Author Archives: RMBLF

À la fin du Moyen Âge, le comté de Bourgogne est un espace profondément rural. Les paysans francs-comtois font pousser le blé et la vigne. Ils élèvent des bestiaux pour le lait, la viande, le cuir ou la laine. Ils … Lire la suite →

This book focuses on Volga Bulgaria (10th to early 13th centuries), the only Muslim state in Eastern Europe before 1300. For several centuries, it operated as a bridge between the Christian West and the Muslim East. As such, it is … Lire la suite →

Nel Medioevo la vita era indissolubilmente legata alla natura, la cui percezione era però in continuo movimento. Piante, animali, corsi d’acqua: tutto l’ambiente era modificato dall’agire degli esseri umani, e a loro volta le trasformazioni della natura influenzavano la vita … Lire la suite →

Minted in Florence around November 1252, the florin became one of the leading gold currencies of the Middle Ages. Historians agree that its success was mainly due to the need for a stable means of payment in the networks of … Lire la suite →

Medievalism has been a common and hardly innocent practice in Eastern European political discourses ever since the dissolution of the USSR in the 1990s. To use but one example, both Russia and Ukraine have laid claims on such prominent historical … Lire la suite →