Category Archives: Publications

We increasingly encounter medieval books as digital facsimiles—zooming in on high-resolution images, clicking through virtual pages, or engaging with interactive displays. But what actually happens when a parchment manuscript is translated into a digital object? How does this change affect … Lire la suite →

La basilique Saint-Sernin de Toulouse s’enorgueillit depuis le XIVe siècle de posséder le corps entier de Jacques le Majeur, qui lui aurait été donné par Charlemagne. Le copieux dossier qui documente ces reliques toulousaines comportant nombre d’incertitudes, l’autorisation de faire … Lire la suite →

Utiliser les données biologiques pour reconstruire le passé est une tentation ancienne. Il y a bientôt un siècle, de tels efforts ont conduit directement aux théories racistes et nazies. Des risques que les avancées de la génétique peuvent amplifier. L’historien … Lire la suite →

Pinning down Byzantium (or East Rome) is as difficult today as it was for contemporaries during its 1,000-year-long existence. Dimitri Obolensky sought to characterize its impact on Eastern Europe in his classic The Byzantine Commonwealth, focusing on the elements of … Lire la suite →

Comment lire les nouvelles de la première modernité ? Peut-on assigner un sens moral aux recueils de récits brefs ? À la fois proche de la tradition de l’exemplum, mais aussi du fabliau et de la facétie, la nouvelle vient incarner, mais … Lire la suite →

En Rouergue, dans le Midi de la France, des archives exceptionnellement bien conservées éclairent une réalité essentielle et pourtant mal connue du Moyen Âge : la façon dont émergent et se construisent, aux XIIe-XIIIe siècles, des gouvernements municipaux dans le … Lire la suite →

Early medieval political thought was profoundly influenced by scripture. This included law and legal culture: the Bible provided early medieval elites with the concepts and vocabularies to write about social relations and their regulation. Scriptural citations could be directly adopted … Lire la suite →

This book offers the first survey of philosophical pedagogy in Jewish culture during the Middle Ages, with a focus on Northern France, the Provence, Italy and Spain. By examining not only the discourse of renowned philosophers such as Maimonides and … Lire la suite →

Little is known about Honorius Augustodunensis (1st half of the 12th century). However, the writings of this prolific author were astonishingly widespread, as is impressively demonstrated by the hundreds of manuscripts of his works that survived . Honorius was an … Lire la suite →

Il commercio, il mercato del credito, le retribuzioni dei lavoratori risentono fortemente delle elaborazioni culturali prodotte nelle città medievali. Tra il XIII e il XV secolo, l’economia diventa un tema sempre più discusso dai teologi e raggiunge un ampio pubblico … Lire la suite →