L'Agenda des Médiévistes

En l’honneur de Denis Hüe, professeur émérite de l’université Rennes 2, sont réunis 35 articles portant sur l’encyclopédisme à travers les siècles, la Vierge et ses représentations au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance, le théâtre et les manifestations dramatiques aux XV^e et XVI^e siècles, le récit médiéval, la réception du Moyen Âge sur la longue durée.

Table des matières : ici

Informations pratiques :

Encyclopédique Moyen Âge. Mélanges en l’honneur de Denis Hüe, dir. Christine Ferlampin-Acher et Fabienne Pomel, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2021 (Rencontres, n° 488 / Civilisation médiévale, n° 40). 525 p., ISBN : 978-2-406-11106-1. Prix : 48 euros.

Source : Classiques Garnier

Treasury Objects of the Middle Ages (24th June – 30th July 2021) is the first selling exhibition of its type in more than a century. Devoted entirely to the subject of medieval goldsmiths’ work, it provides a unique survey of the varied types of precious, small-scale metalwork objects that were produced between the 12th and 16th centuries for use in cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and private chapels across Europe. Uniting the forty-five objects in this exhibition are the rich and glittering materials they were produced from – gold, silver, copper and its alloys (brass and bronze), many enriched with meticulous enamelling or studded with large cabochons of polished rock crystal.

Some of these objects would have enjoyed daily use as part of the celebration of Mass: gold and silver chalices for administering the Holy Communion, cast bronze censers for the burning of incense, gilded crosses for carrying in processions or venerating at the altar. But many are so sumptuous that they would have been carefully protected in treasuries for much of their lives and only brought out at particularly significant moments in the year, such as high feast days or even royal visits. Materials were lavished on the most spectacular and refined of them, like gilded reliquaries whose surfaces are enveloped in vivid coloured enamels and have tooled designs worked into the surrounding metal. Others are covered in delicate filigree, micro-architectural structures, or small-scale cast figures of the saints and angels.

Treasury objects were among the most potent bearers of meaning in the Middle Ages. Significance and symbolism were not only entwined with their craftsmanship and materiality, but more importantly also with their perceived sacredness. Many treasury objects protected holy relics, or the body and blood of Christ, but since most people never actually saw the relics or sacraments themselves, these objects came to embody and visualise the magical properties associated with what they contained, or with the miraculous moment of transubstantiation on the altar table. They were often modelled on descriptions of the heavenly Jerusalem, or keyed in to Biblical doctrine through representations of characters from the Old and New Testaments. Powerful, striking, sometimes even intended to shock, treasury objects existed to transport the medieval viewer from the material to the heavenly.

Treasury Objects of the Middle Ages celebrates the ingenuity of the Medieval metalworkers and the astonishing objects of devotion they crafted upwards of half a millennium ago.

Find out more here.

Exhibition opens from 24 June – 30 July 2021
Sam Fogg will also be open on the following weekends: 26 – 27 June & 3 – 4 July 2021

Source : Medieval Art Research

Le terme « Berbère », qui désigne la population du Maghreb au moment de la conquête islamique, renvoie à l’idée du caractère autochtone de cette dernière. Cette altérité coexiste cependant dans les textes avec la revendication du caractère oriental des Berbères, à travers l’élaboration de généalogies fictives des tribus, qui présente le Maghreb comme orientalisé avant même la conquête. Mais cette construction s’est accompagnée, très vite, d’un discours des auteurs maghrébins qui revendiquait la place originale et éminente des Berbères face aux Orientaux dans le plan divin, par une inversion assumée des polarités de l’Islam et des hiérarchies des peuples musulmans. Les études réunies dans ce volume analysent cette tension permanente dans le discours, entre la revendication d’une origine orientale et celle d’un rôle éminent des populations musulmanes du Maghreb dans le destin de l’Islam.

Table des matières :

Dominique Valérian – Introduction

I. AUX ORIGINES DES BERBÈRES

Annliese Nef – L’invention des Berbères : retour sur la genèse de la catégorie « Barba » au cours des premiers siècles de l’Islam
Ramzi Rouighi – La berbérisation et ses masques : le peuple berbère en question (VII^e-X^e siècle)

II. RÉSISTANCES ET CONTRE-DISCOURS

Soléna Cheny – Approches historiographiques du discours de la résistance berbère
Allaoua Amara – L’évolution du discours sur les Berbères dans les sources narratives du Maghreb médiéval (IX^e-XIV^e siècle)
Cyrille Aillet – « Dieu ouvrira une nouvelle porte pour l’islam au Maghreb ». Ibn Sallām (III^e/IX^e siècle) et les hadiths sur les Berbères, entre Orient et ibadisme maghrébin

III. LANGUES ET GÉNÉALOGIES BERBÈRES

Helena de Felipe – Anciens mots, nouvelles lectures : hybridisme culturel au Maghreb médiéval
Mohamed Méouak – Le monde berbère dans les sources arabes de l’Orient médiéval. Motifs afro-asiatiques et visions arabo-musulmanes
Mehdi Ghouirgate – Al‑lisān al‑ġarbī ou la langue des Almohades
Maribel Fierro – Histoire de l’Islam, des Berbères et de l’Occident islamique

Informations pratiques :

Les Berbères entre Maghreb et Mashreq (VIIe-XVe siècle), éd. Dominique Valérian, Madrid, Caza de Velasquez, 2021 (Collection de la Casa de Velázquez, 184). VIII-181 p., 17 x 24 cm. ISBN : 9788490963258. Prix : 21 euros.

Source : Casa de Velázquez

This book demonstrates the relationships between images and indulgences in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Netherlandish art. In the Roman Catholic Church, indulgences served as a way to reduce temporal punishment in purgatory for one’s sins. Indulgences could be obtained by reciting prayers and performing devotional practices. Penitents could earn this type of devotional indulgence with the aid of paintings and other artifacts that possessed theological, historical, and aesthetic values as well as performative and promissory ones. In this study, we explore not only the power of indulgenced images but also the power of their audiences, creating a way to communicate with the divine.

Miyako Sugiyama is an art historian specializing in early Netherlandish art. She received her Ph.D. in Art Science from Ghent University in 2017. She was the recipient of a Flemish government scholarship (2013–14), a Kress Foundation Travel Grant (2016), and a Japan Student Services scholarship (2015–17). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo. Her research focuses on the functions of images and the relationships between art and devotional practices in the Netherlands in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Informations pratiques :

Miyako Sugiyama, Images and Indulgences in Early Netherlandish Painting, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Distinguished Contributions to the Study of the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands, 4). IV+193 p., 10 b/w ill. + 126 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-912554-58-4. Prix : 50 euros.

Source : Brepols