Category Archives: Publications

Né en 1010 à Pavie (Italie du Nord), Lanfranc devient moine, prieur et maître de l’école à l’abbaye du Bec-Hellouin en 1045 avant d’être choisi par Guillaume le Conquérant pour diriger l’abbaye Saint-Étienne de Caen en 1063, puis l’Église d’Angleterre … Lire la suite →

The city was one of the central and defining features of the world of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Challenging the idea that the ancient city ‘declined and fell’, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that memories of the past enabled cities to … Lire la suite →

En 1996 paraissait l’impressionnant Saint Louis de Jacques Le Goff : un tournant pour les études sur le monarque capétien et pour le genre de la biographie historique lui-même. Mais que se passa-t-il ensuite ? Quoi de neuf sur Saint … Lire la suite →

Schon seit langem stellt die eingehende Analyse von Handschriften kirchlichen und weltlichen Rechts einen Grundpfeiler der Erforschung des frühen Mittelalters dar. Die Handschriften dieser Epoche – insbesondere jene der Karolingerzeit – waren dabei allerdings nur selten expliziter Gegenstand von größeren … Lire la suite →

This special issue focuses on the financial behaviour of different participants in European medieval and early modern financial markets. It extends our knowledge of the financial strategies employed by households, merchants, charities, city governments and corporations by asking what investment … Lire la suite →

The relationship between rulers and their subjects is always channelled by emotion. This volume explores the specific tones this relationship took on in the Middle Ages, as well as their accordance with a concept of power based ultimately on agreement, … Lire la suite →

Exploring women’s stories of work, protest, and power in the medieval Low Countries The Middle Ages—a time often cast as a dark period when violence reigned and men dominated society. Women, as the deeply rooted cliché would have it, played … Lire la suite →

Introduction, Mathieu Marraud et Catherine Rideau-Kikuchi  Partie 1. Diffusion et circulation des normes Introduction, François Riviere et Arnaldo Sousa Melo« Draperie ou mercerie ? Normes et incorporation des serges et ratines dans les villes du nord de la France, XVIIe siècle », … Lire la suite →

John Clark’s groundbreaking work in medieval equestrian history has shaped and inspired generations of scholars, transforming our understanding of horses in the past. A pioneer of archaeological and historical research on the medieval horse, Clark’s influential 1995 work, The Medieval … Lire la suite →

Fabio Troncarelli examines the Late Antique Cassiodorian edition of the “Consolation of Philosophy” by Boethius in this new study consisting of five chapters. The first one offers a brief sketch of the lives of the two protagonists of the story. … Lire la suite →