Les Trencavel sont une lignée vicomtale qui a dirigé les vicomtés d’Albi, Nîmes, Carcassonne, Razès, Béziers et Agde pendant plus de deux siècles, jusqu’à la conquête française en 1209. Ils ont produit un codex remarquable, un cartulaire, où ils ont fait copier à la fin du XIIe siècle 586 actes qui renseignent précisément sur les modalités féodales de leur exercice du pouvoir. La présentation de l’édition toute récente de ce cartulaire inédit permet de révéler les particularités de ce manuscrit : son aspect matériel et les choix qui ont présidé à sa composition, ainsi que les spécificités de ce cartulaire laïc. Il témoigne de l’existence d’une chancellerie active dans une principauté en construction. L’origine vicomtale des chartes transcrites permet aussi de mettre en lumière des aspects de la société qui sont généralement tus ou minorés dans les grands fonds ecclésiastiques. Grâce à la nature laïque des actes, il est possible de décrire précisément le fonctionnement du fief, de l’hommage et du serment pour le contrôle des réseaux castraux.
The Balkans in the Late Middle Ages, 1300–1500 is the first publication of its kind to provide a point of reference for the history of Southeastern Europe during the late medieval period. Scholars have long recognized the 14th and 15th centuries as an extremely important period in the history of the medieval Balkans. This was an era of intense political and military tumult, financial crisis, and social disruption, but also a time of cultural and intellectual innovation and achievement.
While a growing body of literature has focused on developments in the Byzantine Empire and Latin Greece (i.e., the states created by Western/Latin rulers in the Greek Peninsula and some of the Aegean islands), most of the other states in the region, including Serbia, Bulgaria, and Albania, have been largely neglected. What is more, no study has examined the whole peninsula as a geographic unit. The ultimate ambition of this 12-chapter volume is to fill this gap and produce a closely argued, fresh interpretation of events for the entire region, from Dalmatia, Wallachia, and Moldavia in the north to Byzantium and the Latin states in the south.
This book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students and scholars with academic interests in the medieval Balkans, as well as to readers wanting to learn more about the history of the region.
Florin Curta is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida, USA. His books include Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages (2006) and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1300 (2019). He is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1300 (2022), Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, and the co-editor of the East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450 series.
Panos Sophoulis is Professor of History at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, specializing in Southeastern Europe and particularly the Balkans during the Middle Ages. He is the author of Byzantium and Bulgaria, 775–831 (2012) and Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800–1500 (2020). He is also the co-editor of The Balkans in the Seventh Century: Ethnic and Cultural Transformations (2025).
Table des matières :
Chapter 1: The Late Medieval Balkans: An Introduction Florin Curta and Panos Sophoulis
Chapter 2: Written And Archaeological Sources Kiril Petkov and Rosina Kostova
Chapter 3: The Last Two Centuries Of Byzantine Power Christos Malatras
Chapter 4: Nemanjid Serbia Vlada Stanković
Chapter 5: Late Medieval Bulgaria Francesco Dall’Aglio
Chapter 6: Bosnia Neven Isailović
Chapter 7: Croatia and Dalmatia Judit Gál
Chapter 8: Wallachia and Moldavia Ovidiu Cristea
Chapter 9: Latin Greece Simon Hasdenteufel
Chapter 10: The Albanian lands Brendan Osswald
Chapter 11: The Advent of the Ottomans Boris Stojkovski
The Balkans in the Late Middle Ages, 1300-1500, éd. Panos Sophoulis, Florin Curta, Londres, Routledge, 2026 ; 1 vol., 302 p. (Studies in Medieval History and Culture). ISBN : 978-1-03260-371-1. Prix € 210,00.
Chaque conférence (1h30) porte sur un manuscrit particulièrement important des fonds grecs de la BnF. Le cycle est pensé pour rendre accessible à un public élargi les témoins les plus précieux de ces fonds (tant d’un point de vue matériel que textuel) et, dans le même temps, pour présenter les méthodes, résultats, débats et achoppements de la recherche sur la réception des textes et de l’art antiques dans le monde byzantin. Ces conférences ont donc un double objectif de valorisation des collections et de diffusion des connaissances en lien avec les actualités de la recherche.
