L'Agenda des Médiévistes

Ce Tome III des Œuvres complètes de Geoffrey Chaucer explore l’atelier poétique du plus grand auteur de l’Angleterre médiévale. La Légende des bonnes dames et les poèmes courts offrent une réflexion essentielle sur l’amour, l’exemplarité et l’autorité des récits dans la littérature médiévale.

Informations pratiques :

Geoffrey Chaucer, La Légende des bonnes dames et autres textes, éd. Jonathan Fruoco, t. 3, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2026 ; 1 vol., 409 p. (Textes littéraires du Moyen Âge, 84). ISBN : 978-2-406-20606-4

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Devotio Moderna and the Medieval University explores the origins and intellectual legacy of the Devotio Moderna, a Christian movement born from Geert Grote’s transformative rejection of worldly learning, which went on to inspire key figures of the Reformation, including Erasmus, Ignatius of Loyola, Luther, and Calvin.

Through an analysis of its Augustinian foundations and its disruptive stance against university culture, the book offers a fresh perspective on the movement’s theoretical and historical significance, challenging modern scholarly assumptions.
Thus, readers will gain insight into the Devotio Moderna’s paradoxical relationship with knowledge – its rejection of scholastic universities alongside its profound influence on education and intellectual thought.

This book is intended for scholars, students, and informed readers interested in the history of Christianity, Reformation studies, intellectual history, and the intersection of devotion and knowledge. It is particularly relevant for those studying theology, philosophy, medieval and early modern history, and the legacy of educational institutions.

Luke Rohan Tucker completed his PhD in History at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has taught medieval Latin and early modern history, and has published on the Devotio Moderna, Christian intellectual history, and the history of Evangelicalism in Australia.

Table des matières :

Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Words 

1 Confrontations with University Culture

2 Augustinian Imaginary

3 New Options: Universitas

4 Exhortations to Reading

5 Time, Reading, and Rhythms of Life

6 Book-Copying and Book-Production

7 Pastoral Care and Teaching

8 Erasmus and the Universities

9 Conclusion: Writing within the University

Index

Informations pratiques :

Luke Rohan Tucker, Devotio Moderna and the Medieval University. Cultures of Devotion and Learning, Londres, Routledge, 2026 ; 1 vol., 284 p. ISBN : 9789048568123. Prix : € 210,00.

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Au service de plusieurs rois, Taillevent fut le premier des grands cuisiniers de l’histoire française. Sa longue carrière a traversé tout le XIV^e siècle, marqué par la guerre de Cent Ans et la Peste noire. Sept décennies de cuisine pendant lesquelles Guillaume Tirel – son vrai nom – gravit les échelons jusqu’à son apogée : le grand dîner offert à l’Empereur Charles IV en 1378.
La haute cuisine française atteignait alors son premier éclat, dont témoigne un recueil de recettes qui fut attribué à Taillevent de son vivant : ce Viandier combine la diversité des saveurs épicées, la recherche de couleurs chatoyantes et l’inventivité de la cuisine de carême.
Taillevent tombe ensuite dans l’oubli dont viendra le tirer un XIX^e siècle à la fois fou de gastronomie et fasciné par le Moyen Âge. Son nom est donné en 1946 à un restaurant prestigieux et il est aujourd’hui le porte-drapeau de tous ceux qui, de plus en plus nombreux, cherchent à retrouver par la pratique les saveurs de la cuisine médiévale.

Historien spécialiste du Moyen Âge, Bruno Laurioux a notamment publié Manger au Moyen Âge (Pluriel, 2013) et Une Histoire de la diététique. D’Hippocrate au nutriscore (CNRS Éditions, 2025).

Il se montre ici attentif à la trajectoire d’un homme comme aux recettes qu’on lui attribua et aux mythes dont il fit l’objet. Pour cela, il décrypte la riche documentation que livrent les archives et analyse une vingtaine de recettes sur plus de sept siècles.

Professeur émérite à l’université de Tours, Bruno Laurioux préside l’Institut Européen d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation

Informations pratiques :

Bruno Laurioux, Taillevent. Histoire, recettes et mémoire du premier cuisinier français, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2026 ; 1 vol., 384 p. ISBN : 978-2-27116-025-6. Prix : € 19,00.

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Forms of Suffering demonstrates how Geoffrey Chaucer transformed pity into a central ethical and aesthetic concern in English literature by tracing his reformulations of trans-European pity discourses for an English audience. In these reformulations, Chaucer brought to the fore the modes and effects of pity’s work in challenging, even overturning, traditional power structures such as social status, gender, and race. Critically, his consideration of pity also explores its precarity: the ways that pity could easily slide from transformative justice into a weapon of unjust oppression.

Jessica Hines describes how Chaucer’s writing was formative in shaping an English pity discourse increasingly critical of the sociopolitical capacity of pity to act as a tool for challenging injustice and reforming oppressive social structures. Forms of Suffering makes clear the profound appeal of pity’s ability to challenge structures of power in Chaucer’s writing, as well as the ways that pity itself could be—and was being—manipulated by the powerful for their own ends.

Jessica Hines is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine.

Informations pratiques :

Jessica Hines, Forms of Suffering. Ethics, Aesthetics, and Chaucerian Pity, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2026 ; 1 vol., 240 p. ISBN : 978-1-50178-919-9. Prix : USD 31,95.

Source : Cornell University Press

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.

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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.

Table des matières :

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.

Table des matières :

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