or “divine science”, leading M.-D. Chenu to coin the expression of a twelfth century “éveil métaphysique”. In their commentaries on Boethius and under the influence of Neoplatonism, twelfth century authors not only anticipate essential elements of thirteenth century metaphysics, they also make an original contribution to the history of metaphysics by attempting to integrate the theory of first principles, philosophical theology and ontology. This volume presents and examines the contributions of the twelfth century to metaphysics made by selected Jewish, Christian and Muslim authors of the Iberian Peninsula and Francia.
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Notre-Dame de Paris. Un manifeste chrétien, 1160-1230
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Notre-Dame de Paris. Un manifeste chrétien, 1160-1230 show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Notre-Dame de Paris. Un manifeste chrétien, 1160-1230Les précédents colloques des Rencontres médiévales européennes ont renouvelé notre connaissance des origines de l’architecture gothique en mettant en évidence les liens qui existent entre le propos de Suger, tel qu’il a pris corps à Saint-Denis, et les nouveaux courants spirituels du xii e siècle. Les études réunies dans le présent volume prolongent cette enquête. Elles rappellent en particulier le rôle important joué par l’évêque de Paris, Maurice de Sully. Proche des Victorins, attentif aux directives réformatrices de la papauté, il fonde sa pastorale sur un renouveau liturgique dont l’exigence théologique n’est jamais exclue. C’est à lui, par exemple, que l’on doit la pratique de l’ostension de l’hostie. On trouvera ici le portrait de cet évêque exceptionnel ainsi que l’analyse de son grand dessein: la reconstruction de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. Cette entreprise fut accompagnée d’une renaissance artistique perceptible notamment dans le domaine musical. En arrière-plan, on retrouve l’abbaye de Saint-Victor, dont on a tenté d’évaluer l’influence dans la vie spirituelle du temps. L’œuvre de Godefroid, auteur d’un Microcosme, illustre bien ce milieu si original. Notre époque traversée de révolutions et d’incertitudes peut encore tirer des leçons du manifeste que fut en son temps Notre-Dame de Paris.
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Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Perspectives for an Architecture of SolitudeWhat was it that gave medieval art and architecture its form and style? What is it that attracts people to medieval art and architecture, especially that of the Cistercians? What shaped medieval buildings and determined their embellishments - and what now determines the way we look at them?
Some of the most intriguing questions in monastic and ecclesiastical architecture and archaeology are discussed in this tribute to Peter Fergusson and his lifetime of scholarship as an historian of medieval art and architecture, especially of the Cistercians.
These thirty-four essays range from a discussion of the earliest Christian legislation on art (fourth century) to an account of a garden project of 1811 designed to efface all previous monastic habitation. Between these chronological signposts are studies on the design, siting, building, and archaeology of churches, infirmaries, abbots’ lodgings, gatehouses, private chambers, grange chapels, and the life lived within and around them. Geographically, the papers range from the British Isles through Spain, France, Flanders, and Germany to the centre of the medieval world: Jerusalem.
They treat of the complexities of building and re-building; of architectural and artistic adaptations to place, period, and political upheaval; of the interrelationship of text and structure; and of the form, iconography, and influence of some of the great churches and cathedrals of the Middle Ages. This is a wide-ranging and authoritative collection of studies which is essential reading for any historian of medieval art and architecture.
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Reading and Literacy
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Reading and Literacy show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Reading and LiteracyIt is not surprising that the development of the internet and related electronic technologies has coincided with an academic interest in the history of reading. Using and transmitting texts in new ways, scholars have become increasingly aware of the precise ways in which manuscripts and printed books transmitted texts to early modern readers. This volume collects nine essays on reading and literacy in Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Topics include: the function of marginalia in vernacular medieval manuscripts; the trope of reading in the fourteenth century; the definition of literacy in early modern England; marginalia and reading practices in early modern Italy; revision of medieval texts in the Renaissance; the prevalence of translated French poetry in sixteenth-century England; the use of poems as props in the plays of Shakespeare; the private reading of the playscripts of masques; and early-modern women’s reading practices. These essays demonstrate the energy and excitement of the rapidly developing field of the history of reading. They will appeal to those interested in European cultural history, the transition from manuscript to print culture, the history of literacy, and the history of the book.
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Robert d’Arbrissel et la vie religieuse dans l’Ouest de la France
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Robert d’Arbrissel et la vie religieuse dans l’Ouest de la France show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Robert d’Arbrissel et la vie religieuse dans l’Ouest de la FranceFontevraud: 1101-2001. Fontevraud: à la fois monastère et congrégation, communauté mixte où, par la singulière volonté du fondateur, les hommes en ce temps féodal étaient soumis au pouvoir des femmes. Célébrer le neuvième centenaire de la fondation de Robert d’Arbrissel s’imposait; ce qui fut fait du 13 au 16 décembre 2001, dans l’enceinte même de la somptueuse abbaye ligérienne.
