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Le Roman de Brut par Wace conte dans un style épique et poétique l’histoire légendaire des rois de Bretagne, depuis les mythiques origines troyennes jusqu’à la domination anglo-saxonne, en passant par le célèbre roi Arthur. En voici une première traduction intégrale versifiée en français moderne.

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Informations pratiques :

Wace, Le Roman de Brut, trad. Philippe Martimort, Paris, Classiques Garneir, 2026 ; 1 vol., 488 p. (Moyen Âge en traduction, 17). ISBN : 978-2-406-19839-0. Prix : € 45,00.

Source : Classiques Garnier

Composed in the tumultuous decades following the reign of Charlemagne, the garden poem of Carolingian monk Walahfrid Strabo (c.809–849) has long charmed readers with its timeless descriptions of late-winter labors and its suggestions for the medicinal uses of various plants. This new translation, rendered in engaging metrical verse printed alongside the original Latin text, makes Walahfrid’s best known work fully accessible in English for scholars and casual readers alike. A concise introduction provides background and context, while extensive notes offer interpretation and commentary for those who wish to explore the poem further. A glimpse into the mind of a monk who was deeply entangled in the politics of his day, Walahfrid’s “Little Garden” may be tantalizingly brief, but as a trove of classical learning, Christian allegory, ninth-century plant lore, and charming personal observations, it overflows with the great human complexity of its era.

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Introduction: Little Garden, Deep Roots  

The World of Walahfrid Strabo

A Poet in His Garden  

A Legacy for Later Gardeners  

Hints, Implications, and Things Left Unsaid  

About the Translation  

Walking through Walahfrid’s Garden 

A Caution about Walahfrid’s Remedies

The Little Garden of Walahfrid Strabo  

i. On the Cultivation of Gardens  

ii. The Difficulty of Undertaking the Labor

iii. The Perseverance of the Gardener and the Fruits of His Labors  

iv. Sage 

v. Rue 

vi. Southernwood  

vii. Bottle Gourd  

viii. Melon  

ix. Wormwood  

x. Horehound

xi. Fennel 

xii. Iris 

xiii. Lovage  

xiv. Chervil  

xv. Lily 

xvi. Poppy 

xvii. Clary (and Costus)  

xviii. Mint  

xix. Pennyroyal  

xx. Celery 

xxi. Betony  

xxii. Agrimony 

xxiii. Tansy  

xxiv. Catmint  

xxv. Radish 

xxvi. Rose  

xxvii. The Commending of the Little Work  

Notes 

Further Reading

Bibliography 

Index 

Informations pratiques :

Jeff Sypeck, The Little Garden of Walahfrid Strabo. A Carolingian Poem in Verse Translation, Uppsala, Uppsala Books, 2026 ; 1 vol., 136 p. ISBN : 978-1-961361-56-0. Prix : USD 29,99.

Source : Uppsala Books

Medieval saints were thought to be able to provide miraculous cures for a wide variety of illnesses, and about one-tenth of their miracles involved the restoration of sanity to those who had lost their minds. Deprived of Sense and Intellect explores 460 of these stories written across Latin Christendom between 1240 and 1500. The study uses the lens of critical disability studies to bridge the gap between discussions of demonic possession and naturally arising somatic conditions, treating all these narratives about disability and miraculous healing not as documentation of changes to the function of an individual person, but instead as evidence of substantial and intrusive interpersonal tensions in medieval communities

While medieval communities assigned these tensions to a malfunction of consciousness in a single person, medieval miracle texts also reveal how the function and malfunction of consciousness was named and classified. In studying these texts, Leigh Ann Craig explores the terminology and rhetoric used to diagnose a loss of mind as either from natural causes or as an effect of demonic predation, tracing the use of Latin vocabulary in medical compendia, law, and theology. Deprived of Sense and Intellect finds that since diagnoses were difficult and frequently subject to doubt, they varied based on regional cultures of disability in northern and southern Europe, the influences on the development of community consensus in Latin Europe in the Middle Ages, and assumptions based on gender, material evidence, and self-diagnosis.

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List of Tables: ix
List of Maps: xi
Acknowledgments: xiii
Abbreviations: xv

Part I. Stories about Loss of Mind
1. The Debate in Colombella: 3
2. Loss of Mind in Medieval Miracles: 31

Part II. Loss of Mind, Disability, and Lived Experience
3. Tensions and Emotions: 51
4. Time: 79

Part III. Representing Diagnoses
5. Etiology and Terminology: 109
6. Rhetoric: 141

Part IV. Applying Diagnostic Categories

7. Diagnostic Selection: 171
8. Complexity: 203
Conclusion: 233
Bibliography: 241
Index: 273

Informations pratiques :

Leigh Ann Craig, Deprived of Sense and Intellect. Insanity, Possession, and Diagnosis in Medieval Europe, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2026 ; 1 vol., 296 p. ISBN : 9780472133710. Prix : USD 90,00.

