L'Agenda des Médiévistes

The Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris, part of the Brepols Claves, is an inventory of all attested works of historiography from Late Antiquity (300-800 AD), in any state of preservation. It offers full coverage of works written in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian and Coptic, while also including Jewish and Persian works. Containing information on author and work, it provides guidance on authorship, social and religious context, genre, sources, manuscript tradition, and editions and translations. A substantial introduction discusses genres in late ancient historiography, and numerous indices facilitate the use of the Clavis. In this way, the CHAP will be an essential research tool for scholars working on the history of historiography, Late Antiquity and Patristics, and it will facilitate further research on the genre.

Peter Van Nuffelen is Research Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History of Ghent University.
Lieve Van Hoof is Research Professor of Ancient History in the same department.

Informations pratiques :

Peter Van Nuffelen et Lieve Van Hoof, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris. An Inventory of Late Antique Historiography (A.D. 300-800), Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris). CXVI+1079 p., 155 x 245 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-55295-8. Prix : 295 euros (230 euros jusqu’au 31/12).

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I saggi raccolti in questo volume, elaborati da un gruppo di ricerca di antichisti e medievisti, hanno l’intento di indagare in una prospettiva diacronica, dalla Grecia classica al XV secolo, le circostanze e le modalità di interazione della parola orale e del testo scritto con le dinamiche dei poteri, a partire dal punto d’osservazione prevalente della Sardegna e delle sue relazioni mediterranee. Vengono valorizzate soprattutto due circostanze tipiche dell’interazione orale-scritto, cioè la giustizia, in particolare quella politica, e la comunicazione epistolare. Una serie di approfondimenti molto vari che aprono altrettante prospettive metodologiche e tematiche su un ambito di studi di grande vitalità

Table des matières :

Lorenzo Tanzini, Premessa

Leggi scritte e leggi non scritte nella Grecia classica

Alberto Maffi, Diritto e giustizia nella Grecia classica fra prassi giudiziaria e riflessione filosofica
Elisabetta Poddighe, Politeia e nomoi: la funzione delle leggi non scritte (agraphoi nomoi) nell’orazione funebre di Pericle
Laura Loddo, Il ricorso all’esilio volontario nei processi politici ateniesi d’età classica: diritto del cittadino o condotta illegale?

Dall’oratoria al processo: la parola della giustizia in età romana

Xavier Espluga, Tra leggi morali e ragioni politiche: le accuse di incesto nella prima età imperiale
Piergiorgio Floris, Amministrazione della giustizia e giustizia politica nella Sardegna romana di età repubblicana
Cesare Bogazzi, Giustizia e repressione politica a Roma nel primo secolo dell’impero: lo strumento della relegatio ad insulam

La scrittura e l’oralità nel Mediterraneo medievale: il mondo mercantile

Valentina Ruzzin, Lettere private e accordi economici nella Genova tardomedievale. Oltre il contratto?
Giuseppe Seche, Scrittura, comunicazione orale e reti mercantili nel Mediterraneo sardo-catalano del XV secolo
María Viu Fandos, Redes económicas y políticas en el Mediterráneo del siglo XV a través de la correspondencia del mercader Joan de Torralba
Jérôme Hayez, La correspondance de l’agence Datini d’Avignon (fin du s. XIVe). Caractérisation, rythme des flux et pluralité des fonctions Scrittura e prassi politica nei processi della Sardegna bassomedievale
Olivetta Schena, Sardegna e Aragona negli atti del Proceso contra los Arborea (1353-1393)
Bianca Fadda, Le missive di Mariano IV nel Proceso contra los Arborea (1352-1354). Note storico-diplomatistiche
Mario Lafuente Gómez, El proceso contra Bernat III de Cabrera, acusado de lesa majestad por el rey Pedro el Ceremonioso (1364-1368)

Informations pratiques :

Oralità, scrittura, potere. Sardegna e Mediterraneo tra antichità e medioevo, éd. Lorenzo Tanzini, Viella, 2020. 352 p., 15×21 cm, bross. ISBN: 9788833133294. Prix : 42 euros.

