Appel à contribution – Nommer, décrire, exclure. Construire l’hérétique au Moyen Âge et au début de l’époque moderne

Publié le 19 octobre 2026 par RMBLF


Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, 21-22 octobre 2027

L’hérésie médiévale a fait l’objet d’une longue et riche tradition de recherche, mais les discours qui contribuent à construire, définir et diffuser la figure de l’« hérétique » constituent encore un vaste champ d’exploration. Le projet Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND HateResy – Mapping where hate speaks vernacular. Multilingual perspectives on anti-heretical hate speech in Romance-speaking Europe (13th –15th centuries), porté à l’Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès et en partenariat avec l’Université Autonome de Barcelone, l’Université du Luxembourg et l’Université Masaryk de Brno, propose de placer au centre de la réflexion les discours anti-hérétiques, notamment au prisme des sources vernaculaires en occitan, en français, en italien et en catalan. Ce colloque souhaite approfondir les thématiques explorées par le projet HateResy en renouant avec une réflexion plus large sur la place et les formes de l’hérésie dans les sociétés médiévales jusqu’au seuil de l’époque moderne.

André Vauchez soulignait en 2014 qu’« après avoir tenu les feux de la rampe pendant toute la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, les hérésies médiévales semblent être passées au second plan des préoccupations des historiens »1. Douze ans après, ce constat demeure d’actualité. Il semble dès lors pertinent de renouveler les perspectives sur cet objet d’étude, en accordant une attention particulière non seulement aux phénomènes hérétiques eux-mêmes, mais aussi aux discours qui les définissent, les décrivent et les construisent comme formes d’altérité.

Le colloque propose ainsi d’interroger les mécanismes rhétoriques, linguistiques, politiques et culturels par lesquels l’hérétique est construit comme une figure de la déviance. Cette « étiquette », religieuse en première instance, ne se limite pas à cette unique dimension. Les discours anti-hérétiques contribuent non seulement à condamner une croyance, mais aussi à définir les frontières d’une communauté, à désigner des ennemis et à légitimer leur exclusion. Les termes « hérésie » et « hérétique » peuvent en effet désigner des courants religieux considérés comme dissidents, mais aussi, selon les contextes, d’autres formes de transgression – sociale, politique, culturelle ou liée au genre2. Il conviendra d’analyser ces emplois dans leurs contextes historiques, sans supposer a priori une équivalence entre des phénomènes distincts, mais qui interrogent tous le concept d’« hérésie » sous l’angle de l’exclusion3. Il s’agit là d’un domaine qui s’avère encore riche à étudier par rapport au binôme, plus classique et non sans réserve, d’hérésie et marginalité sociale.

Cette réflexion peut également être mise en regard du concept contemporain de « hate speech », compte tenu des mécanismes d’assimilation de la diversité à la déviance que l’on peut observer dans les sociétés médiévales et modernes, marquées par ce qu’A. Vauchez qualifie de « rejet sans appel de ce que nous appelons aujourd’hui le droit à la différence ».

Le colloque souhaite en paticulier élargir l’étude au-delà des sources judiciaires, doctrinales ou polémiques latines : les littératures vernaculaires, dans leur diversité linguistique et générique, offrent un observatoire privilégié des modes de circulation, de traduction, d’adaptation et de transformation des discours anti-hérétiques. Sont dès lors les bienvenus dans la discussion les textes religieux et pieux, la poésie lyrique et épique, les chroniques, les chartes, les statuts, les traités juridiques, la prédication, la littérature didactique ou l’historiographie, avec leurs traditions textuelles et manuscrites (notamment pour les sources encore inédites) et leurs contextes de réception.

Le colloque privilégiera enfin une approche interdisciplinaire et comparative, faisant dialoguer philologie, études littéraires, linguistique, histoire sociale et politique, histoire religieuse et théologie, histoire du droit, philosophie, histoire de l’art, codicologie, paléographie et humanités numériques.

Possibles axes de recherche

Les propositions pourront notamment s’inscrire dans les axes suivants, sans pour autant s’y limiter :

Traditions textuelles et circulations : transmission manuscrite, public des textes, usages et réappropriations ;

De la polémique latine aux littératures vernaculaires : traduction, adaptation, circulation et transformation des discours anti-hérétiques ;

Diversité des genres littéraires et des supports : prédication, littérature lyrique et épique, littérature didactique, historiographie, textes documentaires et juridiques… ;

Construire l’hérétique : définition, désignation et représentation de l’altérité ;

Lexique et sémantique de l’hérésie : évolutions des termes vernaculaires désignant l’hérésie et les hérétiques ;

Rhétoriques anti-hérétiques : accusation, polémique, stigmatisation, déshumanisation, caricature et autres procédés de construction de l’ennemi ;

Discours anti-hérétiques et construction des communautés : frontières de l’orthodoxie, identité collective et exclusion (religion, culture, origine, statut social, politique et genre) ;

Hérésie, pouvoir et violence : rapports entre discours, institutions, répression et contrôle social ;

Femmes, genre et hérésie : représentations genrées de la déviance et de l’altérité ;

Approches comparatives et plurilingues : circulation et transformations des discours dans les différentes aires de la Romania médiévale et au-delà ;

Éditions de textes, humanités numériques et étude des discours anti-hérétiques : constitution de corpus, éditions, annotation sémantique, textométrie, analyse linguistique et statistique.

Langues

Les communications pourront être données dans une langue romane ou en allemand ou en anglais.

Pièces à joindre et échéances

Titre et résumé (300 mots au maximum), à envoyer au plus tard le 31 janvier 2027 à viola.mariotti@univ-tlse2.fr et marjolaine.raguin@univ-tlse2.fr.

Comité scientifique et organisation

Le colloque est co-organisé par Viola Mariotti (PI HateResy) et Marjolaine Raguin (Supervisor HateResy),

à l’Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès qui assureront également la publication des actes.

