Aspects of power and authority in the Middle Ages

Concepts of power and authority and the relationship between them were fundamental to many aspects of medieval society. The essays in this collection present a series of case studies that range widely, both chronologically and geographically, from Lombard Italy to early-modern Iberia and from Anglo-Saxon ...

Les principautés dans l'Occident médiéval à l'origine des régions

Under the influence

the concept of influence and the study of illuminated manuscripts

Eds., John Lowden and Alixe Bovey. Contiene ilustraciones. Contents: Alixe Bovey: Introduction ; Michelle P. Brown:; An Early Medieval Outbreak of 'Influenza'? Concepts of 'Influence', Medieval and Modern ; George Henderson: Insular Art: Influence and Inference ; Lawrence Nees: Godescalc's Career and the Problems of 'Influence'; William ...

Érasme de Rotterdam

exhortation à la lecture de l'évangile

L'Exhortation à la lecture de l'Évangile a eu un succès énorme au XVIe siècle car il est apparu comme un des plus beaux manifestes en faveur de la lecture de la Bible à l'usage des illiterati, des simples, à qui les Docteurs ...

Planagenêts et capétiens

confrontations et héritages

Au printemps 1204, Aliénor d#Aquitaine s#éteint tandis que les armées de Philippe Auguste conquièrent l#Anjou et la Normandie. La disparition de la reine coïncide avec l#effondrement de l#Empire Plantagenêt, tout comme, une cinquantaine d#années auparavant, son remariage avec Henri ...

L´écrit et le manuscrit à la fin du Moyen Âge

Aux XIVe, XVe et au début du XVIe siècle, le processus de création littéraire dévoile un nouveau rapport de l'auteur à son #uvre sous-tendu par le souci de donner corps à un livre, de donner vie à un objet qui transmettra un écrit. Cette ...

La méthode critique au Moyen Âge

etudes réunies

Le Moyen Âge est considéré par beaucoup comme l#« âge de la foi ». Aujourd#hui, on insiste plus volontiers sur les progrès qu#il a fait accomplir à la pensée, aux techniques, aux sciences. Mais peut-on parler pour autant d#une réflexion critique, voire, comme ...

Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land

from the origins to the Latin Kingdoms

This volume fills a major desideratum in historical scholarship on the religious history of the Holy Land. It presents a synthesis of our knowledge of the history of Christianity and the various churches that coexisted there from the beginnings of Christianity to the fall of ...

Cadre de vie et manières d'habiter

(XIIe-XVIe siècle). VIIIe Congrès International de la Société d'Archéologie Médievale (Paris, 11-13 octobre 2001)

TABLE DES MATIÈRES: Introduction. Habitat et organisation de l'espace. La cadre de vie. L'habitat dans son mileu. Conclusion.

People and space in the Middle Ages

300-1300

This book is about the relationship between populations, territory and community membership in the Middle Ages in western Europe. The contributors believe that a strong awareness of land and landscape in the present is essential to understanding the relationships between people and territory in the ...

Frontiers in the Middle Ages

proceedings of the 3rd European Congress of the FIDEM (Jyväskylä, June 2003)

The first uses of the term frontiere in thirteenth-fourteenth-century French were military, referring to the first line of troops in a battle. In architecture it meant the front of a building, and at the end of the fourteenth century it was first used as a ...

Manuscripts and monastic culture

religious reform and intellectual life in Twelfth-Century germany

Each of the studies in this volume draws upon a manuscript, or a group of manuscripts, that shed light on the practice of monastic life during this period of reform. Many, but not all, of the papers focus on the monastery of Admont in central ...

Superbia und Narziss

Personifikation und Allegorie in Miniaturen mittelalterlicher Handschriften

On the inconstancy of witches

Pierre de Lancre's Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons (1612)

The demonology Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons (1612) is an important text in the history of the early modern european witch persecutions. It is a report of the author's four-month stay in the Labourd (Basque) region of France, which is ...

Atlas historique du Golfe Persique= Historical atlas of the Persian Gulf

(XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)= (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

L#Atlas historique du golfe Persique est une initiative conjointe de l#École pratique des hautes études (Paris), de l#Université de Téhéran et du Centre de documentation du Ministère des affaires étrangères d#Iran. L#objectif de cette publication trilingue (français, anglais et persan ...

Giulia Gonzaga and the religious controversies of sixteenth-century Italy

This new study traces the evolution of donna Giulia's unorthodox religious ideas and networks. Considered alongside inquisitorial trial records and contemporary religious treatises, donna Giulia's written dialogue with Carnesecchi and others, vividly reflects the religious tensions of mid-sixteenth-century Italy. Giulia Gonzaga and the ...

Teaching and learning in Northern Europe 1000-1200

The essays in this collection focus not on texts but on people, specifically on teachers and their students, beginning with the late Carolingian era and continuing through the creation of monastic and secular schools in the centuries before the first universities. Central to the articles ...

"God wants it!"

the ideology of martyrdom in the Hebrew Crusade chronicles and its jewish and christian background

La fleur de France

les seigneurs d'Ile-de-France au XIIe siècle

Au XIIe siècle, l#Ile-de-France n#existe pas. Les habitants des pays autour de Paris se nomment les Français et leur terre la France. Cet espace régional, qui prend le nom d#Ile-de-France au XIVe siècle, est le produit d#une construction politique. Les souverains ...

Representations of power in medieval Germany

800-1500

This book brings together a group of leading experts on the political history of Germany and the medieval Empire from the Carolingian period to the end of the Middle Ages. Its purpose is to introduce and analyze key concepts in the study of medieval political ...