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Aimed at students, educators, librarians, and collectors, this volume explores the discipline of Fragmentology—the study of medieval manuscript fragments ranging from the smallest initials to substantial remnants. Like the medieval books they come from, fragments are unique cultural artifacts offering opportunities for innovative teaching and research. The introduction conveys the history of manuscript fragmentation and its motivations: obsolescence, scholarship, and commerce. Individual chapters focus on fragment theory and the practical skills required to study fragments: forensic description, textual identification, provenance research, and palaeographical and codicological analyses. Digital tools are presented as complementary means to traditional approaches. Through case studies, the authors focus on the medieval genres most commonly encountered, such as bibles, books of hours, and liturgical books.

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

General Introduction

Part 1. Fragment Theory and Theories of Fragmentation

Chapter 1. What is a Fragment?

Chapter 2. Types and Stages of Fragmentation

Chapter 3. Motivations for Fragmentation

Chapter 4. Cultural Value of Fragments

Chapter 5. Reunification of Fragments

Part 2. The Fragment Trade: A Case Study of Collectors and Breakers

Chapter 6. Manuscript Markets: Two American Collectors

Chapter 7. Two Breakers

Chapter 8. A Biblioclast’s Legacy

Part 3. Forensic and Technical Skills: Fragment Description

Chapter 9. Getting Started

Chapter 10. The Basics of “Basic Information”

Chapter 11. Collecting Complex Forensic Data

Chapter 12. Contents and Their Contexts

Chapter 13. Ownership and Provenance

Part 4. Advanced Applications: Identifying and Describing Genres

Chapter 14. Calendars

Chapter 15. Liturgical Fragments

Chapter 16. Books of Hours Fragments

Chapter 17. Bible and Scriptural Fragments

Chapter 18. Legal Fragments

Part 5. Advanced Provenance Research Skills: Databases, Deep Provenance, Network Theory

Chapter 19. Using the Schoenberg Database

Chapter 20. Sorting and Managing Results

Chapter 21. Deep Provenance

Chapter 22. Connoisseurship and Network Theory

Part 6. Putting It All Together: A Case Study of a Broken Book of Hours

Chapter 23. The “Before Times” and Biblioclasty of a Breton Book of Hours

Chapter 24. A Complex Provenance and Continuity of Misinformation

Chapter 25. Forensics and Contexts

Chapter 26. Reconstructed Contents

Chapter 27. Afterlife

Appendix 1. Data Collection Worksheet for Fragments

Appendix 2. Additional Data Fields for Books of Hours

Bibliography

Index of Manuscripts Cited

General Index

Informations pratiques :

Fragmentology and the Medieval Book. Describing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Manuscript Fragments, éd. David T. Gura, Scott J. Gwara, Leeds, ARC Humanities Press, 2027 ; 1 vol., 372 p. (Medieval Media and Culture). ISBN : 978-1-80270-282-8. Prix GBP 166,00.

Source : ARC Humanities Press

Les ducs de Bourgogne dans les conflits de leur temps (XIVe-XVIe siècles), Publications du Centre Européen d’Études Bourguignonnes, t. 66, 2026 ; 1 vol., XXII–181 p. ISBN : 978-2-8399-5290-3. Prix : € 87,00.

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Statuts du Centre européen d’Études bourguignonnes (XIV^e-XVI^e s.)

Liste des membres au 1^er juillet 2026

Allocution inaugurale, par Bertrand Schnerb

Rapport d’activités pour 2024-2025, par Alain Marchandisse

In memoriam Jean-Daniel Morerod (1956-2025)

Herman Kamp, En guise d’introduction

Georg Jostkleigrewe, Les ducs Valois face à la longue durée des conflits capétiens : les dissensions autour de la monnaie d’Auxonne

Camille Rutsaert, Philippe le Hardi, héritier cupide et sans scrupule ? Les enjeux de la succession brabançonne dans le contexte des guerres de Gueldre (1385-1390 et 1397-1399)

Julien Lagalice, Pour en parler a monseigneur le duc et tant fere envers ly. Philippe le Bon, Besançon et l’archevêque : apaiser, négocier et gouverner la cité (1444-1454)

Anne-Frédérique Provou, Soutenir ou réprimer ? Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire comme arbitres dans les conflits audomarois au XV^e siècle

Alison Leininger, Charles le Téméraire, acteur ou arbitre en Lorraine ? Le cas du conflit entre les Neufchâtel et les Angevins (1467-1472)

Nils Bock, Un duc dans la diplomatie des rois : Charles et le conflit anglo-danois dans les années 1460-1470

François Foulonneau, Être juge et partie : les ducs et la possession de la seigneurie de Jonvelle (XV^e siècle-1510)

Yves Huybrechts, Les droits féodaux du Brabant et de Gueldre comme éléments de la politique d’intervention de Charles Quint en Frise orientale (1530-1548)

Mauréna Benteboula, Au nom de l’oncle, du fils et de la Bourgogne : Catherine de Clèves, une duchesse prise entre les feux de la guerre et les déchirements familiaux

Marie Verbiest, Les imprimés d’actualité sur la guerre de Gueldre (1538-1543) : chambres d’écho des guerres d’Italie ?

