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Talking about history in eleventh century England: the Encomium Emmae Reginae and the court of Harthacnut
September 20, 2011 By
Talking about history in eleventh century England: the Encomium Emmae Reginae and the court of Harthacnut Tyler, Elizabeth M. Early Medieval Europe, 13 (4) (2005) Abstract The Encomium Emmae Reginae was written in the early 1040s to support the interests of Queen Emma amidst the factionalism which marked the end of the period of Danish […]
SIMONE MARTINI’S ST. LOUIS OF TOULOUSE AND ITS CULTURAL CONTEXT
February 27, 2011 By
SIMONE MARTINI’S ST. LOUIS OF TOULOUSE AND ITS CULTURAL CONTEXT Scotti, Suzette Denise MA Thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, August (2009) Abstract This thesis provides a cultural and historical context for Simone Martini’s painting, St. Louis of Toulouse Crowning Robert of Naples, a landmark of Early Renaissance Sienese art. It offers a detailed […]
Continuity and Discontinuity: Illuminating and Interlacing the Adventures of Viviane and Merlin in the Prose Merlin
February 25, 2011 By
Continuity and Discontinuity: Illuminating and Interlacing the Adventures of Viviane and Merlin in the Prose Merlin Fabry, Irene Marginalia, Vol. 3 (2006) Abstract In the Estoire de Merlin, Viviane and Merlin’s love affair is illustrated and narrated intermittently through the use of manuscript illumination and the technique of interlace, with formulas indicating a change in […]
‘On Englyssh Tunge Out of Frankys’: Translation and ‘Tourning’ in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne
February 25, 2011 By
‘On Englyssh Tunge Out of Frankys’: Translation and ‘Tourning’ in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne Dearnley, Elizabeth Marginalia, Vol. 4, (2005-2006) Cambridge Yearbook Abstract In a poem which clearly describes itself as a translation of the Manuel des Pechiez‘tourned…/On englyssh tonge’, the description of the transfer of ‘sacrylege’ from French into English is one of Handlyng Synne’s most self-consciously […]
GENDER AND AUTHORITY IN THE MEDIEVAL FRENCH LAI MIRANDA GRIFFIN
February 13, 2011 By
GENDER AND AUTHORITY IN THE MEDIEVAL FRENCH LAI GRIFFIN, MIRANDA Forum for Modern Language Studies, Vol.35 (1999) Abstract THE TWELVE LAIS in the manuscript Harley 978 in the British Library have traditionally been attributed to a twelfth-century author by the name of “Marie de France”, a name coined in the 16th century to designate the author […]
The Blood of Christ, Eucharistic blood or blood relic ?
February 8, 2011 By
The Blood of Christ, Eucharistic blood or blood relic ? Vernard, Marc (Université de Paris X-Nanterre) Tabularia « Études », n° 9, (2009) Abstract There is an intriguing coincidence between the moment when the Latin Church abandoned the rite of receiving communion wine and the development of the cult of the « natural » precious […]
Political meaning of the Holy Blood in medieval Europe
February 8, 2011 By
Political meaning of the Holy Blood in medieval Europe Tran-Duc, Lucile (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie) Tabularia « Études », n° 8, (2008) Abstract In the Middle Ages, Holy blood relics were frequently translated, first between the Orient and the West, later throughout Europe. Quite often the aristocracy played a major role in the process of […]
From the Worship of Relics to the Cult of Precious Blood
February 8, 2011 By
From the Worship of Relics to the Cult of Precious Blood Vauchez, André (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Institut de France) Tabularia « Études », n° 8, (2008) Abstract The worship of saints’relics played a major role in the Christianisation of Europe in the High Middle Ages. From the 11th century onwards, the religious fervour of […]
Middle English and Anglo-Norman in Contact
January 31, 2011 By
Middle English and Anglo-Norman in Contact Ingham, Richard (Birmingham City University) ENGLISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF JAPAN CONFERENCE, TOKYO UNIVERSITY, MAY (2009) Abstract Anglo-Norman: some ‘internet myths’ 1. ‘Anglo-Normans had an active command of Middle English, which had become, by the end of the twelfth century, their first language. From the 1160s, vernacular French had been declining and […]
La première Normandie (Xe–XIe siècles): sur les frontières de la haute Normandie: identité et construction d’une principauté
January 30, 2011 By
La première Normandie (Xe–XIe siècles): sur les frontières de la haute Normandie: identité et construction d’une principauté Bauduin, Pierre Caen, Presses Universitaires de Caen, (2004) Abstract In the 1990s medieval historians were very preoccupied with border studies. No sooner had the dust settled on the collapse of the Berlin Wall than medievalists were taking advantage of […]