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La pureté en question examine les fondements historiques et scripturaires de l’idéal de pureté partagé par les juifs et les chrétiens à la fin du Moyen Âge en péninsule Ibérique. Le croisement des sources théoriques et des documents de la pratique, des sources latines, hébraïques et vernaculaires met en évidence la façon dont ce thème majeur de la littérature biblique et talmudique s’est perpétué à travers les siècles et a eu des incidences nombreuses sur la vie quotidienne des hommes au XVe s. La réflexion débouche sur des questions centrales pour l’histoire de la minorité juive en péninsule Ibérique : le passage de l’antijudaïsme à l’antisémitisme, l’apparition du concept de race, la prépondérance du sang dans l’assignation à une identité, le poids de l’accusation de crime rituel, l’incrimination des non chrétiens dans une société Ibérique de plus en plus exclusive, la discrimination et la ségrégation pour s’en protéger jusqu’à l’expulsion.

Informations pratiques :

Claire Soussen, La pureté en question. Exaltation et dévoiement d’un idéal entre juifs et chrétiens (Couronne d’Aragon 1391-1492), Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, 2020 (Bibliothèque de la Casa de Velázquez, 79). XVIII-359 p., 17 x 24 cms. ISBN : 9788490962480. Prix : 28 €.

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Devotional compilations were the staple spiritual food for lay and religious readers in the late medieval period. As well thought-out assemblages of texts or extracts of texts, they provided readers with material from basic catechetic instruction to advice and tools for the practice of contemplation. Their exploration enables a more sophisticated understanding of the authorial roles played by compilers, the reading practices of their recipients, and the patronage of compilations carried out by religious and secular individuals and communities. It also offers a new window into late medieval English religiosity as well as demonstrating the complexity and creativity associated with compiling activity.

In this volume, leading scholars in the field of medieval English literature consider the role and impact of a substantial number of devotional compilations, offering new evidence about the manuscripts, sources, and contexts that frame this important corpus.

Table des matières :

Introduction — MARLEEN CRÉ, DIANA DENISSEN, AND DENIS RENEVEY

Part I: The Dynamics of Devotional Compilations

Building a Bestseller: The Priest, the Peartree, and the Compiler — VINCENT GILLESPIE
Compilation: The Gift that Keeps on Giving — RALPH HANNA
Theorizing the Miscellaneous and the Middle English Biblical Paratext — IAN JOHNSON
A Talkyng of the Loue of God : The Art of Compilation and the Compiled Self — ANNIE SUTHERLAND
Reading Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries — MARGARET CONNOLLY

Part II: Compiling the Compilation: Manuscript Transmission

Form and Fluidity: Reshaping The Pore Caitif and Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 423 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 938 — DIANA DENISSEN
Suffering for Love: Compilation and Asceticism in Life of Soul — SARAH MACMILLAN
Compilers’ Voices in Cambridge, University Library MS Ii. 6. 40 — MARLEEN CRÉ

Part III: Compilation and Devotional Practice

A Hagiographic Compilation of Medieval Native Women in the South English Legendaries: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 779 — MAMI KANNO
Devotional Compilations and Lollard Sanctity in a Fifteenth-Century Anthology — NICOLE RICE
‘When is a man proude. Whe[n] he wol not beknowen suche as he is’: Knowing oneself in London, British Library, MS Additional 27787 — SHERI SMITH
Resignation or Rebuttal?: Three Biblical Exempla in Richard Whitford’s Dyuers Holy Instrucyons and Teachynges — BRANDON ALAKAS

Part IV: Mystics Compiled

‘Desyrable is thi Name’: Fashioning the Name of Jesus in Some Devotional Compilations — DENIS RENEVEY
The Scale of Perfection
in Devotional Compilations — MICHAEL G. SARGENT
The Liber Specialis Gratiae in a Devotional Anthology: London, British Library, MS Harley 494 — NAOE KUKITA YOSHIKAWA

Part V: Texts, Images and Affect

The Living Book of Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.15.42: Compilation, Meditation, and Vision — LAURA SAETVEIT MILES
The Desert of Religion : A Textual and Visual Compilation — ANNE MOURON
What Grace in Presence: Affective Literacies in The Chastising of God’s Children — A.S. LAZIKANI

Afterword
The Terminology and Ethos of Vernacular Compilatio— NICHOLAS WATSON
Index of Manuscripts
General Index

Informations pratiques :

Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England, dir. Marleen Cré, Diana Denissen, Denis Renevey, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Medieval Church Studies, 41). XII+464 p., 3 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-57477-6. Prix : 120 euros.

