Category Archives: Publications

This book offers a vivid account of women’s religiosity in Italy between 1400 and 1550, a crucial period of spiritual ferment and ecclesiastical change. Rather than focusing solely on institutions, this book brings to light the many ways in which women … Lire la suite →

Giovanni de’ Matociis, mansionario della Cattedrale di Verona (m. 1337), è una delle figure più rappresentative dell’ambiente culturale veronese del primo Trecento. Probabilmente nel 1313, in occasione della discesa in Italia di Enrico VII, iniziò a comporre le Ystorie imperiales, … Lire la suite →

Aurélien Chukurian est chargé de recherches FNRS à l’Institut supérieur de Philosophie de l’UCLouvain. Ueli Zahnd est professeur d’histoire intellectuelle des traditions du protestantisme et directeur de l’Institut d’histoire de la Réformation à l’Univesité de Genève. Table des matières : … Lire la suite →

A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Empire and confirmed for Europeans their worst fears about an expanding Ottoman Empire.Anthony Kaldellis … Lire la suite →

Convinced that crusade expeditions were failing ‘because of our sins’, Paris-trained reformers targeted ‘corrupt’ clergy and ‘loose women’ (meretrices) in campaigns against prostitution, clerical marriage and concubinage, and lay fornication. Moral theologians tied new forms of participation in crusading to … Lire la suite →

For fifty years, the Aristoteles Latinus project has deepened our understanding of how Aristotle entered the Latin Middle Ages. Based in Leuven and rooted in early twentieth-century international collaboration, the Aristoteles Latinus project has traced the complex paths by which … Lire la suite →

In ihrer Materialität, ihrem architektonischen Kontext und ihren Bildern zeugen die „patere“ und „formelle“ von der Begegnung zwischen venezianischen und byzantinischen, islamischen und lateinischen Kulturen im Mittelalter. An den Fassaden der Paläste sind sie als Bestandteil der romanischen Architektur und … Lire la suite →

En 1176, Chrétien de Troyes exprime l’idée d’un héritage dont le berceau serait la Grèce, origine de la « chevalerie » et de la « clergie », dans le célèbre prologue du Cligès, mais il ne donne pas de contenu … Lire la suite →

Examining the administration of assets during the trial of the French Templars, as well as the settlement process that took place after the Order’s dissolution, this book focuses on material aspects of the proceedings in France that have never been … Lire la suite →

Haec quicumque legis is a remarkable window onto the intellectual world of tenth-century Europe, offering a rich etymological lexicon compiled within the notebooks of the monastic polymath Ademar of Chabannes. This glossary, preserved in the Leiden manuscript VLO 15, blends Latin, Greek, … Lire la suite →