L'Agenda des Médiévistes

La vastità del territorio è attributo necessario di imperialità? Un impero è solo un regno più grande? Rielaborando gli interventi al convegno scientifico tenutosi alla Maison Française di Oxford nel giugno del 2018, questo libro mette in discussione i legami sviluppati a partire dal Medioevo tra l’idea di impero e la sua espressione geografica. Più precisamente, riflette sul rapporto tra razionalità politica imperiale e configurazione territoriale attraverso alcuni casi di studio tratti dai regni di Sicilia, Francia, Ungheria, Spagna e Inghilterra.

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Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira, De l’espace à l’espèce : de quoi l’im­pé­ria­lité est-elle le nom ? Quelques réflexions introductives

Annick Peters-Custot, Le royaume normand de Sicile, cas d’école de l’im­périalité royale ?

Jean-Paul Boyer, Humilier l’Empire. Le paradoxe des romanistes du ro­yaume de Sicile-Naples (fin XIII^e-mi-XIV^e siècle)

Benoît Grévin, Rex est imperator extra regnum ? Stratégies im­pé­riales françaises, des Capétiens aux premiers Valois (1212-1380)

Attila Bárány, The Medieval Kingdom of Hungary : a Power Factor in Central Europe

Hélène Sirantoine, When Being King Was Not Enough : Im­pe­ra­to­res in Medieval Iberia (Ninth to Twelfth Century)

John Watts, Imperial England, 1150-1550

Informations pratiques :

Gli spazi del potere: strategie e attributi dell’imperialità – Les espaces de la puissance: stratégies et marqueurs de l’impérialité, dir. Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira, Fulvio Delle Donne, Potenza, 2023 ; 1 vol., 192 p. (Imperialiter, 3). ISBN : 978-88-31309-23-3. Accès en ligne : ici

Source : Basilicata University Press

This volume assembles a collection of studies investigating ways that textual practices in the classical and medieval periods generated collective and individual expressions of identity. Engaging in dialogue with Brian Stock’s contributions to the history of literacy, the essays initiate new conversations about models of interpretation, habits of reading, textual communities, and forms of self-writing.

The first group of essays, featuring Seth Lerer, Paul Saenger, and Sarah Spence, not only reflects upon the influence of Stock’s Augustine the Reader, but also examines Augustine’s innovative handling of texts within the literary culture of Late Antiquity. The following group, authored by John Magee, Constant J. Mews, and Marcia L. Colish, responds to The Implications of Literacy by examining ways that the reinterpretation of inherited texts can generate philosophical schools, social reformists, and textual communities. Subsequent contributions by Willemien Otten and Sarah Powrie investigate textual expressions of created nature and thereby build upon the work of Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century.

The last three essays by Gur Zak, Jane Tylus, and Catherine Conybeare explore Augustine’s enduring influence beyond the medieval period, as evidenced in the writings of Giovanni Conversini, Catherine of Sienna, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In so doing, these authors advance the frameworks of After Augustine and Listening for the Text. Personal tributes by Aviad Kleinberg and Natalie Zemon Davis bookend the volume, with each author recollecting fragments of conversations that have shaped a decades-long friendship with the honoree.

Sarah Powrie is Associate Professor of English at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Interested in questions of literary reception, she has published articles on Boethius, Chaucer, Spenser, and Donne.

Gur Zak is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Head of the Institute of Literatures. He is the author of Petrarch’s Humanism and the Care of the Self (2010) and Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature (2022). His current project deals with the implications of compassion in Italian Renaissance literature.

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List of Plates • vii
Abbreviations • ix
Acknowledgements • xi

Sarah Powrie and Gur Zak • Introduction • 1

Aviad Kleinberg • A Life of Brian • 18
Seth Lerer • The Textualized Augustine and Late Antique Communities • 27
Paul Saenger • Augustine as Reader: Prospects for Collaboration between Palaeography and the Neurosciences • 43
Sarah Spence • Augustine, Virgil, and the Landscape of Memory • 74
John Magee • Boethius and the Legacy of Alexander of Aphrodisias: The Elementary Commentary on De interpretatione 10, 19b22–24, and Related Texts • 94
Constant J. Mews • Rereading The Twelve Abuses of the Age: From Seventh-Century Ireland to Twelfth-Century France • 117
Marcia L. Colish • Self-Baptism in the Middle Ages? • 136
Willemien Otten • Nature’s Mediation: William of Conches and Hildegard of Bingen on Creation and the Cosmos • 149
Sarah Powrie • Allegories of the Formless Self in Augustine’s Confessions and Bernardus Silvestris’s Cosmographia • 172
Gur Zak • After Petrarch: Writing and Self-Care in Giovanni Conversini’s Rationarium vite • 195
Jane Tylus • Listening for the Ending • 215
Catherine Conybeare • Augustine and Wittgenstein: The Inner Dialogue Continued • 235
Natalie Zemon Davis • A Scholarly Friendship: In Tribute to Brian Stock • 250

