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This volume offers the first comprehensive account of the monetary logic that guided the payment of wergild and blood money in early medieval conflict resolution. In the early middle ages, wergild played multiple roles: it was used to measure a person’s status, to prevent and end conflicts, and to negotiate between an individual and the agents of statehood. This collection of interlocking essays by historians, philologists and jurists represents a major contribution to the study of law and society in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages.

Contributors are Lukas Bothe, Warren Brown, Stefan Esders, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Paul Hyams, Tom Lambert, Ralph W. Mathisen, Rob Meens, Han Nijdam, Lisi Oliver, Harald Siems, Karl Ubl, and Helle Vogt.

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Wergild, Compensation and Penance. The Monetary Logic of Early Medieval Conflict Resolution, ed. Lukas Bothe, Stefan Esders, and Han Nijdam, Leiden–Boston, Brill, 2021 (Medieval Law and Its Practice, 31). XII–328 p. ISBN : 978-90-04-31510-5. Prix : 143 euros.

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Around the middle of a career lasting over forty years, Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300–77) was afforded an outstanding opportunity to present his oeuvre in a book. The occasion arose in the late 1340s, when a special manuscript was commissioned, perhaps by Queen Jeanne de Bourgogne, for the first time collecting all of Machaut’s works, including narrative poems, lyrical poems, musical settings of lyrics, and motets. The manuscript would celebrate Bonne of Luxembourg, the wife of a future king of France. Only the royal treasury could have funded the extraordinary team of craftsmen involved in its production – from the careful preparation of fine parchment, to the calligraphy and ornament of the text, to the carefully copied innovative ars nova musical notation, to the miniatures painted in a shop directed by one of the greatest illuminators in France. Then Bonne died of the Black Death in 1349, just before the manuscript was completed. It would be finished for her son, the future King Charles the Wise. Although Machaut would go on to supervise other manuscripts, none were so luxuriously executed as his first complete-works manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 1586), known today as Machaut MS C. The present volume, the first dedicated entirely to MS C, offers a multidisciplinary collection of essays written by fourteen leading scholars, who provide innovative approaches to literary, musical, art-historical, and manuscript studies. It is replete with images, including over sixty colour reproductions from MS C itself.

Lawrence Earp (Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison). His articles focus on late medieval French music and its modern reception. He is the principal author of the commentary to the facsimile of the Ferrell-Vogüé Machaut manuscript.

Jared C. Hartt(Professor of Music Theory at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music). His publications include several articles on the music of Machaut, an edited volume, A Critical Companion to Medieval Motets, and a co-authored monograph, The Dorset Rotulus.

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Introduction — Lawrence Earp

The Manuscript: Aspects of Production and Reception

Machaut’s First Single-Author Compilation — Elizabeth Eva Leach

Made to Measure? On the Intimate Relations between Parchment and Text in MS C’s Remede de Fortune — Anne Stone

A Multimodal Reading of MS C: Order, Decoration, Mutation — Kate Maxwell

Art-Historical Genre and Invention

Courting Convention, Compiling Context: Chansonnier Iconography and Beyond in Machaut’s MS C — Kathleen Wilson Ruffo

The Master of the Remede de Fortune and Parisian Ateliers c.1350 — Kyunghee Pyun

Artifice and Ornament in the Dit dou lyon Garden Miniature — Margaret Goehring

Coming of Age in Guillaume de Machaut’s First Illuminated Dit de l’alerion — Domenic Leo

Narrative and Lyrics

Telling Tales: What Is a dit? — Helen J. Swift

La Loange des dames: Questions of Genre, Layout, Style, and Chronology in the Collection of Unnotated Lyrics in Machaut’s Earliest Manuscript — Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel

Guillaume de Machaut and the Advent of a New School of Lyric c.1350: The Prestige of the Past — Yolanda Plumley

Music: A Focus on the Motets

Approaching the Motets in MS C: Structure, Sonority, Sense — Jared C. Hartt

Sound and Cipher: Number Symbolism in Machaut’s Motets — Jacques Boogaart

Traces of Revision in Machaut’s Motet Bone pastor|— Karen Desmond

Appendix: Gathering Structure of MS C

Bibliography

General Index

Index of Manuscripts

Index of Lyrics by Machaut

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Poetry, Art, and Music in Guillaume de Machaut’s Earliest Manuscript (BnF fr. 1586), dir. Lawrence Earp et Jared C. Hartt, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Epitome musical). 476 p., 119 colour ill. + 18 musical examples, 22 b/w tables, 178 x 254 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-58691-5. Prix : 85 euros.

