Category Archives: Publications

Depuis les années 1980, une approche nouvelle s’est imposée autour de la construction en reprenant le principe archéologique de la stratigraphie des unités et des faits. Plusieurs colloques ont pu témoigner de ces progrès : par exemple, pour la France, … Lire la suite →

Pourquoi s’intéresser au livre ancien et médiéval à une époque où la « raison numérique » déstructure et reconfigure les modalités de composition, de reproduction, de diffusion et de réception des textes ? Cet ouvrage propose une réflexion critique sur l’histoire du livre … Lire la suite →

Mail armour (commonly mislabelled ‘chainmail’) was used for more than two millennia on the battlefield. After its invention in the Iron Age, mail rapidly spread all over Europe and beyond. The Roman army, keen on new military technology, soon adopted … Lire la suite →

Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, including many issues we now think of as purely secular. It regulated marriages, oaths, usury, sorcery, heresy, university life, penance, just war, court procedure, and Christian relations with religious minorities. Canon … Lire la suite →

Focusing on production and patronage, this new volume features over 150 images of magnificently illustrated books and precious bindings, drawn largely from North American collections. The book’s three sections are arranged chronologically, yet in each case with a different thematic … Lire la suite →

L’opera raccoglie per la prima volta l’intera tradizione letteraria che riguarda la leggenda della Papessa Giovanna e quella della verifica della mascolinità, alla quale avrebbe dovuto sottostare ogni pontefice dopo la sua elezione, dalla più antica notizia sulla Papessa, del … Lire la suite →

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 →