Informations pratiques :

Textual Communities, Textual Selves: Essays in Dialogue with Brian Stock, Sarah Powrie, Gur Zak, Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2023 ; 1 vol., XII–272 p. (Papers in Mediaeval Studies, 37). ISBN : 978-0-88844-837-8. Prix : USD 95,00.

Source : Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies

Il Sillabario medievale affronta, attraverso l’analisi di undici parole chiave, alcune problematiche fra le più interessanti e innovative dell’odierno panorama medievistico italiano ed europeo, muovendosi con disinvoltura tra le fonti e il dibattito storiografico. L’autore tratta di alcuni importanti nodi storiografici che hanno animato e tutt’oggi animano il dibattito interno alla disciplina: il determinismo ambientale, la spazialità, il dissenso, il rapporto fra gerarchia e libertà, fra sacro e profano, il desiderio, il nesso fra responsabilità e individualità, la nozione di carisma, la teoria degli «ordines», i concetti di Riforma (con particolare riguardo all’XI secolo), Rinascimento e Rivoluzione. Ogni parola di questo Sillabario viene illustrata e discussa facendo riferimento al dibattito storiografico e all’applicazione nell’ambito della ricerca medievistica. Un libro utile per comprendere alcune nozioni fondamentali inerenti la cultura e la mentalità medievale; al contempo, viva espressione di una peculiare visione storiografica, che in dialogo con le scienze sociali approfondisce il quadro sociale e culturale del tempo, senza mai dimenticare l’aderenza al contesto storico.

Nicolangelo D’Acunto (Albenga, 1966) ha studiato alla Scuola Normale di Pisa. Ordinario di Storia medievale all’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano e Brescia, è direttore del Dipartimento di Studi medievali, umanistici e rinascimentali e del Centro per la Storia degli Insediamenti Monastici Europei (CESIME). Tra le sue pubblicazioni: Cum anulo et baculo. Vescovi dell’Italia medievale dal protagonismo politico alla complementarietà istituzionale (Spoleto 2019) e La lotta per le investiture. Una rivoluzione medievale (998-1122), (Roma 2020).

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Nicolangelo D’Acunto, Sillabario medievale, Milan, Vita e Pensiero, 2023 ; 1 vol., 192 p. (Cultura e storia, 41). ISBN : 978-8-83435-460-5. Prix : € 20,00.

Source : Vita e Pensiero

The papers gathered in this volume focus on ‘Medieval Translations and their Readership’, the special strand of the 11th Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages. The volume discusses the role of the reader in the process of translation, communities of readers and their active participation in translators’ choices, and the translation as a result of a dialogue between author, text and its reader.

Translations of works of theology and religious education, the focus of most of the contributions to this volume, constitute excellent material for research into medieval lay audiences. Vernacular religious educational texts from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century show a great deal of conformity. Individual authors resorted to similar strategies and techniques to meet any translation challenges, to fulfil educational aims, or to relate to their readers and to accommodate their expectations. Simultaneously, the readers played a crucial role as they shaped the production of texts in many ways.

Research into Middle English pastoral and devotional literature and the conditions of its production still dominates scholarly work in the field. Religious texts in vernaculars other than Middle English have so far received little attention. This volume tries to tackle this lacuna by offering a careful comparative analysis of relevant vernacular texts across Europe, including Slavonic works, using historiographical, philological, and linguistic methods as well as literary scholarly approaches.

The sixteen chapters are organized in three sections. The first one, ‘Authors and Readers’, brings together articles examining the idea of a model reader as expressed in translations of biblical texts and texts of religious instruction. The contributions in the second section, on the ‘Dissimination of Knowledge’, focus on how translators addressed readers, how people read, and how they used the manuscripts and printed books made for them. The target audience or model reader of the first section is here put into perspective with the help of discussions of reading practices. The last section, ‘Religious Education in Transition’, comprises contributions which focus on textual material from the period when printed books gradually changed, the relationship between languages, texts, authors, and readers.

Dr. Pavlína Rychterová is Vice-head of the department Historical Identity Research at the Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences. She specializes in late medieval vernacular religious literatures. Dr. Jan Odstrčilík is a Post-doc researcher att the Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, he specializes in late medieval latin multilingual texts.