À travers des manuscrits célèbres conservés dans les collections de la BnF, ce séminaire entend aborder des questions cruciales et débattues de la tradition dans les domaines de la littérature, de la philosophie et de l’art grecs et byzantins en confrontant les points de vue différents et quelquefois opposés des chercheurs. Une part importante de chaque séance sera réservée à la discussion qui s’organisera autour des manuscrits exposés dans la salle et présentés au public.
Un vendredi par mois à partir du 9 octobre 2026, 17h-18h30 à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Richelieu), salle des conférences.
Programme :
Vendredi 9 octobre 2026 Jannic Durand et Christian Förstel De pourpre et d’or. Le Codex Sinopensis : un manuscrit biblique à peintures du siècle de Justinien.
Mercredi 9 décembre 2026 Elisabeth Yota Un chef d’œuvre de l’art du livre constantinopolitain: le tétraévangile Grec 64 du XIe siècle.
Vendredi 29 janvier 2027 Pantelis Golitsis Le Parisinus gr. 1853 d’Aristote
Vendredi 19 mars 2027 Morgane Cariou Les Parisini gr. 2736 et 2737 des Cynégétiques d’Oppien d’Apamée
Vendredi 4 juin 2027 Stefano Martinelli Tempesta Le corpus de Démosthène entre l’Antiquité tardive et la Byzance de la ‘Renaissance macédonienne’ : le Paris. gr. 2934 (fin IXe-déb. Xe s.)
The Cluster of Excellence « EurAsian Transformations » (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) announces an international conference: « From the East and Back: Manuscript Tradition, Translation and Reception of Historia trium regum by John of Hildesheim »
Vienna, 20–22 January 2027
The conference brings together scholars working on the Latin text of the Historia trium regum and its vernacular translations, manuscript tradition, and cultural reception across medieval Europe. Topics include the textual history of the work, its eastern sources, and the circulation of the Three Kings legend in different linguistic and cultural contexts.
On the bicentenary of the translation of the Three Wise Kings’ relics from Milan to Cologne in 1164, the Carmelite friar John of Hildesheim composed a work known today as Historia trium regum. The text assembles and reworks narratives concerning the prophecy of the Saviour’s birth and the Star of Bethlehem, the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi, as well as descriptions of Oriental lands. It survives in more than a hundred Latin manuscripts across Europe and in six incunabula editions. From the fifteenth century onwards, the treatise was translated into a range of vernacular languages. Extant translations are known in English, Flemish, Dutch, French, German, Czech, Polish, and Ruthenian.
Potential presentation topics include (but are not limited to):
– manuscripts of Historia trium regum: preservation and genealogy; – vernacular translations; – Asian origins of the Three Magi legends.
Thanks to the support of the Cluster of Excellence « EurAsian Transformations », the conference has no fee; accommodations, travel costs and lunches are also covered for the participants.
A peer-reviewed edition of the conference material is planned for 2028.
We understand that travel may be complicated for any number of reasons, and while we encourage in-person attendance and community, a virtual presentation and attendance option will be available via Zoom.
Please submit proposals, consisting of a 200-300 word abstract and a short bio, to Aliaksandra.Valodzina(at)oeaw.ac.at by 1 August 2026.
Please also indicate whether you are considering in-person or virtual attendance, if accepted.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 September 2026.
Publié dansAppel à contributions|Commentaires fermés sur Appel à contribution – From the East and Back: Manuscript Tradition, Translation and Reception of Historia trium regum by John of Hildesheim
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the city councils of Hanseatic towns participated lively in the Northern European landscape of diplomacy. Often, it was conflict which lay behind the magistrates’ diplomatic activities. Discord among the members of the Hanse, intercity disputes between individual burghers, and large-scale “international” altercations, all required town councils to engage with actors and institutions beyond the town walls.
