Category Archives: Publications

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 →

«Omniprésent et inéluctable, tel est Chronos. Mais il est d’abord celui qu’on ne peut saisir. L’Insaisissable, mais, tout autant et du même coup, celui que les humains n’ont jamais renoncé à maîtriser. Innombrables ont été les stratégies déployées pour y … Lire la suite →

This richly illustrated volume focuses on the external form and production of codices, charters, registers, account books, and other types of manuscripts. It does not limit itself to the traditional historical auxiliary sciences of codicology, palaeography and diplomatics, but also … Lire la suite →

Dopo la caduta del regno longobardo, nel 774, Arechi fondò il principato di Benevento accelerando il processo di costruzione dell’autorità pubblica nel Mezzogiorno longobardo. Ciò permise lo sviluppo di una identità politica e sociale assolutamente peculiare nel panorama dell’epoca, ma … Lire la suite →