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Introduction

Authors and Readers

Alessandro Zironi: Gothic Texts: Translations, Audiences, Readers.

Maria Teresa Ramandi: Translating Latin in the Medieval North: Agnesar Saga and its Readership.

Jonatan Pettersson: Saving the Reader from the Bible: The Old Swedish Pentateuch Translation and its Reflective Model Reader.

Andrea Svobodová, Kateřina Voleková, and Pavlína Rychterová: Old Czech Biblical Prologues: A Medieval Reader’s Gateway to the Study of the Bible.

Marco Robecchi: Reader and Public in a Fourteenth-Century French Translation: Jean le Long and his Readership.

Jaroslav Svátek: From Devotion to Censure: Hans Tucher’s and Bernard of Breydenbach’s Pilgrim Accounts and their Two Medieval Czech Translations.

Katrin Janz-Wenig: Educating Laymen and Nuns in the Late Middle Ages in German-Speaking and Dutch Environments.

Dissemination of Knowledge

Elisabeth Salter: Miscellaneity in Practice: A Further Look at the English Text Known As the Lay Folk’s Catechism.

Jörg Sonntag: Old Material and New Perspectives: Master Ingold’s ‘Golden Game’.

Pavlína Rychterová: Jan Hus, The Daughter: Religious Education between Translation and Adaptation.

Jan Odstrčilík: Unbearable Lightness of Multilingual Sermons? The So-Called Wilhering Adaptation of Three Czech Sermons of Jan Hus.

Religious Education in Transition

Andrea Radošević: The Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Croatian Translations of the Latin Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem.

Tamás Karáth: Early Readers’ Responses to the English Translations of Richard Rolle’s Emendatio vite.

Takami Matsuda: Predestination and Free Will in the Old French and Middle English Versions of the Elucidarium and in the Middle English Chastising of God’s Children.

Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa: The Boke of Gostely Grace and the Orcherd of Syon: Revelations of approuyd wymmen and their Readership in Fifteenth-Century England.

Omar Khalaf: The Social Function of a Translation: Earl Rivers, William Caxton, and the Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers.

Informations pratiques :

Medieval Translations and their Readers, éd. Pavlína Rychterová, Jan Odstrcilik, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023 ; 1 vol., 364 p. (The Medieval Translator, 20). ISBN : 978-2-503-59190-2. Prix : € 85,00.

Source : Brepols

Una grave carenza del panorama degli studi storici dell’epoca medievale è rappresentata dalla mancanza di conoscenza della moneta del periodo, troppo spesso lasciata agli interessi dei collezionisti e degli appassionati. In questo agile testo si cerca di fornire una storia ragionata della monetazione dall’introduzione del solido aureo di Costantino il Grande fino alle monete grosse e alle emissioni auree del XIII e XIV secolo. La narrazione terrà conto dell’evoluzione della moneta romea, chiamata a torto bizantina, fino alla caduta di Costantinopoli, delle serie monetali dei Vandali e dei Regni romano-barbarici, oltre che dei Longobardi, delle riforme volute dagli Arabi e da quelli dei Franchi, passando per le monete dei Comuni italiani, dei Normanni e degli Svevi del Regno delle Due Sicilie, delle Repubbliche Marinare, fino alle emissioni quasi speculari degli Angioini di Napoli e degli Aragonesi di Palermo. Si tratta, in estrema sintesi, di una storia della moneta, considerata sotto gli aspetti economici, metrologici e iconografici, indispensabile strumento per affrontare lo studio degli avvenimenti e delle tematiche storiografiche del Medio Evo.

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Daniele Castrizio, Manuale di Numismatica Bizantina e Medievale, Amon Edizioni, 2023 ; 1 vol., 180 p. (Arte-Archeologia-Musei). ISBN : 978-8-86603-190-1. Prix : € 26,00.

Source : Amon Edizioni

Le Stricker est l’un des plus grands et des plus prolifiques auteurs allemands du XIIIe siècle. Outre une adaptation de la légende de Roland et un roman arthurien (Daniel du Val Fleuri), il a écrit de nombreux textes brefs, tantôt édifiants tantôt satiriques, et un roman comique qui est à la littérature allemande ce que le long fabliau de Trubert est à la littérature française de la même époque, en même temps qu’il annonce les aventures de Till l’espiègle. Amis le Prêtre nous raconte les aventures d’un escroc de haut vol en une progression finement graduée qui nous mène de l’Angleterre à Constantinople sans épargner aucun des états de la société. Ce texte riche et savoureux est traduit ici en français pour la première fois. Une introduction substantielle tente de situer le contexte de sa création, son auteur, son idéologie et sa fortune littéraire.

