L'Agenda des Médiévistes

Ce volume transdisciplinaire explore l’histoire et les multiples facettes des discours et pratiques de la « séduction », allant du caractère abject que lui ont conféré les discours juridique, théologique, médical ou moral, au sens du plaisir, et d’une indécidabilité interpersonnelle et esthétique.

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Séduire du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Discours, représentations et pratiques, dir. Céline Borello, Christophe Regina, Gabriele Vickermann-Ribémont, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2021 (POLEN – Pouvoirs, lettres, normes, n° 26). 336 p. ISBN : 978-2-406-11484-0. Prix : 33 euros.

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This interdisciplinary collection celebrates the scholarship of Richard K. Emmerson, one of the most prominent medievalists of his generation. With contributions to the history of medieval literature, drama, theology, and art, this anthology not only showcases the fields with which Emmerson’s own work engaged, but also demonstrates the fruitfulness of the cross-disciplinary approach that has come to define these fields. Although the essays employ a broad range of source material—from devotional texts to royal chronicles and from architectural sculpture to illuminated manuscripts—the book focuses specifically on four distinct but related topics: word-image relationships, eschatology, identity, and moral argument. The contributions, written by Emmerson’s colleagues and former students, speak to the importance of interdisciplinarity and demonstrate the profound influence of Emmerson’s work on the rich field of medieval studies.

Elina Gertsman is Professor of Art History at CWRU. She is the author and editor of several books, including The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages (2010) and Worlds Within (2015).

Karlyn Griffith is Associate Professor of Art History at Cal Poly, Pomona. She was the recipient of research grants from the American Philosophical Society and Bibliographical Society of the UK. Her work has been recently published in Viator and Pecia.

Deirdre Carter teaches art history at Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis. Her research has been supported by the Schallek Fellowship of the Medieval Academy of America and the Richard III Society, American Branch

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Elina Gertsman and Deirdre Carter — Introduction: A Laudarium

Publications by Richard K. EmmersonPart I: Sites of Reception

Lawrence Nees — Antique and Faux-Antique in Carolingian Manuscripts

Paula Gerson — Early Painted Faade Sculpture: Research and Observations on Perception and Cognition

Jack Freiberg — The Imago Pietatis in Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Pope Gregory the Great, and SpainPart II: Imaging and Imagining the Text

Lucy Freeman Sandler — Visions of the Beginning and the End: The Hours of the Angels Added to the Psalter of Yolande of Soissons

Penn R. Szittya — Gods Palimpsest: The Encyclopedia Omne bonum as Sacred Book

Nigel J. Morgan — Word and Image in the Anglo-Norman Prose Apocalypse Fragment London, British Library, MS Add. 38842Part III: Envisioning the End of Days

Jennifer M. Feltman — Tradition and Innovation in the Sculptural Cycle of the Life of John at Reims Cathedral

Karlyn Griffith — The Spectacle of Violence and Romance in Three English Metrical Apocalypses

David Bevington — The Tegernsee Play of AntichristPart IV: Locating Identity

David N. Klausner — Performance Indicators in Two Early Welsh Plays

Robert W. Hanning — Rituals of Identity, Strategies of Desire: How a Servant Becomes King for a Night in Decameron 3.2

Elaine Treharne — The Endurance of the Name, 700–1500

Thomas A. Goodmann — Everywhere & Nowhere: Finding the FriarsPart V: Spirituality and the Moral Argument

Beatrice Kitzinger — The Good, the Bad, and the Ivory: On Moral Distinction in Carolingian Crucifixions

Bernard McGinn — The Ordering of Love in the Twelfth Century

Ronald B. Herzman — Francis, Dante, Iacopone

Sarah Andyshak and Karlyn Griffith — In Place of an Epilogue: What Else Do We See?

Elina Gertsman — Afterword: This Is the End

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Crossing Medieval Disciplines. Tributes to Richard K. Emmerson, éd. Deirdre Carter, Elina Gertsman et Karlyn Griffith, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Tributes, 10). VI+320 p., 91 b/w ill. + 60 colour ill., 210 x 275 mm. ISBN: 978-1-909400-99-3. Prix : 125 euros.

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Water is both a practical and symbolic element. Whether a drop blessed by saintly relics or a river flowing to the sea, water formed part of the natural landscapes, religious lives, cultural expressions, and physical needs of medieval women and men.

This volume adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to enlarge our understanding of the overlapping qualities of water in early England (c. 400 – c. 1100). Scholars from the fields of archaeology, history, literature, religion, and art history come together to approach water and its diverse cultural manifestations in the early Middle Ages. Individual essays include investigations of the agency of water and its inhabitants in Old English and Latin literature, divine and demonic waters, littoral landscapes of church archaeology and ritual, visual and aural properties of water, and human passage through water. As a whole, the volume addresses how water in the environment functioned on multiple levels, allowing us to examine the early medieval intersections between the earthly and heavenly, the physical and conceptual, and the material and textual within a single element.