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Dans le processus d’émancipation de la langue vernaculaire face au latin, le XIVe siècle est généralement considéré comme le moment où le français achève d’imposer son statut de nouvel idiome de référence. Composés dans les années 1310, le Roman de Fauvel et l’Ovide moralisé se distinguent de la production de l’époque : rédigés initialement en français, ils sont tous deux le théâtre d’une surprenante réapparition du latin au gré de l’insertion de pièces musicales ou de gloses marginales bilingues dans certains de leurs témoins, manuscrits de luxe manifestement destinés à la haute aristocratie laïque. En se fondant sur l’analyse des interactions entre le texte français et les sections latines, le présent ouvrage suggère d’interpréter le bilinguisme du corpus à la lumière du dilemme occupant les clercs sous le règne des derniers Capétiens, partagés entre le désir d’instruire utilement les laïcs et l’ambition de préserver leur privilège sur les livres.

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Ouvrage couronné par l’Académie royale de Belgique : Prix Joseph Houziaux 2020

Prix de français 2020 de la Société académique vaudoise

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Thibaut Radomme, Le privilège des livres. Bilinguisme et concurrence culturelle dans le Roman de Fauvel remanié et dans les gloses au premier livre de l’Ovide moralisé, Genève, Droz, 2021 (Publications Romanes et Françaises, 274). 904 p. ISBN : 978-2-600-06245-9. prix : 42,65 euros.

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Bishops were powerful individuals who had considerable spiritual, economic, and political power. They were not just religious leaders; they were important men who served kings and lords as advisers and even diplomats. They also controlled large territories and had significant incomes and people at their command. The nature of the international Church also meant that they travelled and had connections well beyond their home countries, were players on an increasingly international stage, and were key conduits for the transfer of ideas.

This volume examines the identities and networks of bishops in medieval Europe. The fifteen papers explore how senior clerics attained their bishoprics through their familial, social, and educational networks, their career paths, relationships with secular lords, and the papacy. It brings together research on bishops in central, southern, and northern Europe, by early career and established scholars. The first part features five case-studies of individual bishops’ identities, careers, and networks. Then we turn to examine contact with the papacy and its role in three regions: northern Italy, the archbishopric of Split, and Sweden. Part III focuses on five main issues: royal patronage, reforming bishops, nepotism, social mobility, and public assemblies. Finally Part IV explores how episcopal networks in Poland, Sigüenza, and the Nidaros church province helped candidates achieve promotion. These contributions will thus enhance of our understanding of how bishops fit into the religious, political, social, and cultural fabrics of medieval Europe.

Dr Sarah E. Thomas was the principal investigator on the AHRC project ‘A Prosopographical Study of Bishops’ Careers in Northern Europe’. Her research focuses on the interaction of the late medieval Church with ordinary people and on the identities of the individuals who served as priests and bishops. She is currently writing up her research from the Bishops’ project into a monograph provisionally titled Becoming a Bishop in Late Medieval Scotland, England, and Norway.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction – SARAH E. THOMAS

Part I. Cohorts of Bishops

Understanding the Appeal of the Courtier Bishop in Thirteenth-Century England — KATHERINE HARVEY

Bishops, Kings, and Grievances in Medieval Portugal (1268–1289) — HERMÍNIA VASCONCELOS VILAR

Bishops, Nepotism and Social Mobility in Central and Northern Italy in the Fourteenth Century — STEFANO G. MAGNI

The Bishops of Meaux, 1197–1510: From Chapter’s Men to King’s Men — CHRISTINE BARRALIS

Part II. Episcopal Networks

Premeditation and Determination on the Way to the Polish Episcopacy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries — JACEK MACIEJEWSKI

Bishop, Chapter and Social Networks in Castile: The Cathedral Chapter at Sigüenza (Fourteenth – Fifteenth Centuries) — AÍDA PORTILLA GONZÁLEZ

The Nidaros Church and the Insular Parts of its Province: Metropolitan Authority and Relations with Their Suffragans — STEINAR IMSEN

Part III. Individual Bishops

The Scolari Family at the Head of the Bishopric of Volterra (1261–1269) — JACOPO PAGANELLI

Pedro Pérez de Monroy (1310–1324): A　New Bishop for a New Era in Salamanca — FERNANDO GUTIÉRREZ BAÑOS

Power, Culture, and Ecclesiastical Reform in Late Medieval Castile: The Bishop of Burgos, Luis de Acuña (1456–1495) — SUSANA GUIJARRO

Part IV. Bishops and the Papacy

Episcopal Appointments in Northern Italy during the Papacy of John　XXII — FABRIZIO PAGNONI

Episcopal Appointments and Careers of the Archbishops of Split (1294–1426) — MIŠO PETROVIÆ

Between Uppsala and Rome: Swedish Bishops’ Contacts with the Papal Curia in the Late Middle Ages — KIRSI SALONEN

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Informations pratiques :

Sarah E. Thomas, Bishops’ Identities, Careers, and Networks in Medieval Europe, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Medieval Church Studies, 44). IX+312 p., 6 b/w ill., 10 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm, 2021. ISBN: 978-2-503-57910-8. Prix : 85 euros.

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