La parole épique commémore et réactualise dans un jeu subtil de temporalités enchevêtrées un événement perçu comme fondateur ou décisif par celui qui l’énonce comme par ceux qui la reçoivent, pour « célébrer avec solennité, dans un langage rituel, écrit Pierre Le Gentil, la liturgie de l’héroïsme chevaleresque ».
L’empreinte du sacré se manifeste dans l’inspiration chrétienne qui anime les textes où la mort héroïque sur le champ de bataille se fait l’homologue de la Passion du Christ, comme les souffrances des grands de ce monde évoquent le martyre des saints, et elle se révèle encore dans les prières, les miracles, les rêves et apparitions qui scandent le parcours des poèmes.
Les chansons de geste permettent aussi d’aborder la question de la relation entre violence guerrière et sacré, et d’analyser ce que René Girard appelle « la crise mimétique ». Elles offriraient même une solution pour résoudre les rivalités, eu égard à la place accordée au sacrifice rituel et au mécanisme victimaire, ainsi qu’aux liens qu’elles entretiennent avec le mythe.
Le dixième colloque international de la Section française de la Société Rencesvals qui s’est tenu à Clermont-Ferrand du 18 au 20 octobre 2017 a exploré les facettes de cette vaste thématique que les études rassemblées dans ce volume invitent à découvrir.
La chanson de geste et le sacré Actes du colloque international de la société Rencesvals (Clermont-Ferrand, 18-20 octobre 2017), dir. Nathalie Bragantini-Maillard, Émilie Goudeau, Françoise Laurent, Claude Roussel, Nora Viet, Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, 2020 (ERGA/Recherches sur l’Antiquité). 312 p. ISBN : 9782845168862. Prix : 20 euros.
The Princeton Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and selected natural sciences, invites applications for the 2021–2024 fellowship competition.
Three three-year Postdoctoral Fellowships will be awarded:
Two Open Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences (OPEN): Open to all disciplines represented in the Society of Fellows. The fellowships’ responsibilities include both research and teaching, one course each semester in the first and second years, one course in the third year. The fellows will either participate in team-taught courses or offer self-designed courses in the host department and/or in an interdisciplinary program. In addition, fellows normally take on some advising in their specialty or related areas.
One Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (HUM): This fellowship is sponsored jointly by the Humanities Council and the Society of Fellows, and it is open to candidates in humanities disciplines represented in the Society. The fellowship’s responsibilities include both research and teaching, one course each semester in the first and second years, one course in the third year. In the fall semester of the first two years, the fellow will join a faculty team to teach in the Humanities Sequence, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. In the spring semester of the first year, the fellow will offer a self-designed course in the host department and/or an interdisciplinary program. In the spring semester of the second year, the fellow will teach an interdisciplinary course in Humanistic Studies. This course might take a more intensive look at materials from “Approaches to Western Culture” or offer an interdisciplinary approach to the fellow’s own area of expertise. The fellow will be called upon to lead or contribute to occasional activities designed to build a sense of community among undergraduates in the Humanistic Studies Program. The program offers local and international field trips, an undergraduate society, workshops and other opportunities.
Applicants already holding the Ph.D. degree at the time of their application must have received their degree between January 1, 2019 and August 4, 2020. Priority will be given to applicants who have received no more than one year of research-only funding past the Ph.D. degree.
Applicants who are ABD (All But Dissertation) at the time of their application: Applicants who do not meet the August 4, 2020 deadline for receipt of their Ph.D. but are expected to have fulfilled all conditions for the degree, including defense and filing of dissertation, by June 15, 2021, may still apply for a postdoctoral fellowship provided they have completed a substantial portion of their dissertation (approximately half).
If you have already applied to the Princeton Society of Fellows, you may not apply a second time. We therefore recommend that applicants wait until they have completed a substantial portion of the dissertation (approximately half) before applying.
Candidates for/recipients of doctorates in Education (Ed.D. or Ph.D. degrees), in Jurisprudence, the DMA, and candidates for/recipients of Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University are not eligible to apply.
Nach mehr als 100 Jahren ist im Mai 2020 im Rahmen umfangreicher Projekte das mit weitem Abstand älteste Originaldokument des Aschaffenburger Stadt- und Stiftsarchivs wiederentdeckt worden.
Prof. Dr. Mark Mersiowsky (Stuttgart) informiert in einer Videobotschaft über die Bedeutung dieses sensationellen Fundes und die Hintergründe der Erforschung der deutschen Kaiserurkunden des Mittelalters.
A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries offers an introduction to the rules and customaries of the main religious orders in medieval Europe: Benedictine, Cistercian, Carthusian, Augustinian, Premonstratensian, Templar, Hospitaller, Teutonic, Dominican, Franciscan, and Carmelite. As well as introducing the early history and spirituality of the orders, scholars survey the central topics – organization, doctrine, morality, liturgy, and culture, as documented by these primary sources.
