Category Archives: Publications

This monograph explores the impact of expanding long-distance communication networks on business, politics, diplomacy, international law, and personal freedom. Trailblazed initially by pedestrian and later also mounted couriers in the context of Italy, postal operations were first and foremost at … Lire la suite →

This volume presents contributions by leading scholars on various topics and aspects of Islamic Archaeology, a discipline which has recently seen the development of exciting new approaches to the study of the material culture of the Muslim world. This material … Lire la suite →

Cet ouvrage sonde le rapport hypertextuel entre apocalyptisme antique et créations culturelles romanes pour étudier les répercussions esthétiques, historiques et religieuses de la pensée apocalyptique, du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Afin de restituer à la notion d’apocalypse toute sa … Lire la suite →

Léopold Delisle (1826-1910) et Charles de Beaurepaire (1828-1908), enfants du Cotentin et très attachés à leur terre natale, sont liés d’une profonde amitié depuis l’École des chartes. Ils figurent parmi les pionniers de l’érudition historique en France, qui connaît un … Lire la suite →

Mariage stérile, pèlerinage, viol, tentative de meurtre, châtiment, mariage fertile, retrouvailles, rédemption, Saladin… Ces moments-clés fondent le scénario original de La fille du comte de Ponthieu, qui s’articule autour de la scène matricielle du crime dont est victime l’héroïne. Ils … Lire la suite →

Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across Eurasia from the prehistoric origins of trade to the integration of large parts of this world-system by the fifteenth century CE. The book … Lire la suite →

Traz esta Medievalista outro dossier temático, coordenado por três editores convidados — Amandine Le Roux, Esther Tello Hernámdez e Mário Farelo — e dedicado à fiscalidade eclesiástica, uma área de estudos de afirmação mais recente. Com uma geografia sobretudo meridional, … Lire la suite →

Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror’s survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study and a new online edition of Exon Domesday, the earliest of the three original manuscripts to survive from the Domesday … Lire la suite →

Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Canon Law bridges, for the first time, two worlds of scholarship that have never been explored in book-length form and investigates an under-researched area in Thomistic studies, namely the question of how Thomas Aquinas engaged the … Lire la suite →

The lives of many early medieval saints show them working with their hands. Radegund cooks in the kitchen, carries firewood, and cleans privies; Fiacre cultivates a garden; Brigid milks cows and makes cheese; Dunstan shapes metal and constructs buildings. Other … Lire la suite →