Category Archives: Publications

This books describes the life of Elisa ben Abraham Cresques, known to many as the author of the Catalan Atlas, and focuses on the Jewish aspects of his fascinating career, his professional profile, and his scholarship. This book presents a … Lire la suite →

Accès : ici The field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the marginalization of and social justice for individuals with disabilities. However, what of disability in the past? The Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe explores what medieval … Lire la suite →

Accès : ici « Le texte qui suit est celui d’une copie, dans un registre actuellement conservé aux Archives municipales de Nuremberg (Stadtarchiv Nürnberg) sous la cote B 11, Nr 372, d’un échange épistolaire entre les « Seigneurs de la guerre … Lire la suite →

Série de tous les records, Game of Thrones met en scène un Moyen Âge à la fois fictif et largement inspiré de faits et de personnages historiques, de thématiques politiques, sociales ou religieuses bien réelles. Ce Moyen Âge imaginaire, sombre et tragique, véritable … Lire la suite →

Accès : ici This volume brings together anthropologists, historians and literary scholars in order to explore how societies represented and used the past. Case studies range from the seventh century to the twenty-first, and from Africa, America and Asia to … Lire la suite →

This volume presents a systematic and fresh interpretation of a mid-second-century AD papyrus – the so-called Muziris papyrus – which preserves on its two sides fragments of a unique pair of documents: on one side, a loan agreement to finance … Lire la suite →

This study argues that translation is the means by which rhetoric, as the art of reasoning, becomes a part of a lineage of – and a resource for – an ethics of civic discourse. At the heart of Translation and … Lire la suite →

Ripercorrendo la vita del Roman de Renart dalla sua produzione all’esecuzione/ricezione, fino alla conservazione delle branches nelle raccolte antologiche, si delinea una storia redazionale fortemente influenzata dalle pratiche performative e dall’appartenenza del testo al genere della zooepica medievale, di cui … Lire la suite →

In this collection of essays Gérard Gouiran, one of the world’s leading and much-loved scholars of medieval Occitan literature, examines this literature from a primarily historical perspective. Through texts offering hitherto unexplored insights into the history and culture of medieval … Lire la suite →

Cet ouvrage constitue la première étude d’ensemble de l’œuvre poétique yiddish d’Élia Lévita (1469-1549) et cherche à définir sa place dans la littérature de la Renaissance en analysant les transferts esthétiques et culturels ayant présidé à sa production. Il situe … Lire la suite →