Category Archives: Publications

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 →

The Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan, originally built under Ambrose (374-397), and radically restructured at the end of the eleventh century, is an extraordinary lieu de mémoire, containing the presence of medieval objects and monuments. Through the study of some … Lire la suite →

Medieval manors have long been the subject of academic study, though the ways in which these houses reflected and shaped – and were shaped by – their occupants to express social authority have not yet been fully explored. This book … Lire la suite →

Gregory of Tours was a bishop of late antiquity who was famously devoted to promoting the efficacy of saintly powers. In his writings, both historical and hagiographical, Gregory depicted the saints and reprobates of his age. This book analyses Gregory’s … Lire la suite →

Commentaries on authoritative texts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages are increasingly being recognized as witnesses to a rich tradition of cultural reception and intellectual engagement. This renewed interest goes hand-in-hand with an increased demand for critical editions of the … Lire la suite →