Category Archives: Publications

Christians have often admired and venerated the martyrs who died for their faith, but for a long time thought that the bodies of martyrs should remain undisturbed in their graves. Initially, the Christian attitude towards the bones of the dead, … Lire la suite →

Sans doute composé vers 1160, le Roman d’Énéas est une « mise en roman », c’est-à-dire une traduction-adaptation de l’Énéide, parfois très fidèle et parfois remarquablement innovante. L’adaptateur, qui travaillait sans doute sur un manuscrit pourvu de gloses, peut-être pour … Lire la suite →

Burning Bodies interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics. Michael Barbezat traces these instances from the eleventh century until the advent of the internal … Lire la suite →

The book Relics @ the Lab, an Analytical Approach to the Study of Relics includes a series of studies presented at the first international workshop Relics @ the Lab organized by the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Brussels, … Lire la suite →

This volume provides a record of the response, by eight expert scholars in the field of medieval monastic studies, to the question « To what extent did abbots and abbesses contribute as a `human resource’ to the development of reformed monastic … Lire la suite →

The Medieval Low Countries, 5, 2018. approx. VI+333 p., 20 b/w ill. + 11 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-57855-2. Prix : 77 euros. Table des matières : Marcus Roxburgh, Nelleke IJssennagger, Hans Huisman, and Bertil van Os … Lire la suite →

Images and image cycles with genealogical content were everywhere in the high and later Middle Ages. They represent families related by blood as well as successive office holders and appear as family trees and lineages of single figures in manuscripts, … Lire la suite →

Comment naît et grandit un héros? Quels sont les débuts de sa carrière? Poussés par l’appétit narratif du public féodal-courtois, les trouvères des chansons de geste essayèrent de répondre à ces questions en composant des poèmes sur les premiers exploits … Lire la suite →

This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and significance of urban panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and renewed popularity in the period 1100 to 1300. In doing so, … Lire la suite →

Le renouveau culturel carolingien confère au livre une place majeure dans la société, qui perdure dans le monde ottonien. Sa production est suffisamment abondante pour que près de 9000 manuscrits de cette époque nous soient parvenus, et le soin apporté … Lire la suite →