Comité scientifique

Jordi Cerdà Subirachs (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Catherine Léglu (Université du Luxembourg)
Viola Mariotti (Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès)
Marjolaine Raguin (Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès)
Angelica Rieger (RWTH Aachen University)
David Zbíral (Masaryk University, Brno)
Fabio Zinelli (École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Paris)

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Offre d’emploi – Reading the Heavens in the Medieval South: The Integration of Astronomical and Astrological Knowledge into Early Castilian and Occitan Literature

Publié le 19 octobre 2026 par RMBLF

Etablissement Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès

École doctorale ALLPHA – Arts, Lettres, Langues, Philosophie, Communication Modalités de candidature

Spécialité Etudes Hispaniques et Hispano-américaines

Equipe Ca.Li.P.Sa – Cartographies des Lieux de Pouvoir et de Savoir

Unité de recherche CEIIBA-Centre d’études Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines

Encadrement de la thèse Amaia ARIZALETA

Financement

du 01-10-2027 au 30-08-2030Origine des fonds:MSCA COFUND BEST
Employeur:Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès

MSCA COFUND BEST

The doctoral project is funded under the BEST doctoral programme (Between Earth and Sky in Toulouse), successful in the European HORIZON-MSCA-COFUND-2025 call (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions), co-funded by the European Commission and led by the Université de Toulouse. Funding is secured: the subject, submitted as part of the programme’s call for expressions of interest, will be open to international application from 14 September 2026 under MSCA recruitment rules (open, transparent and merit-based recruitment), for first enrolment in 2027–2028 and a thesis start date of 1 September 2027. The doctoral contract runs from 1 September 2027 to 31 August 2030; the employer is a partner institution of the project. The programme fully covers salary, research environment and international mobility; it also covers consultation missions to archives, conference attendance and training. Research stays at UCLouvain are capped at twelve months. International co-supervision with UCLouvain operates within the contractual framework provided by the programme.

Début de la thèse le 1er octobre 2027

Date limite de candidature (à 23h59) 23 novembre 2026

Profil et compétences recherchées

The project is addressed to a candidate with a strong command of at least one medieval Ibero-Romance language and reading competence in Occitan, or the ability to acquire it rapidly, and sound Latin. Any knowledge of ancient and medieval astronomy, of the history of science and of the basics of Arabic would be considered an asset. Familiarity with the methods of textual criticism and with digital humanities is welcome but not required: the thesis includes specialised training (Latin palaeography, history of ancient astronomy, digital corpus tools) designed to complete the profile as needed. The working languages of supervision are French, Spanish and English, and the dissertation may be written in any of the three. No level of French is required on entry; reading competence in scholarly French is useful and can be developed during the doctorate through the training offered by the Université de Toulouse. The doctorate includes two six-month stays, or a single one-year stay, at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), fully funded by the programme.

Application link : https://edd-projets.utoulouse.fr/

Niveau d’anglais requis: Intermédiaire supérieur: Vous pouvez utiliser la langue de manière efficace et vous exprimer précisément.

Résumé du projet de thèse

The astrological turn of the long twelfth century: the Latin translations of astronomical and astrological treatises, among them Ptolemy translated by Gerard of Cremona and the Great Introduction to Astrology of Abu Ma’shar (Albumasar), met with a success whose scale is still not fully measured. Astronomy henceforth stood as a mathematical science, and astrology as the application of that science to the study of terrestrial phenomena. This entailed a profound change in the regime of knowledge, one that transformed the relation between human beings and the reality surrounding them: natural phenomena were no longer explained solely by divine intervention or by moral causes, but were read within a system, a natural order governed by the movements of the heavenly bodies. From the twelfth century onwards this interest in science in general, and in astrology in particular, irrigated the textual traditions of the Christian West, sometimes obliquely, as shown by the appearance of cosmological and planetary diagrams in the margins of manuscripts whose content bears no direct relation to the discipline (Coulson / Roy 2000).
Spain was the principal theatre of this translation movement: the city of Toledo was the main centre of a major cultural translatio (Burnett 1994), a milieu whose intellectual networks and writing practices have been studied by the thesis director (Arizaleta 2010, 2014a, 2024, 2027 in press). It was therefore natural that the Iberian literatures, in Latin and in the vernacular, should be the first traditions to reflect the irradiation of astrological culture, in the scientific domain as well as in narrative literature (Burnett 2006). Far from remaining the preserve of specialists, astrology, magic and cosmology exercised a deep and lasting impact on society as a whole, as their presence in narrative texts addressed to broad audiences attests. The project studies the repercussions of this astrological turn in the earliest Castilian and Occitan literatures: the moment when the science of the heavens, freshly arrived in Europe, was received, transformed and set into narrative by vernacular writing. BEST places at the forefront new ways of producing, analysing and translating scientific knowledge; this is precisely what early Castilian and Occitan vernacular writing does, at its own historical scale, when it receives the knowledge of the sky.

Thématiques Domaine

The project is part of Pillar 2 of the BEST programme, “Grasping global changes and their impact on societies”, and it responds directly to the very name of the programme, Between Earth and Sky. Where the summary situates the project within the general history of the transmission of celestial knowledge, this rubric anchors it specifically in Toulouse. The city itself stands on the medieval routes of celestial knowledge: tradition places in Toulouse, in 1143, Hermann of Carinthia’s Latin translation of Ptolemy’s Planisphere, and the Toulouse Tables, adapted from the Toledan Tables to the meridian of the city, made Toulouse one of the places where the movements of the heavens were calculated, a role it holds again today as the European capital of aeronautics and space. Studying from Toulouse the first vernacular appropriation of the sky gives the BEST programme the historical depth of its own question. The doctoral candidate will moreover join the active pluridisciplinary environment of the research programme Le ciel vu de Toulouse (IRPALL, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès), which brings together medievalists, historians of science and of art, literary scholars and astrophysicists, in partnership with the Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), the Bibliothèque de Toulouse, the Société d’astronomie populaire de Toulouse, the Société Archéologique du Midi de la France and the Rectorat de l’Académie de Toulouse, with further partnerships under discussion with the CNES, the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées and the Académie de l’Air et de l’Espace.

Medieval Romance literatures and civilisations, history of knowledge (Hispanic and Occitan studies, philology, history of astronomy and astrology).

