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The two books of Scriptor, Cantor & Notator present an innovative multi-author project dealing with the complex interconnections between learning, writing and performing chant in the Middle Ages. A number of different methodological approaches have been employed, with the aim of beginning to understand the phenomenon of chant transmission over a large geographical area, linking and contrasting modern definitions of East and West. Thus, in spite of this wide geographical spread, and the consequent variety of rites, languages and musical styles involved, the common thread of parallels and similarities between various chant repertoires arising from the need to fix oral repertories in a written form, and the challenges involved in so doing, are what bring this wide variety of repertoires and approaches together. This multi-centric multi-disciplinary approach will encourage scholars working in these areas to consider their work as part of a much larger geographical and historical picture, and thus reveal to reader and listener more, and far richer, patterns of connections and developments than might otherwise have been suspected.　

The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the East brings together articles on ancient Greek, Byzantine, Coptic and Armenian music scripts in the East. Together with the collection of essays published in The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the West, these books discuss local scribal peculiarities and idiosyncrasies beyond the cultural and geographical contexts of production and uses of their manuscript sources.

Elsa De Luca (cesem-fcsh NOVA University, Lisbon) is an early music scholar pursuing research on medieval chant notations; she is also engaged in developing tools for computer-assisted research in early music.

The late Ivan Moody (cesem-fcsh– NOVA University, Lisbon) was a composer, musicologist and Orthodox priest. At the time of his passing, he was actively involved in several research projects dealing with music in the Mediterranean and the Balkans.

Jean-François Goudesenne is a researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (CNRS), in the musicology section, founded by Michel Huglo in 1979. His most important contribution is the discovery of the Western dialect of Gregorian Chant in Neustria.

Table des matières :

Introduction

The Early History of Notation

Writing music on Greek texts during the first Christian millennium (Alexandru, Maria)

La notation musicale grecque, une affaire d’artistes ou d’artisans ? (Perrot, Sylvain)

Prescriptive Notations

Les tableaux de signes ekphonétiques : nouvelles considérations à partir des signes prosodiques (Zographos, Anastasios)

La notazione ecfonetica bizantina: chaos e kosmos nel cosiddetto «sistema degenerato» (Tessari, Silvia)

Exegete and Cantor

A Kalophonic Verse from the Second Psalm composed by John Koukouzeles: From Manuscript to Performance (Chaldaeakes, Achilleas G.)

Le chantre dans les communautés juives médiévales (Cerveux, Alexandre)

Regional Scripts and Repertories

The Asmatikon Notation. New Evidence (Kritikou, Flora)

Scriptor, Cantor, Notator. The Case of the Armenian Neumes (Utidjian, Haig)

No Notation, No Problem. Modern Mnemonic Movement in Ancient ‘Pharaonic’ Singing (Hanna, Mena Mark)

The last ‘scriptor cantilenae’. Composing and anthologizing on the eve of music typography in the Balkans (1820) (Plemmenos, John)

List of Manuscripts

List of Relevant Names

List of Places

Informations pratiques :

The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the East, éd. Elsa De Luca, Ivan Moody, Jean-François Goudesenne, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 ; 1 vol., 280 p. (Musicalia Antiquitatis & Medii Aevi, 3). ISBN : 978-2-503-61009-2. Prix : : € 99,00.

Source : Brepols

This book is a collection of papers on Frankish historiography in the Merovingian and early Carolingian periods, from the late sixth to early ninth centuries, and studies numerous individual texts, evaluating their witness to the events they describe. It also includes hitherto unpublished items on the so-called Chronicle of Fredegar, in both its original and eighth-century versions, and also an entirely new article on the Merovingian dynastic crisis of 613, along with a general introduction and a bibliography of its author’s writing.

Particular attention is focused on the element of deception, deliberate or otherwise, in the narrative accounts of some of the Frankish histories and chronicles and on the way they were written in order to promote specific interpretations of certain individuals and events, or in some cases to conceal their very existence. Certain central episodes such as the imperial coronation of Charlemagne are examined to detect the ways in which they were interpreted and presented in contemporary texts.

From Clovis to Charlemagne: Frankish History and Historians will appeal to academics and students interested in the history of early medieval France, the processes of historical composition in that period, the study of manuscripts relating to it and the wider questions about historical understanding and the interpretation of evidence.

Roger Collins is an historian and author. He studied at the University of Oxford (The Queen’s and St Cross Colleges) under Peter Brown and Michael Wallace-Hadrill. He was a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh from 1994 to 1998. Since then, he has been an honorary fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Initially, his books concerned Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, but his studies of the Basques and of the papacy have extended to the present day. He has also written a memoir, Chased by Bulldogs. A Historian’s Tale (2025).