Jean-Marie Yante, Le Luxembourg et Metz face à l’expansionnisme français (1542-1559)

Autres communications présentées aux Rencontres de Paderborn

Source : Brepols

The Historia de expeditione Friderici imperatoris, a contemporary narrative of Frederick Barbarossa’s crusade from 1189–1190, represents the most comprehensive and detailed description of the emperor’s military campaign and has the character of an eyewitness account. Nevertheless, it remained overshadowed by narratives of the French and English participation in the Third Crusade, and its content was not properly analyzed for a long time. This was largely due to the question of the text’s exact authorship, which frustrated previous research attempts and prevented a deeper examination of the text’s content and context.

Rather than limiting itself to answering the question of the author’s identity, this monograph considers the source’s possible ‘causa scribendi’, its intended audience, narrative functions, and the context that may have influenced its form and message. The analysis reveals that the primary concern of the anonymous author (and perhaps, to some extent, of the compiler as well), to whom the historiographical tradition ascribes the name “Ansbert”, was to glorify the crusade and its leader Barbarossa, and when the crusade disintegrated after Frederick’s death in the Saleph River, to offer an apologia of the expedition and, above all, the crusading emperor. To achieve this aim and to portray Barbarossa and his crusade as legitimate and indeed successful, at least in terms of salvation, the narrative employed a broad range of crusading ideology that had gradually developed during the 12th century. By analyzing the elements that usually constituted crusade ideology at the end of the century and the imprint that it left on the ‘Historia de expeditione’, this book also contributes to our understanding of the crusade movement and ideology in the High Middle Ages.

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Informations pratiques :

Mikuláš Netík, Writing Barbarossa’s Crusade: The Historia de expeditione in Context, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2026 ; 1 vol., XXXVI–376 p. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Schriften, 87). ISBN : 978-3-447-12591-8. Prix : € 85,00.

Source : Harrassowitz Verlag

La storia dell’alto medioevo è tuttora densa di suggestioni per lo storico, che su temi diversi, tra i quali quello della personalità della legge, trova singolari corrispondenze – non certo imitazioni né identità – nella realtà del presente. Gli storici del diritto delle prime generazioni dopo l’unità italiana sono dedicati, spesso in misura esclusiva e sempre con particolare impegno, alla ricostruzione delle fonti e degli ordinamenti pubblici e privati della penisola nei secoli dal V all’ XI, allo scopo di ricostruire il ruolo svolto in questi secoli non solo dalla tradizione del diritto romano e del diritto longobardo e franco, ma più in generale la genesi di una embrionale “nazione” italiana. È sembrato pertanto non vano riprodurre le commemorazioni tenute dall’autore di queste pagine, che richiamano le indagini e gli apporti costruttivi non certo di tutti ma di alcuni tra i maggiori storici del diritto italiano del Novecento.

Informations pratiques :

Antonio Padoa-Schioppa, Medievisti storici del diritto, Rome, CISAM, 2026 ; 1 vol., VIII–94 p. (Biblioteca del Centro per il Collegamento degli Studi Medievali e Umanistici in Umbria, 42). ISBN : 978-8-86809-498-0. Prix : € 18,00.

Source : CISAM

Today, the Carolingians are best known as the dynasty of Charlemagne. In a few remarkable decades spanning the late eighth and early ninth centuries, Charlemagne united much of modern-day Europe through conquest and diplomacy, establishing the continent’s first empire since the fall of Rome.

In Charlemagne’s Dream, historian James T. Palmer looks beyond Charlemagne alone to tell the full story of the rise and fall of the massively consequential Carolingian dynasty—the men and women who laid the foundations for his achievements, and the colorful heirs who squandered his legacy. Carolingian rulers established the royal court as a place of learning, attracting scholars and philosophers and driving a cultural and intellectual renaissance. They fought and traded with power centers as far-flung as Córdoba, Constantinople, and Baghdad. In allying with the pope, they forever changed the relationship between church and state in the West. And they dispatched the first missionaries to northern Europe, expanding Christendom’s reach farther than ever before.

Charlemagne’s Dream details the powerfully human stories of the Carolingians, showing how their pursuit of ever-greater power built one of the world’s great empires.

James T. Palmer is professor of history at the University of St. Andrews. The author of four previous books on medieval European history, he lives in Scotland. 

Informations pratiques :

James T. Palmer, Charlemagne’s Dream The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, New York, Hachette, 2026 ; 1 vol., 352 p. ISBN : 9781541605688. Prix : USD 35,00.

Source : Hachette