L'Agenda des Médiévistes

La Gaule du V^e siècle était le foyer de l’une des Églises les plus importantes à l’époque. Face à la disparition progressive de l’autorité impériale romaine, l’Église a dû affirmer son identité propre et déterminer ses relations avec les nouveaux pouvoirs séculiers. Grâce aux canons des nombreux conciles de l’époque, nous voyons les difficultés créées par la nécessité d’imposer une discipline cohérente sur l’ensemble des diocèses, qui s’appliquerait aux laïcs aussi bien qu’au clergé. Les canons révèlent l’influence croissante des monastères, et notamment de celui de Lérins, sur les Églises locales, la dévotion des évêques à la papauté et même l’étendue de la cohabitation des catholiques avec les rois ariens qui remplaçaient les Romains dans le Sud. Plusieurs de ces canons furent incorporés vers 1140 par le canoniste Gratien dans son fameux Décret, qui devint une des sources principales du droit canon classique. Il est donc essentiel de les situer dans leur contexte original afin de mieux comprendre la portée de leurs enseignements à travers les générations suivantes, et dans certains cas, jusqu’à nos jours.
Le présent volume, contenant 16 documents issus de 14 conciles, complète l’ensemble formé par les Conciles gaulois du IV^e siècle (SC 241) et les Conciles mérovingiens (SC 353-354).

Gérald Bray, montréalais d’origine, est professeur de théologie à la Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama (États- Unis) depuis 1993. Pasteur anglican, il est spécialiste de droit canon et a écrit The Anglican Canons 1529-1947 (1998), Tudor Church Reform (2000) et A Companion to the Book of Common Prayer (2023). Il a aussi publié des ouvrages historiques, notamment Biblical Interpretation: Past and Present (1996/2026), A History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland (2021) et Athens and Jerusalem (2025). Il est aussi l’éditeur du Procès-verbal de l’Assemblée Générale Extraordinaire du Clergé de France (1788), paru chez Droz (2017).

Informations pratiques :

Conciles gaulois du Ve siècle, éd. Gérald Bray, Charles Munier, Paris, Le Cerf, 2026 ; 1 vol., 416 (Sources chrétiennes, 660). ISBN : 978-2-20417-785-6. Prix : € 55,00.

Source : Sources Chrétiennes

Medieval history is taking a global turn in two key ways: first, the inclusion of content extending beyond Europe and the Afro-Eurasian interconnected worlds to the Americas and Oceania; and second, the integration of historiographic approaches emerging from outside Euro-American traditions, and specifically from postcolonial and Indigenous Studies. How should those teaching medieval history incorporate these global perspectives? What are the ethical issues for a non-Indigenous scholar using Indigenous knowledge systems to re-orient our understanding of premodern histories? This book offers insights and practical suggestions from a historian trained as a Euro-medievalist transforming into a global medievalist, and drawing on experiences teaching premodern world and medieval histories in Oceania.

Karen Louise Jolly is a premodern historian and global medievalist at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where she held the inaugural Jerry H. Bentley Distinguished Professorship of World History (2022–2024).

Table des matières :

Acknowledgements

Orthographic Conventions

Introductory Reflections

Chapter 1. Medieval Worlds: Global Turns

Chapter 2. Decentred Perspectives: A View from Oceania

Chapter 3. Student Engagement: A Community of Learners

Chapter 4. Ungrading: Decolonized Learning

Concluding Invitation

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Informations pratiques :

Karen Louise Jolly, The Ethics of Teaching Medieval Worlds. Student Engagement and Decentred Perspectives on History, Leeds, ARC Humanities Press, 2026 ; 1 vol., 200 p. (Teaching the Middle Ages). ISBN : 978-1-80270-294-1. Prix : GBP 118,00

Source : ARC Humanities Press

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

Chapter 12:The anti-Ottoman Crusades
Adinel-Ciprian Dincă

Informations pratiques :

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.

Source : Routledge