Category Archives: Publications

Le spedizioni italiane dei sovrani lussemburghesi – Enrico VII, Giovanni di Boemia e Carlo IV – sono state a lungo considerate parentesi episodiche prive di effetti duraturi degni di interesse. Tuttavia, il confronto tra i risultati delle recenti ricerche italiane … Lire la suite →

L’objectif de ce volume collectif est de questionner, à partir des sciences humaines et sociales, les circulations, réceptions et appropriations dont font aujourd’hui l’objet les savoirs, les imaginaires et les représentations relatifs à la période médiévale. Loin d’être absolument nouvelles, … Lire la suite →

The corpus of sermons and saints’ lives from early medieval England, in English and Latin, is the largest and most varied of its kind from a contemporary European perspective. In recent years this extraordinary body of literature has attracted increasing … Lire la suite →

L’histoire du corps est aujourd’hui un domaine privilégié de la recherche. Si elle est redevable à d’autres sciences sociales, en premier lieu l’anthropologie, l’ethnologie et la sociologie, elle a existé bienavant d’être identifiée en tant que telle et certaines manières … Lire la suite →

Constant Crisis focuses on the culmination of struggles in the medieval Norwegian kingdom to examine whether these conflicts underscored a breakdown of society and polity or whether they created an equilibrium among factions that in fact « served to contain violence. » … Lire la suite →

With the birth of the cult of the saints, their relics became valuables whose possession would guarantee prestige, protection, and spiritual benefits to a town, church, or monastery. For this reason—at first with the aim of preserving the bodies of … Lire la suite →

Profili del secolo XI (Spoleto, 4-10 aprile 2024), Spolète, Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, 2025 ; 2 vol., 1298 p. (Atti delle settimane di studio, 71). ISBN : 9788868094508. Prix : € 190,00. Table des matières : C. Wickham, … Lire la suite →

Benedict of Peterborough’s Passion and Miracles of St Thomas Becket puts the reader in Canterbury on the day of one of the most famous murders of all time, when four of King Henry II’s knights killed the archbishop inside his … Lire la suite →

L’art médiéval est souvent perçu comme plus symbolique que réaliste. Les artistes médiévaux s’inspiraient-ils de la réalité ou de modèles antiques ? Selon la formule d’Umberto Eco, les hommes et les femmes du Moyen Âge, abordant des sujets identiques, ne … Lire la suite →

The many preserved collections of student notes from the early modern period – ranging from neatly maintained notebooks to barely legible scribbles crammed between lines of printed text – hold considerable but largely untapped potential as an historical source. At … Lire la suite →