‎Sciences occultes‎

‎D. Renevey, C. Whitehead (eds.)‎

‎Medieval Translator. Traduire au Moyen Age Lost in Translation?‎

‎Paperback, XX+382 p., 38 b/w ill., 150 x 230 mm. ISBN 9782503531397. The contributions to this volume are organised in a way that bear out the vitality of translation activity in the medieval period and the resourcefulness of modern scholarship in addressing the phenomenon of translation at large. No other period relies so heavily on this literary process to construct its cultural identity. Translations from Latin into the vernacular, or from one vernacular into another, or even from a vernacular into the Latin language, are just a few of the many forms medieval translation can take. The codification of the translation process as appropriation, transformation, or accommodation does not sufficiently emphasize the overarching curiosity and interest that motivates any translation activity. Rather, preceding the stages of appropriation and re-interpretation, it is positive inquisitiveness and openness towards linguistic and cultural difference that generate the production of a new text and the transference of culture from one sphere to another. Translation practice creates a dialogic exchange between cultures, it recognises difference and diversity, both linguistic and cultural, yet it also shapes its new product for the use of an audience or readership that is concurrently aware of the reciprocal need to participate in that exchange, in order to improve its own culture. It is that positive inquisitiveness which this volume emphasizes. The volume initially addresses the way in which translators dealt with texts from the early medieval period. It then considers the phenomenon of bilingualism and the privileged relationship that England held with the continent, especially the Italian and French literary traditions. The third part of this volume tackles the problem of fifteenth-century religious translation in England and, to a lesser extent, France, and complicates it by showing its inevitable political implications. Understood more particularly as an act of cultural transfer, translation activity can also be considered beyond the linguistic process. The fourth part of the volume deals with several instances of translations from one genre into another, and from one media into another. The contributions to this volume provide some answers to conundrums in the theory and practice of translation encountered during the medieval period. They also point to new ways of considering this literary process, and by praising diversity and difference, they suggest a less traumatic way of reading Babel than is usually implied. Languages : French, English.‎

‎J. Dor, L. Johnson, J. Wogan-Browne (eds.)‎

‎New Trends in Feminine Spirituality The Holy Women of Liege and their Impact.‎

‎Hardback, XIV+350 p., 160 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503507682. The essays in this volume examine not only the beguinage religious life in the southern Low Countries, but also the impact of this movement on later medieval Sweden, England and France, the new modes of influence by women in their religious lives, and the revivals of feminine spirituality. Was there a women's movement in the thirteenth century and is such a question meaningful in its medieval context? Far from being resolved, the issue of whether women had a thirteenth-century renaissance has still decisively to unsettle the periodization of Western European history in twelfth and sixteenth-century humanist renaissances. Herbert Grundmann long ago demonstrated the participation of women in the eremitically-inspired reforming movements of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and in the production of vernacular literature. Yet it is upon his work that this volume builds, for the diocese of Liege is the key area in this development. It was from Liege that Jacques de Vitry approached the papacy to secure permission for the women of this bishopric of Liege, France and Germany to live together and to promote holiness in each other by mutual example. The seventeen contributors to this volume examine not only the beguine religious life in the southern Low Countries, but also the impact of this movement on later medieval Sweden, England and France, the new modes of influence exerted by women in their religious lives, and the revivals of feminine spirituality in the late medieval West through to contemporary North America. Research does not yet allow for a whole new synthesis, but this volume directs scholars to detailed work on specific localities and persons, with an awareness of the problems and possibilities of wider European comparisons. The contributors are: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and Marie-Elisabeth Henneau, Anne Blonstein, Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen, Alexandra Barratt, Penny Galloway, Brenda Bolton, Bridget Morris, Marjorie Curry Woods, Carolyne Larrington, Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Katie Normington, Jane Chance, Ulrike Wiethaus, Luce Irigaray and Antonia Lacey. Languages : English.‎

‎M. Dockray-Miller‎

‎New Trends in Feminine Spirituality The Holy Women of Liege and their Impact.‎

‎Hardback, X+476 p., 1 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503528366. Saints Edith and AEthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience narrates the lives of two Anglo-Saxon princesses who were venerated as saints long after their deaths. St Edith, the daughter of King Edgar, was renowned as a patron of the arts and the church during her lifetime; her posthumous miracles included protection of Wilton Abbey and the English royal family. St AEthelthryth, who retained her virginity through not one but two royal marriages, also worked numerous miracles at her tomb at the Abbey of Ely. The poems, composed at Wilton Abbey in the early fifteenth century, allow us to see how late medieval religious women practised their devotion to early medieval women saints. The Middle English verse texts are presented here in the original and in translation with explanatory notes and glossary. A thorough introduction provides extensive contextualization and analysis of the two poems as well as description of the manuscript and its language and prosody. These primary source texts are important contributions to the study of English history, language, literature, religion, and women's studies. Languages : English, Middle English.‎

‎A. Barratt‎

‎Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing A Middle English Trotula-Text‎

‎Hardback, XII+169 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503510736. This study comprises a critical edition, using all the five extant MSS, of the most popular of the Middle English gynaecological texts deriving from the Latin Trotula-text. This study comprises a critical edition, using all the five extant MSS, of the most popular of the Middle English gynaecological texts deriving from the Latin Trotula-text. The Knowing of Women's Kind in Childing is a short fifteenth-century prose treatise which claims to be translated from Latin texts (or Latin and French, according to some manuscripts) that derive ultimately from the Greek. It has a unique importance as it was written by a woman, for a female audience, and on the subject of women. The text considers women's physical constitution, what makes them different from men (primarily the possession of a womb) and, in particular, the three types of problem that the womb causes. That it was written for a female audience is made explicit in the Prologue where the writer explains that he has translated this text out of French and Latin into English because literate women are more likely to read English than any other language and can then pass on the information it contains to illiterate women. More controversial must be the claim that this text was written by a woman. The text is a translation, no doubt by a man, but one of his ultimate sources was a text attributed to 'Trotula', in the Middle Ages believed to be the name of a midwife or gynaecologist from Salerno, who wrote extensively on women's ailments, childbirth and beauty care. Recent work shows that such a woman, probably named Trota, did exist and that she did write a gynaecological treatise, the Trotula or 'little Trota', which became closely associated with two other texts not by her. All three however became very popular and were widely disseminated under her name. Large sections of The Knowing of Woman's Kind come, via an Old French translation, from a version of the Liber de Sinthomatibus Mulierum (the Cum auctor), the first element in this Trotula ensemble. Languages : English.‎

‎M. Cawley‎

‎Send me God The Lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of La Ramee, Arnulf, Lay Brother of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers, by Goswin of Bossut‎

‎Hardback, L+258 p., 4 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503514352. This volume is comprised of translations of a trilogy of Cistercian lives composed by the same hagiographer at the celebrated abbey of Villers in Brabant. In the early thirteenth century the diocese of Liege witnessed an extraordinary religious revival, known to us largely through the abundant corpus of saints' lives from that region. Cistercian monks, nuns, beguines, and recluses formed close-knit networks of spiritual friendship that easily crossed the boundaries of gender, religious status, and even language. Holy women such as Mary of Oignies and Christina the Astonishing were held up by their biographers as models of orthodoxy and miraculous powers. Less familiar but no less fascinating are the male saints of the region. In this volume Martinus Cawley, ocso, has translated a trilogy of Cistercian lives composed by the same hagiographer, Goswin, who was a monk and cantor at the celebrated abbey of Villers in Brabant. Although all three of these saints were connected with the same order, their versions of holiness represent a study in contrasts, from the compassionate nun Ida of Nivelles, remarkable for her eucharistic raptures, to the fiercely ascetic lay brother Arnulf, to the gentle monk Abundus, renowned for his deep liturgical and Marian piety. The title Send Me God derives from a revealing catch-phrase that devout men and women used to request prayers from their spiritual friends. Languages : English.‎

‎J. