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For inquisitive Christian minds in the Middle Ages, there were many reasons to learn Hebrew. The rediscovery of classical sources and Aristotelian philosophy and the engagement with Graeco-Arabic sciences that marked the renaissance of the twelfth century also brought about an acute awareness of the need for a philological understanding of the Hebrew language. In England in particular, various factors combined to encourage and facilitate the study of Hebrew texts, not only among well-known writers but also among English scholars whose names have not been preserved. They nevertheless produced bilingual Hebrew-Latin manuscripts in collaboration with Jewish scribes, along with manuals, textbooks, and reference aids to facilitate access to the sources. This volume presents an edition and analysis of one such learning tool: a thirteenth-century grammar written in Hebrew, Latin, and Anglo-Norman French (the vernacular language of the Jews of England) in a complex combination of Hebrew and Latin alphabets.

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and Professor of Hebrew Palaeography at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris-Sciences-Lettres. She is the author of numerous publications, including Les manuscrits hébreux dans l’Angleterre médiévale: étude historique et paléographique (2003) and Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England, in two volumes (2015). With Anne Grondeux et al., she is the editor of Dictionnaire hébreu-latin-français de la Bible hébraïque de l’abbaye de Ramsey (XIIIe s.) (2008); she has also co-edited several collections, among them Books within Books: New Discoveries in Old Book Bindings (2013), with Andreas Lehnardt, and A Universal Art: Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths (2014), with Nadia Vidro and Irene E. Zwiep.

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Abbreviations
Tables
Preface

Facsimile of the Longleat House Grammar

Introduction

Chapter 1
The Manuscript: Its Structure, Texts and Scribes
The Codicological, Textual and Palaeographical Units of LH MS 21
The Codicological and Textual Composition of the Longleat House Grammar
The Scribes of LH MS 21
Palaeographical Remarks
Page and Text Layout

Chapter 2
The Longleat House Grammar and Hebrew Scholarship at Ramsey Abbey
The Longleat House Grammar Among the Bilingual Hebrew-Latin Manuscripts
The Longleat House Grammar and Ramsey Abbey

Chapter 3
The Longleat House Grammar and Different Linguistic Approaches to Hebrew in Medieval England
Through the Latin Lens
Christian Hebrew Grammar and Jewish Linguistic Traditions

Chapter 4
The Edition of the Longleat House Grammar
Grammar Textual Unit 1: The Hebrew Grammar in Latin Characters
Grammar Textual Unit 2: The Essay on Hebrew Vowels and Accents
Grammar Textual Unit 3: The Hebrew Grammar in Hebrew Characters
Grammar Textual Unit 4: The Hebrew Verb Paradigms in Latin Characters

Chapter 5
Contents and Sources of the Longleat House Grammar
Grammar Textual Unit 1: The Hebrew Grammar in Latin Characters
Grammar Textual Unit 2: The Essay on Hebrew Vowels and Accents
Grammar Textual Unit 3: The Hebrew Grammar in Hebrew Characters
Grammar Textual Unit 4: The Hebrew Verb Paradigms in Latin Characters

Conclusions

Bibliography
Index of Quotations
Index of Manuscripts
General Index

Informations pratiques :

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Learning Hebrew in Medieval England: Christian Scholars and the Longleat House Grammar, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023 ; 1 vol., 204 p. (Studies and Texts, 230). ISBN : 978-0-88844-230-7. Prix : € 98,00.

Source : Brepols

The problem of fraternal relations in the early Middle Ages has not been hitherto studied in detail, especially in comparison with the multitude of studies dealing with the models of marriage, gender-based social roles, or the relations between generations. Historians have been often prone to assume that relations between siblings in European culture were naturally constant, based on loyalty, solidarity, and readiness to act in the common interest, stemming from blood ties. However, this conviction equates the category of brotherhood/fraternitas used by medieval authors with concepts associated with sources from later periods. This study does not concern narrowly defined family history, but is an attempt to examine fraternal relations in the early Middle Ages as a multidimensional cultural phenomenon. As the author seeks to demonstrate, it is difficult to speak of kinship in the ninth century and later without being aware of the religious and ideological implications of the transformations taking place at the time, even if direct traces of the impact of moralizing and theological teachings on the conduct of individuals are hard to capture in the sources.

