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Famous today for the shops lining its sloped street, the Ponte Vecchio is the last premodern bridge spanning the Arno River at Florence and one of the few remaining examples of the once more prevalent urbanized bridge type. Drawing from early Florentine chronicles and previously unpublished archival documents, this book traces the history of the Ponte Vecchio, focusing on the current bridge’s construction after the flood of 1333. Much of the Ponte Vecchio’s original fourteenth-century appearance is now obscured beneath later accretions, often mistakenly interpreted as original to its medieval character. To the contrary, as argued in this book and illustrated by new reconstruction drawings, the mid-trecento Ponte Vecchio’s vaulted substructure was technically advanced, its urban superstructure was designed in accordance with contemporary Florentine urban planning strategies, and its « beautiful and honorable » appearance was maintained by government regulations. The documents also reveal new information about the commission and rental of its famous shops. Relying on these sources, this study offers a more complete history of the Ponte Vecchio, adding significantly to what is currently known about the bridge’s patronage and construction, as well as the aims of civic architecture and urban planning in late medieval Florence.

Table des matières :

Introduction

Chapter One
From Origins to Contested Site: The Ponte Vecchio and Villani’s ‘Myth of Florence’

Chapter Two
The Politics of Bridge Building: Civic Patronage and Post-Flood Repair, 1333–1339

Chapter Three
The Commission and Building History of the Ponte Vecchio, 1339–1346

Chapter Four
Modo et Forma: The ‘Manner and Form’ of the Ponte Vecchio’s Construction

Chapter Five
‘A Beautiful and Honorable Bridge’: The Ponte Vecchio, Medieval Aesthetics, and the Politics of Urban Design

Chapter Six
‘For the Honor and Value of the People and Commune of Florence’: The Shops on the Ponte Vecchio and Their Well-Regulated Order, 1346–1495

Epilogue
The Ponte Vecchio after 1495

Appendices
I Chronicle Accounts of the Flood of 4 November 1333
II Ponte Vecchio Documents, 972 to Flood of 1333
III Ponte Vecchio Documents, 1333 Flood to 1495
IV Accounts of the Completion of the Ponte Vecchio

Bibliography

Index

Informations pratiques :

Theresa Flanigan, The Ponte Vecchio. Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 ; 1 vol., 260 p. (Architecture and the Arts in Early Modern Italy, 5). ISBN : 978-1-912554-68-3. Prix : € 150,00

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Un épisode fondateur de la nation France et du roman national : la victoire des chevaliers de Philippe Auguste lors de la bataille de Bouvines.

La bataille de Bouvines, remportée le 27 juillet 1214 par Philippe Auguste, près de Lille, sur un empereur allemand, un comte de Flandre et d’autres coalisés que finançait tous le roi d’Angleterre, a été l’un des événements les plus célébrés de l’histoire de France. Du XIII^e au XX^e siècle, elle a été considérée comme un succès décisif, obtenu au terme de combats difficiles qui avaient mis à l’épreuve le roi, sa chevalerie et ses communes. Elle couronnait ainsi l’un des règnes les plus constructifs de notre histoire, et son « souvenir », mêlant l’histoire aux légendes, pouvait à la fois galvaniser la France dans ses guerres nationales et alimenter le débat politique sur la royauté, la noblesse, l’armée populaire.
Dominique Barthélemy approfondit et réoriente la critique historique au terme d’enquêtes serrées sur les chevaliers présents au front et sur l’élaboration et la réécriture des récits de Bouvines. Il commence par raconter la bataille en l’inscrivant dans son contexte féodal et en suggérant qu’elle a été dramatisée à dessein par la propagande capétienne. Il entraîne ensuite son lecteur, avec vivacité, dans un tourbillon de récits sélectifs et d’affabulations médiévales et modernes dont il tente à chaque fois de lui expliquer les enjeux. L’ouvrage de référence.

Agrégé et docteur en histoire, membre de l’Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Dominique Barthélemy est professeur émérite d’histoire médiévale à l’université Paris-Sorbonne et directeur d’études émérite à l’École pratique des hautes études. Il est notamment l’auteur de L’An mil et la Paix de Dieu. La France chrétienne et féodale, 980-1060 et, chez Perrin, de La Chevalerie.

Informations pratiques :

Dominique Barthélemy, La bataille de Bouvines, Paris, Perrin, 2024 ; 1 vol., 720 p. (Tempus). ISBN : 978-2-26210-906-6. Prix : € 13,00.

Source : Perrin

The four-volume sub-series ‘Petrifying Wealth’ explores the sudden ubiquity of masonry construction between 1050 and 1300 in Southern Europe and its profound effect on the European landscape. New questions about wealth, society, and medieval building are explored, which highlight the link between construction in durable materials and the shaping of individual, collective, and territorial identities: the birth of a new, long-lasting panorama, epitomising the way we see the space and territory of Europe nowadays.

