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C’est l’histoire d’un texte oublié. Absent de la traduction française de 1975, qui a rendu le livre mondialement célèbre, comme de l’édition anglaise, il se situe pourtant en son cœur, puisqu’il ouvre le deuxième tome de Sur le processus de civilisation (1939), la grande œuvre de Norbert Elias (1897-1991). Sa lecture permet d’éclairer la pensée du sociologue allemand sur la place du Moyen Âge dans la genèse de la civilisation européenne. Dans ces pages inédites en français, Elias développe l’idée d’un « grand » Moyen Âge, qui irait du XII^e au XVIII^e siècle et se caractérisait par une institution, la cour. Ce texte est également un témoignage très précieux sur les méthodes de travail d’Elias et sur l’histoire des sciences sociales. Comment un intellectuel allemand, formé dans les années 1910-1920 à la psychologie, la philosophie et la sociologie, aborde-t-il le Moyen Âge, à partir de quels outils, et de quelles sources ? Cette édition est précédée d’une présentation qui remet en perspective le texte d’Elias et revient sur la manière dont cette œuvre produit une rencontre particulièrement féconde entre sociologie et histoire.

Table des matières :

Présentation d’Étienne Anheim. Le Moyen Âge oublié de Norbert Elias
Le procès de civilisation. Troisième chapitre : sociogenèse de la civilisation occidentale
Panorama de la société de cour
Bref aperçu relatif à la sociogenèse de l’absolutisme
Sur le mécanisme d’évolution de la société au Moyen Âge
Première partie. Mécanismes de la féodalisation
Notes

Informations pratiques :

Norbert Élias, Moyen Âge et procès de civilisation, présentation par Étienne Anheim, Paris, Éditions de l’EHESS, 2021 (EHESS Poche, 2). ISBN : 978-2-7132-2864-3. Prix : 13 euros.

Source : EHESS

Building on The Carolingian Revolution: Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature I (http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503587998-1), this is the second of two volumes proposing ways of reading medieval Latin texts which, up to now, have had little or no attention within literary studies. This volume is founded on the belief that ‘the unprecedented empirical power of digital tools and archives offers a unique chance to rethink the categories of literary study’ (F. Moretti).

The book’s first section presents cases studies applying ‘quantitative’ criticism based on the linguistic and stylistic use of frequency wordlists which, thanks to digital tools and to a larger literature, are becoming more easily accessible and more powerful. The chapters of this section lead the reader from an application of stylometry within a traditional critical exercise, via the structured use of frequency indexing as a warning light for cultural or stylistic phenomena undetectable to the naked eye, to more technical corpus analysis experiments based on linguistic evolution or authorship attribution. The second section explores the encoding problems the author has faced when working on the realisation of digital editing projects such as the Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum, the Archivio della Latinità Italiana del Medioevo (ALIM), Lexicon, and the Eurasian Latin Archive (ELA), and proposes reflections on the typology of digital philological editions.

Francesco Stella, member of the Academia Europaea, is professor of Medieval Latin Literature at the University of Siena and head of the Master program in Digital Edition. The author of essays and monographs on Carolingian literature, Biblical poetry, and 12-13th century epistolography, he coordinates some of the first research projects on digital philology of medieval Latin texts, and directs the series Scrittori latini dell’Europa medievale and Hagiographica Coreana.

Table des matières :

The Mechanic Reader: Instead of an Introduction

Quantitative Criticism

Chapter 1. Venantius Fortunatus in Medieval Latin Poetry
Chapter 2. The Representations of the Book in Carolingian and Ottonian Poetic Texts: The Birth of Paratextual Poetry
Chapter 3. Europe’s Name is Europa: ‘Europe’ and ‘European’ in Early Medieval Latin Texts
Chapter 4. The Landscape as a Memory Construction in the Latin Petrarch
Chapter 5. Generic Constants and Chronological Variations in Statistical Linguistics on Latin Epistolography
Chapter 6. Statistical Indicators of Proximity to the Early Romance Languages: Experimental Applications to Early Medieval Rhythmic Poetry
Chapter 7. Computer Analysis of the Lexicon and Identification of the Authors in the Epistolae duorum amantium (Twelfth Century)

