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This collection of contributions from international scholars offers a cross-language and multi-period analysis dedicated to the constitution of the lexicon of pathology between Antiquity and the Early Modern period. By analysing unpublished texts and studying sources written in different languages … Lire la suite →

La Bibbia dal Tardo Antico all’Alto Medioevo, Spolète, Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, 2026 ; 2 vol., 1334 p. (Atti delle Settimane di studio, 72). ISBN : 978-8-86809-481-2. Prix : € 198,00. Table des matières : Lettera e allegoria. … Lire la suite →

Traduites en français pour la première fois, les mémoires de voyages du Vénitien Giosafat Barbaro nous offrent des considérations géopolitiques, ethnologiques et culturelles sur le Caucase et la Perse de la fin du Moyen Âge. Barbaro fut souvent le premier … Lire la suite →

The Byzantine Abbot Symeon the New Theologian (949–1022) transgressed the homophobic norms of medieval Orthodox society. His longing for God was distinctly homoerotic, and he depicted union with the divine as a queer sort of marriage. His Orthodox theology of … Lire la suite →

Mi-intéressé, mi-narquois, le chapelain de la comtesse Marie de Champagne observe les manèges de la cour comtale et le savoir-vivre amoureux qui s’y installe à la fin du XIIe siècle. Il fait mine d’entrer dans le jeu et de le … Lire la suite →

Christ’s war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution in the late ninth century during the Northmen’s attacks. It argues that the Franks understood their wars to be holy when … Lire la suite →

The Occupatio is one of the longest yet least-known Latin poems surviving from the earlier Middle Ages. Composed by the famous abbot Odo of Cluny (d. 942), the work retells the story of humanity’s fall and redemption as a series … Lire la suite →

This volume completes the collected works of Geert Grote, containing a treatise on the undesirability of marriage for a secular cleric and a treatise on four subjects suitable for meditation. In his theoretical and philosophical essay Tractatusde quatuor generibus meditacionum sive … Lire la suite →

The art of drawing and its products had a determining relationship to the visual arts of the Middle Ages. They also had other purposes, which if understood, help one to grasp the broader availability and usefulness of the medium. This … Lire la suite →

« On se croirait au moyen Âge! » La fortune de ce cliché est connue et elle en dit long sur la perception d’une période qui s’étend pourtant sur dix siècles ( Ve-XVe siècle). Aujourd’hui, il serait plus juste de dire que … Lire la suite →