‘Councils, conflicts, correspondence’ examines how the magistrates of the Hanseatic towns Lübeck and Reval managed such conflicts which often exceeded the formal limits of their own jurisdiction and authority. Through a comparative study of two towns with markedly different access to political power and networks, this book analyses the scope of diplomatic action available to city councils. By placing the diplomacy of municipal governments in the broader frame of European urban political thought and practice, it shows how magistrates combined a flexible conception of the common good with a pragmatic notion of reciprocity to balance their relations to their own citizenry and overlords, as well as to the Hanse and foreign rulers. Furthermore, this book zooms in on practices of diplomacy and processes of negotiation, uncovering the variety of strategies and tactics employed by the councils and their diplomats in written correspondence as well as face-to-face meetings at regional and Hanseatic diets.
Christian Manger received his PhD-degree from the University of Amsterdam in October 2023. Currently, he works as a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg University where he studies the role of professionals in late medieval towns. He specializes in the political and legal history of late medieval cities and urban institutions, with a particular interest in conflict management and urban diplomacy.
Table des matières :
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Hanseatic diplomacy: a conflict of interests
2. Bilateral relations: a politics of reciprocity
3. Conflicts beyond the city: urban diplomats at princely courts
4. Following the paper trail: diplomacy in the chancery
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Informations pratiques :
Christian Manger, Councils, Conflicts, Correspondence. Urban Diplomacy in Reval (Tallinn) and Lübeck (c. 1470–1570), Turnhout, Brpeols, 2026 ; 1 vol., 224 p. (Studies in European Urban History, 67). ISBN : 978-2-503-61290-4. Prix : € 94,00.
«La pubblicazione degli atti del convegno di Benevento del 2017 rappresenta un importante esito di indagini che permette di rileggere le dinamiche tra Langobardia meridionale e settentrionale al momento della caduta di Pavia e la trasformazione del ducato beneventano in principato. A raccogliere gli esuli e l’eredità longobarda, infatti, fu il duca Arechi II che re Desiderio aveva imposto alla guida di Benevento e a cui aveva dato in sposa Adelperga, sua figlia. Il matrimonio rafforzava non solo i rapporti politici tra il regno e il ducato, ma portò anche alla ricezione di modelli culturali, esperienze monastiche e dinamiche di governo esemplate su quelle regali. Ciò spiega perché, a pochi anni dalla scomparsa, il ricordo del principe e della consorte fosse quasi leggendario. Quando poi Arechi assunse il titolo di principe di tutti i longobardi, rendendosi indipendente nel 774 dal regno finito in mano ai franchi, la sua autorità si estendeva su un territorio molto vasto, comprendente all’incirca la Campania, il Molise, porzioni dell’Abruzzo, alcune roccaforti del Lazio meridionale, la Lucania, parte della Calabria settentrionale e del territorio pugliese fino a Taranto […] La collaborazione dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli l’Orientale, dell’Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore e del Centro studi longobardi, corroborata dal patrocinio della Regione Campania, della Regione Lombardia, della Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, del Centro europeo di studi normanni e del Cirtam della Federico II di Napoli, ha dato ai lavori un ampio respiro interdisciplinare. Merita semmai di essere rimarcata la feconda sinergia tra Nord e Sud, tra Lombardia e Campania, che rappresenta un esempio virtuoso nel segno di una storia comune. Il corposo volume si articola in quattro sezioni principali: i “longobardi tra Nord e Sud”, la “lingua, gli insediamenti e gli scambi”, gli aspetti “dell’organizzazione sociale e religiosa”, le “forme artistiche e culturali” […] Percorsi storici, territori e identità che nei secoli si sono incrociati formando la storia italiana, come mostra il volume. Averne consapevolezza contribuisce a dare senso all’unità del Paese che, attraverso il passato, compie passi decisivi nel riconoscimento delle sue peculiarità» dalla Prefazione di Aniello Cimitile.