Objectif et contexte

The principal aim is to study how astronomical and astrological science, newly arrived in Europe through Arabic learning, exerted a profound and lasting impact on the way people of the central Middle Ages questioned their place in the cosmos and their interaction with it. Three specific objectives follow from this. The first is to establish how, when and through which discursive traditions a scientific terminology of the heavens came into being in Castilian and Occitan; the principal deliverable will be a dated glossary of this earliest Romance terminology, organised by domain, with a chronological curve and a distribution by discursive tradition, published in open access. The second is to identify the Latin and Romance sources of the corpus, taking Arabic sources into account wherever possible, and to analyse their acclimatisation within the macrostructure of the works, which will make it possible to characterise the intellectual operation proper to the vernacularisation of knowledge. The third is to analyse the concepts that exceed the scientific frame and carry anthropological and social significance: astral destiny, cosmological wisdom, the government of the world. Each hypothetical filiation within the corpus will be either confirmed or set aside, the reduction in the number of open questions constituting in itself a verifiable indicator of progress.
The transmission of astronomical and astrological knowledge of Greek and Arabic origin took place in Spain through the twelfth-century Latin translations: some names, such as that of Gerard of Cremona, are known to us, others remain anonymous, but the city of Toledo was the principal centre of this major cultural translation (Burnett), whose intellectual networks and writing practices have been studied by the thesis director. It is therefore natural that Iberian literatures, in Latin as in the vernacular, should be the first traditions to reflect the spread of astrological culture, both in the scientific domain and in narrative literature. Yet research here shows an imbalance: studies are abundant on the scientific corpora of the age of Alfonso X and Ramon Llull, but the decades preceding the mid-thirteenth century, precisely when the first vernacular encounters with the new science occur, remain comparatively little mapped. The project responds to this documented gap. It draws on a mature international bibliography concerning the transmission of Arabic science to the Latin West (Burnett; de Callataÿ), medieval encyclopaedism (Paulmier-Foucart; de Callataÿ, Cavagna and Van den Abeele), the vernacularisation of the sciences (Goyens, De Leemans and Smets) and medieval translation in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as on the work of the two supervisors: on the Louvain side, the editing and study of the great vernacular translations of Latin learning and of Occitan cosmological literature; on the Toulouse side, the learned culture of early thirteenth-century Castile and the transpyrenean circulation of clerics and manuscripts. The thesis brings these strands together for the first time in a systematic way, applied to the earliest Castilian and Occitan corpus.

Méthode

The method combines philology, historical linguistics and the history of knowledge, and rests on a set of complementary operations, two of which form its probative core. The first is analysis by section: isolating within each work the passages of learning and comparing their linguistic profile with that of the surrounding narrative, in order to test the hypothesis that knowledge carries its own language with it even once the text has changed register. The second is the typology of additions and omissions with respect to the source: what is added in the vernacular passage (glosses, examples, updatings, markers of orality), what is removed (technical apparatus, authorities, divine causality), what is substituted; systematised work by work, this is the most direct way of characterising the intellectual operation proper to vernacularisation.
Around this core, complementary operations will refine the picture: a systematic survey of metalinguistic glossing formulas in both directions, from Latin into the vernacular and back; the morphological acclimatisation of borrowings, distinguishing passive borrowing from deliberate elaboration; the study of learned, semi-learned and popular doublets, which makes it possible to date the entry of terms and to separate what the language borrows from what it forges; the measurement of Latinising syntax through systematic collation of each vernacular passage with its Latin source; a survey of the epistemic vocabulary of knowledge and proof; the extraction of native classifications of knowledge, to be compared with contemporary Latin divisions such as Gundissalinus’s De divisione philosophiae; and a codicological enquiry into what travels alongside what within the same manuscripts. A methodological precaution is set out from the outset and budgeted into the timetable: the identification of the Latin sources is a precondition for the collation work, not one of its results, and the first year will be planned accordingly.

Résultats attendus

The thesis will first deliver a monograph: the first comprehensive study of the integration of astronomical and astrological knowledge into the earliest Castilian and Occitan literatures. It will then deliver a dated glossary of the terminology of the heavens attested in the corpus, with the dating of first occurrences and a distribution by discursive tradition; confined to the corpus under study, this glossary is a realistic goal within three years, and it is conceived as a lasting instrument, useful to third parties and published in open access. It will further establish a typology of the operations of vernacularisation (additions, omissions, substitutions with respect to the source), applied to the works whose Latin source is identified and edited, in keeping with the methodological precaution set out from the outset; where the source remains uncertain, the expected result is the clarification of the question of filiation itself: each hypothetical link will be either confirmed or set aside, the reduction in the number of open questions constituting a verifiable indicator of progress. The survey of the epistemic vocabulary will finally provide a first account of what counted as knowledge and as proof in the vernacular around 1230, a contribution to intellectual history that the precisely bounded corpus makes measurable. These results will give rise to articles in peer-reviewed journals and to presentations in the seminars of both universities and within the Le ciel vu de Toulouse programme; avenues that exceed the scope of the thesis (extending the glossary to other traditions, an iconographic study of cosmological diagrams) are explicitly conceived as an open programme, not as commitments of the doctorate.

Précision sur l’encadrement

The thesis is directed by Amaia Arizaleta, Professor of Medieval Hispanic Studies (CEIIBA, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès), in international co-supervision with Mattia Cavagna, Professor of Medieval French Language and Literature at UCLouvain (INCAL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). The doctoral candidate will be based at CEIIBA, in collaboration with the Occitan studies section of UT2J, and will take part in the pluridisciplinary programme Le ciel vu de Toulouse (IRPALL), directed by the thesis supervisor. Mobility to UCLouvain will take the form of two six-month stays, or a single one-year stay, that is twelve months in total, in keeping with the ceiling of one third of the thesis duration set by the European Commission; it will take place at the Centre d’études sur le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance (CEMR, INCAL), with a workstation, access to the history of science holdings, and participation in CIOL activities and in the history of science seminar led by G. de Callataÿ and J.-Ch. Ducène. Supervision will rest on regular video conferences, an annual joint meeting of both supervisors with the doctoral candidate, and a co-signed progress report presented to the individual monitoring committee. Training will combine the seminars of both centres, the offerings of the Toulouse Doctoral School, and specialised courses as needed (Latin palaeography, history of ancient astronomy, digital humanities).

