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The essays collected here celebrate mark the distinguished career of Professor W. Mark Ormrod, reflecting the vibrancy and range of his scholarship on the structures, personalities and culture of ruling late medieval England. Encompassing political, administrative, Church and social history, the volume focusses on three main themes: monarchy, state and political culture. For the first, it explores Edward III’s reactions to the deaths of his kinfolk and cases of political defamation across the fourteenth century. The workings of the « state » are examined through studies of tax and ecclesiastical records, the Court of Chivalry, fifteenth-century legislation, and the working practices of the privy seal clerk, Thomas Hoccleve. Finally, separate discussions of collegiate statutes and the household ordinances of Cecily, duchess of York consider the political culture of regulation and code-making.

GWILYM DODD is Associate Professor of History, University of Nottingham; CRAIG TAYLOR is a Reader in Medieval History at the University of York.

Contributors: Elizabeth Biggs, James Bothwell, Gwilym Dodd, Helen Killick, Helen Lacey, Joanna Laynesmith, Jonathan Mackman, Anthony Musson, Sarah Rees Jones, E.H. Watt.

Table des matières :

Professor W. Mark Ormrod: A Personal Appreciation – Sarah Rees Jones
The ‘Unfortunate’ Fraudster: Thomas de Boulton and the East Riding Lay Subsidy of 1332 – Jonathan Mackman
Negotiating and Creating Collegiate Statutes in the Fourteenth Century – Elizabeth Biggs
An Emotional Pragmatism: Edward III and Death – J. S. Bothwell
Defaming the King: Reporting Disloyal Speech in Fourteenth-Century England – Helen Lacey
Law and Arms: the Politics of Chivalry in Late Medieval England – Anthony Musson
‘Nother by addicions, nother by diminucions’: the Parliament of April 1414 and the Drafting of Late Medieval English Legislation – Gwilym Dodd
The Medieval ‘Side-Hustler’: Thomas Hoccleve’s Career in, and out, of the Privy Seal – Helen Killick
The Order, Rules and Constructions of the House of the Most Excellent Princess Cecily, Duchess of York – Joanna Laynesmith
Archbishops’ Registers Revealed: Church, State and Society in the Registers of the Archbishops of York, 1225-c. 1650 – Helen Watt

Informations pratiques :

Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England. Essays in Honour of W. Mark Ormrod, dir. Gwilym Dodd, Craig Taylor, York Medieval Press, 2020. 2 colour, 10 black and white illustrations, 224 pages. 23.4×15.6 cm. ISBN : 9781903153956. Prix : 60 £.

Source : Boydell & Brewer

Cet ouvrage présente d’une façon toute nouvelle l’humaniste italien Francesco Robortello (1516- 1567), réputé pour avoir, le premier, commenté intégralement la Poétique d’Aristote. Les contributions insistent sur le pédagogue, éditeur, philologue et philosophe qu’il a été, ainsi que sur le rôle prépondérant qu’il a joué dans l’instauration de la critique textuelle, le renouvellement éthique et méthodique de la lecture des Anciens, la (re)définition des genres littéraires. Elles mettent en évidence sa démarche exégétique, fondée sur une éthique singulière, et son goût prononcé pour une méthode « ouverte ».

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Informations pratiques :

Francesco Robortello, Réception des Anciens et construction de la modernité, dir. Monique Bouquet, Sergio Cappello, Claire Lesage et Michel Magnien, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2020. 15,5 x 24 cm. 510 p. ISBN : 978-2-7535-7825-8. Prix : 45 euros.

Source : Presses universitaires de Rennes

Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious heritage of the West. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography surveys these books, with special emphasis on the variety of scripts in which they were written. Palaeography, in the strictest sense, examines how the changing styles of script and the fluctuating shapes of individual letters allow the date and the place of production of books to be determined. More broadly conceived, palaeography examines the totality of early book production, ownership, dissemination, and use. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography includes essays on major types of script (Uncial, Insular, Beneventan, Visigothic, Gothic, etc.), describing what defines these distinct script types, and outlining when and where they were used. It expands on previous handbooks of the subject by incorporating select essays on less well-studied periods and regions, in particular late mediaeval Eastern Europe. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography is also distinguished from prior handbooks by its extensive focus on codicology and on the cultural settings and contexts of mediaeval books. Essays treat of various important features, formats, styles, and genres of mediaeval books, and of representative mediaeval libraries as intellectual centers. Additional studies explore questions of orality and the written word, the book trade, glossing and glossaries, and manuscript cataloguing. The extensive plates and figures in the volume will provide readers wtih clear illustrations of the major points, and the succinct bibliographies in each essay will direct them to more detailed works in the field.