Table des matières :

Introduction: The Evolution of Early Frankish Historiography from Gregory of tours to Einhard

Chapter 1

Gregory of Tours and Spain

in Alexander Callendar Murray (ed.), A Companion to Gregory of Tours (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 498-515

Chapter 2

The Continuator of Marius of Avenches, ‘Fredegar’, and the Merovingian dynastic crisis of 613

Previously unpublished

Chapter 3

Deception and Misrepresentation in Eighth Century Frankish Historiography: Two Case Studies

in Jörg Jarnut, Ulrich Nonn & Michael Richter (ed.), Karl Martel in zeiner Zeit (Sigmaringen: Beihefte der Francia 37, 1994), pp. 227-247

Chapter 4

Pippin III as Mayor of the Palace: The Evidence

in Matthias Becher & Jörg Jarnut (ed.), Der Dynastiewechsel von 751: Vorgeschichte, Legitimationntrategie und Erinnerung (Munster, 2005), pp. 75-91

Chapter 5

The Lorsch Annals and Charlemagne’s imperial coronation

in Joanna Story (ed.), Charlemagne: Empire and Society (Manchester U.P, 2005), pp. 52-70

Chapter 6

The Frankish Past and the Carolingian Present in the Age of Charlemagne

in Peter Godman, Jörg Jarnut & Peter Johanek (ed.), Am Vorabend der Kaiserkrönung (Berlin, 2002), pp. 301-322

Chapter 7

Charlemagne and His Critics, 814-829

in Régine LeJan (ed.), La royauté et les élites dans l’Europe carolingienne (Lille, 1998), pp. 193-211

Chapter 8

The Reviser Revisited: Another Look at the Alternative Version of the Annales Regni Francorum

in Alexander Callendar Murray (ed.), After Rome’s Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History (Toronto: University Press, 1998), pp. 191-211

Chapter 9

In the Footsteps of Fredegar: the Based, Dillingen and Munich Fragments

Previously unpublished, deriving from a lecture to the Early Medieval Seminar in the Institute for Historical Research, in the University of London in 2005.

Chapter 10

A Gift for Charles the Bald? MS Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 473

Previously unpublished, deriving from a presentation to a seminar in Vienna

Publications of Roger Collins

Informations pratiques :

Roger Collins, From Clovis to Charlemagne: Frankish History and Historians, Londres, Routledge, 2025 ; 1 vol., 226 p. (Variorum Collected Studies). ISBN : 9781032880525. Prix : GBP 145,00.

Source : Routledge

Dès le XIV^e siècle, la communauté urbaine de Metz a donné une première base écrite à sa mémoire officielle, sous la forme de listes de maîtres-échevins bientôt étoffées en annales. La mise en récit de plus en plus complexe d’un passé aux raciens lointaines, voire mythiques, fonda l’identité de la cité.

Au-delà de chroniqueurs connus, comme Philippe de Vigneulles, d’autres sont restés dans l’ombre, dont Pierre de Saint-Dizier, curé de la paroisse Saint-Eucaire. Son récit figurait pourtant en bonne place dans le corpus messin : publié dès 1728 par dom Augustin Carmet – « Nous n’avons guères de monumens historiques plus historiques ni plus intéressans » –, il fut exploité en 1775 par Jean François et Nicolas Tabouillot dans leur Histoire générale de Metz comme une source essentielle pour les XIVe et XVe siècles. En 1926, Marthe Marot en procurait une édition critique dans sa thèse d’École des chartes, qui ne fut jamais publiée.

Mireille Chazan (1938-2023), historienne de Metz et spécialiste des chroniques médiévales, a remis à son tour sur le métier l’édition qui paraît à titre . Elle l’a accompagnée d’une riche introduction qui éclaire la genèse de l’œuvre dans son contexte événementiel et socio-culturel, analysant avec finesse cette « histoire du temps présent » que proposait le Curé de Saint-Eucaire. Le travail a enfin été achevé en révisant l’ensemble de la tradition manuscrite. La publication est enrichie d’un important appareil de notes historiques, de cartes et d’un index recensant près de deux mille personnes et lieux.

Informations pratiques :

Chronique du Curé de Saint-Eucaire de Metz (1231-1445) et Continuation (1445-1464/1465), éd. Mireille Chazan (†), Isabelle Guyot-Bachy, Marc H. Smith, Françoise Vielliard, Paris, 2025 ; 1 vol., CXX–292 p. (Publications de la Société de l’Histoire de France). ISBN : 978-2-35407-161-5. Prix : € 71,09.

Source : Brepols

In the fifteenth century, Renaissance humanists were not the only ones to think about time differently from previous generations. Time and Governance examines how and why late medieval townspeople – those who bought, sold, and manufactured for a living – reconceptualized time and applied their new understanding of it to politics and to economics. In doing so, this book reconstructs and analyses a place and time both unexpectedly familiar and deeply alien. Blending institutional history with the history of mentalities, Philip Daileader engages with issues of state building, finance, production, social conflict, national identity, and demography. He addresses the question of whether late medieval Europe deserves its often-grim reputation by recapturing and prioritizing the life experiences, thoughts, and opinions of those who lived then and there.

• Shows that burghers, merchants, and tradespeople adopted a relativistic view of time during the fifteenth century and demonstrates its application in the areas of government and economics
• Sheds light on what tradespeople did with political power acquired not through insurrection, but through political manoeuvre
• Blends traditional institutional history with the history of mentalities

Table des matières :

List of tables
Acknowledgments
A note on names
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Depopulation, debt, and distrust
2. Representation, choice, and rule
3. Production and prosperity
4. Municipal citizens, royal subjects, and Catalans
5. Conquest and repatriation
Conclusion

Informations pratiques :

Philip Daileader, Time and Governance in Fifteenth-Century Perpignan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025 ; 1 vol., 258 p. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series). ISBN : 978-1-00960-180-1. Prix : GBP 95,00.

Source : Cambridge University Press