Carolyn Twomey is a Visiting Assistant Professor of European History at St. Lawrence University in northern New York, USA. She researches and teaches the history of medieval religion and the material world. Daniel Anlezark is the McCaughey Professor of Early English Literature and Language at the University of Sydney. He teaches medieval literature and language, and researches on biblical poetry, and medieval science and literature.

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Colour Plates

Introduction: Worlds of Water – Carolyn Twomey and Daniel Anlezark

The Sacred Nature of Rivers, Wells, Springs, and Other Wetlands in Anglo-Saxon England – Della Hooke

Rivers and Rituals: Baptism in the Early English Landscape – Carolyn Twomey

Swimming in Anglo-Saxon England – Simon Trafford

Sensing the Sea: Sounds of Sailors in Anglo-Saxon Literature – Rebecca Shores

The Sailors, the Sea Monster, and the Saviour: Depicting Jonah and the Ketos in Anglo-Saxon England – Elizabeth A. Alexander

Pearls before Paradise: Considering the Material Associations of Heavenly Water/s, Precious Stones, and Liminality in the Art of the Medieval West – Megan Boulton

‘Streams of Wholesome Learning’: The Waters of Genesis in Early Anglo-Saxon Exegesis – John J. Gallagher

Aquas ab Aquis: Aqueous Creation in Andreas – Michael Bintley

Water, Wisdom and Worldliness in the Anglo-Saxon Prose Lives of Guthlac – Helen Appleton

Drawing Alfredian Waters: The Old English Metrical Epilogue to the Pastoral Care, Boethian Metre 20, and Solomon and Saturn II – Daniel Anlezark

Modor is monigra mærra wihta: Watering the World – Jill Frederick

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Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England, éd. Carolyn Twomey, Daniel Anlezark, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 47). 289 p., 16 b/w ill. + 2 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-58888-9. Prix : 80 euros.

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This volume is the first devoted entirely to the production, reception, and transmission of knowledge in the late medieval Prague Faculty of Arts, with important links to several other Faculties of Arts across Europe and treatments of related topics, such as studying the arts in Bohemia in the Jewish milieu.

From its foundation in 1348, the University of Prague attracted students as well asscholars from all over Europe to its Faculty of Arts, where they studied and taught the subjects of the curriculum in all their variety. Nevertheless, our knowledge about these Prague scholars and their thought is still rather limited. In an effort to fill this gap, this volume is the first devoted entirely to the production, reception, and transmission of knowledge in the Arts Faculty of the medieval University of Prague, covering topics in astronomy, linguistics, logic, metaphysics, meteorology, and optics. It also links Prague’s Faculty of Arts to several others at universities across Europe and it examines the study of the arts in Bohemia outside the university, including the Jewish milieu. The book contributes to advancing the status quaestionis in various ways, mainly through the analysis of less well-known and even unpublished texts, critical editions of some of which are printed here for the first time.

Ota Pavlíček (Ph.D. 2014) is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His specialisations include the history of the production and transmission of university knowledge in late medieval Europe. Among other books, he has published A Companion to Jan Hus (2015, with F. Šmahel) and a number of studies. Recently, he was awarded an ERC grant for his project ACADEMIA, which studies the tradition of quodlibetal debates in Arts.

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Ota Pavlíček, Notes on the Prague Faculty of Arts in 1348–1419 (Open Access)

Milan Žonca, Menaḥem ben Jacob Shalem and the Study of Philosophy in Late Medieval Prague (Open Access)

Hana Šedinová, Ut dicit Aristoteles. The Enigmatic Names of Animals in Michael Scot, Thomas of Cantimpré and Claret (Open Access)

Krystyna Krauze-Błachowicz, A Prague Thread in the History of Speculative Grammar in late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Cracow?

Annemieke R. Verboon, Why Animals Cannot Imagine Unseen Things? From the Prague Compendium Parvulus Philosophiae Naturalis to the Cologne Teachings of Lambertus de Monte

Petra Mutlová, The Dresden School at Prague University: Peter of Dresden and his De congruitate grammaticali. Appendix I: Critical Edition of Peter of Dresden’s De congruitate grammaticali

Pavlína Cermanová, The Circulation of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Secretum Secretorum in the Scholarly Centers of the Medieval Czech Lands (Open Access)

Monika Mansfeld,Prolegomena to a Study of John of Münsterberg’s Commentary on the Metaphysics
Appendix I: Tabula quaestionum of John of Münsterberg’s Quaestiones in Metaphysicam

Harald Berger, Helmold of Zoltwedel (†1441): His Academic Career, Scientific Works, and Philosophical Alignment. Appendix I: Critical Edition of a Quaestio on the Proving and Disproving of Propositions from Helmold of Zoltwedel’s Quaestiones parvorum logicalium

Ota Pavlíček & Miroslav Hanke, The Argumenta Sophistica in the Debate between Jerome of Prague and Blasius Lupus. Appendix I: Critical Edition of Blasius Lupus’s and Jerome of Prague’s Argumenta sophistica(Open Access)

Barbora Kocánová, Was Weather Forecasting Studied in the Medieval Czech Lands? Notes on the Codicological Evidence. Appendix I: Medieval Bohemian Manuscripts with Collections of Texts About Weather Forecasting (Open Access)