Edited by Frank Coulson, Distinguished Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Edited by Robert Babcock, Alumni Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Robert G. Babcock teaches Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the Flemish Royal Academy of Belgium, Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Zentraldirektion of Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and has held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and the Belgian Institute for Advanced Studies. His publications focus on Latin manuscripts, Medieval Latin, and the transmission of Classical, Patristic, and Medieval Latin literature. Frank T. Coulson is Distinguished Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics at the Ohio State University. He has published widely on the reception of Ovid in the Medieval Ages and is currently finishing a volume for the Catalogus translationum et commentariorum on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. He also serves as the Director of Palaeography for the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies.

Table des matières :

Forward and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Frank T. Coulson, Department of Classics, The Ohio State University
A. SCRIPT
A.1 Organizing Script
1. Punctuation: Frank T. Coulson, Department of Classics, The Ohio State University
2. Abbreviations: Olaf Pluta, Institut für Philosophie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
3. Numerals: Charles Burnett, Professor of the History of Islamic Influences on Europe, Warburg Institute
A.2 Greco-Roman Heritage
4. Old Roman Cursive: Teresa De Robertis, Dipartimento di Storia,
Archeologia, Geografia, Arte, Spettacolo – Università di Firenze (Translated from the Italian by Consuelo Dutschke)
5. New Roman Cursive: Teresa De Robertis, Dipartimento di Storia,
Archeologia, Geografia, Arte, Spettacolo – Università di Firenze (Translated from the Italian by Consuelo Dutschke)
6. Square and Rustic Capital: David Wright, The University of California, Berkeley
7. Uncial: Robert G. Babcock, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8. Semi-Uncial: Robert G. Babcock, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9. Greek Scripts in Latin Manuscripts: Walter Berschin, Universität Heidelberg
A.3 Early Medieval Hands
10. Beneventan: Francis Newton, Professor of Latin Emeritus, Duke University
11. Visigothic: Jesus Alturo i Perucho, Universitat Autonoma di Barcelona
12. Luxeuil: Paolo Cherubini, Professore ordinario, Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca
13. Merovingian Gaul: David Ganz, Visiting Professor of Palaeography, The Medieval Institute, The University of Notre Dame
14. St. Gall and Alemannic: Anna A. Grotans, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University
15. Insular Script: Peter Stokes, King’s College, University of London
A.4 Carolingian Minuscule
16. Carolingian Minuscule in France and Germany: David Ganz, Visiting Professor of Palaeography, The Medieval Institute, The University of Notre Dame
17. Early Carolingian Minuscule in Italy: Simona Gavinelli, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Milano
18. Late Carolingian Minuscule in Italy: Mirella Ferrari, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Milano
19. Tironian Notes: David Ganz, Visiting Professor of Palaeography, The Medieval Institute, The University of Notre Dame
A.5 Gothic
20. Nomenclature of Gothic Scripts: Albert Derolez Emeritus Professor at the Free Universities of Brussels
21. French Gothic: Marie-Hélène Tesnière, Conservateur général au département des Manuscrits de La Bibliothèque nationale de France (Translated from the French by Frank T. Coulson)
22. Early English Gothic: Richard Gameson, Durham University
23. Later English Gothic: Pamela Robinson, University of London
24. German Gothic: Karl-Georg Pfaendtner, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München
25. Early Italian Gothic: Stefano Zamponi, Università di Firenze (Translated from the Italian by Consuelo Dutschke)
26. Late Italian Gothic: Stefano Zamponi, Università di Firenze (Translated from the Italian by Consuelo Dutschke)
27. Late Dutch Gothic: J.P. Gumbert, Professor Emeritus, Leiden University
28. Czech Republic: Hana Patkova, Charles University, Prague
29. Hungary and Slovakia: Juraj Sedivý, Comenius-University in Bratislava / Faculty of Arts (Translated from the German by Anna A. Grotans and Robert G. Babcock)