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Ce volume, issu des travaux du XXIVe Congrès de la Société Internationale Arthurienne, réunit les derniers acquis de la recherche sur les romans arthuriens et leur réception au fil du temps. Organisées en fonction des axes thématiques du Congrès, les contributions apportent du nouveau au sujet des manuscrits arthuriens et de leurs impressionnants programmes iconographiques, suivant un mélange fascinant de philologie et histoire de l’art. Les interférences des motifs arthuriens, qui font en grande partie la richesse de ces textes, occupent aussi une place importante de même qu’elles préoccupent les médiévistes depuis quelques années. L’anthropologie culturelle n’est pas négligée non plus : des interventions sur les identités arthuriennes ainsi que sur les enjeux politiques de ces romans tellement de fois récupérés par les royautés européennes en guise de modèles rappellent l’universalité de l’arthurianisme qui fascine des milliers de lecteurs et auditeurs à travers le temps. Ceci explique également la riche réception des textes médiévaux, adaptés aussi bien à la modernité qu’à la période contemporaine. En somme, traitant des périodes variées ainsi que des espaces géopolitiques des plus divers, les articles réunis dans ce volume forment un beau bouquet arthurien mélangeant des réflexions les plus savantes aux contes de fées et aux couleurs d’antan.

Catalina Girbea est professeur de littérature française médiévale à l’Université de Bucarest, Faculté de Langues Etrangères, Département de Français et chercheur associé au CESCM de l’Université de Poitiers et présidente de la branche arthurienne roumaine. Mihaela Voicu, présidente honorifique de la Branche Roumaine de la SIA et professeur de littérature médiévale française à l’Université de Bucarest. Ioan Panzaru est professeur émérite de littérature médiévale française à l’Université de Bucarest et Directeur du CEREFREA (Centre Régional Francophone de Recherches Avancées en Sciences Sociales). Corina Anton est Maître de Conférences à l’Université de Bucarest, Département de Langues Romanes et spécialiste de la réception de la littérature arthurienne. Andreea Popescu est maître de conférences en langue et littérature anglaises à l’Université de Bucarest, trésorière et secrétaire de la branche roumaine de la société internationale arthurienne.

Table des matières :

Introduction

Icononographie des manuscrits arthuriens

Alison Stones, Arthurian Art. The Past, the Present, and the Future
Michelle Szkilnik, From Anthology to Compilation. The Evolution of the Arthurian Prose Manuscript
Catalina Girbea, L’iconographie de l’Estoire del saint Graal dans le manuscrit 14 E III de la British Library
Alexandra Ilina, Du héros au poète. Remarques sur l’iconographie du manuscrit BnF fr. 97
Laura Dumitrescu, Quelques remarques sur les armoiries imaginaires. Le cas de l’armoirie auto-référée dans Le Roman de Fauvel
Alicia Servier, Lectures et images. Élizabel dans les enluminures du roman de Lancelot du Lac (XIIIe-XVe siècle)

Interférences des motifs arthuriens

Susanne Friede, Un Évangile du Graal ? Réflexions intergénériques face à quelques romans du Graal (Conte du Graal, Première Continuation, Roman de l’Estoire dou Graal)
Alain Corbellari, Chevaliers « au Lion », « aux lions » et sans lion. Parcours d’un motif du XIIe au XVIIe siècle
Cristophe Imperiali, La « relation critique » sous le signe percevalien
Anna Kukulka-Wojtasik, Quelques aspects de la grammaire narrative du récit médiéval. Les stéréotypes végétaux et animaliers dans la construction des personnages et de la trame de l’intrigue. D’après Le Chevalier de la Charrette et Le Conte du Graal de Chrétien de Troyes
Bonnie Millar, Magic, Fantasy and Adventure. Parodying Romance Motifs in King Arthur and King Cornwall
Monica Oanca, Myth-Generated Geography. Tintagel Castle
Yanick Mosset, Le Tristan de Thomas et la Dialectique. Le langage de l’Erreur
Geneviève Pigeon, L’anonymat des sources, une clé essentielle à la compréhension du mythe arthurien
Andreea Popescu, Magic and Enchantment. Versions of the Fantastic in the Arthurian Legend
Karin Ueltschi, La quête d’un référent ou jeux de sons et de sens autour du nom propre. Le cas de « Hellequin »
Łukasz Neubauer, The Quest for the Golden-Stringed Harp. Arthurian Themes in Lech Majewski’s The Knight