Le présent volume témoigne de ces denses journées d’étude; il intègre aussi des contributions supplémentaires, pour gagner encore en richesse et en cohérence. Volontairement déroutant, il nous entraîne d’abord bien loin du Val de Loire, dans les solitudes boisées des Apennins, où le ressourcement monastique surgi du haut Moyen Âge inaugure ce Moyen Âge que nous disons central. Les organisateurs scientifiques de la rencontre n’ont en effet pas souhaité la focaliser d’emblée sur l’originalité de Fontevraud et les étranges comportements de son fondateur. Ils ont au contraire voulu donner à lire l’accident de 1101 dans le vaste élan qui ouvre une ère nouvelle pour la Chrétienté et pour notre monde en ce qu’il en procède: cette réforme de l’Église qu’on dit «grégorienne», qui repense en fait toute l’architecture ecclésiale et sociale, des plus hauts aux plus infimes pouvoirs, des institutions aux individus et du sacré au profane.
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Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350 show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350This volume examines the various forms of contact between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe from 800 to 1350. It consists of twenty-five papers from international scholars specialising in archaeology, onomastics, literature, art history, epigraphy, religious history and linguistics. The volume is innovative in three respects: (i) in transcending conventional historical boundaries, by bringing together work on both the viking and medieval periods; (ii) by examining the ways in which mainland Europe influenced Scandinavia (e.g. kingship, law and social organization; and classical and continental literary traditions); and (iii) by synthesising all the material for an English-language readership for the first time. The broader timespan of investigation illustrates the changing nature of contact and the gradual integration of Scandinavia into European society: by 1350 Scandinavia was no longer a heathen outpost on the periphery of the known world, but an integral part of Western Christendom. The cultural impact of mainland Europe on Scandinavia, frequently mediated through religious channels, although less dramatic, is shown to have had a more significant long-term impact than the earlier viking raids. The volume is structured around the following sections: Historical and Archaeological Evidence for [Scandinavian] Contact with the British Isles; Evidence for the Linguistic Impact of Scandinavian Settlement; Evidence for the Impact of Christianity on Scandinavia; and Textual Evidence for Contact, Conflict, and Coexistence.
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Seeing and Knowing
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Seeing and Knowing show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Seeing and KnowingThe transmission of knowledge in clerical and academic settings of the later Middle Ages has been relatively well studied by traditional scholarship. But successes achieved in other subject-areas by the application of a set of methodologies grouped under the rubric of ‘gender studies’ may offer insights into medieval education. This approach invites a re-examination in gender-political terms of the definition of knowledge by clerical elites and the concomitant rejection from the category of ‘knowledge’ of many varieties of knowledge which did not coincide with their template. The ten articles of this volume focus both on the perennial valorization of the content and methods of clerical/academic education, on the limitation of venues for its transmission to sites from which women were categorically excluded, and, in terms of media for the transmission of knowledge, on the attendant restriction of the techniques and media considered valid for the storage, retrieval, and communication of knowledge to those that were current in these privileged sites.
The volume addresses the following issues: what varieties of knowledge were available to communities of women? What kinds of knowledge originated in or became characteristic of women’s communities? What techniques did women develop to preserve and transmit their knowledge? In what ways and with what success was women’s knowledge valorized, both by authors from within these communities and by ‘authoritative’ figures from outside? Under what circumstances could women become authoritative originators of and transmitters of knowledge?
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Speculum Sermonis
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Speculum Sermonis show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Speculum SermonisThe medieval sermon provides the focus for the first volume of Disputatio because it often expresses the concerns of various intellectual milieux, such as the university, Church or court, and attempts to convey those concerns to other parts of medieval society.
Speculum Sermonis is an anthology of essays about medieval sermons in the Christian East and West. It aims to reveal precisely how sermons inform different disciplines (for instance, social and Church history, literature, musicology) and how the methodologies of different disciplines inform sermons. Sermons can, for instance, provide evidence for a reconstruction of medieval liturgy; reciprocally, the field of liturgiology investigates sermons as one aspect of Church performance. The volume’s title image of the mirror and the reference to medieval specula convey the idea of multiple reflections: the sermons’ on culture and the disciplines’ on sermons. Because the contributors to Speculum Sermonis come from a variety of fields, the essays here collectively provide a rich historical and contemporary academic context for reading the medieval sermon.
In addition to essays from across the fields, a number of which establish conclusions transcending disciplinary boundaries, Speculum Sermonis includes an introduction defending interdisciplinary study of sermons and an authoritative bibliography covering both primary and secondary resources for medieval sermons. A unique feature of the volume is the inclusion of response papers to the essays in each of the sections, in the spirit of the book series title Disputatio.
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The Appearances of Medieval Rituals
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Appearances of Medieval Rituals show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Appearances of Medieval RitualsAppearances can be deceptive; and medieval ritual practices are in this respect no exception. They perform stability through the codification of repetitive modes of behaviour and simultaneously admit flexibility in their integration of newer forms of representation. They mask the historical contingencies of their own creation and construct alternative narratives of authority and continuity. They do not simply appear; their appearance reflects the mutual interplay of construction and modification.