Source : University of Michigan Press

Richard of Saint Victor (d. 1173) is widely recognized for his commentaries on the spiritual senses of Scripture and for his theological contributions to Trinitarian doctrine, the Christian life, and contemplation. This study highlights two additional and often overlooked dimensions of his thought: his sustained reflections on the art of biblical interpretation, both literal and spiritual, and his detailed interpretations of the Mosaic Tabernacle in the desert and its contents. It presents improved Latin texts, together with English translations, of Richard’s Literal Explanation of the Tabernacle and his Allegories on the same subject. The result is a fresh appreciation of Richard’s interest in the literal meaning of the Old Testament’s sacred architecture, and of his theory and practice of biblical interpretation.

Hugh Bernard Feiss, OSB, serves as managing editor and contributor for Brepols’ ten-volume Victorine Texts in Translation series. He co-edited and contributed to the two-volume Benedictine Reader (Liturgical Press) and has written on, as well as translated, works by Peter of Celle and other medieval Benedictines. His studies took him to the Catholic University of America (STL, PhL), Sant’Anselmo in Rome (STD), and the University of Iowa (MA). He later taught for thirty years at Mount Angel Seminary.

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Introduction
The Scope of This Work
Victorine Biblical Interpretation: Literal and Spiritual
Tabernacle: Revelations and Concealment
The Tabernacle in Its Biblical Setting
Origen on the Tabernacle

Chapter One. Richard of Saint Victor, Explanation of the Literal Meaning of the Tabernacle
Introduction
Text
Translation
Commentary
Conclusions and Questions

Chapter Two. Richard of Saint Victor, Allegoriae tabernaculi foederis
Introduction
Text
Translation
Allegoriae and De archa Moysis
Why did Richard Write the Allegories? For Whom?
Allegories on the Tabernacle and Explanation of the Literal Meaning of the Tabernacle

Chapter Three. The Tabernacle, Ark, Table and Menorah in the Liber exceptionum, The Menorah in Sermones centum 81, The Table in Sermones centum 95
Introduction
Liber exceptionum 2.3.2, 9, 11
Comparison of the Meanings of the Ark in the Allegories and Liber exceptionum 2.3.9.
Sermones centum 81: On the Feast of St. Gregory
Sermones centum 95: On the Table of Proposition from the Book of Exodus in Praise of Sacred Scripture
Conclusion

Chapter Four. The Table of the Scriptures
Allegories, lines 258-337: The Table
Liber exceptionum: Prologues to the Second Part
Richard’s Theology of Scriptural Interpretation
Conclusion

Chapter Five. Into the Promised Land: The Ark of the Covenant in De Extermianatione mali et promotione boni
Introduction: Res gestae
De exterminatione mali et promotione boni
Commentary
  
Summary & Conclusions

Works Cited

Indices
The Scriptures
Ancient & Medieval Authors
Modern Authors

Informations pratiques :

Hugh Feiss, Tabernacle, Table, Ark, and Text. Richard of Saint Victor on the Interpretation of Scripture, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 ; 1 vol., 234 p. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae, 67). ISBN : 978-2-503-62378-8. Prix : € 65,00.

Source : Brepols

The end of the fourteenth century was a time of upheaval and contested authority among the traditional institutions of medieval Europe. In response to these conditions, a number of people began to claim their own authority, as prophets speaking the word of God. They came from outside of the clerical elite and were mostly women and reformers. This book examines the battle over authority which ensued. Prophetic women and other non-elites successfully used prophecy to exert influence and to enter the corridors of power, while educated male clerics insinuated that prophecy was the product of demonic influence and therefore a hazard to the public. Surprisingly, a third faction also emerged—an international network of clerical men who wrote in support of female prophecy. This volume traces the arguments made by these three groups, the clashes that erupted, and the long-term impacts of this battle on ideas of spiritual authority.

Frances Courtney Kneupper has spent her scholarly career focused on the voices of the marginalized in late medieval Europe. In particular, she has studied the way that spirituality, especially heresy and prophecy, have been used to express critiques of the status quo. She has published widely on prophecy and prophetic women in the Middle Ages, addressing the topics of prophecy, gender, and authority.

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Introduction
Part 1. The Prelude
1:Prophetic Models: Birgitta the Bride and Johannes the Astonishing
2:Advocating for New Prophets—Establishing Rules for Prophecy
3:The Outbreak of Schism and the First Skirmish over Prophecy (1378–80)
Part 2. An Outpouring of Prophecy
4:Mystical Love Prophets
5:Female Prophets Breaking Gender Conventions
6:Outsiders and Reformers
Part 3. “Beware False Prophets” – Responses and Defenses
7:Theologians, Prophecy, and Demons
8:“God is silent in his anger”
9:Uncertainty, Skepticism, Schism, and Antichrist
10:Confounding the Wise
Conclusion

Informations pratiques :

Frances Courtney Kneupper, Prophecy and the Battle for Spiritual Authority, 1360–1400. Outsiders, Women, and Reformers, Oxford, Oxford University Press ; 1 vol., 304 p. ISBN : 978-0-19894-035-7. Prix : GBP 99,00.

Source : Oxford University Press