L'Agenda des Médiévistes

Figure intellectuelle et politique de premier plan au temps du Grand Schisme, le chancelier de l’Université de Paris Jean Gerson (1363-1429) a marqué de son influence l’histoire de l’Église et de la pensée scolastique. Il est l’auteur d’une œuvre abondante transmise par une riche tradition manuscrite puis imprimée. Théologien et pédagogue attentif aux « simples gens », poète comptant parmi les principaux représentants du premier humanisme français, il reste méconnu comme écrivain. Le présent volume est le premier à considérer la dimension littéraire de l’œuvre. Il rassemble vingt et une contributions éclairant les multiples facettes de l’écriture gersonienne et la variété de ses modèles, tant latins que vernaculaires. Il met aussi en évidence sa réception parfois polémique, de Rabelais aux jésuites et jusqu’aux temps modernes. L’ensemble de ces travaux invite au réexamen de l’œuvre à la lumière des plus récentes enquêtes historiques, littéraires et codicologiques.

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Jean Gerson écrivain. De l’œuvre latine et française à sa réception européenne, éd. Isabelle Fabre, Genèvre, Droz, 2024 ; 1 vol., 640 p. (Publications Romanes et Françaises, 278). ISBN : 978-2-600-06489-7. Prix : CHF 68,00.

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Research on late antique and early medieval migrations has long acknowledged the importance of interdisciplinarity. The field is constantly nourished by new archaeological discoveries that allow for increasingly refined pictures of socio-economic development. Yet the perspectives adopted by historians and archaeologists are frequently different, and so are their conclusions. Diverging views exist in respect to varying geographical areas and scholarly traditions too.

This volume brings together history and archaeology to address the impact of the inflow and outflow of migrations on the rural landscape, the creation of new settlement patterns, and the role of migrations and mobility in transforming society and economy.

Such themes are often investigated under a regional or macro-regional viewpoint, resulting in too fragmented an understanding of a widespread phenomenon. Spanning Eastern and Western Europe, the book takes steps toward an integrated picture of territories normally investigated as separate entities, and critically establishes grounds for new comparisons and models on late antique and early medieval transformations.

Irene Bavuso, Dep. of Hist., Art Hist., Utrecht University; Angelo Castrorao Barba, Inst. of Arch., Ethn., Polish Acad. of Sciences.

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The European Countryside during the Migration Period Patterns of Change from Iberia to the Caucasus (300–700 CE), éd. Irene Bavuso, Angelo Castrorao Barba, Boston – Berlin, De Gruyer, 2023 ; 1 vol., VII–353 p. (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 137). ISBN : 978-3-11077-825-0. Prix : € 129,95.

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Focusing on a little studied miscellany by Claude Fauchet (1530-1602), this book reveals the role of the medieval in crafting an image of French modernity during the Renaissance. Designed to confront the Pléiade with the rich legacy of medieval French, the Veilles argued that an illustrious vernacular had to be rooted in native traditions, richer by far than generally credited. From meter in the twelfth-century Roman d’Alexandre to the emendation of Philippe de Commynes’s Mémoires, and from dueling etiquette to the tomb of Jean de Meun, Fauchet’s observations even reach into his present moment, with essays on Lemaire de Belges, Marot, and Ronsard. Here is an echo of a very different French Renaissance, in which the Burghers of Calais are more important than Francion, and a knowledge of Old French more desirable than classical erudition. Furthermore, as a response to rupture and loss, the Veilles are perhaps the earliest snapshot of a primary stage in the reception of medieval French literature.

Abordant un recueil peu étudié de Claude Fauchet (1530-1602), ce livre révèle le rôle du médiéval dans la construction d’une image de la modernité française à la Renaissance. Conçues pour confronter la Pléiade au riche héritage de la France médiévale, les Veilles soutenaient qu’une illustre langue vernaculaire devait être enracinée dans les traditions autochtones, bien plus riches qu’on ne le pense généralement. De la métrique du Roman d’Alexandre à l’émendation des Mémoires de Philippe de Commynes, et des règles du duel à la tombe de Jean de Meun, les observations de Fauchet portent aussi sur son époque, avec des essais sur Lemaire de Belges, Marot et Ronsard. Émerge alors l’écho d’une Renaissance française très différente, dans laquelle les bourgeois de Calais sont plus importants que Francion, et la connaissance de l’ancien français plus souhaitable que l’érudition classique. Comme une réponse à la rupture et à la perte, les Veilles sont peut-être le tout premier instantané d’une étape fondamentale dans la réception de la littérature française médiévale.