Volume 2 of the ‘Petrifying Wealth’ series focuses on economic growth in Southern Europe between 1050 and 1300, discussing investments on buildings connected with production and trade. It examines buildings that served a primarily economic purpose, in various aspects: agricultural activity and the conservation and processing of its products, crafts, and exchanges and their material infrastructures. The growth in this period resulted in a multiplication of material structures closely linked with economic activity, such as mills, barns, canals, workshops, and arsenals. Focusing on the dynamics connected with these buildings thus offers a vantage point to better understand the contexts and characteristics of the ‘economic take-off’ in Southern Europe in this period.

Sandro Carocci is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Roma – Tor Vergata (Italy) and is one of the Principal Investigators of the ERC-Advanced Grant Project Petrifying Wealth. He has written and edited numerous books on medieval Italy, including Lordships of Southern Italy (2018) and Social Mobility in Medieval Italy (2018).

Alessio Fiore is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Turin. He has written or edited several books on medieval societies; among them Signori e sudditi (Spoleto, 2010), and The Seigneurial Transformation (Oxford, 2020).

Table des matières :

Introduction: Building Economic Growth in Southern Europe
ALESSIO FIORE

Part I. Farming

Storing for the Economy? Landed Estates and their Buildings in Northern and Central Italy, Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
LORENZO TABARRINI

El mansus de la Cataluña Vieja medieval. La implantación de un señorío constructivo
VICTOR FARÍAS ZURITA

Reflections on the Archaeology of Cereal Storage in Medieval Italy
GIOVANNA BIANCHI

Extrahere cequiam: Irrigation Canal Building and Agricultural Hydraulics in the Crown of Aragon (1170–1300)
JOSEP TORRÓ

Canal-Digging in the Age of Economic Expansion (Northern Italy, Eleventh–ThirteenthCenturies)
FABRIZIO PAGNONI

Part II. Manufacturing

La expansión de la molinería hidráulica en Cataluña (siglos XI-XIII): acerca de la construcción de molinos y sus promotores
JORDI MORELLÓ BAGET

Productive Buildings and Economic Growth: Iron-Working in Central and Northern Italy (Eleventh–Thirteenth Centuries)
ELENA MARIA CORTESE

Building for the Market: Residential Real Estate in Medieval Italy (c. 1070–1250)
ALESSIO FIORE

Part III. Connecting

Petrified Nodes: Bridges and Economic Growth (Tuscany, 1050–1200)
PAOLO TOMEI

Porti, cantieri e arsenali
PINUCCIA F. SIMBULA

Conclusions
SANDRO CAROCCI

Index

Informations pratiques :

Building and Economic Growth in Southern Europe (1050–1300), éd. Sandro Carocci, Alessio Fiore, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 ; 1 vol., 268 p. (The Medieval Countryside, 6). ISBN : 978-2-503-60541-8. Prix : € 80,00.

Source : Brepols

Worlds of Byzantium offers a new understanding of what it means to study the history and visual culture of the Byzantine empire during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Arguing that linguistic and cultural frontiers do not always coincide with political ones, it suggests that Byzantine studies should look not only within but also beyond the borders of the Byzantine empire and include the history of Christian populations in the Muslim-ruled Middle East and neighbouring states like Ethiopia and Armenia and integrate more closely with Judaic and Islamic studies. With essays by leading scholars in a wide range of fields, it offers a vision of a richly interconnected eastern Mediterranean and Near East that will be of interest to anyone who studies the premodern world.

Elizabeth S. Bolman, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
ELIZABETH S. BOLMAN is Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University. She engages with the visual culture of the eastern Mediterranean in the late antique and Byzantine periods and is best known for her work in Egypt.

Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, University of Oklahoma
SCOTT FITZGERALD JOHNSON is Associate Professor of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of numerous studies on late antique and Byzantine history and literature and has held fellowships at Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Library of Congress and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.

Jack Tannous, Princeton University, New Jersey
JACK TANNOUS is Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, where he is also Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies. His research focuses on the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic-speaking Christian communities of the Middle East in the late antique and medieval periods.

Table des matières :

• Table of Contents
• Preface Elizabeth S. Bolman, Scott Johnson and Jack Tannous
  1. Worlds of Byzantium: problems, frameworks, and opportunity in the Byzantine near east Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
  Part I. Patterns, Paradigms, Scholarship:
  2. East of Byzantium revisited: the study of the Byzantine near east, past and present Columba Stewart
  3. Byzantium and the turn to the east Averil Cameron
  4. The classical near east Kevin T. van Bladel
  5. Alternatives to commonwealth: modes of connectivity between Byzantium and Medieval Eastern Europe Christian Raffensperger
  Part II. Images, Objects, Archaeology:
  6. Movement and creation: a reassessment of early Byzantine visual culture Elizabeth S. Bolman
  7. Letters from the edge: mapping Pseudo-Arabic between Byzantium and the near east Alicia Walker
  8. Antioch after dark: archaeology and the ‘Dark Ages’ in North Syria Michael J. Decker
  9. Ars Sacra in the east and after Byzantium Cecily J. Hilsdale
  10. The church of the virgin in Dayr al-Suryān (Wadi al-Natrun): architecture, art, and history between Coptic and Syriac Christianity Karel C. Innemée, Lucas Van Rompay and Dobrochna Zielińska
  11. Three questions concerning Armenian and Byzantine art Christina Maranci
  12. Makurian visual culture: between Byzantium and Africa Włodzimierz Godlewski
  Part III. Languages, Confessions, Empire:
  13. Byzantine Syriac: language and religious community in the middle east Jack Tannous
  14. Greek identity in the Sinai Hieromonk Justin of Sinai
  15. Patriarchs, caliphs, monks, scribes, and the Byzantinization of Jerusalem’s liturgy Daniel Galadza
  16. Byzantine Judaism in early Islamic Palestine: rethinking the Gaonic model Eve Krakowski
  17. Ethiopia: Christianity, language, and identity George Hatke
  18. Armenia and Byzantium: simultaneously at the center and on the periphery Robin Darling Young
  19. Byzantine Georgia/Georgian Byzantium Stephen Rapp Jr.
  20. Conclusion: ends and means Jack Tannous
  Index.