Conditions scientifiques matérielles (conditions de sécurité spécifiques) et financières du projet de recherches

The project requires neither heavy equipment nor an experimental protocol: the material conditions are those of research in philology and the history of knowledge, and all of them are already in place. The doctoral candidate will have a workstation at CEIIBA (Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès) and, during mobility stays, a place in the shared doctoral students’ office of the Centre d’études sur le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance (INCAL, UCLouvain), with access to the bibliographic holdings of both universities, including the history of science section of the Louvain library. The corpus consists of edited works and of manuscripts largely accessible in digital reproduction through the holding libraries (BnF, Biblioteca Nacional de España, chapter and municipal libraries); on-site verification will require occasional consultation missions, covered by the operating budget attached to the BEST doctoral contract, which will also fund mobility to UCLouvain, participation in conferences and specialised training (Latin palaeography, history of ancient astronomy, digital tools). The working tools required are standard office and digital-humanities software (corpus-building and querying tools, a database for the glossary), available through the digital services of both institutions. The project carries no specific safety requirements: it handles neither sensitive personal data nor hazardous materials; consultation of early holdings follows the conservation rules of the libraries concerned.

Objectifs de valorisation des travaux de recherche du doctorant : diffusion, publication et confidentialité, droit à la propriété intellectuelle,…

Dissemination will follow the open-science commitments of the BEST programme. Results will be disseminated through articles in peer-reviewed journals in the field (Hispanic and Occitan studies, history of knowledge), deposited in open access on HAL in accordance with the policy of the Université de Toulouse, and through papers given in the seminars of both partner universities and at international meetings of the discipline. The glossary of celestial terminology, the thesis’s principal deliverable, will be published in open access under a Creative Commons licence, so as to constitute a lasting instrument for the scholarly community. The thesis itself will be deposited and disseminated according to the rules in force (national deposit, online dissemination unless a temporary embargo is requested for publication). The Le ciel vu de Toulouse programme will further offer a framework for outreach to the general public, through the doctoral candidate’s participation in its lecture series and in its mediation activities with site partners (Bibliothèque de Toulouse, Société d’astronomie populaire, Rectorat). The project carries no confidentiality clause: it involves neither sensitive data nor protected know-how, and raises no question of patentability. Intellectual property in the work falls under copyright: the doctoral candidate is the author of the thesis and of the resulting publications, any co-signed publications with the supervisors following the rules of scholarly authorship, and reproductions of manuscripts will be subject to the conditions of the holding institutions.

Collaborations envisagées

Besides the co-supervision with UCLouvain, and the two international collaborations already detailed (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, for the iconographic study of the cosmological diagrams of the Ovidian tradition; Warburg Institute, London, through the shared network of the two supervisors around Charles Burnett), two further collaborations are envisaged. At the Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, the Occitan studies section will support the Occitan strand of the corpus (linguistic and philological expertise, seminars). The pluridisciplinary programme Le ciel vu de Toulouse (IRPALL, UT2J), directed by the thesis supervisor, will offer the doctoral candidate a regular framework for interdisciplinary presentation and discussion, bringing together medievalists, historians of science and art, and astrophysicists, in partnership with the Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), the Bibliothèque de Toulouse, the Société d’astronomie populaire de Toulouse, the Société Archéologique du Midi de la France and the Rectorat de l’Académie de Toulouse, as well as, subject to confirmation, CNES, the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées and the Académie de l’Air et de l’Espace; this network also opens possibilities for science outreach around the thesis results, and extends internationally through the thesis director’s ongoing collaboration with Eleonora Andreani (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes; Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin). Finally, the BOSMAH programme (Casa de Velázquez, EHEHI), directed by the thesis supervisor, will make available to the project its work on the manuscript holdings of Burgo de Osma and Santa María de Huerta, a possible field of enquiry for the codicological strand.

Ouverture Internationale

The project is international by design. It rests on a co-supervision between the Université de Toulouse and UCLouvain (Belgium), with two six-month stays, or a single one-year stay (twelve months at most, in keeping with the ceiling of one third of the thesis duration set by the European Commission), at the Centre d’études sur le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance (INCAL), including participation in CIOL activities and in the history of science seminar led by G. de Callataÿ and J.-Ch. Ducène. Its very object is transnational: the circulation of astronomical and astrological knowledge between Arabic, Latin and the Romance vernaculars, on either side of the Pyrenees, calls for a framework of analysis that exceeds any single national tradition. Beyond the Toulouse–Louvain axis, the project opens onto two further collaborations. The first, iconographic and digital, concerns the cosmological diagrams of the Ovidian tradition, with the research group at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela responsible for the Biblioteca Digital Ovidiana. The second draws on the shared network of the two supervisors at the Warburg Institute (London), around the work of Charles Burnett on the transmission of Arabic science to the Latin West, a natural venue for the doctoral candidate’s presentations and exchanges. The thesis may be written in French, Spanish or English depending on the profile of the candidate recruited through the international call, and its results will be presented at international meetings of the field (AIEO and AHLM/Semyr congresses, conferences in the history of science).