Aneta Pieniądz is an associate professor in Medieval History at the University of Warsaw. She researches the social history of the early Middle Ages, family history, digital tools for medievalists, and is interested in pedagogy and outreach.

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Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Meaning of the Terms « Brother » and « Brotherhood” in Early Medieval Sources

Chapter 3: Equality and Fraternal Hierarchies

Chapter 4: Between Love and Hate: Models of Fraternal Relations

Chapter 5: Fraternal Relations in the Context of Law and Social Practice

Chapter 6: Paternal Uncles and Nephews

Chapter 7: Brothers and Their Wives

Chapter 8: Conclusion

Informations pratiques :

Aneta Pieniądz, Fraternal Bonds in the Early Middle Ages, Leeds, ARC Humanities Press, 2023 ; 1 vol., 262 p. (Beyond Medieval Europe). ISBN : 978-1-80270-099-2. Prix : GBP 115,00.

Source : ARC Humanities Press

Longtemps considérée en Europe comme la forme naturelle de gouvernement, la royauté a su évoluer dans la durée, comme le montrent les études réunies dans ce livre. Le roi n’exerçait un pouvoir légitime qu’après des rites de passage. Le sacre tirait sa force de ses racines bibliques (soulignant l’élection divine) et d’une conception eschatologique appelant le roi à conduire son peuple vers un royaume qui n’est pas de ce monde. Il a été longtemps une cérémonie mystique, dans le choeur clos d’une cathédrale, avant d’être « médiatisé » et de se prêter à la mise en scène fastueuse et festive. Si l’élection du roi n’a jamais totalement disparu, la succession

héréditaire s’est imposée, et la reine a été associée très tôt aux rites de l’onction et du couronnement. L’idée selon laquelle le roi tenait de ses sujets l’autorité qu’il avait sur eux, et non plus de Dieu, a été le grand retournement de la Révolution. Les monarchies constitutionnelles du XIXe siècle ont ainsi adopté des rites de substitution : serment devant les chambres représentatives, discours du trône. L’ouvrage fait ainsi l’histoire d’une monarchie sans cesse réinventée.

Avec le soutien de l’Université de Lorraine et du laboratoire CRULH.

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Informations pratiques :

Sacres et couronnements en Europe. Rite, politique et société, du Moyen Âge à nos jours, éd. Jean-François Gicquel, Catherine Guyon, Bruno Maes, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2023 ; 1 vol., 304 p. (Histoire). ISBN : 978-2-75358-783-0. Prix : € 25,00.

Source : Presses universitaires de Rennes

The Cartulary of Prémontré offers a full critical edition, consisting of a transcription of the cartulary’s 509 charters together with historical notes and apparatus. The thirteenth-century cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Prémontré is one of the few manuscripts to survive from this monastery. Offering a window into daily life in medieval France and to contemporary documentary practices, the cartulary of Prémontré is a rich source for the socio-economic and religious history of the Picardy and Champagne regions during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

The charters contained in the cartulary illuminate how this major northern French abbey functioned as a mother house for the Premonstratensian Order, and how it interacted with people – both elite and non-elite as well as secular and ecclesiastical. It also reveals the complexities of cartulary production within a larger institutional and archival context.

In an introductory essay, Heather Wacha and Yvonne Seale consider not only the history of the manuscript and of the abbey of Prémontré, but also the cartulary’s materiality, its place within the broader field of cartulary studies, and what it shows us about women’s roles in contemporary society. In doing so, this volume offers new connections between the field of cartulary studies and feminist studies.

Yvonne Seale is an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York, College at Geneseo.

Heather Wacha is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an independent researcher.

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Informations pratiques :

The Cartulary of Prémontré, éd. Yvonne Seale et Heather Wacha, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2023 ; 1 vol., 1016 p. (Medieval Academy Books). Prix : USD 175,00.

Source : University of Toronto Press