The cartulary B of the chapter of Coutances : story of a resurrection
January 24, 2011 By
The cartulary B of the chapter of Coutances : story of a resurrection Fontanel-Deslondes, Julie (Archives départementales du Calvados) Tabularia « Études », n° 9, (2009) Abstract Three cartularies were written by the chapter of Coutances in the XIVth century, as the « mis fortunes of time » had endangered the conservation of the charters. […]
‘Meu en devocion, et pensant au prouffit et salut de l’ame de lui et de tous ses parens…’ Les bourgeois de Caen, la mémoire et l’au-delà (1396-1500)
January 24, 2011 By
‘Meu en devocion, et pensant au prouffit et salut de l’ame de lui et de tous ses parens…’ Les bourgeois de Caen, la mémoire et l’au-delà (1396-1500) Angers, Denise (Université de Montréal) Tabularia « Études », n° 10, (2010) Abstract As well as their fellow citizens from other parts of France, the burghers of Caen […]
Cartulary of the Abbey Saint-Étienne of Caen (12th century) : Essay for Documentary Archaeology
January 24, 2011 By
Cartulary of the Abbey Saint-Étienne of Caen (12th century) : Essay for Documentary Archaeology Fujimoto, Tamiko (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie) Tabularia « Études », n° 10, (2010) Abstract In spite of the historical importance of the abbey Saint-Étienne of Caen in the Anglo-Norman world, its cartulary, whose original manuscript strayed off during the nineteenth century, […]
Engendering vice: The exemplarity of the old French fabliaux
December 28, 2010 By
Engendering vice: The exemplarity of the old French fabliaux By Ingrid D. Horton PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas, 2007 Overview: During the nineteenth century, the fabliaux were rediscovered at a time when Romance scholars, particularly German, advocated categorizing different types of literature into a coherent system and rigid taxonomy. They created a hierarchy of genres […]
La Devinette Du Bénédicité et Les Distiques du Pseudo-Caton: Observations sur la Parodie Médiévale
August 28, 2009 By
La Devinette Du Bénédicité et Les Distiques du Pseudo-Caton: Observations sur la Parodie Médiévale Roy, Bruno Florilegium, vol.1 (1979) Introduction Demande: Pourquoy ne dist on jamais benedicite a la souppe? Response: Pour tante que cieulz qui le diroit, Sa part tandis perdre pourroit; Et on dit d’usage qu’”a la soupe, S’on ne t’appelle, se t’y […]
‘LEZ PRIXONIER ESCLAIVE DE NICOPOLIT’ À propos d’un feuillet du manuscrit Épinal 59 (217)
May 18, 2009 By
‘LEZ PRIXONIER ESCLAIVE DE NICOPOLIT’ À propos d’un feuillet du manuscrit Épinal 59 (217) Agrigoroaei, Vladimir Studia Patzinaka, 7, 2008, pp. 79-107 Abstract Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus nous dit Horace dans son Ars poetica. Si la montagne en travail qui risque d’enfanter une souris ridicule est le danger imminent des grands débuts de textes […]
LE CINEMA A L’EPREUVE DES REPRESENTATIONS MEDIEVALES : L’ENLUMINURE ET LE THEATRE
May 18, 2009 By
LE CINEMA A L’EPREUVE DES REPRESENTATIONS MEDIEVALES : L’ENLUMINURE ET LE THEATRE Dragomirescu, Corneliu Studia Patzinaka, no. 7, 2008, pp. 25-58 Abstract Réaliser un film situé dans une époque historique donnée suppose un discours conscient sur le passé. Dus à l’ingérence des cinéastes sur le terrain de l’historien, ces films ont le plus souvent été […]
La structuration de l’espace théâtral des mystères et la performance
May 18, 2009 By
La structuration de l’espace théâtral des mystères et la performance Dragomirescu, Corneliu Studia Patzinaka, 5, 2007, pp. 83-89 Abstract Le spectacle théâtral, dans son évolution à travers le Moyen Age, se caractérise par un complexe de ruptures et continuités entre le théâtre de l’Eglise, avec le drame liturgique, et le théâtre de la Ville, notamment […]
Bazgazul, seigneur de Ballaquie À la recherche du valaque musulman de steppe
May 17, 2009 By
Bazgazul, seigneur de Ballaquie À la recherche du valaque musulman de steppe Agrigoroaei, Vladimir Studia Patzinaka, 4 / 2007, pp. 195-218 Abstract Bazgazul était un souverain étranger. Il était à la foi le seigneur de Valachie et un fameux sarrasin. Ses troupes étaient alliées aux armées infidèles d’Abzin, le Grant Turcq de Perse, celui qui […]
Trois techniques d’excavation Nouvelles recherches sur le complexe Basarabi-Murfatlar
May 17, 2009 By
Trois techniques d’excavation Nouvelles recherches sur le complexe Basarabi-Murfatlar Agrigoroaei, Vladimir Studia Patzinaka, 4.1, 2007, pp. 45-71 Abstract Les églises rupestres de Basarabi-Murfatlar (département de Constanţa, Roumanie) se trouvent sur le versant nord-ouest d’une colline de craie, à quelques dizaines de mètres du Canal Danube-Mer Noire. Tout près, de l’autre côté de la colline, est […]
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