30. Interaction of Script and Print: Paul Needham, Scheide Librarian, Princeton University
A.6 Humanist
31. Origins of Humanist Script: Teresa De Robertis, Dipartimento di Storia,
Archeologia, Geografia, Arte, Spettacolo – Università di Firenze (Translated from the Italian by Consuelo Dutschke)
32. Italian Humanist: Teresa De Robertis, Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia,
Geografia, Arte, Spettacolo – Università di Firenze (Translated from the Italian by Consuelo Dutschke)
33. Byzantium and the West: Marianne Pade, Director, Danish Academy in Rome
A.7
34. The Waning of Manuscript Production: B. Gregory Hays, Department of Classics, University of Virginia
B. MATERIAL EMBODIMENT AND TECHNIQUES
35. Stages of Manuscript Production: Lucien Reynhout, Curator at the Department of Manuscripts Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
36. Stages in Diplomatic Production: Olivier Guyotjeannin, Directeur d’études à l’École nationale des chartes, Paris (Translated from the French by Robert G. Babcock and Frank T. Coulson)
37. Mise-en-page: Marie Hélène Tesnière, Conservateur général au département des Manuscrits de La Bibliothèque nationale de France (Translated from the French by Frank T. Coulson)
38. Format of Books: J.P. Gumbert, Professor Emeritus, Leiden University
39. Format of Documents: Olivier Guyotjeannin, Directeur d’études à l’École nationale des chartes (Paris) (Translated from the French by Robert G. Babcock and Frank T. Coulson)
40. Quantitative Codicology: Ezio Ornato, CNRS, Paris (Translated from the French by Robert G. Babcock and Frank T. Coulson)
41. Comparative Codicology: Malachi Beit-Arié, Professor Emeritus of Codicology and Palaeography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
42. Pen Flourishing: Alison Stones, Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh
C. CULTURAL SETTING
43. Orality and Visible Culture: Paul Saenger, Newberry Library, Chicago
44. Who Were the Scribes: Alison Beach, Department of History, The Ohio State University
45. Book Trade: Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Guglielmo Cavallo, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma
46. Book Trade: Central, High and Late Middle Ages: Kouky Fianu, Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
D. SELECTED SCRIPTORIA AND LIBRARIES
47. An Overview: Donatella Nebbiai, Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Paris (Translated from the French by Frank T. Coulson)
48. Lindisfarne: Michelle P. Brown FSA, Professor Emerita, SAS, University of London
49. Northern Italy in the 7th and 8th Centuries: Paolo Cherubini, Professore ordinario, Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca
50. Insular Script in its Cultural Context: Michelle P. Brown, FSA, Professor Emerita, SAS, University of London
51. Montecassino: Francis Newton, Professor of Latin Emeritus, Duke University
52. St. Gall: Anna A. Grotans, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University
53. University of Paris: Richard and Mary Rouse, University of California, Los Angeles
54. Salisbury Cathedral Library: Teresa Webber, Trinity College, Cambridge
55. Florence: Xavier van Binnebeke, Bodleian Library, Oxford
E. VARIETIES OF BOOK USAGE
56. Books of Hours: Rowan Watson. Senior Curator, National Art Library, Word & Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum
57. Law: Susan L’Engle, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis University
58. The Manuscript Miscellany: George Rigg, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
59. Florilegia: Jacqueline Hamesse, Professor Emerita, L’Université catholique de Louvain
60. Theological Texts: Lesley Smith, Professor of Medieval Intellectual History, University of Oxford, Fellow in Politics and Senior Tutor, Harris Manchester College
61. Gloss and Text: Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
62. Glossaries and Grammars: Patrizia Lendinara, Dipartimento Culture e Società, Università di Palermo
63. The History of Manuscripts since 1500: B. Gregory Hays, Department of Classics, University of Virginia
64. Manuscript Cataloguing: Consuelo Dutschke, Columbia University

Informations pratiques :

The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography, éd. Frank Coulson et Robert Babcock, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020. 1072 p. ISBN: 9780195336948. Prix : 125 £.

