Author Archives: RMBLF

The Roman army represented an important social and organizational reference model for the Romano-Barbarian societies, which progressively replaced the Western Empire in the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Middle Ages. The great flexibility of the decision-making and organizational solutions … Lire la suite →

En 975, les premiers coups de hache résonnent dans le vallon du Monsabeau pour défricher, viabiliser et lotir un marécage affluent de la Dordogne, laissé inculte depuis plusieurs siècles. Une enceinte y est aménagée pour défendre une grande maison à … Lire la suite →

The Merovingian Kingdoms (c. 450–751) dominated much of what is now France, Belgium, and Germany, and were the most powerful and long-lived of the states that transformed the inheritance of Rome after the Crisis of the Fifth Century. Yet they … Lire la suite →

Dans la période qui mène du XIIe siècle au seuil des Lumières, le discours mystique s’offre comme un véritable carrefour, dont l’intelligibilité se déploie autour de quatre pôles pour former ce que Pierre Gire nomme un carré mystique. Après le … Lire la suite →

In Experimental Histories, Hannah Weaver examines the medieval practice of interpolation—inserting material from one text into another—which is often categorized as being a problematic, inauthentic phenomenon akin to forgery and pseudepigraphy. Instead, Weaver promotes interpolation as the signature form of … Lire la suite →

Flavius Josephus and Artwork of Roman Antiquity and the Early Middle Age demonstrates how the writings of the first-century Judaean historian influenced the genesis, nature and design of major monuments of the first millennium: 1) The frieze of the Spoils … Lire la suite →

A fine new copy. ere are thirteen peer-reviewed essays by leading historians exploring the subject of death and dying in the middle ages. The essays explore some of the many ways in which death in its practical and devotional aspects … Lire la suite →