Table des matières :
La Biennale di studi sulla Longobardia meridionale. Prefazione — A. Cimitile
Dal regno longobardo al principato beneventano — F. Caruso
Longobardi tra Nord e Sud
Longobardi e longobardi del Sud — M. Rotili
Tradizione tribale e modelli romani nelle istituzioni dei longobardi — C. Azzara
Legislazione e prassi nella Benevento longobarda. Fra tradizione nazionale, influenze esterne e prassi innovative — L. Loschiavo
I longobardi del ducato di Benevento nel Registrum di Gregorio Magno. L’espansionismo e le ricadute sull’organizzazione ecclesiastica e socio-economica — C. Urso
Dal ducato al principato: una transizione — J.-M. Martin
« De toutes pars sonne lo nom de Guaymere ». Genio e fallimento politico del principe di Salerno Guaimario IV (1038–1047) — A. Tagliente
Lingua, insediamenti e scambi
L’antroponimia dei longobardi nel regno e nel ducato di Benevento: sistema, semantica, tratti specifici — W. Haubrichs
La lingua dei longobardi in Italia — E. Morlicchio
Échanges et commerce à travers l’archéologie: le duché de Bénévent entre le VIe et le XIe siècle — P. De Vingo
Riflessioni sulla ceramica di X–XI secolo da contesti beneventani e irpini — S. Rapuano
Lo spettro del giuramento. Due giudicati longobardi a confronto — G. A. Nobile Mattei
Sistemi di risoluzione delle controversie giuridiche nella Longobardia meridionale (VIII–X secolo) — T. Indelli
Organizzazione sociale e religiosa
Calamità naturali, carestie ed epidemie: in età longobarda. Appunti per una ricerca — G. Albini
Cernitur (…) amplis consurgere moenibus urbem. A proposito della cinta altomedievale di Capua — N. Busino
Firmitatem et castellum facere. Insediamenti fortificati e religiosi nella bassa valle del Calore fra VIII e X secolo — L. Lonardo
L’organizzazione ecclesiastica della Longobardia minore tra ducati e principati — P. Dalena
Santuari e pellegrinaggi nella Langobardia meridionale: il contributo dell’archeologia — C. Ebanista
Il vescovo Orso e gli studi grammaticali a Benevento nel secolo IX — M. Iadanza
Forme artistiche e culturali
The Idea of an Early Medieval Monastery: The Example of San Vincenzo al Volturno — J. Mitchell
Immagini cosmologiche e opere agricole negli Exultet — F. Stroppa
Erchemperto e i franchi: spunti di riflessione dall’Ystoriola Langobardorum Beneventum degentium — E. Piazza
La biblioteca di Giovanni Visconti o dell’Historia Langobardorum di Paolo Diacono — S. Gavinelli
Longobardi in opere storiche di età comunale — R. Greci
Conclusioni
Hic erunt Langobardorum fines. Osservazioni conclusive — G. Archetti
Informations pratiques :
Dal Ducato al Principato. I Longobardi del Sud. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studio (Benevento, 23-25 novembre 2017), éd. Marcello Rotili, Gabriele Archetti, Silvana Rapuan, Spolète, CISAM, 2026 ; 1 vol., 576 p. (Centro di Studio Longobardi, Ricerche, 7). ISBN : 978-8-86809-375-4. Prix : € 80,00.
Publié dansPublications|Commentaires fermés sur Publication – « Dal Ducato al Principato. I Longobardi del Sud », éd. Marcello Rotili, Gabriele Archetti, Silvana Rapuan
Since its beginnings, art history has turned on the power of artists’ names. Exhibitions, galleries, and books revolve around them, and artists’ personas continue to captivate audiences. Medieval art, however, has long been cast as an exception—a world thought to lack known makers, where piety eclipsed personality and anonymous craftspeople served God rather than fame.
Names to Remember takes a new and nuanced look at this longstanding paradigm. Focusing on Europe from ca. 700 to ca. 1200, Heidi C. Gearhart uncovers a surprising abundance of names, stories, and images of artists and examines how they functioned within their cultural and material contexts. Drawing on inscriptions, saints’ lives, chronicles, and artworks, she shows that naming an artist was rarely a neutral act: it could invite contemplation, signal virtue, or shape social and spiritual identities.
By revealing how remembrance—and forgetting—helped define artistry itself, Names to Remember reimagines the place of the artist in medieval culture. Gearhart demonstrates how gender, status, and devotion determined whose names endured and whose were lost, offering a new understanding of authorship and artistic value in the Middle Ages. This study will engage art historians, medievalists, and scholars of gender and cultural memory seeking to understand how the very idea of the artist was formed.
