Author Archives: RMBLF

How was violence understood and justified during the time of the crusades? This book argues that although just/holy war theory has long provided the framework for explaining crusading violence, cultural history gives us deeper insights into the meaning and conduct … Lire la suite →

In dozens of monumental examples across central and northern Italy, late-medieval artists created complex diagrammatic paintings whose content was conveyed not through proto-perspectival spaces but rather through complex circles, trees, hierarchical stemmata, and winding pathways. Trecento Pictoriality is the first … Lire la suite →

Francesca Trivellato part sur les traces de la légende qui a accompagné l’idée de prédispositions particulières des Juifs pour le commerce et le crédit. À l’origine se trouve la fable de l’invention juive, à la fin du Moyen Âge, de … Lire la suite →

Contemporary scholarship on Bonaventure has characterized him as the Neo-platonic foil to the Aristotelianism of his day. The present book, however, shows a Bonaventure who is highly enthusiastic about utilizing the philosophy of Aristotle and who centers much of his … Lire la suite →

Au cours de la première moitié du XVe siècle, anachorète et abbesse Colette de Corbie (1381-1447) devint la première femme à réformer un ordre monastique contemplatif en fondant vingt-quatre maisons franciscaines en France, en Bourgogne et dans les Pays-Bas. Pendant … Lire la suite →