A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries, éd. Krijn Pansters, oston – Leyde, Brill, 2020 (Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, 93). XII + 438 p. ISBN : 978-90-04-43154-6. prix : 229 euros.
Les Vikings n’avaient pas de cornes sur leurs casques, ils ne naviguaient pas dans des drakkars, et ils ne juraient pas sans cesse par Thor et par Odin. Cette conférence tente de mettre en lumière l’apport des travaux archéologiques et historiques récents, afin de mieux comprendre qui étaient vraiment ces hommes dont les activités – guerre, commerce, piraterie, colonisation – s’étendirent de la mer Baltique au Portugal, et de Constantinople à Terre-Neuve.
Conférence en partenariat avec le Château des Ducs de Bretagne. Exposition « Nous les appelons Vikings » du 16 juin au 18 novembre 2018.
In Europe, during the Middle Ages, classical Greek and Roman geography continued to provide the fundamental structure for knowing the world’s places and peoples. From encyclopedic compendia such as the Natural History of Pliny the Elder and its redaction in Julius Solinus’s Polyhistor to the works of canonical Roman poets such as Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan, the geographical content of antique texts invited study and explication.
Yet medieval authors well knew that classical spatial order, itself full of lacunae, only infrequently corresponded to their own reality. Dislocations: Maps, Classical Tradition, and Spatial Play in the European Middle Ages considers the ways in which medieval and, later, humanist geography absorbed and reinvented classical spatial models in order to address key questions of historical change, migration, and emerging national, regional, and linguistic identities.
Drawing on a wide range of literary texts, maps, and geographical descriptions – and utilising the ancient but now largely discarded scholarly genre of the dialogue – Dislocations argues that medieval spatial representation was complex and richly textured, whether in the form of a careful gloss in a manuscript of Lucan’s Civil War, or as the exuberant sexualized allegories of the fourteenth-century papal notary Opicinus de Canistris.
The book also explores a further kind of dislocation: the surprising connections between medieval geographical thought and twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual arts, including Dadaism and the remarkable Mappamundi Suite of the Gujarati artist Gulammohammed Sheikh. While past spatial orders may be relegated to obscurity, they just as often linger – in archives, memories, and ruins – to be retrieved and reanimated in revealing ways.
Informations pratiques :
Alfred Hiatt, Dislocations: Maps, Classical Tradition, and Spatial Play in the European Middle Ages, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Studies and Texts, 218). XII+347 p., 42 colour ill., 152 x 229 mm, 2020 ISBN: 978-0-88844-218-5. Prix : 95 euros.
The Verona International Summer School in Medieval Manuscripts offers an intensive course in writing culture from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (415-1500). Due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, the 2020 edition is offered only via a digital platform (Moodle). It provides an overview of the main elements of Latin palaeography, showing the evolution of letter forms and most common ab- breviation systems; the course consists of prac- tical exercises, reading and transcribing several different types of script. It is also open to stu- dents with some experience in Latin and Greek palaeography, who wish to refresh or improve their skills. Participants must have elementary Latin in order to bene t from lectures; when applying, they should indicate whether they had any previous experience in palaeography.
This course will last for ve days and lectures will be both recorded and live streamed by experts in their respective elds, working both at Verona University, Culture & Civiltà Depart- ment, and at a wide range of other institutions. Subject areas include Latin, Gothic, Greek and Early Modern Italian palaeography, illumi- nated manuscripts, codicology, liturgical and
devotional manuscripts. Most of the morning lectures will be offered as pre-recorded talks, exploring the outstanding original Late Antique and Medieval writing materials preserved at the Biblioteca Capitolare, the «Queen of all Late Antique and Medieval Libraries», according to E.A. Lowe. In the afternoons, recorded lectures will take turns with live Zoom meetings hosted by our lecturers in order to:
– offer practical sessions on manuscripts and charters;
– get speci c insights through topics discussed during the morning sessions;
– answer attendees questions. The course also provides training for histori- ans, archaeologists and textual scholars in the discipline of reading and interpreting medie- val graf ti and epigraphic evidence, analysed in their original context. The importance of understanding graf ti and inscriptions within their archaeological and topographical contexts will be explored during virtual site visits to S. Giorgio/S. Elena, S. Zeno and S. Maria in Stelle. These virtual visits will be led by experts in Medieval Archaeology, Art and Architecture History.
Applications
The full program of 2020 Summer School (recorded lectures and live Zoom meetings) is open to a maximum of 20 students. Attendees are asked to submit a short statement of why they wish to take the course together with a CV. Non-selected applicants will still have the chance to enrol for the light program of the Summer School (please, see below). In order to apply you are kindly asked to write as soon as possible to medievalmanuscripts@ateneo.uni- vr.it with your CV attached. You will receive an application form and the instructions for the bank transfer. Your completed application form and your bank statement must be sent back via email before August, 31st, 2020.
