Author Archives: RMBLF

L’ambition de cet ouvrage est d’étoffer le débat sur l’apprentissage, au-delà du cercle des spécialistes, en mêlant à la polyphonie disciplinaire des études dans le champ de la transmission des savoirs la voix singulière de l’archéologie, qui étudie la matérialité … Lire la suite →

Nell’anno 802 giungeva ad Aquisgrana per l’imperatore Carlo Magno un dono davvero fuori dal comune: un elefante, di nome Abul Abbas, che il califfo di Baghdad Harun al-Rashid aveva inviato a seguito della richiesta che lo stesso Carlo Magno gli … Lire la suite →

The vernacular Anglo-Saxon Chronicles cover the centuries which saw the making of England and its conquest by Scandinavians and Normans. After Alfred traces their development from their genesis at the court of King Alfred to the last surviving chronicle produced … Lire la suite →

While hagiographies tell of Christian martyrs who have died in an astonishing number of ways and places, slain by members of many different groups, martyrdom in a Franciscan context generally meant death at Muslim hands; indeed, in Franciscan discourse, « death … Lire la suite →