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Adriaan Verhulst’s The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe (1999) is the last comprehensive work written by a single author on the urban genesis and spatial developments of cities in the medieval Low Countries. Since then, monographs, specialised studies and articles have been published on various cities and towns, while urban archaeologists have carried out numerous excavations. Much new knowledge has been gained, yet many gaps and the need for comparative overviews remain.

Twenty-five years after Verhulst’s synthesis, The Rise of Cities Revisited takes a fresh look at the origins and developments of cities and towns in the Low Countries between the tenth and the sixteenth centuries, critically assesses progress made in scholarship and outlines future directions for research. The chapters of the book are written by senior and junior specialists from various fields, including medieval history, historical geography, economic history, archaeology and building history. The Rise of Cities Revisited presents a state of the art and provides scholars with tools to study this complex subject in future.

Bram Vannieuwenhuyze is Professor by special appointment of Historical Cartography at the University of Amsterdam.

Reinout Rutte is Assistant Professor in the Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology.

Table des matières :

Chapter 1 : Introduction– Reinout Rutte (Delft University of Technology) and Bram Vannieuwenhuyze (University of Amsterdam)
Chapter 2 : Adriaan Verhulst (1929-2002). Urban historian and his Rise of Cities contextualized – Marc Boone (Ghent University)
Chapter 3 : Markets and ports. Models for the origin and growth of medieval towns and cities in North-West Europe– Marcel IJsselstijn (Leiden University and RAAP)
Chapter 4 : A geographer’s view on The Rise of Cities – Hans Renes (Utrecht University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Reinout Rutte (Delft University of Technology)
Chapter 5 : Orality, written record and political contract in the earliest borough charters for Flemish local communities (eleventh to twelfth centuries) – Els De Paermentier and Jan Dumolyn (Ghent University)
Chapter 6 : The rise of markets and centres of industry. Revisiting Adriaan Verhulst’s views on the economic development of cities in the Southern Low Countries – Bart Lambert and Adam Hall (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Chapter 7 : New insights through archaeology. The thirteenth-century ‘city-making model’ – Roos van Oosten (Leiden University), Arnold Carmiggelt (Boor), Ronald van Genabeek (Archeologische Dienst Den Bosch) en Ranjith Jayasena (BMA Amsterdam)
Chapter 8 : Urban space and urban community. Some remarks on social topography and the socio-spatial structuring of medieval cities in the Low Countries – Ward Leloup (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Mathijs Speecke (Ghent University)
Chapter 9 : The material rise of cities. Stone and brick houses in the Low Countries before c. 1350. A first step towards a building-archaeological overview – Gabri van Tussenbroek (University of Amsterdam)
Chapter 10 : Discussion – Keith Lilley (Queen’s University of Belfast)

Informations pratiques :

The Rise of Cities. Revisited Reflections on Adriaan Verhulst’s Vision of Urban Genesis and Developments in the Medieval Low Countries, éd. Bram Vannieuwenhuyze, Reinout Rutte, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 ; 1 vol., 275 p. (Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), 61). ISBN : 978-2-503-60056-7. Prix : € 96,00.

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Au-delà des communautés stables et durables qu’on peut saisir autour des lieux ou dans un cadre institutionnel, les petites communautés locales du haut Moyen Âge n’avaient habituellement pas de statut formalisé : en l’absence de cadres institutionnels, nous ne pouvons souvent saisir leurs caractères qu’à travers les récits de leurs actions, ou à travers d’autres traces, laissées par leurs actes dans la documentation, écrite ou archéologique. Mais encore faut-il se poser la question de savoir comment agissaient les communautés au haut Moyen Âge, dans quels contextes et dans quels buts ? L’action commune, surtout si elle est récurrente, fortifie-t-telle ou forme-t-elle la communauté ? Le présent ouvrage vise à décrypter les différentes manières « d’agir en commun » dans les sociétés du haut Moyen Âge, en posant les questions de l’initiative de l’action, des différents modes d’action et de leur influence sur la structure de la communauté, des types et des formes d’action communautaire.

Vito Loré est professeur à l’Université Roma3, Geneviève Bührer-Thierry et Régine Le Jan sont professeure et professeure émérite à l’Université Paris1-Panthéon-Sorbonne et membres du LaMOP UMR8589. Tous trois sont des spécialistes reconnus de l’histoire des sociétés du Haut Moyen Âge.