Fees and Payments
Student Five-Day full program Fee (recorded and live streamed sessions): Euro 120,00.
Student Five-Day light program Fee (recorded-only sessions, available after September, 11th): Euro 60,00.
Fees include attendance (recorded and live streamed sessions for the full program, recor- ded-only sessions for the light one) and a wide ranging of teaching and bibliographical mate- rial (for both programs), available on ours Moodle.
Payments must follow the indications given by the Scienti c Coordinators per email.
Summer School Administrator Dipartimento Culture e Civiltà, Room 3.19 Università degli Studi di Verona Viale dell’Università, 4 I-37129 Verona Tel: +39 (0) 45 8028733 Email: enrico.cazzaroli@univr.it
Troisième volet du programme de recherche intitulé « la construction du militaire », cet ouvrage revient sur les pratiques discursives et langagières qui accompagnent la formation d’une société militaire en Europe. Prismes par lesquels les individus pensent et disent le monde qui les entoure, les formes du langage et leurs usages sociaux portent en effet les systèmes de représentation sur lesquels se construisent les identités individuelles et collectives. Lieu de la mise en scène de soi, pratique de distinction et facteur d’intégration, les usages de la langue contribuent activement à l’affirmation des sociétés et des identités militaires. En ce sens, elles sont un puissant vecteur de la cohésion au sein des armées en général, et des différents corps qui la composent en particulier. Elles sont encore un important médiateur du jeu social et des relations avec le reste du corps politique, mais également un enjeu de pouvoir. Les contributions de ce volume proposent ainsi une réflexion sur la façon dont les mots et les discours ont pris part à la construction d’une identité militaire durant une longue époque moderne courant de la fin du XVe siècle au XIXe siècle. Elles reviennent sur les enjeux politiques, institutionnels et sociaux de la désignation du militaire. Des côtes atlantiques à la grande plaine hongroise, des dernières guerres médiévales aux guerres de la révolution et de l’Empire, elles invitent à réfléchir sur ce long processus qui, de la formation d’une armée permanente à l’aube de la guerre industrielle, a transformé le guerrier en combattant de troupes régulières, et sur la manière dont l’État, la société et les militaires eux-mêmes ont façonné une condition militaire, soigneusement séparée de la condition civile.
Informations pratiques :
La construction du militaire, Vol.3 : Les mots du militaire : dire et se dire militaire en Occident (XVe-XIXe siècle), dir. Benjamin Deruelle, Hervé Drévillon, Bernard Gainot, Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020 (Guerre et paix). 16 x 24 cm. ISBN : 979-10-351-0528-0. Prix : 30 euros.
Longtemps oublié, le roman d’Amadas et Ydoine a connu une belle popularité au long du Moyen Âge : l’histoire d’amour qui unit les deux héros met en oeuvre de façon distanciée tous les motifs courtois et merveilleux du genre ; ils ne peuvent vivre l’un sans l’autre, sont séparés dès que réunis, et sortent victorieux des pires épreuves, affrontant la folie et les fantômes. Le Moyen Âge sourit des histoires d’amour tragiques, et raconte avec ce roman un salutaire et ironique anti-Tristan.
Christine Ferlampin-Acher est professeur à l’Université Rennes 2. Elle est spécialiste de la littérature arthurienne, en particulier tardive.
Denis Hüe est professeur émérite de l’Université Rennes 2. Spécialiste de la poésie lyrique de la fin du Moyen Âge, il travaille également sur les textes anglo-normands du XIIe siècle.
Amadas et Ydoine, éd. et trad. Christine Ferlampin-Acher et Denis Hüe, Honoré Champion, 2020 (Classiques du Moyen Âge, 52). 608 p. ISBN : 9782380960020. Prix : 22 euros.
Location: Durham Salary: £33,797 to £40,322 Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract Closes: 19th July 2020
This role of Lecturer is for a fixed term of 18 months and to provide cover for a colleague who has been awarded an AHRC Leadership Fellowship. It is not anticipated that this period would be extended beyond the initial fixed term.
Applicants must demonstrate research excellence in the field of early medieval history, with the ability to teach our students to an exceptional standard and to fully engage in the services, citizenship and values of the University. The University provides a working and teaching environment which is inclusive and welcoming and where everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate these key principles as part of the assessment process.
The post-holder will be expected to convene a level 1 module ‘Birth of Western Society, 300-1050’, teach a level 2 module in early medieval history, undertake some undergraduate and MA dissertation supervision and, where appropriate, carry out other teaching duties specified by the Head of Department.
Avec le soutien du FNRS, du CRHiDI (UCLouvain – Saint-Louis, Bruxelles), d'INCAL (UCLouvain), de PraME (UNamur), de sociAMM (ULB) et de Transitions (ULiège)
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