Réception de l’arthurianisme

Mihaela Voicu, « Autres Mondes arthuriens » dans l’espace culturel roumain
Danielle Buschinger, Tristandans l’Allemagne du Moyen Age
Jane H.M. Taylor, Rigaud’s Lancelot of 1591. The Rhetorics of Synopsis
Ana Margarida Chora, Babylonians and Saracens. The Interference of an Oriental Pagan World in Arthurian Romances
Virgile Reiter, La représentation de l’amour et de la sexualité dans Flores och Blanzeflor
Harvey L. Sharrer, The Spanish Perceforest. Translation and Transcreation

Arthurianisme et politique

Christine Ferlampin-Acher, « Je vueil qu’il ait nom Artus le Petit, en remambrance de moy, qui suis Artus le Grant » : appeler son fils Arthur, Arthur le Petit et le Petit Artus
Francoise Hazel Marie le Saux, Les tombeaux royaux de l’Historia Regum Britanniae
Antonella Sciancalepore, Brehus or Brun. A Bear-like Warrior in the Arthurian world
Paul Sire, Documentary Evidence for the Historicity of King Arthur
Yoshio Konuma, Enide et Diane. Le mythe cynégétique et la translatio imperii dans Erec et Enide

Identités arthuriennes

Anne Berthelot, En quête du Graal absent
Adeline Latimier, Lancelot vers Rigomer. Du renom à l’oubli de soi
Corina Anton, Waiting for Ginevra. An Arthurian Character in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso
Luminiţa Diaconu, Identité et anonymat dans les Lais de Marie de France
Sandrine Legrand, Hector des Mares. Hector de Troie dans le monde Arthurien ?
Shigemi Sasaki, Testament du héros et mort des amants

Résumés des articles en anglais
Index

Informations pratiques :

Miroirs arthuriens entre images et mirages. Actes du XXIVe Congrès de la Société Internationale Arthurienne, dir. C. Girbea, M. Voicu, I. Panzaru, C. Anton, A. Popescu, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020. 434 p., 5 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-57991-7. Prix : 85 euros.

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The essays collected in this volume explore the power of the medieval bishop through the neglected and problematic lens of personality, tackling the construction and presentation of medieval personalities by historians and medieval writers in an interdisciplinary manner.

The question of personality is a problematic one, beset by complications of cultural distance, the layers of the past, and the limitations of the source material.

Recognising these difficulties, this volume draws together character sketches based upon historical narratives and a range of sources, including architecture, liturgical manuscripts, chronicles, and hagiographical material, to show a multifaceted range of means by which historians can construct, reconstruct, and deconstruct episcopal power through the person of the bishop.

Building on a previous volume of essays, Episcopal Power and Local Society in Medieval Europe, 900-1400, which examined the construction, augmentation, and expression of episcopal power in local society, this second volume seeks to uncover the impact of the personalities behind that power. Through essays dealing with the construction of cultural and political personalities, the shadows they cast, and the contexts that forged them, this volume brings to life the careers of bishops across medieval Europe from c. 900 to c. 1480. This geographical range and broad time span throws up the similarity in applications and benefits of interdisciplinarity which can be applied to ecclesiastical history, and presents a fascinating range of case studies for consideration.

Table des matières :

List of Illustrations

Introduction — MELISSA JULIAN -JONES, CHRIS DENNIS, and ANGELO SILVESTRI

Part I. Constructing Episcopal Personalities

The Destruction of the Church: On Bishops, Emperors, Slavs, and Ambitions in Thietmar of Merseburg’s Chronicle, 975–1018 — ANDREA VANINA NEYRA
Writing Episcopal Courage in Twelfth-Century Poland: Gallus Anonymous and Master Vincentius — RADOSŁAW KOTECKI and JACEK MACIEJEWSKI
The Personalization of the Pastoral Office: The Example of William II of Troia — ANTONIO ANTONETTI
Life of the Mind: The Education, Intellectual Legacy, and Personality of Bishop Zoen Tencarari of Avignon (r. 1241–1261) — CHRISTINE AXEN
Alfonso Carrillo de Acuna, Archbishop of Toledo (1446–1482), and the Construction of his Cultural Personality: An Approach from his Liturgical Manuscripts — MERCEDES LOPEZ -MAYAN

Part II. Consecrating Episcopal Personalities

Composing a Saint: The Importance of Gerard of Csanad (977–1046) — MONIKA BELUCZ
‘That we might be made God’: Pseudo-Dionysius and Robert Grosseteste’s Episcopal Career — JACK P. CUNNINGHAM
England’s Two Thomases: Episcopal Models of Sanctity Embodied in Thomas Becket and Thomas de Cantilupe — IAN L. BASS
Promoting or Rejecting the Saints: The Representation of Non-Saintly Bishops in Medieval Scandinavian Hagiography — SARA ELLIS NILSSON