Références bibliographiques

Primary sources:
Abū Ma’šar, The Abbreviation of the Introduction to Astrology, ed. Ch. Burnett, M. Yano, K. Yamamoto, Leiden, Brill, 1994. Auto de los Reyes Magos, in M. Á. Pérez Priego (ed.), Teatro medieval, Madrid, Cátedra, 2009. Libro de Alexandre, ed. J. Casas Rigall, Madrid, Real Academia Española, 2014. Semeiança del mundo, ed. W. E. Bull and H. F. Williams, Berkeley – Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1959. Peire de Corbiac, Lo Tezaur, ed. A. Jeanroy and G. Bertoni, “Le Thezaur de Peire de Corbian”, Annales du Midi, 23, 1911, p. 289-308 and 451-471. Lucidari, ed. A. Silvaggi, Lucidari. Edizione critica del volgarizzamento provenzale dell’Elucidarium di Onorio d’Autun (ms. Carpentras 157), doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Trento, 2010. Matfre Ermengaud, Le Breviari d’Amor, vol. II, ed. P. T. Ricketts, London, Westfield College – AIEO, 1989. Dominicus Gundissalinus, De divisione philosophiae / Über die Einteilung der Philosophie, ed. and trans. A. Fidora and D. Werner, Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder (Herders Bibliothek der Philosophie des Mittelalters, 11), 2007.
Secondary literature:
Arizaleta, A., La translation d’Alexandre. Recherches sur les structures et les significations du Libro de Alexandre, Paris, SEMH, 1999. Arizaleta, A., Les clercs au palais. Chancellerie et écriture du pouvoir royal (Castille, 1157-1230), Paris, e-Spania Books, 2010. Arizaleta, A., “El orden de Babel: la conciencia lingüística de la clerecía letrada castellana”, e-Spania, 13, 2012. Burnett, Ch., Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and their Intellectual and Social Context, Farnham, Ashgate, 2009. Burnett, Ch., “Michael Scot and the Transmission of Scientific Culture from Toledo to Bologna”, Micrologus, 2, 1994, p. 101-126. Cavagna, M., “La cosmologie du Livre des propriétés des choses en occitan: une lecture de l’Elucidari et du Breviari d’Amor”, in L’aventure du sens. Mélanges François Zufferey, Strasbourg, ELiPhi, 2016, p. 33-65. Cavagna, M., “Traduire, écrire et imprimer la science”, in Bilan et perspectives des études sur les encyclopédies médiévales, Louvain-la-Neuve, PIEM, 2021, p. 287-328. De Callataÿ, G., Cavagna, M. and Van den Abeele, B. (eds.), Speculum arabicum. Intersecting Perspectives on Medieval Encyclopaedism, Louvain-la-Neuve, PIEM, 2021. De Callataÿ, G. and Van den Abeele, B. (eds.), Une lumière venue d’ailleurs: héritages et ouvertures dans les encyclopédies d’Orient et d’Occident au Moyen Âge, Turnhout, Brepols, 2008. Goyens, M., De Leemans, P. and Smets, A. (eds.), Science Translated. Latin and Vernacular Translations of Scientific Treatises in Medieval Europe, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2008. Martínez Romero, T. and Recio, R. (eds.), Essays on Medieval Translation in the Iberian Peninsula, Castelló – Omaha, Universitat Jaume I, 2001. Paulmier-Foucart, M., Vincent de Beauvais et le Grand miroir du monde, Turnhout, Brepols, 2004. Saif, L., “Islamic Astrology”, in Astrology through History, Santa Barbara, ABC-Clio, 2018, p. 176-185. Zinelli, F., “Attrito, resistenza e fluidità nella ricodificazione linguistica dei testi romanzi”, in Innovazione linguistica e storia della tradizione, Milano, Mimesis, 2020, p. 67-105.

Source : Université de Toulouse

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Séminaire – German Historical Institute London Autumn/Winter Lecture Series

Publié le 19 octobre 2026 par RMBLF

The German Historical Institute London is dedicated to the promotion of historical research in the United Kingdom and Germany. It focuses on the comparative history of Britain and Germany, the global and colonial history of the British Empire and Commonwealth, and the history of British-German relations and transfers. The Institute runs academic events on topics spanning from the Middle Ages to the present. Lectures take place in a hybrid format and can be attended in person or virtually.

Programme :

20 October 2026 (5.30pm)
Blair, Schröder, and Work in Neoliberal Times
Bernhard Rieger (Leiden)

The promotion of neoliberalism ranks prominently among the charges levelled against Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder. Rather than protect citizens from hostile market forces, their governments stoked social polarization by intentionally exposing society to the play of supply and demand, or so critics past and present have maintained. To what extent did Blair’s New Labour and Schröder’s Red-Green administration succeed in combining social progressivism with pro-market agendas? Focusing on the deeply controversial welfare-to-work policies both countries implemented around the turn of the millennium, this talk highlights the achievements, limits, and social consequences of progressive policy in neoliberal times.

Bernhard Rieger is Professor of European History at Leiden University, where he moved from University College London in 2018. He is the author of the prize-winning book The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle (2013), which has been translated into several languages.

27 October 2026 (5.30pm)
Surveying People—Policing Plants: Recasting Livelihoods in German Samoa
Anna Echterhölter (Wien)

The German colonizers took pride in the experiment of Samoan ‘self-rule’. Paramount chief Mata’afa Iosefo remained in authority, lineages still owned their land collectively—and apart from extensive surveying of every aspect of the Faʻa Sāmoa (the Samoan way of life)—the people were left comparatively unencumbered. Plants and agriculture, however, were subject to direct intervention and control. In every district, a resident was promoted to the rank of ‘plant inspector’. Soon, fines for improper gardening proliferated. In light of recent findings in the social history of surveys and colonial statistics, this arrangement is telling. Based on Samoan archives, I argue that the policing of plants and the surveying of people are two sides of the same coin: the making of a knowledge crucial to liberalism. The extensive collection of data allowed a whole socio-ecology to be recast by scarcely detectable means.

Anna Echterhölter has been Professor for the History of Science at the University of Vienna since 2018. She was an interim professor at the TU and at HU Berlin and has held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and the German Historical Institute Washington. She is acting editor of Science in Context. Research topics include the social history of quantification, metrology, and indigenous law in the Pacific.

10 November 2026 (5.30pm)
Contract and Monarchy: King James VI/I and Thomas Hobbes – Brothers in Mind?
Andreas Pecar (Halle)

Hobbes’ Leviathan and his theory of authorization are very prominent in the history of political ideas, whereas King James’ tract The True Law of Free Monarchies has been, on the whole, neglected. In this lecture I will compare both tracts and their concepts of contractualism, asking, furthermore, why both concepts cannot prevail within the debate on the legitimacy of monarchy in seventeenth-century Stuart England. And I would like to explain why the decisive difference between James’ and Hobbes’ contract theory is directly related to the respective political contexts in which they were written.

Andreas Pečar studied History and German Literature in Freiburg and in Cologne, before completing his PhD in Cologne in 2002 and his Habilitation in Rostock in 2009. Since 2010 he has been Professor for Early Modern History at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He has published books on the imperial court in Vienna, political biblicism in Scotland and England under the Stuart Monarchy (the latter is also available in English translation), the Enlightenment in Europe, King Frederick II of Prussia as an author, and the relationship between the University of Halle and the Prussian Court in the first half of the eighteenth century.

