Category Archives: Publications

Written by Richard Gameson, Andrew Beeby, Flavia Fiorillo, Catherine Nicholson, Paola Ricciardi and Suzanne Reynolds. With contributions from Mila Crippa, Anna Mazzinghi and Lucia Pereira-Pardo This comprehensive and richly illustrated volume is the first-ever history of British medieval illuminators’ pigments. … Lire la suite →

Figure intellectuelle et politique de premier plan au temps du Grand Schisme, le chancelier de l’Université de Paris Jean Gerson (1363-1429) a marqué de son influence l’histoire de l’Église et de la pensée scolastique. Il est l’auteur d’une œuvre abondante … Lire la suite →

Research on late antique and early medieval migrations has long acknowledged the importance of interdisciplinarity. The field is constantly nourished by new archaeological discoveries that allow for increasingly refined pictures of socio-economic development. Yet the perspectives adopted by historians and … Lire la suite →

Focusing on a little studied miscellany by Claude Fauchet (1530-1602), this book reveals the role of the medieval in crafting an image of French modernity during the Renaissance. Designed to confront the Pléiade with the rich legacy of medieval French, … Lire la suite →

The Middle Ages and Medievalism have been used and abused throughout history–and this continues. This narrative deserves a reassessment. But, what is Medieval? This is the central question that unifies the contributions in this volume.  ‘Medievalism’, or the study of … Lire la suite →

Depuis la naissance de la grammaire, les premiers théoriciens de la langue se sont heurtés à un paradoxe : est-il possible de réduire la somme indéfinie des faits de langue à un ensemble fini de règles ? Ce paradoxe appelle d’autres prolongements : … Lire la suite →

Troppo spesso il Mediterraneo medievale viene ancora oggi interpretato alla luce di paradigmi obsoleti, che si basano sulla presenza o sull’assenza degli europei nelle reti commerciali che connettono le varie regioni intorno al mare. Ponendosi sulla scia del suo precedente, … Lire la suite →

Étudié depuis 1978, le site archéologique de Brandes (Huez-Alpe d’Huez, Isère) réunit en un seul et même lieu des fortifications, une église paroissiale, un cimetière, des habitations, des mines, des ateliers de minéralurgie, des aménagements hydrauliques et des archives. Les … Lire la suite →

Medieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and the everyday lives of the elites for whom this music and … Lire la suite →

Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman « Francia, » through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy and the development … Lire la suite →