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This volume is the result of a symposium organised in 2018 by Élodie Attia in Aix-en-Provence and offers a cross-sectional view of the production of typologically similar Latin, Greek and Hebrew Bibles during the course of the Middle Ages.

It first explores the different ways in which complete Bibles, in one or more volumes from the same production (pandects), were produced in different places and at different times, with an emphasis on their structural complexity. Complete Bibles are rare in all the traditions considered but especially interesting given the technical challenges that their production posed for craftsmen.

Partial Bibles represent a different way of transmitting the biblical text, whether they consist of a choice of parts of the Bible, assembled and reassembled in more or less original ways, or in the design of new types (such as the « Pentateuch-Megillot-Haftarot », produced in the Ashkenazi world before 1300).

Bibles with commentaries are a very varied category, illustrated here by two examples: first, the pandects produced by Theodulf († 821), in which the marginal notes are akin to a critical apparatus; second, Hebrew manuscripts containing systematic exegetical commentaries in sophisticated layouts that also vary according to their areas of production.

Finally, the presentation of new fragments of a very ancient scroll of Genesis and Exodus from the Cairo Genizah sheds new light on its insertion into the Masoretic tradition, and to document the existence of partial Bibles in the form of scrolls.

This volume shows the value of a comparative approach to ancient Bibles and hopefully represents a further step towards a more comprehensive perception of a history of the Bible.

Patrick Andrist, LMU Munich, Élodie Attia, CNRS Aix-Marseille, Marilena Maniaci, University of Cassino.

Table des matières : ici

Informations pratiques :

From the Thames to the Euphrates. Intersecting Perspectives on Greek, Latin and Hebrew Bibles / De la Tamise à l’Euphrate. Regards croisés sur les bibles grecques, latines et hébraïques, éd. Patrick Andrist , Élodie Attia and Marilena Maniaci, Boston–Berlin, De Gruyter, 2023 ; 1 vol., VIII–165 p. (Manuscripta Biblica, 9). ISBN : 978-3-11099-912-9. Prix : € 89,95.

Source : De Gruyter

Les Enfants-Cygnes et La Chanson du Chevalier au cygne, œuvres composées vers la fin du XII^e siècle-début du XIII^e siècle, constituent le prologue des trois plus anciennes épopées de la croisade : La Chanson d’Antioche, La Conquête de Jérusalem et Les Chétifs. Elles visent à glorifier la famille Boulogne-Bouillon en lui attribuant un aïeul mythique, surnaturel, doué de toutes les qualités physiques et morales, véritable parangon d’une chevalerie christique, digne de Godefroy de Bouillon, « l’avoué du Saint-Sépulcre », et de ses deux frères, Eustache, comte de Boulogne, et Baudouin, roi de Jérusalem.

Si le poète des Enfants-Cygnes se détourne des chansons de geste traditionnelles et rédige un conte courtois dont les éléments, merveilleux à l’origine, sont en partie rationalisés et christianisés, l’auteur de La Chanson du Chevalier au cygne offre une chanson de geste classique sur le plan formel et thématique, mais il l’enrichit de traits féeriques en un récit construit sur le schéma mélusinien avec la transgression finale de l’interdit, et d’aspects romanesques marqués notamment par le rôle déterminant des personnages féminins.

La première édition bilingue de ce diptyque, caractéristique de l’évolution du genre épique vers le merveilleux et le romanesque, retranscrit et traduit le texte du manuscrit BnF fr. 12558.

Table des matières : ici

Informations pratiques :

Les Enfants-Cygnes et La Chanson du Chevalier au cygne (d’après le ms. Paris, BnF fr. 12558), éd. Claude Lachet, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2023 ; 1 vol., 800 p. (Champion Classiques du Moyen Âge, 57). ISBN : 978-2-38096-058-7. Prix : € 29,00.

Source : Honoré Champion

I Franchi, Spolète, Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, 2023 ; 2 vol., 1436 p. (Atti delle Settimane di Studi, 69). ISBN : 978-8-86809-384-6. Prix : € 196,00.

