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La nouvelle édition de la vie française de sainte Agnès tirée du superbe recueil fr. 1553 de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (vers 1285) permet de rendre justice à un hagiographe à l’esprit vif, originaire de Flandre ou des contrées avoisinantes.

Mais elle donne aussi l’occasion de plonger dans cet imposant manuscritbibliothèque et d’en questionner l’ancrage spatio-temporel, l’agencement des composants et les lignes de force culturelles, qui semblent en dernière instance émaner des milieux canoniaux séculiers des anciens diocèses de Thérouanne et de Cambrai.

Informations pratiques :

La vie de sainte Agnès en quatrains de décasyllabes (BnF, fr. 1553), éd. Gabriele Giannini, Bruxelles, Éditions de l’Académie, 2022 ; 1 vol. ISBN : 978-2-8031-0851-0. Prix : € 20,00.

Source : Éditions de l’Académie

The greatest ancient interpreter of Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. 200 AD) exerted a profound and enduring influence upon philosophy from Boethius until the modern era. Alexander’s interpretations laid the foundation for multiple philosophical views which were promoted as quintessentially Aristotelian by both Islamic and Latin thinkers throughout the Middle Ages. In the Renaissance, the University of Padua, a leading center of philosophical education and thought, established a scholarly tradition named “Alexandrinism” after him.

Paolo Accattino (1950-2015), a distinguished scholar of Alexander, made many noteworthy advancements to the field. With the aim of honoring Accattino’s memory, lifelong colleagues and associates P. Donini and L. Bertelli discuss his contributions. They are joined by a cohort of scholars (A. Bertolacci, M. Di Giovanni, J. Biard, A. Corbini, E. Rubino, L. Silvano, B. Bartocci, P.D. Omodeo, F. Iurlaro) who explore various key elements of Alexander’s legacy from Ibn Sīnā to Hugo de Groot. The volume presents new understandings concerning the reception of Alexander, offers new lines of inquiry, and opens potential avenues of research regarding his medieval and Renaissance afterlife.

Table des matières :

Lucio Bertelli, Paolo Accattino lettore della Politica di Aristotele

Pierluigi Donini, Paolo Accattino interprete del De intellectu di Alessandro di Afrodisia

Amos Bertolacci, « The Excellent among the Earlier Scholars »: Alexander of Aphrodisias in Avicenna’s Metaphysics

Matteo DI Giovanni, New Wine in Old Vessels: Alexander of Aphrodisias as a Source for Averroes’ Metaphysics

Joël Biard, L’alexandrisme comme rationalité philosophique

Amos Corbini, “Alexander of Aphrodisias” in the Medieval Latin Tradition of the Posterior Analytics: Some Remarks

Elisa Rubino, Alberto il Grande e il commento ai Meteorologica di Alessandro di Afrodisia

Luigi Silvano, (Pseudo-)Alexander of Aphrodisias between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Notes on the Afterlife of the Medical Puzzles and Physical Problems 

Barbara Bartocci, Topics and Syllogistic: Agostino Nifo Reading Alexander of Aphrodisias

Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Presence/Absence of Alexander of Aphrodisias in Renaissance Cosmo-Psychology

Francesca Iurlaro, Hugo Grotius’ Translation of Alexander of Aphrodisias’ De fato in His Philosophorum sententiae de Fato (1648)

Index

Informations pratiques :

Alexander of Aphrodisias in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, dir. Pietro B Rossi, Matteo Di Giovanni, Andrea Aldo Robiglio, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 (Studia Artistarum, 45). 223 p. ISBN: 978-2-503-58827-8. Prix : 78 euros.

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e 14 novembre 1522 s’éteignait dans le silence du château de Chantelle, loin des fastes et de l’animation de la cour, Anne de France, dame de Beaujeu, duchesse de Bourbonnais et d’Auvergne, fille de Louis XI et sœur de Charles VIII. Tour à tour, elle avait guidé un royaume et un duché avec finesse et autorité. Considérée par ses contemporains comme l’une des femmes les plus puissantes de son temps, cette « fille des fleurs de lys » déploya son pouvoir sous des formes politiques, symboliques et littéraires qui firent d’elle l’une des princesses les plus remarquables de l’Europe des années 1500.

