Author Archives: RMBLF

Le spedizioni italiane dei sovrani lussemburghesi – Enrico VII, Giovanni di Boemia e Carlo IV – sono state a lungo considerate parentesi episodiche prive di effetti duraturi degni di interesse. Tuttavia, il confronto tra i risultati delle recenti ricerche italiane … Lire la suite →

L’objectif de ce volume collectif est de questionner, à partir des sciences humaines et sociales, les circulations, réceptions et appropriations dont font aujourd’hui l’objet les savoirs, les imaginaires et les représentations relatifs à la période médiévale. Loin d’être absolument nouvelles, … Lire la suite →

The corpus of sermons and saints’ lives from early medieval England, in English and Latin, is the largest and most varied of its kind from a contemporary European perspective. In recent years this extraordinary body of literature has attracted increasing … Lire la suite →

L’histoire du corps est aujourd’hui un domaine privilégié de la recherche. Si elle est redevable à d’autres sciences sociales, en premier lieu l’anthropologie, l’ethnologie et la sociologie, elle a existé bienavant d’être identifiée en tant que telle et certaines manières … Lire la suite →

Constant Crisis focuses on the culmination of struggles in the medieval Norwegian kingdom to examine whether these conflicts underscored a breakdown of society and polity or whether they created an equilibrium among factions that in fact « served to contain violence. » … Lire la suite →

With the birth of the cult of the saints, their relics became valuables whose possession would guarantee prestige, protection, and spiritual benefits to a town, church, or monastery. For this reason—at first with the aim of preserving the bodies of … Lire la suite →