Table des matières :

R. McKitterick, I Franchi: Regnum Francorum, regni territoriali, impero. Le basi dello studio sui Franchi nel secolo diciassettesimo, pp. 1-22 – H. Reimitz, Histories of Frankish identity and the Making of Europe in the early Middle Ages, 23-54 – Discussione, 55-58 – M. Coumert, Les origines de la loi salique: textes, collections de texte et manuscrits, 59-92 – Discussione, 93-96 – H.-W. Goetz, Die Wahrnehmung der Franken, des Frankenreichs und der fränkischen Könige bei Gregor von Tours, 97-162 – Discussione, 163-168 – M. M. Tischler, A political testament in the matrix of time and space: Einhart’s Vita Karoli in Italy, Septimania, and Catalonia from the Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries, 169-196 – Discussione, 197-202 – W. Pohl, The Frankish expansion and the character of interactions with other peoples, 203-224 – Discussione, 225-228 – Ó. De la Cruz Palma, El conocimiento del islam en el mundo franco, 229-284 – Discussione, 285-290 – B. H. Rosenwein, The emotions of the Franks, 291-304 – Discussione, 305-308 – S. Gioanni, La propagande théodoricienne contre les Francs d’après les oeuvres d’Ennode de Pavie et de Cassiodore, 309-346 – Discussione, 347-348 – É. Peytremann, L’apport de l’archéologie de l’habitat rural à l’étude socio-économique du monde rural du VI^e-X^e siècle dans la moitié nord de la Gaule, 349-384 – Discussione, 385-388 – G. Albertoni, La grande proprietà fondiaria e la sua organizzazione, 389-420 – Discussione, 421-424 – M. Bompaire, Âge de l’or et zone de l’argent, sources d’approvisionnement métallique et politique monétaire, 425-470 – Discussione, 471-472 – A. Rovelli, Produzione e circolazione monetaria nell’Europa franca (VIII-IX secolo), 473-506 – Discussione, 507-510 – S. Gasparri, I Franchi e la guerra: esercito di popolo, clientele, cavalleria, 511-538 – Discussione, 539-542 – I. Wood, Government, bureaucracy and the exercise of power in the Merovingian kingdom, 543-572 – Discussione, 573-574 – B. Dumézil, Le baptême de Clovis constitue-t-il un « tournant constantinien »?, 575-602 – Discussione, 603-606 – F. Bougard, Les Francs, la papauté, Rome, VIe-VIIe siècles 607-648 – Discussione, 649-650 – S. Patzold, Bishops, power and local churches in the Frankish countryside, 651-684 – Discussione, 685-690 – F. Mazel, Les Francs et les monastères: pratiques socio-religieuses et enjeux politiques (VIe-IXe siècle), 691-790 – Discussione, 791-792 – P. Depreux, Le monde de Marculf: conception, diffusion et réception de modèles d’actes et de lettres à l’époque franque, 793-818 – Discussione, 819-822 – S. Kerneis, « Qu’il marche au chaudron ». La pérennité de pratiques militaires dans le droit franc, 823-838 – Discussione, 839-840 – R. Barcellona, Alterità, identità, poteri nei concili merovingi del VI secolo, 841-880 – Discussione, 881-888 – F. E. Consolino, Venanzio Fortunato e le corti merovingie, 889-960 – Discussione, 961-966 – C. Veyrard-Cosme, Écriture de soi, écriture de l’autre dans les Annales du royaume des Francs, 967-990 – Discussione, 991-994 – M. Mostert, Admonitio generalis c. 70: reading, education and reform, 995-1018 – Discussione, 1019-1020 – A. Ricciardi, Forme e funzioni dell’epistolografia nel mondo franco, 1021-1058 – Discussione, 1059-1062 – A. T. Hack, Vom Archiv zum Kodex. Codex Carolinus und Bonifatii et Lulli Epistolae im Vergleich, 1063-1084 – C. Falluomini, Le lingue dei Franchi e le altre lingue del Regnum Francorum in epoca merovingia, 1085-1110 – Discussione, 1111-1114 – P. Bourgain, Les tendances syntaxiques du latin mérovingien, 1115-1144 – Discussione, 1145-1148 – M. Bassetti, Genesi e diffusione della scrittura carolina in rapporto alle precaroline di area franca, 1149-1192 – M. Mersiowsky, Vom Kaiserreskript zum Herrscherdiplom. Das Urkundenwesen der fränkischen Könige von den Anfängen bis in die Karolingerzeit, 1193-1256 – Discussione, 1257-1260 – C. Treffort, Une autre culture de l’écrit? Formes, usages et enjeux de la production épigraphique dans le monde franc (VI^e– IX^e siècle), 1261-1312 – Discussione, 1313-1318 – J. R. Davis – B. E. Kitzinger, Book composition and the law in the Wandalgarius Codex, 1319-1352 – Discussione, 1353-1354 – F. Crivello, Identità franca e arte carolingia. Tracce di un’eredità, 1355-1368 – S. Ristow, Architektur im Frankenreich, 1369-1392 – Discussione, 1393-1394 – C. Denoël – I. Marchesin, Unica enluminés dans le royaume franc durant les dernières décennies du VIIIe siècle: un nouveau langage visuel, 1395-1420.