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Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter I. Contents, Context and Material History of the Veilles ou Observations de plusieurs choses dinnes de memoire en la Lecture d’aucuns autheurs françois, 1555

Chapter II. Continuity, Rupture and Recovery in French Renaissance Literary Culture, 1530-1550

Chapter III. Recovery and Nativism in Fauchet’s Veilles ou Observations

Chapter IV. The Veilles and the Early Pléiade. Recovering History, Defining Frenchness

Conclusion. The Legacy of the Veilles

Appendix A. Contents Page for the Veilles ou Observations de plusieurs choses dinnes de mémoire en la lecture ou leçon d’aucuns autheurs françois

Appendix B. Authors/Works Referenced in the Veilles.

Bibliography

Index

Informations pratiques :

Anthony J. Bruder, Recovering the Medieval in the French Renaissance. Claude Fauchet’s Veilles ou Observations, Genève, Droz, 2024 ; 1 vol., 296 p. (Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance, 197). ISBN : 978-2-600-06487-3. Prix : CHF 75,00.

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The Middle Ages and Medievalism have been used and abused throughout history–and this continues. This narrative deserves a reassessment. But, what is Medieval? This is the central question that unifies the contributions in this volume. 

‘Medievalism’, or the study of the Middle Ages in its broadest sense, refers to the perception, conceptualisation and movement towards the era post the fifteenth century. Its study is therefore not about the period otherwise referred to as the ‘Middle Ages’, but rather the myriad ways it has since been conceived. And the field of medievalism is still in its relative infancy which has led to the emergence of various existential questions about its scope, remit, theoretico-methodological and pedagogical underpinnings, interpretation, periodization, and its relationship to established disciplines and more emerging subdisciplines and specialised fields—both within and without the academy. 

In turn, neomedievalism has allowed insight into and a response to the medieval often dominated by the modern. This has provoked debate over the nature of neomedievalism as a discipline, subdiscipline, genre, field or offshoot in direct or contrasting relation to the more traditional medievalism.

Featuring interdisciplinary contributions from academics, educational practitioners as well as museum, digital and heritage professionals, this volume provides a fresh reflection on past methods to emerging pedagogies as well as new avenues of enquiry into the ways we think about the medieval. It is by reconciling these seemingly disparate forms that we can better understand the continual, interconnected, and often politicised, reinvention of the Middle Ages throughout cultures and study.

Emma J. Wells is Lecturer in Ecclesiastical and Architectural History of the Late Medieval and Reformation Era, based at the University of York, and a Research Fellow in Archaeology at Durham University.

Claire Kennan is Lecturer, Research Coordinator and Public Engagement Specialist at the Bader International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle, the UK campus for Queen’s University (Canada).

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Introduction: Decoding the Medieval: From Manipulation to ‘Other’, Emma J. Wells and Claire Kennan

PART 1: Teaching the Medieval

Conquest, Coexistence, and Cultural Exchange on the Silk Road: Reimagining the Medieval World at Key Stage 3, Gemma Plumpton and Dhwani Patel
Encouraging: Secondary-Education Pupils to Take Seriously the Ideas and Cultures of Medieval People, Jonathan Sellin and Jacob Olivey
Pulling Ranks: The Inevitability of the Presentism in Teaching Medievalism, Andrew Elliot and Mike Horswell
Feeling Medieval: Immersive Pedagogy, Ariana Ellis

PART 2: Digitising the Medieval

Getting the Picture: Teaching Modern Medieval Image Theory, Euan Robson
Local History in a Post-digital Landscape: Mining new Pathways through a Triangulation of Digital, Pedagogic, and  Research Interests, Jack Newman
Transcending Boundaries for Medieval Studies: Teaching Medieval(isms) via Digital Technologies, Kenna L. Olsen, Cosmo Christoffersen, and Samantha Purchase
Copy, Cut, Paste and Print: Some Design Principles applied to the Book of Kells Memorabilia, Leila Geroto

PART 3: Fetishizing the Medieval

Sexyback Versus Sir Gawain: Getting ‘Medieval’on ‘Sexy’, Kenna L. Olsen
Medieval Kings and Queens: Orientalising Medieval Women on Screen, Meriem Pagès
The King and I: Representations of BDSM in Fanfiction about King Alfred, Martine Mussies

PART 4: Manipulating the Post-Medieval

Arthur’s Court and Gothic Spaces in E.L. Hervey’s the Feast of Camelot, Renée Ward
Jefferson’s Middle Ages: Art, Artifice, Nostalgia, Euan Robson
V IS FOR VIKING, Howard Williams

Informations pratiques :

What is Medieval? Decoding Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism in the 21st Century, éd. Emma J. Wells, Claire Kennan, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 ; 1 vol., 288 p. (Reinterpreting the Middle Ages, 2). ISBN : 978-2-503-60068-0. Prix : € 95,00.

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