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Introduction L’Auteur La Thématique et le public des œuvres du Stricker Résumé d’Amis le Prêtre Les Sources d’Amis le Prêtre Essai d’interprétation Bibliographie

Le Stricker, Amis le Prêtre

1. Prologue (v. 1-38)
2. Les Questions de l’évêque (v. 39-180)
3. L’Âne qui lit (v. 181-318)
4. La Relique merveilleuse (v. 319-495)
5. Les Peintures invisibles (v. 496-798)
6. La Guérison des malades (v. 799-924)
7. Le Coq ressuscité (v. 925-1020)
8. Amis prophète (v. 1021-1068)
9. La Fontaine aux poissons (v. 1069-1146)
10. Le Drap du chevalier (v. 1147-1284)
11. Les Miraculés (v. 1285-1314)
12. Le Drapier et le faux évêque (v. 1315-1818)
13. Le Joaillier (v. 1819-2244)
14. Épilogue (v. 2245-2288) Appendice : 15. La Messe

Informations pratiques :

Le Stricker. Amis le prêtre (Der Pfaffe Amis). Roman du XIIIe siècle, éd. et trad. Alain Corbellari, Marianne Derron Corbellari, Genève, Droz, 2023 ; 1 vol., 102 p. (Varia, 128). ISBN : 978-2-600-06490-3. Prix : CHF 18,00.

Source : Droz

Die Briefbücher des Benediktinerinnenklosters Lüne stellen eine reiche Quelle für spätmittelalterliche Frömmigkeit, Gelehrsamkeit und Kommunikationsnetzwerke dar. Die Frauen erzählen lebendig vom Alltag und Festtag im Kloster, vom Verhältnis zum Propst, den Familien oder den Lüner Ratsherren bis zu geistlichen Freundschaften mit Frauen aus den Nachbarkonventen. Als eine Besonderheit sind nicht nur Briefe der Ämterinhaberinnen sondern aller Konventsmitglieder bis zu den Klosterschülerinnen überliefert. Nicht zuletzt kann erstmals das Ringen mit den aufkommenden reformatorischen Gedanken aus der Binnenperspektive einer Benediktinerinnengemeinschaft erfasst werden.Die Edition umfasst über 450 Briefe, die auf Lateinisch, Niederdeutsch und in einer charakteristischen Mischsprache verfasst wurden. Sie erschließt den sozialen, sprachlichen, historischen und rhetorischen Kontext der gelehrten Nonnen und ihre Kommunikationsnetzwerke. Die Lüner Briefbücher erweitern das Korpus der im Spätmittelalter von Frauen selbständig verfassten Texte erheblich. Dabei formten die Nonnen eine auf ihre Bedürfnisse angepasste Sprache, die ihren Klosteralltag und ihre religiösen Ziele angemessen zum Ausdruck bringen konnte.

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1) Historischer Kontext
Eva Schlotheuber: Der Lüner Konvent und die Klosterlandschaft bis 1500 – Edmund Wareham: Die Einführung der Reformation – Lena Vosding: Überlieferungskontext – Lüner Quellen des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts

2) Sozialer Kontext und Netzwerke
Edmund Wareham: Einführung – Philipp Trettin: Lüneburger Familien und Ämterkarrieren im Kloster Lüne – Philipp Stenzig: Netzwerke der Pröpste

3) Bildung und sprachlicher Kontext
Eva Schlotheuber: Die Ausbildung der Nonnen – Henrike Lähnemann: Zweisprachigkeit und literarische Verarbeitung – Simone Schultz-Balluff/Timo Bülters: Schriftsprachliche Besonderheiten der niederdeutsch abgefassten Lüner Briefe – Lena Vosding: Brieflehren und Rhetorik der Nonnen

4) Edition
Lena Vosding: Handschriftenbeschreibung – Wolfgang Seifert: Technische Umsetzung und Webpräsentation

Informations pratiques :

Netzwerke der Nonnen. Kritische Edition der Briefsammlung der Lüner Benediktinerinnen (Hs. 15, ca. 1460–1555), éd. Eva Schlotheuber, Henrike Lähnemann, Philipp Trettin, Lena Vosding, Philipp Stenzig, Simone Schultz-Balluff, Edmund Wareham, Timo Bülters, Konstantin Winters, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2023 ; 1 vol., 1000 p. ISBN : 978-3-16-160899-5. Prix : € 160,00.

Source : Mohr Siebeck