Heidi C. Gearhart is Associate Professor of Art History at George Mason University. She is the author of Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art, also published by the Pennsylvania State University Press, which was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2018 International Center of Medieval Art Book Prize.
Informations pratiques :
Heidi C. Gearhart, Names to Remember. Medieval Artists in Word and Image, ca. 700–1200, University Park, Penn State University Press, 2026 ; 1 vol., 274 p. ISBN : 978-0-271-10135-. Prix : USD 79,99.
Publié dansPublications|Commentaires fermés sur Publication – Heidi C. Gearhart, « Names to Remember. Medieval Artists in Word and Image, ca. 700–1200 »
Plongez au cœur de l’histoire de Bruxelles lors d’une visite privilégiée du Palais du Coudenberg, ancien palais des ducs de Bourgogne et de Charles Quint. Cette exploration exclusive permettra aux amis du KBR museum de découvrir les vestiges fascinants de cette résidence princière tout en mettant en lumière les liens étroits entre le Coudenberg, la cour de Bourgogne et les collections du KBR museum. Une occasion unique de mieux comprendre le contexte politique, artistique et culturel dans lequel sont nés plusieurs des trésors conservés aujourd’hui à KBR.
Pour réserver vos places, veuillez envoyer un e-mail à development@kbr.be. Si vous n’êtes pas encore amis du KBR museum, inscrivez-vous ici.
Retrouvé de manière fortuite en 2002, le “Livre rouge” de l’évêché d’Aire-sur-l’Adour disparu depuis la Révolution est aujourd’hui conservé aux Archives départementales des Landes. Ouvrage précieux par son contenu, il l’est également par la qualité de sa rédaction et de son ornementation. Elaboré vers 1335 sous l’épiscopat de Garsie du Fau, il constitue pour son commanditaire et son administration un outil de gestion et d’administration indispensable, tant dans le domaine spirituel que matériel. Outre plusieurs extraits de synodes et de conciles, il contient notamment le texte du synode de 1299, qui n’était pas connu des érudits ou des chercheurs. Ses quarante actes entre 1141 et 1501 nous éclairent également sur l’organisation du diocèse (pouillé), sur les relations parfois litigieuses, voire violentes, entre l’évêque, les maisons régulières et les seigneurs laïques, notamment dans le cadre de la perception des dîmes ou des patronages.
Liber rubeus de l’évêché d’Aire. La découverte d’un “trésor” médiéval disparu depuis la Révolution, éd. François Bordes, Jeanne-Marie Fritz, Pessac, Ausonius Éditions, 2026 ; 1 vol., 422 p. (Textes@quitains_3). ISBN : 978-2-35613-462-2. Open access.
Publié dansPublications|Commentaires fermés sur Publication – « Liber rubeus de l’évêché d’Aire. La découverte d’un “trésor” médiéval disparu depuis la Révolution », éd. François Bordes, Jeanne-Marie Fritz
On the occasion of the retirement of Prof. dr. Maximiliaan Martens, the Department of Theatre, Music and Art Sciences cordially invites colleagues and friends to discuss art historical research inspired by the many fields to which Maximiliaan Martens contributed.
Programme :
9u 00 : Registration and coffee 10u15 : Welcome (Frederica Van Dam)
10u30 : Jan van Eyck and Paris (Till-Holger Borchert) 11u00 : Mirror and Blind Spot: The Arnolfini Portrait in the Eyes of Johan Huizinga (Bernhard Ridderbos) 11u30 : Coffee break
12u00 : Painters and Urban Politics in the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries (Jan Dumolyn) 12u30 : From Van Eyck to Bruegel (Manfred Sellink) 13u00 : Lunch
14u00 : The Ghent Altarpiece: Composition in Perspective (Patrick Seurinck) 14u30 : Two Remarks on Jan van Eyck’s Washington Annunciation (Stephan Kemperdick) 15u00 : Coffee break
Avec le soutien du FNRS, du CRHiDI (UCLouvain – Saint-Louis, Bruxelles), d'INCAL (UCLouvain), de PraME (UNamur), de sociAMM (ULB) et de Transitions (ULiège)
L'Agenda des Médiévistes 
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