En même temps qu’il explore un monde en pleine effervescence politique et qu’il invite à une immersion dans le passé de la monarchie française, cet ouvrage a pour ambition de dévoiler les multiples facettes d’Anne de France. À la lumière de sources inédites, Aubrée David-Chapy offre un nouveau regard sur cette figure hors du commun, à la fois dernière grande princesse médiévale et première femme de pouvoir de la Renaissance.

Informations pratiques :

Aubrée David-Chapy, Anne de France. Gouverner au féminin à la Renaissance, Paris, Passés/Composés, 2022 ; 1 vol., 288 p. ISBN : 978-2-3793-3276-0. Prix : € 22,00.

Source : Passés/Composés

This book aims to provide an interpretation of several aspects of the philosophical system that William of Auvergne (1180-1249) – bishop of the city of Paris and councilor of Louis IX – developed in a cultural context wherein the Latin world had a special interest in Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew sources. The author focuses on issues relative to the causality of God and astrological causality, fate and providence, miracles and mirabilia, the conception of man as a nexus and as a divine image, the doctrine of beauty and of music.

All these themes combine in outlining the profile of a thinker who stands as a milestone in the history of the critical tradition of Aristotelianism until the eve of modernity.

Informations pratiques :

Antonella Sannino, Reading William of Auvergne, Florence, SISMEL–Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2022 ; 1 vol., VI–193 p. (Micrologus Library, 113). ISBN : 978-88-9290-166-7. Prix : € 36,00.

Source : SISMEL

“The significance of Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature cannot be overstated: it gathers some of the freshest voices in medieval literary studies to present some of the most transformative and inspiring work on women and gender to date.” —Holly A. Crocker, author of The Matter of Virtue: Women’s Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare

“Lochrie and Vishnuvajjala have put together an exciting collection of essays about female friendship. Readers looking for feminist interventions in medieval studies will find Women’s Friendship engaging and thought provoking.” —Rebecca Krug, author of Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader

In Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature, Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala bring together established scholars and new voices to illuminate a previously understudied but consequential element of life in the Middle Ages. Contributors focus on representations of women’s friendships in medieval European literature and their afterlives both to historicize them and draw out the finer nuances of the multitude of forms, affects, values, and ethics that emerge within those friendships. This volume examines works by Chaucer, Gower, Malory, Marie de France, female saints, and late-Middle Scots poets alongside lesser-known late medieval lyrics and Middle English romances to chart women’s friendships and their many and sometimes conflicting affinities with the cultural categories of gender, religion, politics, and sexuality. In addition to exploring the parameters of female friendship across a range of texts and historical contexts, contributors evaluate the political, religious, and civic structures negotiated in public and private and engage with the long history of theory and philosophy on friendship. The result is a theoretical and historical rubric for the future study of women’s friendships in medieval texts and beyond.

Karma Lochrie is Provost Professor of English at Indiana University. She is also the author Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn’t and Nowhere in the Middle Ages, among others.

Usha Vishnuvajjala is Lecturer at Cardiff University. She is also the author of Feminist Medievalisms.

Table des matières :

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala

Part 1 Varieties of Spiritual Friendship

Chapter 1 Female Friendships and Visionary Women
Jennifer N. Brown

Chapter 2 On Love and Letters: Spiritual Friendship in Marie de France
Stella Wang

Chapter 3 Friendship and Resistance in the Vitae of Italian Holy Women
Andrea Boffa

Chapter 4 Sisters and Friends: The Medieval Nuns of Syon Abbey
Alexandra Verini

Part 2 Feminine Space, Feminine Voices

Chapter 5 “Amonge maydenes moo”: Gender-Based Community, Racial Thinking, and Aristocratic Women’s Work in Emaré
Lydia Yaitsky Kertz

Chapter 6 Women’s Communities and the Possibility of Friendship in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur
Usha Vishnuvajjala