Part III. Politics and Episcopal Personalities

A Pattern of Alternating Interests: The Peace of God in the Archdiocese of Reims in the First Half of the Eleventh Century — SAM JANSSENS
Personality of Prelates between Church and Empire: The Example of Albero of Trier (1131–1152) — BRIAN A. PAVLAC
A True History of Deeds Done beyond the Sea? William of Tyre and the Principality of Antioch — ANDREW D. BUCK
‘It pleased the Lord Bishop’: Episcopal Agency and Cathedral Chapter Reform in the Kingdom of Castile at the End of the Long Twelfth Century (c. 1195–1205) — KYLE C. LINCOLN
A Poisoned Chalice? Crown, Church, and Reputation in the Careers of King John’s Bishops — PAUL WEBSTER

Informations pratiques :

Episcopal Power and Personality in Medieval Europe, 900-1480, dir. Peter Coss, Chris Dennis, Melissa Julian-Jones et Angelo Silvestri, Turnhout, Brepols (Medieval Church Studies, 42). VII+303 p., 1 b/w ill. + 5 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. prix : 85 euros.

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Eleventh-century England suffered two devastating conquests, each bringing the rule of a foreign king and the imposition of a new regime. Yet only the second event, the Norman Conquest of 1066, has been credited with the impact and influence of a permanent transformation. Half a century earlier, the Danish conquest of 1016 had nonetheless marked the painful culmination of decades of raiding and invasion – and more importantly, of centuries of England’s conflict and cooperation with the Scandinavian world – and the Normans themselves were a part of that world. Without 1016, the conquest of 1066 could never have happened as it did: and yet disciplinary fragmentation in the study of eleventh-century England has ensured that a gulf separates the conquests in modern scholarship.

The essays in this volume offer multidisciplinary perspectives on a century of conquest: in politics, law, governance, and religion; in art, literature, economics, and culture; and in the lives and experiences of peoples in a changing, febrile, and hybrid society. Crucially, it moves beyond an insular perspective, placing England within its British, Scandinavian, and European contexts; and in reaching across conquests connects the tenth century and earlier with the twelfth century and beyond, seeing the continuities in England’s Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Angevin elite culture and rulership. The chapters break new ground in the documentary evidence and give fresh insights into the whole historical landscape, whilst fully engaging with the importance, influence, and effects of England’s eleventh-century conquests, both separately and together.

LAURA ASHE is Professor of English Literature and Fellow and Tutor in English, Worcester College, Oxford; EMILY JOAN WARD is Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge.

Table des matières :

Why 1016 Matters; or, The Politics of Memory and Identity in Cnut’s kingdom – Charles Insley
Why Did Cnut Conquer England? – Niels Lund
Conquest and the Law – Bruce O’Brien
Cnut and William: A Comparison – Elisabeth M C van Houts
Currency and Conquest in Eleventh-Century England – Rory Naismith
Episcopal Exon? Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS 3500 and the Role of Bishops in the Domesday Survey – Lois Lane
Conquest and Manuscript Culture – Julia C Crick
Kings, Saints and Conquests – Sarah Foot
Cultures of Conquest: Warfare and Enslavement in Britain Before and After 1066 – John B Gillingham
Conquest and Material Culture – Catherine E. Karkov
Remapping Literary History: The Patronage of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Queens – Elizabeth M. Tyler
Queens, Devils and Goddesses: Women in English Royal Genealogies, c.1100-c.1223 – Peter Sigurdson Lunga
French Women in Early Norman England: The Case of Hawise of Bacqueville – Stephanie Mooers Christelow
English contact with the European mainland throughout the eleventh century – Timothy Bolton
The View from Wales: Anglo-Welsh Relations in the Time of England’s Conquests – Rebecca Thomas
England and the Papacy Between Two Conquests: The Shadow of ‘Reform’ – Benjamin Savill
Child Kings and the Norman Conquest: Representations of Association and Succession – Emily Ward

Informations pratiques :

Conquests in Eleventh-Century England: 1016, 1066, dir. Laura Ashe et Emily Joan Ward, Boydell & Brewer, 2020. 1 colour, 12 black and white, 8 line illustrations. 440 pages. 23.4×15.6 cm

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