Category Archives: Publications

Geoffrey Chaucer has long been considered by the critics as the father of English poetry. However, this notion not only tends to forget a huge part of the history of Anglo-Saxon literature but also to ignore the specificities of Chaucer’s … Lire la suite →

Social inequality is one of the most pressing global challenges at the start of the 21st century. Meanwhile, across the globe at least half of the world’s population lives in urban agglomerations, and urbanisation is still expanding. This book engages … Lire la suite →

À la veille de la révolution française, le territoire de l’actuelle Belgique comptait près de quatre-vingt communautés de chanoines séculiers, dont cinq communautés féminines. En dépit de cette densité extrêmement élevée par rapport aux autres pays et malgré la richesse … Lire la suite →

Merlin, Chasseurs de dragons, Kaamelott, Game of Thrones, Médiévales montre comment les séries réinventent par l’image et le son, un Moyen Âge immédiatement reconnu comme tel par les téléspectateurs. Médiévales aborde la présence du Moyen Âge dans les séries télévisées … Lire la suite →

Precious metalwork, relics, chess pieces, ostrich eggs, unicorn horns, and bones of giants were among the treasury objects accumulated in churches during the Middle Ages. The material manifestations of a Christian worldview, they would only later become naturalia and objets … Lire la suite →

The period from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century witnessed a rapid development of the tournament. Alongside the original tourney – a mass battle fought between opposing armies of knights with minimal and rudimentary regulation – new forms of chivalric … Lire la suite →

This collection of essays is a return to words of the Middle Ages in and of themselves, uniting philologists, historians, epigraphers, palaeographers, and art historians. It probes the intellectual, technical, and aesthetic principles that underpin their use and social function … Lire la suite →

The Latin ‘Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri’, the original of which may have been written in Greek, is the ultimate source for an extensive network of medieval vernacular versions of the romance narrative ‘Apollonius of Tyre’. The Middle English version edited … Lire la suite →

Jusqu’où les pratiques de l’écrit se sont-elles professionnalisées au Moyen Âge et à l’époque moderne? La fonction sociale des scribes ou copistes est souvent symboliquement liée aux textes sacrés, en Occident comme en Orient. Mais la transmission des savoirs par … Lire la suite →

Continuous Page: Scrolls and Scrolling from Papyrus to Hypertext, éd. Jack Hartnell, The Courtauld, 2020. DOI: 10.33999/2019.15 Accès : ici This open-access book of 12 essays, accompanied by a series of fully digitised scroll objects, constitutes the a systematic attempt … Lire la suite →