Table des matières :

Introduction (Geneviève Bührer-Thierry et Régine Le Jan)

Part I : Modalités d’action communautaire

Philippe Depreux, Se rendre ensemble à la cour royale ou impériale pour obtenir un privilège – la présentation concomitante de requêtes par des fidèles originaires d’une même région (VIIIe – Xe s.)
Cristina La Rocca et Gianmarco De Angelis, Spectating communities? Agents, spaces and rituals of taking possessions in Carolingian Lombardy
Luigi Provero, I limiti dell’azione contadina nell’Italia carolingia
Wendy Davies, Was there collective action in or by the plebes of ninth-century Brittany ?
Catarina Tente, The early medieval communities of Beira Alta (Central-Nortern Portugal): settlement, economy and social organization
Adrien Bayard, Communautés de travail, communautés au travail. Moines et sauniers de l’Atlantique (Xe-XIe siècle)
Paolo Tomei,  « Alla casa del signore. » Forme e spazi di azione dell’aristocrazia alto- medievale lucchese : una « comunità domestica. »

Part II : Communautés en interaction, communautés en tension

Hans-Werner Goetz, Les conjurationes du haut Moyen Âge sont elles des communautés ?
Alban Gautier, Guerriers solitaires, guerriers solidaires. Le combat entre acte singulier et expérience de la communauté dans la littérature héroïque du haut Moyen Âge
Johanna Jebe, Quelle communauté monastique ? Réflexions stratégiques et réflexions rétrospectives sur les actions des moines de Fulda au IXe siècle
Laurent Jégou, « Conciliés, déconciliés, réconciliés ». Unanimité et discorde dans le cadre conciliaire au haut Moyen Âge
Inaki Martin Viso, Orta fuit intentio. Communities and placita in Northern Iberia (9th-11th centuries)
Marco Stoffella, Spazi e forme di azione del clero delle cattedrali in Toscana e in Veneto tra VIII e IX secolo: una comparazione
Giacomo Vignodelli, I canonici delle cattedrali del regno italico tra élites locali e potere regio (secoli X-XI) : comunità in azione ?
Igor Santos Salazar, Un espacio desigual: concilia y comunidades rurales en Castilla y La Rioja (940-1109)

Conclusion (Vito Loré)

Informations pratiques :

Agir en commun dans les sociétés du haut Moyen Âge, éd. Vito Loré, Geneviève Bührer-Thierry, Régine Le Jan, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 ; 1 vol., 332 p. (Haut Moyen Âge, 49). ISBN : 978-2-503-60689-7. Prix : € 95,00.

Source : Brepols

Accompagnant le devenir de l’homme aussi bien en temps de guerre qu’en temps de paix, pendant sa vie mais aussi dans la mort, le bouclier fait partie des pièces de l’équipement militaire qui a le plus inspiré l’imaginaire des hommes médiévaux et leurs rites, leur symbolique ou leur système armorial.

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Informations pratiques :

Catalina Girbea, Le bouclier dans l’imaginaire médiéval, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2024 ; 1 vol., 244 p. (Bibliothèque d’histoire médiévale, 38). ISBN : 978-2-406-17060-0. Prix : € 96,00.

Source : Classiques Garnier

The period from the Mamlūk reconquest of Acre (1291) to the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453) witnessed the production of a substantial corpus of Middle English crusade romances. Marcel Elias places these romances in dialogue with multifarious European writings to offer a novel account of late medieval crusade culture: as ambivalent and self-critical, animated by tensions and debates, and fraught with anxiety. These romances uphold ideals of holy war while expressing anxieties about issues as diverse as God’s endorsement of the crusading enterprise, the conversion of Christians to Islam, the sinfulness of crusaders, and the morality of violence. Reinvigorating debates in medieval postcolonialism, drawing on emotion studies, and excavating a rich multilingual archive, this book is a major contribution to the cultural history of the crusades. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available open access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Marcel Elias is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. His essays on crusade literature, European representations of Muslims and Islam, and the history of emotions have appeared or are forthcoming in The Review of English Studies, Speculum, New Medieval Literatures, Studies in Philology, and elsewhere.

Table des matières :

Introduction

1. Royal emotions, blasphemy, and (dis)unity in The Siege of Milan and The Sultan of Babylon
2. Hopes and anxieties of conversion in the Otuel romances
3. Women, God, and other crusading motives in Guy of Warwick
4. Therapeutic crusading and excessive violence in The Siege of Jerusalem and Richard Coeur de Lion
   Conclusion.

Informations pratiques :

Marcel Elias, English Literature and the Crusades. Anxieties of Holy War, 1291–1453, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024 ; 1 vol., 280 p. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). ISBN : 978-1-10883-221-2. Prix : GBP 85,00.

Source : Cambridge University Press

»Fürsten und Herren … können nichts erreichen, wenn sie kein Geld haben.« Kaum ein Satz bringt die Motivation und Berechtigung, sich mit »Fürsten und Finanzen im Mittelalter« zu befassen, so prägnant auf den Punkt wie diese Bemerkung Levolds von Northof in seinem Fürstenspiegel von 1357/58. Dem Forschungsdesiderat einer Geschichte der fürstlichen Finanzen im Mittelalter begegnet dieser Tagungsband, indem darin nicht nur Finanzenquellen und Schulden weltlicher Fürsten thematisiert werden, sondern auch der Blick auf geistliche Fürsten, auf Fürstinnen sowie auf fürstliche Witwer, auf Fürstenspiegel und überhaupt die Literatur jener Zeit und zudem auf den chinesischen Kaiser ausgedehnt wird. Finanzgeschichte unter Berücksichtigung der Genderforschung, im interdisziplinären Zugriff sowie im interkulturellen Vergleich – das hat es neben der Behandlung »klassischer« Felder der Fürstengeschichte so bisher noch nicht gegeben!