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The expression Writing on Tombs used in the title of this book refers to all kind of texts involved in the making of a tomb during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period: not only the inscriptions engraved in stone or marble, a constituent of the tomb and never an accessory element, but also the documentary, narrative or poetical sources concerning its form and iconography, its spiritual, symbolic, or political meaning, its perception or its “historicization”. Along with tombs of great prestige, such as those of Frederick II and Boniface VIII, the papers collected in this volume deal with a huge variety of little-known burials, for patrons belonging to different social status and cultures across many regions of Europe over more than a millennium.

The authors analyse how texts contributed to shaping the object-tomb through the reading or the re-reading of medieval textual sources, the function of the epitaphs and their manuscript tradition, the written and material reuse of the past, the epigraphical practices of writing, and the funerary customs in Modern Europe.

Table des matières :

• Preface
• I. Reading the Textual Sources on Sepulchral Monuments
  • Ingo Herklotz, Warum es Grabmonumente nicht geben sollte. Eine Denkfigur der Moralität
  • Fulvio Delle Donne, Narrazioni sulla sepoltura di Federico II di Svevia
  • Manuela Gianandrea, Changes of Pace in the Narrative on “Medieval” Tombs in Rome (With a Note on the Lost Tomb of Pietro Capocci)
  • Claudia Bolgia, Leggere le fonti per rileggere le opere. Il monumento arnolfiano di Bonifacio VIII in San Pietro
  • Tiziana Franco, La tomba e il testamento di Barnaba da Morano, un giurista nella Verona fra Tre e Quattrocento
• II. The Epitaphs and their Tradition
  • Cécile Treffort, Écrire en vers pour les morts. Autour des carmina funéraires carolingiens
  • Valerio Sanzotta, Da Mantova a Roma. Il Capitulum epythaphiorum di Ramo Ramedelli
• III. Written and Material Reuse of the Funerary Past
  • Manuela Studer-Karlen, Mittelalterliche und neuzeitliche Grabinschriften auf frühchristlichen Sarkophagen
  • Carlo Ebanista, Il sepolcro di Tommaso del Giudice nella basilica di San Felice a Cimitile
  • Elisabetta Scirocco, Riscrivere sulla tomba. Il ruolo dell’epigrafia nel riuso sepolcrale a Napoli
• IV. Epigraphical Practices of Writing on Tombs
  • Vincent Debiais, Verse Epitaphs and Funerary Narratives. A Complex Inscription from the Cathedral in Girona (14^th century)
  • Pál Lővei, Verses and Fragments. Some Inscriptions on Medieval Funerary Monuments in Hungary
  • Grischa Vercamer, Säkulare Repräsentation von Herrschaft vs. ewiges Leben. Spätmittelalterliche Inschriften von Adelsgräbern in Mittel- und Norddeutschland
• V. Customs about Death in Modern Europe
  • Vanessa Harding, Politics, Confession, and Monumental Inscriptions in Early Modern London
  • Ondřej Jakubec, Writings beyond Tombs. Textual Communication on Sepulchral Monuments in 16^th and 17^th Century Central Europe
  • Diego Carnevale, Announcing Death. Funeral Tickets in 17^th and 18^th Century France and England
• Index of Names
• Index of Places
• Contributors

Informations pratiques :

Writing on Tombs in Medieval and Early Modern Times, éd. Vinni Lucherini, Tanja Michalsky, Diego Carnevale, Rome, Viella, 2023 ; 1 vol., 352 p. (Quaderni napoletani di storia dell’arte medievale, 7). ISBN : 978-8-83313-864-0. prix : € 55,00.