Chapter 7 Female Friendship in Late Medieval English Literature: Cultural Translation in Chaucer, Gower, and Malory
Melissa Ridley Elmes

Part 3 New Modes of Female Friendship

Chapter 8 Cultivating Cummarship: Female Friendship, Alcohol, and Pedagogical Community in the Alewife Poem
Carissa M. Harris

Chapter 9 “All These Relationships between Women”: Chaucer and the Bechdel Test for Female Friendship
Karma Lochrie

Chapter 10 The Politics of Virtual Friendship in Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies
Christine Chism

Chapter 11 Prosthetic Friendship and the Theater of Fraternity
Laurie Finke

Chapter 12 Conversations among Friends: Ælfflæd, Iurminburg, and the Arts of Storytelling
Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing

Afterword Friendship at a Distance
Penelope Anderson

List of Contributors

Works Cited

Index

Informations pratiques :

Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature, éd. Karma Lochrie et Usha Vishnuvajjala, Columbus, The Ohio State University Press, 2022 ; 1 vol., 304 p. (Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture). ISBN: 978-0-8142-1515-9. Prix : USD 99,95.

Source : The Ohio State University Press

This innovative collection explores the causes and effects of ‘disciplined dissent’ – forms of protest or political action positioned between the poles of submission and defiance. To identify the political influence of commoners, the emphasis is neither ‘top down’ nor ‘bottom up’ but on mutual influence and the interplay between rulers and ruled. Contributions concerning quite diverse polities show a careful opposition of non-elite people through an effort to respect the legislative system and to find common ground with the authorities. The aim was to emphasize aspects of the norms and institutions in favour of the benefit of the community, or to ensure adjustments of some aspects if found to be beneficial for the few and detrimental for many. The examination of non-violent pressure can help us to have a more exhaustive understanding of the protagonists, causes, and effects of socio-political changes in contexts of governmental development. The analysis includes cases of violent action that managed to secure royal approval. The premise of the book is that inequality, far from being accepted as normal and inevitable, was frequently questioned by less powerful people. When targeted by more or less evident forms of political marginalization, they laid claim to principles of justice and on this basis developed a critical comprehension of government, pursued a selective rejection of injustice, and gained recognition through negotiation.

Fabrizio Titone is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the Universidad of País Vasco and P. I. of the project Beyond the Exercise of a Public Office: Political Recognition According to Disciplined Dissent in Later Medieval Europe. His research focuses on the institutions and society of Sicily, within its Mediterranean context and beyond, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.

Table des matières :

Gaining Political Recognition in Western Europe, 1200–1600 — FABRIZIO TITONE

Before the ‘Primo Popolo’: Politics and the Popular Movement at San Gimignano in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century— ENRICO FAINI

Putting Pressure on the Lord: the Fiscal Reforms of Pietro Gambacorta, Signore of Pisa (1370-1392) — ALMA POLONI

Flemish Textile Workers’ Struggle for Emancipation in the Thirteenth Century — WIM BLOCKMANS

Rulers and Ruled: Freedom, Submission, and Dissent in the Florentine Correspondences (15^th Century) — ISABELLA LAZZARINI

Putting Pressure on Rulers: Petitions, Disciplined Dissent and the Commons in Fourteenth Century England — PETER COSS

Disciplined Dissent and Nostalgia in Late Medieval England — HANNAH SKODA

Civic Ritual and Disciplined Dissent in Late Medieval England — ELIZA HARTRICH

In the Name of the Commonweal : How did French Peasants Manage to Obtain a Legal Recognition of Their Rights to Self-Defence During the Hundred Years War? — VINCENT CHALLET

Knowledge and Agency in Catania in the Later Middle Ages — FABRIZIO TITONE

Pushing Back Male Violence in Marriage: England, 1400–1600 — MARTIN INGRAM

Conclusion— CHRIS WICKHAM

Index

Informations pratiques :

Disciplined Dissent in Western Europe, 1200–1600. Political Action between Submission and Defiance, éd. Fabrizio Titone, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 ; 1 vol., 356 p. (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 29). ISBN: 978-2-503-59828-4. Prix : € 95,00.

Source : Brepols