Category Archives: Publications

Silk Roads, Steppe Roads takes the reader on a journey to three sites in northwestern China and Mongolia to investigate medieval Chinese tombs containing evidence of Eastern Eurasian cultural contacts and exchanges. The construction, artifacts, and texts on paper and … Lire la suite →

A wide-ranging study of medieval battle narratives, exploring how chroniclers across France and England constructed accounts of warfare from preparation and engagement to aftermath. How did generals address thousands of soldiers before battle? How did medieval historians recount engagements they … Lire la suite →

Comment les espaces de soins étaient-ils aménagés, et quels individus y travaillaient ou y étaient soignés en Europe, du Moyen Âge à la fin de l’époque moderne ? Archéologues et historiens se sont penchés sur ces questions à l’occasion d’un … Lire la suite →

The process that led the various languages of Europe to acquire a written dimension was neither simple nor linear: the chronology was different and the occasions, strategies and types of evidence were different. This field of research has always been … Lire la suite →

The Benedictine abbot Rupert of Deutz (d. 1129) was among the most prolific, innovative, and influential of medieval theologians. Well-positioned in time and space to respond to the unfolding of the twelfth-century reform of European religious life, he actively engaged … Lire la suite →

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, writers working in Latin and vernacular genres, from the chronicle and saints’ lives to the saga, crafted expansive histories of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. At the centre of their narratives were royal saints, holy … Lire la suite →

Given an almost complete lack of sources written by Jews themselves in the European early Middle Ages, Ärzte, Glasbläser, Sklavenhändler? inquires into the professions of Jews as depicted in the contemporary Christian sources. Danny Grabe examines in substantial detail which … Lire la suite →

Friedrich Köditz verfasste sein ‚Leben Landgraf Ludwigs IV. von Thüringen‘ im ersten Drittel des 14. Jahrhunderts im einstigen landgräflichen Hauskloster Reinhardsbrunn. Seine deutsche Fassung geht über mehrere Stufen zurück auf eine lateinische Biographie, verfasst um 1228 von Ludwigs Kaplan Berthold … Lire la suite →

La Gaule du Ve siècle était le foyer de l’une des Églises les plus importantes à l’époque. Face à la disparition progressive de l’autorité impériale romaine, l’Église a dû affirmer son identité propre et déterminer ses relations avec les nouveaux pouvoirs … Lire la suite →

Medieval history is taking a global turn in two key ways: first, the inclusion of content extending beyond Europe and the Afro-Eurasian interconnected worlds to the Americas and Oceania; and second, the integration of historiographic approaches emerging from outside Euro-American … Lire la suite →