Lukáš Lička, Studying and Discussing Optics at the Prague Faculty of Arts: Optical Topics and Authorities in Prague Quodlibets and John of Borotín’s Quaestio on Extramission. Appendix I: Borotín’s Notes in MS Prague, NK ČR, X H 18. Appendix II: Critical Edition of John of Borotín’s Quaestio utrum sensationes fiunt per extramissiones virtutum ab organis sensitivis (Open Access)

Alena Hadravová & Petr Hadrava, The Eclipse Instrument by Iohannes Šindel. Appendix I: Critical Edition of John Šindel’s Canones pro eclipsibus Solis et Lune
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Personal Names (before 1700)
Index of Personal Names (after 1700)

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Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia. Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge, dir. Ota Pavlíček, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Studia Artistarum, 48). 358 p., 2 b/w ill. + 16 colour ill., 14 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-59317-3. Prix : 80 euros.

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The Santa Maria Antiqua Complex in the Forum in Rome was probably established at the foot of the Palatine Hill in the 6th century. Over the following 600 years it was decorated with a unique series of frescoes bearing evidence of imperial, papal and monastic influences.  Abandoned in the 9th century, limited use probably continued up to the 11th century.  By  the 17th century the complex was completely buried under the rising floor of the Forum. Excavations in 1900 exposed a largely intact complex containing hundreds of 6th – 11th century frescoes, in some places over four layers deep and a unique Chapel of Medical Saints which suggests this was also an incubation site. The English Press hailed the site as the ‘Sistine Chapel of the Ninth century’.

Lavish illustrations of these frescoes, following recent restoration,  make this book an indispensible resource, not only for those working on the church but also for those interested in contemporaneous material in medieval sites especially in Rome, Europe and Byzantium.

This monograph contains the proceedings of an International Conference held at the British School at Rome on 4-6 December, 2013. It reports results of the major project of preservation and research led by the Soprintendenza and carried out over the last 12 years on the fabric of the church, its frescoes, floor, wall and ceiling mosaics, its drainage and infrastructure. Much of the restoration was funded by the World Monuments Fund.The conference also marked the 75th anniversary of the death of Gordon Rushforth, the first Director of the British School at Rome and the author of one of the earliest key papers on the S. Maria Antiqua site.

Since completing her MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2004, Eileen Rubery has worked on the frescoes at S. Maria Antiqua, especially interpreting the mid-7th Century frescoes on the apsidal arch, identified by  Rushforth as linked to the Lateran Synod that Pope Martin I had presided over in Rome in 649 before being martyred for treason by Emperor Constans II. She has drawn attention to the roles played of the ‘Greek’ monks, John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem and Maximus Confessor in events surrounding the martyrdom  of Pope Martin I for treason by Emperor Constans II. Images of the healing saints  Cyrus and John, whose miracles were recorded in a panegyric by Sophronius of Jerusalem, figure  prominently amongst the medical saints depicted in this church, linking it to Cyril of Alexandria who championed these saints. She teaches at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Birkbeck and the Courtauld Institute within London University and the Victoria and Albert Museum and  has led many tours to Early Christian Rome.

Giulia Bordi teaches Medieval Art History at the Roma Tre University. Her research interests lie in the field of medieval wall painting and the interaction between architecture, liturgical furnishings and wall painting in the churches of Rome and Byzantium (4th-13th centuries AD). Since 2003 she has been a member of the project: “Medieval painting in Rome, 312-1431. Corpus e Atlante”, edited by M. Andaloro and S. Romano, publishing numerous papers therein. She began to work at S. Maria Antiqua in 2000. Exploring its intriguing and complex stratigraphy of painted plaster layers, she is systematicaly mapping them and proposing a new chronology of the church’s decorative campaigns from the 6th to the 11th centuries.

John Osborne is a medievalist and cultural historian, with a special focus on the art and archaeology of the cities of Rome and Venice in the period between the fifth and thirteenth centuries.  His publications cover topics as varied as the Roman catacombs, the fragmentary mural paintings from excavated churches such as San Clemente and S. Maria Antiqua, the decorative program of the church of San Marco in Venice, 17th-century antiquarian drawings of medieval monuments, and the medieval understanding and use of Rome’s heritage of ancient buildings and statuary.  He is also interested in problems of cultural transmission between Western Europe and Byzantium.  After the completion of his graduate studies at the University of London’s Courtauld Institute of Art (Ph.D. 1979), he has held faculty and administrative positions at the University of Victoria (1979-2001), Queen’s University (2001-2005), and between 2005 and 2015 served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he retains a faculty posiiton.  Promoted to the rank of full professor in 1989, he has held visiting fellowships at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; the Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini, Venice; and the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington.  In 2006 he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the British School at Rome, and in 2011 invested as a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

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Santa Maria Antiqua: The Sistine Chapel of the Early Middle Ages, dir. Eileen Rubery, Giulia Bordi et John Osborne, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History). 508 p., 50 b/w ill. + 125 colour ill., 30 b/w tables, 220 x 280 mm. ISBN : 978-1-909400-53-5. Prix : 200 euros.

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