Author Archives: RMBLF

A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality—a brilliant reflection of humanity itself. The word “medieval” conjures images of the “Dark Ages”—centuries … Lire la suite →

Trois obituaires bordelais. L’abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Clarisses de Bordeaux, Saint-Martin de Saint-Macaire, éd. Ézéchiel Jean-Courret, Françoise Lainé et Jean-Loup Lemaitre, Paris, AIBL / Peeters, 2021 (Recueil des Historiens de la France: Obituaires. Nouvelle Série, 26). XIV-480 p. ISBN : 9782877546744. … Lire la suite →

The sixteenth-century glazing from Herkenrode Abbey in Belgium constitutes the most significant body of Flemish stained glass in the world. In the early nineteenth century, an English aristocrat took advantage of the secularization of the monasteries on the Continent to … Lire la suite →

From transcription to publication, thiscollection goes into details about the models that inform the Canterbury TalesProject Research. Each article engages with a specific aspect of the editorialprocess, starting with transcription and going through collation and analysis,and concluding with the management … Lire la suite →

This volume contains an unprecedented meeting of two major traditions, each of which are forms of careful engagement with Dante’s Commedia: the Lectura Dantis, and the illustrations of this work. The Lectura Dantis, initiated by Giovanni Boccaccio in the fourteenth … Lire la suite →