24 November 2026 (5.30pm)
Talking to Strangers in Medieval Hungary
Nora Berend (Cambridge)

How did people who spoke different languages talk to each other? My paper will examine the evidence of medieval texts, including stories of direct communication in the medieval kingdom of Hungary. My sources include travel accounts, chronicles, and vocabulary lists. These sources convey real and invented interaction and communication between various groups living in the kingdom. I will focus in particular on exchanges between Hungarian speakers and German speakers. How was communication represented in the texts and what can we learn from them about the mechanisms of real interactions? Did communication contribute to more friendly, or at least less hostile, relations?

Nora Berend is Professor of European History at Cambridge, working on medieval religious and cultural interaction, the formation of identity, and uses of the medieval in the present. Her recent publications include Stephen I, the first Christian King of Hungary: From Medieval Myth to Modern Legend and El Cid: the Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary.

1 December 2026 (5.30pm)
Reflections on Writing a History of Europe under German Occupation During the Second World War
Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal)

In co-operation with the Modern History Research Seminar, University of Oxford

At the height of the German expansion, approximately 230 million Europeans experienced Nazi occupation. How can the everyday history of Europe be written from the perspective of those living under German rule? Across the continent, people had to interact with the occupiers, adjust to situations they did not chose, cope with hunger and scarcity, try and protect their families from repression, and forge networks of solidarity. For Jewish communities, this was particularly harsh, as they endured both the hardships of occupation and the genocidal persecution of the Holocaust. In addition to presenting key findings from her research, Tatjana Tönsmeyer will reflect on the challenges of writing a pan-European history of everyday life under occupation.

Tatjana Tönsmeyer is professor for Modern European History at Wuppertal University. Her research focuses on European history of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially the history of the Second World War, occupation, and occupied societies. Two of her latest publications are Unter deutscher Besatzung: Europa 1939–1945 (2024) and the two-volume source edition Fighting Hunger, Dealing with Shortage: Everyday Life under Occupation in World War II Europe (2021), co-edited with Peter Haslinger, Włodzimierz Borodziej, Stefan Martens, and Irina Sherbakova.

Please sign up via our website: https://www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectures

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Séminaire – The Courtauld Institute of Art Medieval Seminars for Autumn 2026

Publié le 18 octobre 2026 par RMBLF

The Courtauld is delighted to announce its Medieval Seminars for Autumn 2026. All events are free to attend, and take place on Wednesdays at 5.30pm at the Courtauld’s Vernon Square campus. They are followed by questions are drinks. Tickets must be booked via The Courtauld’s Research Forum page.

14th October 2026 – Medieval Work-in-Progress
The Bayeux Tapestry on Display, Dr Lloyd de Beer, Dr Millie Horton-Insch and Dr Iñigo Salto Santamaría

21st October 2026 – The CRSBI Annual Lecture for 2026
The Romanesque Sculpture of Norwich Castle Keep, Dr Agata Gomółka & Professor Sandy Heslop

11th November 2026 – The Paul Crossley Memorial Lecture for 2026
The portals of Notre Dame in Paris. Findings from the current construction site, Professor Stephan Albrecht

9th December 2026 – Medieval Work-in-Progress
Singulariter afficitur … ad gloriosissimum lignum crucis: Jean duc de Berry and the Cross, Dr Susannah Kingwill

Image: The Bayeux Tapestry as displayed in August 1908. © Archives du Calvados, Photographies de la famille Levaltier, 103FI/1 (n°55)

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Publication – Paweł Cholewicki, « The Vicariate of Bosnia within the Late Medieval Franciscan Observance. Expansion, Crisis, and Disintegration (1339–1469) »

Publié le 18 octobre 2026 par RMBLF

In the late Middle Ages, Southeastern Europe was targeted by Catholic expansionist aspirations and intense proselytising action. The presence of the ‘ancient heresy of the Manichaeans’ in Bosnia attracted the particular attention of the Roman curia. Its prime agents were Franciscan friars, organised for the most part under the jurisdiction of the Bosnian vicariate, founded in 1339.

This book explores the extraordinary expansion, and the subsequent crisis and disintegration, of the Franciscan Bosnian vicariate, which at one stage extended from the Carpathians and the southern Italy to coverage of a large part of the Balkans. It brings to light a particular emphasis on the relationship between these phases of expansion and fragmentation and the rise of the Observant movement in the Franciscan order. This reform movement has recently attracted much scholarly attention, yet scholarship has concentrated on western Christendom and remains limited with regard to Christendom’s frontiers. The present study integrates this traditional scholarship on the Observance with local (South Slavic and Hungarian) historiographic traditions. It examines the withdrawal of the vicariate’s jurisdiction from different geographical areas and establishes the relationship between this withdrawal and the expanding Observance, thereby bringing into focus the movement’s reformist agenda concerning religious conduct and obedience. It details how the vicariate was fractured across its constituent elements and broken down into different conflicted parts, which later turned into fully-fledged provinces.

This book thus establishes the Bosnian vicariate in the framework of Observance’s internal diversity and demonstrates that the story of the Franciscan Observance is not complete without Bosnia.

Paweł Cholewicki is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellow at Palacký University Olomouc. He completed his PhD at the Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds in 2023. He also holds an MA from the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University. He has published articles on the Observant Franciscans in medieval Bosnia, as well as on the travels of St James of the Marches in East Central Europe.

Table des matières :

Introduction

Section I. The Bosnian Observant Franciscan Vicariate in the Land of ‘Heretics and Schismatics’: Origin, Expansion, and Controversy

Chapter 1. The Rise of the Bosnian Church

Chapter 2. Establishing the Bosnian Vicariate: Foundation, Expansion, and Challenges

Chapter 3. The Bosnian Vicariate in the Formative Phase of the Franciscan Observance: A Neglected Cradle?

Chapter 4. Discord between the Friars of the Bosnian Vicariate and their Cismontane Superiors

Chapter 5. Sigismund of Luxemburg’s Patronage of the Observance

Section II. The Disintegration of the Bosnian Vicariate

Chapter 6. The Catholic Transformation of Bosnia

Chapter 7. Division of the Bosnian and Hungarian Observants

Chapter 8. The Suppression of the Bosnian Custody of St Catharine in Apulia

Chapter 9. The Controversy over Five Friaries in Dalmatia: Expansion and Withdrawal

Section III. The Emergence and Downfall of the Bosnian-Dalmatian Franciscan Province

Chapter 10. Times of Upheaval: The Rise of Political Importance of the Bosnian Friars

Chapter 11. Discord between the Bosnian and Dalmatian Observants

Chapter 12. The Bosnian-Dalmatian Province (1464-1469): A Failed Project

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Informations pratiques :

Paweł Cholewicki, The Vicariate of Bosnia within the Late Medieval Franciscan Observance. Expansion, Crisis, and Disintegration (1339–1469), Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 ; 1 vol., 285 p. (Medieval Monastic Studies, 10). ISBN : 978-2-503-61124-2. Prix € 90,00.