Informations pratiques :

Worlds of Byzantium. Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East, éd. Elizabeth S. Bolman, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Jack Tannous, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024 ; 1 vol., 726 p. ISBN : 978-1-10849-209-6. Prix : GBP 150,00.

Source : Cambridge University Press

Le diocèse de Limoges a compté au Moyen Âge un nombre important de communautés monastiques et canoniales, dont l’abbaye Saint-Martial, à Limoges, mais à l’exception de cette dernière dont une partie des livres a été sauvegardée grâce à leur acquisition en 1730 par la Bibliothèque du roi, il ne reste que très peu de manuscrits provenant de ces maisons. Pourtant, la composition de certaines d’entre elles, pouvant compter plus d’une centaine de volumes, est connue par les inventaires qui en furent dressés du XIII^e au XV^e siècle, conservés pour la plupart en originaux et pour quelques-uns comme Grandmont par des copies des XVII^e et XVIII^e siècles : Saint-Martial, Aureil, Grandmont, les frères prêcheurs de Limoges et de Saint-Junien, Saint-Martin de Tulle, une abbaye limousine qui n’a pu être identifiée, mais aussi l’évêque de Limoges Aymeric Chat, à travers son spolium de 1390… Ces inventaires n’étaient pas inconnus, mais dispersés dans des publications souvent anciennes, depuis la Bibliotheca bibliothecarum de Montfaucon en 1739, par Hauréau en 1859, Duplès-Agier et Delisle en 1874, Rivain et Guibert en 1877, Barbier de Montault en 1894, Couderc en 1901, plus récemment par dom Becquet en 1965 et J. Decanter en 1966… mais sans faire l’objet d’identifications et d’index. Ils sont réunis dans ce volume, avec une table cumulative des auteurs et des œuvres qu’ils renferment, une liste des manuscrits, ainsi qu’un état des manuscrits conservés.

Jean-Loup Lemaitre a été attaché à la section diplomatique de l’IRHT de 1969 à 1989, puis directeur d’études d’hagiographie et d’histoire monastique à la Section des sciences historiques et philologiques de l’École pratique des hautes études de 1989 à 2014. Ses travaux portent essentiellement sur les traditions commémoratives et l’histoire religieuse limousines au Moyen Âge.

Informations pratiques :

Jean-Loup Lemaître, Les inventaires des bibliothèques limousines médiévales, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2024 ; 1 vol., 240 p. (Documents, études et répertoires). ISBN : 9782271153043. Prix : € 70,00.

Source : CNRS Éditions

Paolo Diacono mette  in scena il dolore dei suoi contemporanei o dei grandi del passato, fondendo nelle sue opere elementi autobiografici, topoi letterari e messaggi politici. In epoca altomedievale il dolore non si riduce infatti alla mera lesione fisica, ma presenta una molteplicità di significati e sfumature che lo portano ad essere una delle emozioni protagoniste nella comunità emotiva della corte carolingia di Carlo Magno e di quella longobardo-beneventana di Arechi.

Nicole Demarchi è un’assegnista di ricerca in storia medievale presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell’Antichità dell’Università degli Studi di Padova. Il suo principale campo di studio riguarda la storia delle emozioni, concentrandosi in modo particolare sul ruolo svolto da queste nei contesti socioculturali e politici tra l’VIII e il X secolo.

Table des matières :

Introduzione

1. Studiare le emozioni, studiare il dolore. La storia delle emozioni
2. Raccontare il dolore nella vita di Paolo Diacono
3. Celebrare il dolore. Lutto, cordoglio, perdita
4. Dolore, salvezza e santità
5. Dolor, ira e vendetta
6. Manifestare il dolore. Lacrime e pianto
   Conclusioni

Informations pratiques :

Nicole Demarchi, Paolo Diacone e il dolore. I racconti di un’emozione, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 ; 1 vol., 316 p. (Haut Moyen Âge, 51). ISBN : 978-2-503-61187-7. Prix : € 90,00.

Source : Brepols