This collection of eleven essays-which chronologically spans the period from the Carolingians to the Catholic Reform movement of the later sixteenth century-explores this double-edged potential in the appearance of medieval ritual practices; and, in this case, chiefly church rituals. It comprises a series of individual studies by scholars of literature, theology, music, and the visual arts. Each study examines a particular moment of change or transformation in ritual practices, illuminating, thereby, processes of ritualization. In this way, the book both provides an impulse to the recent renewal of methodological interest in ritual studies and presents individual contributions to specific scholarly discourses within this broad area.
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The Development of Literate Mentalities in East Central Europe
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Development of Literate Mentalities in East Central Europe show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Development of Literate Mentalities in East Central EuropeCompared with most of mainland Europe north of the Alps, the introduction of writing in East Central Europe (Bohemia, Poland and Hungary) took place with a considerable delay. Much is known about East Central European uses of writing, although only a fragment of this knowledge is known outside the region. Gathered by historians, palaeographers and codicologists, diplomatists, art historians, literary historians and others, this knowledge has hardly ever been studied in the light of recent discussions on medieval literacy and communication. Work done in the Czech, Polish and Hungarian traditions of scholarship has never been subjected to a comparative analysis. Furthermore, the question of the relation between writing and other forms of communication in the region remains largely unexplored. The volume serves a double purpose. For the first time, a collection of contributions on medieval literacy in East Central Europe is put before the forum of international scholarship. It is also hoped to further discussions of modes of communication, literate behaviour and mentalities among scholars working in the region.
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The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries)The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages presents the proceedings of an international symposium held at Speyer (Germany) in October, 2002. The collection aims at a comprehensive (and comprehensible) overview describing the variety of historical experience for European Jewries from c. 1000 to c. 1500. Leading European historians firmly based in regional, archival research have here been brought together with a number of Israeli and American scholars who concentrate on legal and constitutional aspects of the Jewish community. Historians working on medieval Mediterranean Jewries (Sicily, Spain, Provence, etc.) and those studying the northern communities (England, Northern France, and Ashkenaz) present their findings in a single, one-language collection. Regional overviews are supplemented by studies on cultural, economic, social, and linguistic aspects as well as by portraits of individual (northern) Jewish communities. The collection highlights the similarities and differences among the various European Jewish cultures, demonstrating that these cultures were no less European than they were Jewish. At the same time, the Jewish heritage has deeply influenced medieval and modern European majority cultures. This cultural symbiosis was epitomized in the European Jewish community (kahal, aljama).
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The Voice of Silence
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Voice of Silence show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Voice of SilenceThis book aims to collect and present the results of research done within the context of the project ‘The voice of silence / La voz del silencio: An interdisciplinary research project about literate women and women authors in the West-European late Middle Ages from a gender perspective (11th to 15th centuries)’. The project was a bilateral research project, with participants of the University of Chile in Santiago on the one hand and the Universities of Gent and Antwerpen on the other. Medieval scholars, literary historians and literary theorists joined forces. The angle from which the material was being studied, however, was always the same: gender being the central issue. The project focused on women as participants in late medieval society and culture of the Rhineland and the Low Countries. Indeed, all the researchers involved acquired their expertise in this field and/or the field of women’s literacy.
Several members of this Flemish-Chilean project have contributed an essay to this book, but supplemented by guest authors. The guests are internationally renowned scholars reflecting an expertise in gender studies or in an aspect not covered by the team members of the project. Their contributions complete the research results of the project.
The story told in this book is focused on literate women and gender. In the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the voices of women authors, many of them religious and mystics, resounded in a literate society dominated by clerics. Hildegard of Bingen and Hadewijch, two of the most famous representatives of this ‘female voice’ are highlighted in Part I. These women were the forerunners of a new reading culture among (semi-)religious and even lay women in which the use of the vernacular was a decisive factor (Part II). Yet, from the thirteenth century onwards, and with increasing intensity towards the end of the Middle Ages, men once more tried to get a grip on women’s reading and writing. Aspects of these attemps are illustrated in part III.
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Wulfstan, Archbishop of York
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Wulfstan, Archbishop of York show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Wulfstan, Archbishop of YorkMost famous for his harrowing ‘Sermon of the Wolf to the English’, Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (1002-23) has emerged in recent decades as one of the most important and influential figures in the late Anglo-Saxon church and state. This volume, which arises from a conference held in 2002 to mark the millennial anniversary of Wulfstan’s appointment as archbishop, is the first collection of essays to be devoted to this crucial figure. Its twenty contributors address the whole range of Wulfstan’s activities and writings, and supply not only an up-to-date survey of Wulfstan studies but also many new directions, discoveries, and insights. The studies within this volume variously explore Wulfstan’s preaching and law-making; his position in the late Anglo-Saxon church; the places and contexts in which he lived and worked; and, more generally, his learning, concerns, and ideas. The contributors, drawn from a variety of disciplines, bring together literary, historical, and art historical approaches to the study of Wulfstan, and a recurrent focus is on the extant manuscripts associated with him. Altogether, therefore, this volume provides a thorough and wide-ranging exploration of the life, works, and contexts of one of the most important of all Anglo-Saxons.
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