»Princes and lords … can achieve nothing, if they have no money.« Hardly any sentence sums up the motivation and justification for dealing with »Princes and Finances in the Middle Ages« as succinctly as this remark by Levold of Northof in his mirror for princes of 1357/58. This conference volume addresses the research desideratum of a history of princely finances in the Middle Ages. It does not only address the sources of finance and debts of secular princes but also extends the view to ecclesiastical princes, princesses, and princely widowers, to mirrors for princes and to the literature of the time in general, as well as to the Chinese emperor. Financial history taking gender research into account, in an interdisciplinary approach as well as in an intercultural comparison – this has never been done before besides the treatment of »classical« fields of princely history.

Oliver Auge, geboren 1971 in Göppingen, Studium der Geschichte und Lateinischen Philologie in Tübingen, 1994–2000 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde der Universität Tübingen, seit November 2000 wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Geschichte des Mittelalters der Universität Greifswald; Mitherausgeber und Autor zahlreicher landesgeschichtlicher Veröffentlichungen; neben Sönke Lorenz Leiter des Projekts »Die Stifte Baden-Württembergs«.

Informations pratiques :

Fürsten und Finanzen im Mittelalter, éd. Oliver Auge, Ostfildern, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2024 ; 1 vol., 488 p. (Vorträge und Forschungen, 95). ISBN : 978-3-7995-6896-8. Prix : € 64,00

Source : Jan Thorbecke Verlag

This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval – and a few early modern – women across Western Europe. Women had a profound and lasting impact on the development of medieval and early modern spiritual and mystical literature, both through their own writing and as a result of the hagiographical texts that they inspired. Bringing together contributions by both established and emerging scholars, the volume provides a valuable overview of medieval mystical women with a special focus on the Low Countries and Italy, regions that produced a disproportionately high number of female mystics. The figures discussed range from Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, Angela of Foligno, Julian of Norwich, and Beatrice of Nazareth to lesser-known women such as Agnes Blannbekin, Christina of Hane, and Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi. The chapters address topics such as the body, pain, desire, ecstasy, stigmata, annihilation, virtue, visions, the tension between exterior and interior experience, and the nature of mystical union itself.

John Arblaster is  Associate Professor of the history of spirituality in the Low Countries at the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp and Assistant Visiting Professo rat the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven.

Rob Faesen is Jesuitica Chair Emeritus at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, and the Francis Xavier Chair at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, and is also Professor Emeritus at the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp.

Table des matières :

1. Mystical Hagiography in the Thirteenth Century: The Low Countries and Italy

Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli

2. Annihilated Women in the Thirteenth Century

Bernard Mcginn

3. Hidden Marks of Leadership: Holy Women and Invisible Stigmata in the Late Middle Ages

Carolyn Muessig

4. ‘Enarrabiliter’: The Separation of Visionary Experience and Communicable Form in Hildegard of Bingen’s Vision Books

Dinah Wouters

5. Gender and Feminine Virtue in Bernard of Clairvaux and Hadewijch

Kenneth Hoyt

6. Kenotic Christology, Poverty, and Annihilation in Clare of Assisi and Angela of Foligno

Michael Hahn

7. Mysticism by the Numbers: Beatrice of Nazareth’s Seven Manners of Love and Ida of Nivelles’ ‘Eight Topics of Contemplation’

Lydia Shahan

8. Spiritual Edifices: Beatrice of Nazareth’s Monastery of the Heart and Agnes Blannbekin’s Urban Stations of Christ

Amanda J. Langley

9. The Mystic as Symbol: Ecstasy as Liturgical Participation in the Vita of Beatrice of Nazareth

Samantha Slaubaugh

10. ‘I Want to Die Living’: The Entanglement of Death and Desire in Mechthild of Magdeburg

Amy Maxey

11. Spiritual Vision in Corporeal Space: The Power of Performative Language in the Mystical Life of Christina of Hane

Racha Kirakosian, Translated by Philip Liston-Kraft

12. Can This Text Still Speak? Reading Julian of Norwich’s Prayer for Illness as (Fully a Part of) a ‘Classic Text’ of Embodied Mysticism

Andrew K. Lee

13. The Theological Virtues, Interiorisation, and Theological Anthropology in The Evangelical Pearl

Rik Van Nieuwenhove

14. The Blood and the Word: The Mystical Speech Acts of Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi

Henry Barrett

Informations pratiques :

Medieval Mystical Women in the West. Growing in the Height of Love, éd. John Arblaster, Rob Faesen, Londres, Routledge, 2024 ; 1 vol., 304 p. ISBN : 978-1-03212-349-3. Prix : GBP 108,00.

Source : Routledge