Author Archives: RMBLF

Derrière l’armure se dévoile tout un pan d’une histoire fortement ancrée dans notre patrimoine culturel, architectural, littéraire et cinématographique, une histoire inscrite dans nos imaginaires, celle des chevaliers. Le récit de cette aventure chevaleresque de l’Europe nous est présenté au … Lire la suite →

Die Staatsbibliothek Bamberg bewahrt als ihr kostbarstes Erbe die frühmittelalterlichen Handschriften, die als Stiftungen Kaiser Heinrichs II. (973–1024) bei der Bistumsgründung nach Bamberg gelangten. Aus Anlass des 1000. Todestags des Kaisers werden 50 ausgewählte Codices, also etwa ein Drittel des … Lire la suite →

To date, scholarly attention to royal ceremony in Scotland from the Middle Ages into the early modern period has been rather haphazard, with few attempts to explore how these crucial moments for the representation of royal authority. This monograph provides … Lire la suite →

At the end of the nineteenth century, German theologians and philosophers rediscovered the Renaissance cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464). Immediately they hailed Cusanus as the first modern thinker, a brilliant German rival to the French Descartes. But since the founding … Lire la suite →

Lo sviluppo delle scritture amministrative, in ambito ecclesiastico e successivamente laico, è il segno quanto lo strumento della razionalizzazione gestionale della proprietà fondiaria e immobiliare nell’economia medievale. Lo studio analitico del primo inventario-censuario dei beni del capitolo di S. Pietro … Lire la suite →

‘Rewriting’ as the reworking of narrative material based on conscious strategies of composition plays a significant role in much of the Latin poetry of Late Antiquity. This book, resulting from the conference Riscritture poetiche nell’Occidente latino tra tarda antichità e medioevo, … Lire la suite →

La Diplomatica è la scienza che studia i documenti, in modo particolare quelli di epoca medioevale. La parola ‘Diplomatica’ non ha nulla a che vedere con la diplomazia: il termine deriva da ‘diploma’, ossia un testo scritto certificato, dal valore … Lire la suite →

Games with a medieval setting are commercially lucrative and reach a truly massive audience. Moreover, they can engage their players in a manner that is not only different, but in certain aspects, more profound than traditional literary or cinematic forms … Lire la suite →