Source : Viella

This volume proposes a framework for reflection on practices of writing personal names in medieval sacred spaces, uniting historians, art historians, and specialists in written culture (both epigraphers and palaeographers). It traces the forms and functions of names that can be found within the space of early medieval churches and cemeteries, focusing mainly, but not solely, on inscriptions. By examining names written in various kinds of media, from liturgical books to graffiti and more formal inscriptions, the contributors investigate the intentions and effects of the act of writing one’s own name or having one’s name written down. Their interest resides less in the name itself than the interactions it had with its spatial, iconographic, linguistic, ritual, and cultural context, and what this indicates about medieval graphical practices. What is a name from a graphic point of view? What are the specificities of the epigraphic manifestations of names? By whom were names written, and for whom were they intended (if they were even meant to be accessed)? Addressing these and other questions, this volume shows the importance of inscriptions as historical sources and the contribution they give to the study of medieval societies at the intersection of history, anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and semiology.

Elisa Pallottini (Utrecht University – University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara) is a Latin Paleographist working in the field of Medieval Written Culture and Epigraphy.

Estelle Ingrand-Varenne (CNRS – CRFJ/CESCM) is specialized in medieval epigraphy, in France and in the Latin East. She is the principal investigator of the ERC GRAPH-EAST.

Janneke Raaijmakers (1973-2021) was an internationally valued authority on the topic of relics. The author of The Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda, c. 744-c. 900 (Cambridge, 2012), she also ran project ‘Mind over Matter: Debates about the Sanctity of Religious Objects, ca. 400-1200’ (Utrecht 2012-2018), was co-organiser of an exhibition on relics at Museum Het Catharijneconvent (see Relieken, Utrecht and Zwolle, 2018), and co-directed an international French-Dutch project, ‘MEDNAME: Inscribing Names in Medieval Sacred Spaces’.

Table des matières :

Introduction — VINCENT DEBIAIS

Le nom et l’être: De la théorie aux mises en forme épigraphiques — ESTELLE INGRAND-VARENNE

Graver son nom dans la pierre: Aspects techniques et culturels — THIERRY GREGOR

Topographie du nom du saint dans l’église: L’exemple des inscriptions brèves de dédicace — ANNICK GAGNÉ

Le nom, marque dans l’image et marqueur de l’objet — VINCENT DEBIAIS

Le nom à l’oeuvre: Les signatures épigraphiques d’artistes et de commanditaires entre quête de gloire et perspectives eschatologiques — EMILIE MINEO

Hic fuit: Scratching Names on Sacred Walls — CARLO TEDESCHI

Saints’ Names and Relics: The Evidence of Church Inscriptions — ELISA PALLOTTINI

Ces morts dont on inscrit le nom dans la pierre … — CÉCILE TREFFORT

Et breve in exigo marmore nomen ero: Un seul nom pour épitaphe (Gaule, Aquitaine, VIe-VIIIe s.) — MORGANE UBERTI

The Memory of a Person’s Name — JANNEKE RAAIJMAKERS

The Social Meaning of Names — JANNEKE RAAIJMAKERS

Naming as a Liturgical Act — ELS ROSE

Beyond the Pale? Those Who Were Not Worthy to Be Named — MARCO MOSTERT

Conclusions — ESTELLE INGRAND-VARENNE, ELISA PALLOTTINI, and JANNEKE RAAIJMAKERS

Bibliography

Indices

Informations pratiques :

Writing Names in Medieval Sacred Spaces Inscriptions in the West, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, éd. Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Elisa Pallotini, Janneke Raaijmakers †, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023 ; 1 vol., XX–386 p. (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 56). ISBN :978-2-503-60236-3. Prix : € 110,00.

Source : Brepols