Digital Philology

Chapter 8. Encoding Issues in Philological Digital Editions
Chapter 9. Digital Philology, Medieval Texts, and the Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum, a Digital Edition of Music and Poems

Bibliography
Indices

Informations pratiques :

Francesco Stella, Digital Philology and Quantitative Criticism of Medieval Literature. Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature II, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 49). XII+279 p., 40 b/w ill., 4 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-58801-8. Prix : 80 euros.

Source : Brepols

L’Atlas des migrations en Méditerranée de l’Antiquité à nos jours est un ouvrage sans équivalent, qui balaye plus de trois mille ans d’histoire. Au travers de deux cents cartes, des illustrations, des extraits de sources historiques et des textes de synthèse rédigés par des spécialistes, historiens et géographes, l’atlas montre comment les migrations ont façonné les sociétés et les cultures méditerranéennes sur la longue durée. S’adressant à un large public, il propose sur une base scientifique pluridisciplinaire solide, à la fois une mise au point utile et des pistes de réflexion sur une question toujours en débat.

Informations pratiques :

Atlas des migrations en Méditerranée. De l’Antiquité à nos jours, par Virginie Baby-Collin, Stéphane Mourlane et Sophie Bouffier, Paris, Actes Sud, 2021. 288 p., 25.50 x 19.60 cm. ISBN : 978-2-330-14501-9. Prix : 35 euros.

Source : Actes Sud

The results achieved by the research of the pioneering MINIARE research project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge led to the ground-breaking and acclaimed 2016 exhibition « COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts. » This was followed by an international Conference, in which art historians, paper and book conservators, and cultural heritage scientists were brought together to share new recent research not only on manuscripts but also on painting in other media. The Conference proceedings were published in the first two volumes of the HMMIMA series (2017-2018). The present publication includes 6 Essays by way of introducing and explaining the major topics being investigated, including the range of inks, pigments and paint binders used by illuminators; parchment-making; pigment recipes; and model books. The many analytical instruments and techniques that are used to investigate manuscripts are also discussed. Then follow 58 Case Studies of manuscripts from as early as the year 700 up to c.1600. All these are fully illustrated in colour and in great detail, and should act as examples to inform scholars in libraries, museums and other cultural institutions of the benefits of adding scientific tools to the range of methods used to investigate manuscripts.

Programme :

Preface and Acknowledgements
Contributors
Analytical teams

Essay 1. Introduction: The Integrated Analyses of Illuminated Manuscripts – Stella Panayotova
Essay 2. Pigment Recipes and Model Books. Mechanisms for Knowledge Transmission and the Training of Manuscript Illuminators — Nancy K. Turner and Doris Oltrogge
Essay 3. Science of the Book. Analytical Methods for the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts – Paola Ricciardi and Catherine Schmidt Patterson
Essay 4. From Pelt to Painted Page. Western Medieval Manuscript Parchments – Edward Cheese
Essay 5. Painting Materials and Techniques in Byzantine and Slavonic Illuminated Manuscripts, c.800 – Elina Dobrynina
Essay 6. Painting Materials and Techniques in Western Illuminated Manuscripts c.600 – Stella Panayotova

Case Studies
58 highly detailed case studies of manuscripts from as early as the year 700 up to c.1600.

All these are fully illustrated in colour and provide stimulating examples to guide conservation departments in collections, museums and other laboratories in applying scientific investigation into works of art.

Index of Works of Art Cited
Bibliography

Informations pratiques :

Stella Panayotova, The Art & Science of Illuminated Manuscripts: A Handbook, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020. 528 p., 830 colour ill., 190 x 255 mm, 2020 (Manuscripts in the Making, 3). ISBN: 978-1-912554-59-1. Prix : 30 euros.

Source : Brepols