Author Archives: RMBLF

Over the last two decades, scholarship has presented a more nuanced view of women’s attitude to and agency in medieval monastic reform, challenging the idea that they were, by and large, unwilling to accept or were necessarily hostile towards reform … Lire la suite →

Au XIIIe et au XIVe siècle, trois géographes arabes ont consacré une part de leurs dictionnaires aux territoires africains. Les villes, les montagnes, les fleuves et les mers y sont décrits au lecteur de façon très vivante, fournissant quantité de … Lire la suite →

Nel 1324 Mansa Musa, il sultano del Mali, «l’uomo piú ricco che il mondo abbia mai visto», intraprende il suo pellegrinaggio verso La Mecca, a capo di un immenso corteo lungo decine di chilometri e composto da migliaia di uomini … Lire la suite →

The book presents a new history of the Slavs during the Middle Ages. Based on in-depth source analysis, it describes on the one hand the ‘factual’ historical structures that can be discerned behind the phenomenon of ‘the Slavs’ – from … Lire la suite →

En ne retenant des deux Vies de saint Roch publiées par les bollandistes que ce qui s’accordait avec l’Histoire, en dépit de leurs incohérences, l’érudition s’était employée jusqu’ici à construire la « biographie vraisemblable » d’un pèlerin thaumaturge de la … Lire la suite →

Intermediality, figurability, iconotext, visual exegesis: these are some of the many new ways in which the relationship between text and image has been explored in recent decades. Scholars have benefited from theoretical work in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and … Lire la suite →