Source : Oxford University Press

A volume that introduces new sources and offers fresh perspectives on a key era of transition, this book is of value to art historians and historians alike. From the dissolution of the Carolingian empire to the onset of the so-called 12th-century Renaissance, the transformative 10th–11th centuries witnessed the production of a significant number of illuminated manuscripts from present-day France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, alongside the better-known works from Anglo-Saxon England and the Holy Roman Empire. While the hybrid styles evident in book painting reflect the movement and re-organization of people and codices, many of the manuscripts also display a highly creative engagement with the art of the past. Likewise, their handling of subject matter—whether common or new for book illumination—attests to vibrant artistic energy and innovation. On the basis of rarely studied scientific, religious, and literary manuscripts, the contributions in this volume address a range of issues, including the engagement of 10th–11th century bookmakers with their Carolingian and Antique legacies, the interwoven geographies of book production, and matters of modern politics and historiography that have shaped the study of this complex period.

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Informations pratiques :

After the Carolingians. Re-defining Manuscript Illumination in the 10th and 11th Centuries, éd. Beatrice Kitzinger and Joshua O’Driscoll, De Gruyter, 2020 (Sense, Matter, and Medium, 2). 24.0 x 17.0 cm, 228 ill., 482 p. ISBN: 978-3-11-057467-8. Prix : 61,95 euros.

Source : De Gruyter

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository’s digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment.

Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological, palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of reader reception, image production, and the implications of new technologies for future discoveries.

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the book will appeal to scholars and students working in the disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History.

Table des matières :

1. Introduction – Benjamin Albritton and Elaine Treharne

Part I. Theory and Practice

2. What it is to be a Digitization Specialist: Chasing Medieval Materials in a Sea of Pixels – Astrid J. Smith
3. From the Divine to the Digital: Digitization as Resurrection and reconstruction – Keri Thomas
4. A Note on Technology and Functionality in Digital Manuscript Studies – Abigail G. Robertson
5. Ways of Seeing Manuscripts: Exploring Parker 2.0 – Andrew Prescott

Part II. Materialities

6. A Note on Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 210 – Orietta Da Rold
7. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 367 – Peter A. Stokes

Part II: A Study in (Digital) Codicology

8. Pocket Change: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 383 and the Value of the Virtual Object – Anya Adair
9. Rolling with It: Navigating Absence in the Digital Realm – Siân Echard

Part III. Translation and Transmission

10. ‘Glocal’ Matters: The Gospels of St Augustine as a Codex in Translation – Mateusz Fafinski
11. Encyclopaedic Notes in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 320 – John J. Gallagher
12. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 322: Tradition and Transmission – David F. Johnson
13. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 41 and 286: Digitization as Translation – Sharon M. Rowley

Part IV. Of Multimedia and the Multilingual

14. Fragmentation and Wholeness in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 16 – A. Joseph McMullen
15. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144 and 402: Mercian Intellectual Culture in pre-Conquest England (and beyond) – Lindy Brady
16. Philologia and Philology: Allegory, Multilingualism and the Corpus Martianus Capella – Elizabeth Boyle
17. Remediation and Multilingualism in Corpus Christi College, 402 – Carla María Thomas

Part V. Forms of Reading

18. Living with Books in Early Medieval England: Solomon and Saturn, Bibliophilia, and the Globalist Red Book of Darley – Erica Weaver
19. Severed Heads and Sutured Skins – Catherine E. Karko
20. Books Consumed, Books Multiplied: Martianus Capella, Ælfric’s Homilies, and the International Image Interoperability Framework – Alexandra Bolintineanu
21. Making a Home for Manuscripts on the Internet – Michelle R. Warren

Informations pratiques :

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age, éd. Benjamin Albritton, Georgia Henley, Elaine Treharne, Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9780367426613 Published July 15, 2020 by Routledge 234 Pages – 22 B/W Illustrations. Prix : 96 £.

Source : Routledge