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Orietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success of this technology in medieval culture, considering how people interacted with it and how it affected their lives. Offering a nuanced understanding of how affordance influenced societal choices, Paper in Medieval England draws on a multilingual array of sources to investigate how paper circulated, was written upon, and was deployed by people across medieval society, from kings to merchants, to bishops, to clerks and to poets, contributing to an understanding of how medieval paper changed communication and shaped modernity.

Dr Orietta Da Rold is Lecturer in Literature and Material Text, 1100 to 1500 at the University of Cambridge. She is the Co-Director (with Elaine Treharne) of the successful AHRC-funded project and e-book, English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 and is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to British Manuscripts with Elaine Treharne.

Table des matières :

Paper and culture in medieval England: an introduction
1. Paper stories
2. The economics of paper
3. Writing on paper
4. The character of paper and its use in medieval books
5. Paper in the medieval literary imagination
6. Epilogue: the age of paper.

Informations pratiques :

Orietta Da Rold, Paper in Medieval England. From Pulp to Fictions, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN : 9781108840576. Prix : 75 £.

Source : Cambridge University Press

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Épistolaire politique IV : lettres et réseaux, dir. Laurent Vissière et Bruno Dumézil, Le Moyen Âge, t. 127, 2020/2. 236 p.

Table des matières :

Laurent Vissière, Bruno Dumézil – Lettres et réseaux au Moyen Âge. Épistolaire politique IV

Adrien Bayard – Réseaux et lieux de pouvoir au très haut Moyen Âge. Les lettres face à l’archéologie
Martin Gravel – Les lettres des autres : correspondances et réseaux en filigrane des grandes collections carolingiennes
Michaël Cousin – Un réseau épistolaire dans la tourmente des intrigues politiques : Gerbert d’Aurillac et ses correspondants au cœur de la lutte pour le pouvoir entre Ottoniens, Carolingiens et Capétiens (984–989)
Micol Long – « Il est jeune, honnête, instruit, accueille-le » : pour une analyse d’ensemble des lettres de recommandation du XIIe siècle
Annick Peters-Custot – Stratégies épistolaires et réforme grégorienne : le cas de l’Italie méridionale normande
Armand Jamme – « Networking » d’un espace chrétien ? Représentativité et réseaux de la correspondance pontificale aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles
Cécile Becchia – Les échanges épistolaires professionnels et privés d’un procureur de Dijon au XVe siècle

Comptes rendus

Source : Cairn

During the European Middle Ages, diagrams provided a critical tool of analysis in cosmological and theological debates. In addition to drawing relationships among diverse areas of human knowledge and experience, diagrams themselves generated such knowledge in the first place. In Diagramming Devotion, Jeffrey F. Hamburger examines two monumental works that are diagrammatic to their core: a famous set of picture poems of unrivaled complexity by the Carolingian monk Hrabanus Maurus, devoted to the praise of the cross, and a virtually unknown commentary on Hrabanus’s work composed almost five hundred years later by the Dominican friar Berthold of Nuremberg. Berthold’s profusely illustrated elaboration of Hrabnus translated his predecessor’s poems into a series of almost one hundred diagrams. By examining Berthold of Nuremberg’s transformation of a Carolingian classic, Hamburger brings modern and medieval visual culture into dialogue, traces important changes in medieval visual culture, and introduces new ways of thinking about diagrams as an enduring visual and conceptual model.

Informations pratiques :

Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2020. 384 pages | 220 color plates, 1 halftone | 8 1/2 x 11. ISBN: 9780226642819. Prix : 65 $.

Source : The University of Chicago Press

The 23 chapters in this volume explore the material culture of sanctity in Latin Europe and the Mediterranean between c. 1000 and c. 1220, with a focus on the ways in which saints and relics were enshrined, celebrated, and displayed.

Reliquary cults were particularly important during the Romanesque period, both as a means of affirming or promoting identity and as a conduit for the divine. This book covers the geography of sainthood, the development of spaces for reliquary display, the distribution of saints across cities, the use of reliquaries to draw attention to the attributes, and the virtues or miracle-working character of particular saints. Individual essays range from case studies on Verona, Hildesheim, Trondheim and Limoges, the mausoleum of Lazarus at Autun, and the patronage of Mathilda of Canossa, to reflections on local pilgrimage, the deployment of saints as physical protectors, the use of imagery where possession of a saint was disputed, island sanctuaries, and the role of Templars and Hospitallers in the promotion of relics from the Holy Land.

The book will serve historians and archaeologists studying the Romanesque period, and all those interested in material culture and religious practice in Latin Europe and the Mediterranean c.1000–c.1220.

Table des matières : ici

Informations pratiques :

Romanesque Saints, Shrines, and Pilgrimage, éd. John McNeill, Richard Plant, Routledge, 2020. 308 Pages – 23 Color & 306 B/W Illustrations. ISBN 9780367202071. Prix : 23,99 £.

Source : Routledge