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Exposition – I Brueghel. Le origini dei generi pittorici in Europa

Publié le 17 octobre 2026 par RMBLF

The first major exhibition in Italy dedicated to one of the most influential artistic dynasties of the European Renaissance.

Running from 29 September 2026 to 31 January 2027, the exhibition The Brueghels: The Origins of Pictorial Genres in Europe takes visitors on a historical and artistic journey through more than 80 works, including paintings, drawings, and prints. It explores a “dynasty” of painters who played a decisive role in the development of the future pictorial genres in the Netherlands, Italy, and across Europe.

From snowy landscapes and stormy seas to still lifes, scenes of peasant life, and battle paintings, the emergence of these pictorial genres helped shape modern European painting as we know it today.

An exhibition by the City of Milan. A project by Bernard Aikema, curated by Carlotta Striolo.

Informations pratiques :

29 September 2026 – 31 January 2027

Palazzo Reale

Piazza Duomo 12
20121 Milan
Italy

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Publication – Aude Mairey, « Robin des Bois. Un héros entre mythes et réalités »

Publié le 17 octobre 2026 par RMBLF

Dans la verte forêt de Sherwood, résonne encore le nom de Robin des Bois. Ce malicieux bandit y vécut entouré de ses joyeux compagnons, usant de son arc pour voler aux riches et donner aux pauvres. Mais, bien loin de cette figure généreuse qui s’impose à nous, le Moyen Âge nous en brosse un tout autre portrait : il trompe l’ennemi, tue sans état d’âme et vole pour son propre compte.

Pour comprendre ce glissement, il nous faut partir pour l’Angleterre à la recherche du yeoman, du noble ou encore du Saxon dont notre héros prit parfois l’apparence. Sur les traces du célèbre hors-la-loi, entre mythes et réalités, Aude Mairey nous donne à lire les ballades et poèmes médiévaux. Croisant de nombreuses versions, elle révèle les facettes les plus méconnues de ce personnage et analyse ses étonnantes mutations.

Aux cris des festins joyeux, à l’odeur des sous-bois ombragés au gibier abondant, l’historienne pose une ultime question : que représente Robin des Bois, qui puisse expliquer l’amour que nous lui portons ?

Table des matières :

Introduction

Chapitre 1 Des origines controversées
Robin des Bois a-t-il existé ?
Les premiers témoignages

Chapitre 2 Robin le yeoman
Qu’est-ce qu’un yeoman ?
De « bons yeomen »
La verte forêt
De joyeux compagnons

Chapitre 3 Robin le hors-la-loi
Être un hors-la-loi
De la violence
Un héros subversif ou conservateur ?

Chapitre 4 Robin le noble
Des critiques soutenues
Vers la noblesse
Le comte de Huntington
Les ballades de l’époque moderne

Chapitre 5 Robin l’Anglais
Le Robin de Joseph Ritson
Robin le romantique
Robin le Saxon
De Pierce Egan à Howard Pyle : une culture de masse

Chapitre 6 Robin contemporain
Hors-la-loi ou super héros ?
Quelle place pour Marianne ?
Une récupération politique ?
La forêt, un espace politique alternatif

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliographie
Filmographie

Informations pratiques :

Aude Mairey, Robin des Bois. Un héros entre mythes et réalités, Paris, Armand Colin, 2026 ; 1 vol., 192 p. ISBN : 978-2-20063-718-7. Prix : € 20,99.

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Publication – Dominique Demartini, « L’arc et la rose. Christine de Pizan : naissance de l’écrivaine au XVe siècle »

Publié le 16 octobre 2026 par RMBLF

Dans la tradition courtoise, représentée par le Roman de la Rose, l’arc est tenu par le dieu Amour et la rose figure la Dame. Christine de Pizan renverse le scénario qui en découle. Elle s’empare de l’arc du dieu pour le retourner contre les amants et défendre la rose contre le discours des clercs. Dans L’arc et la rose, Dominique Demartini met en lumière les stratégies d’appropriation et d’autorisation qui accompagnent l’autogenèse d’une écrivaine au début du XVe siècle. Cet essai est le premier à proposer une lecture de l’ensemble de l’œuvre de Christine de Pizan qui souligne ses lignes de force au-delà des distinctions génériques, des oppositions entre fiction et réalité, littérature et histoire. Croisant les perspectives du genre et des études historiques, il intègre les voix de la Querelle des femmes et du débat sur le Roman de la Rose à une réflexion politique sur la place des femmes dans la Cité et le rôle de la Reine dans une France en crise. Ancrée dans son temps, l’écriture de Christine de Pizan ambitionne de peser sur l’histoire. L’épître en est la forme privilégiée. Elle est la flèche adressée aux princes, comme le fil conducteur de cette lecture qui fait s’inventer en miroir les figures nouvelles de la Dame, de la Reine et de l’Écrivaine.

Table des matières : ici

Informations pratiques :

Dominique Demartini, L’arc et la rose. Christine de Pizan : naissance de l’écrivaine au XVe siècle, Genève, Droz, 2026 ; 1 vol., 550 p. (Publications Romanes et Françaises, 287). ISBN : 978-2-600-06716-4. Prix : CHF 65,00.

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Appel à contribution – Beyond the Canonisation Process The Papacy and the Cult of Saints in the High Middle Ages

Publié le 16 octobre 2026 par RMBLF

While papal canonisations in the High Middle Ages have long been the focus of much research, other forms of the papacy’s involvement in the cult of saints have received far less attention. The aim of the conference is therefore to examine various forms of papal participation in the cult of saints, other than canonisations in the narrow sense, from the late tenth to the early fourteenth century.

The conference will take place on May 6-7 2027 at the University of Warsaw, Poland. We would like to bring together scholars from different backgrounds (historians, theologians, art historians, archaeologists, musicologists) who specialise in the medieval cult of saints and the papacy, and more broadly: religiosity, culture and the history of the Church. Potential topics for submission may include, but are not limited to:

  • the papacy as promoter or detractor of the cult of saints
  • the papacy and the recognition of sainthood in forms other than canonisations
  • popes and the translation of relics
  • the role of the papacy in the creation of hagiography (including production of manuscripts)
  • the papacy and martyrologies / calendars
  • papal indulgences and the cult of saints
  • false claims about papal involvement in the cult of saints (other than false claims of papal canonisation)
  • popes’ personal involvement in public o r private veneration of saints
  • papal legates and the cult of saints
  • the papacy as a donor and recipient of objects associated with the veneration of saints
  • imitating papacy in the cult of saints
  • the cult of saint popes

To propose a paper

Please submit a paper title and abstract (max 250 words) with your name, email address and academic affiliation to beyondcanonisation@uw.edu.pl by 15 November 2026.

The language of the conference is English. As an outcome of the conference, the publication of selected papers within an edited volume is planned.

Beyond the Canonisation Process – the Conference Concept

The idea for the conference stems from the RECOGNISING SAINTS project, which systematically analyses the phenomenon of the formalisation of the veneration of saints, enabling their public, liturgical worship – a process we refer to as the recognition of sainthood. Our research shows that papal involvement in the recognition of sainthood was not limited to canonisation in the narrow sense of the term, that is, the specific procedure which acquired a mature form in the thirteenth century and through which the papacy declared that someone was added to the catalogue of saints. Thus, popes, in addition to the solemnly proclaimed canonisations, carried out the translation of saints’ remains themselves or ordered others to do so, consecrated altars and churches dedicated to new saints, and occasionally deferred decisions on the recognition of a new cult to other ecclesiastical institutions. The papacy took a stance on the sanctity of particular figures, sometimes referring to them as ‘saints’ regardless of whether these figures had been recognised before. Papal legates were also involved in the process of sainthood recognition in various forms which are difficult to encompass within a narrowly defined understanding of canonisation and which certainly merit further research.

And yet, issues relating to the recognition of sainthood itself by no means exhaust the range of topics concerning the papacy’s role in the cult of saints. The debate as to whether the papacy promoted or combated certain cults or certain types of sanctity is not yet concluded. In this context, papal indulgences continue to merit further attention, as does the involvement of popes and their immediate entourage in the creation of hagiographic texts, martyrologies and calendars. The popes’ roles as founders of churches and altars dedicated to specific saints, as well as donors of objects of worship associated with their veneration, have also not been the subject of more systematic research. Some of these activities are linked to the popes’ role as bishops of Rome, which also involved various forms of public engagement in the veneration of saints. While this topic has received a vast amount of scholarly attention for the Early Middle Ages, less attention has been given to it in the High Middle Ages. On top of this, the popes’ ‘private’ devotion to saints still awaits a thorough research.

It is well known that the papacy, by virtue of its authority in Latin Christendom, was the reference point for other ecclesiastical institutions, who often imitated its practices and rituals. The question arises if this imitatio was also present in the process of local veneration of saints. This is closely connected to the role of the cult of holy popes for local communities and the extent to which those communities, in promoting the cults of their own saints, emphasized the role — whether real or alleged — of popes in the development and legitimization of their veneration.

The conference is organised by the project ‘RECOGNISING SAINTS in the High Middle Ages: Local and Papal Formalisation of Cults Reconsidered’ funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2023/50/E/HS3/00250) and hosted by the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. https://www.recognising-saints.historia.uw.edu.pl/

Organisers: Gabriele Bonomelli, Tomasz Dalewski, Grzegorz Pac, Hannah Potthoff

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact us at beyondcanonisation@uw.edu.pl

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Publication – « The Anglo-Norman Bible’s Books of Kings, a Critical Edition (BL Royal 1 C III, fols 234r-274v) », éd. Brent A. Pitts, Heather Pagan

Publié le 16 octobre 2026 par RMBLF

The Anglo-Norman Bible’s Books of Kings open with the death of King David and the resulting succession crisis. They relate many familiar stories including the episode of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, the building of the temple, the ministry and miracles of the prophets Elijah and Elisha and, finally, the destruction of the temple and the fall of Israel and Judah.

The text of the ANB’s Books of Kings is extant in two mid-fourteenth century English manuscripts: British Library Royal 1 C III (L) and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS français 1 (P). L, a modest production,belonged to Reading’s Benedictine abbey before entering the royal library in 1530 and is particularly notable for its use of glossing in French, Middle English and Latin, throughout the manuscript to clarify the Anglo-Norman text. P is an illustrated manuscript commissioned for the fifth baron de Welles, John, by his mother, Maud, daughter of William, Lord Ros. The Welles-Ros manuscript later passed into the ownership of Louis XII of France.

Brent A. Pitts has edited numerous geographical and biblical works in Anglo-Norman, including the Anglo-Norman Bible’s books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, and Tobit. He is professor emeritus of French at Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Heather Pagan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster and former editor at the Anglo-Norman Dictionary. She has edited a number of medieval glossaries and chronicles including the Anglo-Norman Brut.

Table des matières :

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction
The Books of Kings: Summary and Structure
The Development of the Anglo-Norman Bible and the Books of Kings 
Reception of the Books of Kings in Medieval Literature
Manuscripts of the Anglo-Norman Bible’s Books of Kings
Relationship of L and P
Language of the Text
Morphology
Orthography 
Syntax
Lexis
Glosses
Editorial Considerations
Bibliography
The Anglo-Norman Bible’s Books of Kings
Text edition
Rejected Readings
Reading and Critical Notes

Appendices
A. Comparison of L and P
B. Divergent Word-Choice in L and P
C. Geographical Names in the Anglo-Norman Bible’s
Books of Kings
D. Personal Names in the Anglo-Norman Bible’s
Books of Kings

Glossary

Informations pratiques :

The Anglo-Norman Bible’s Books of Kings, a Critical Edition (BL Royal 1 C III, fols 234r-274v), éd. Brent A. Pitts, Heather Pagan, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 ; 1 vol., 282 p. (Textes vernaculaires du Moyen Âge, 37). ISBN : 978-2-503-62281-1. Prix : € 120,00.

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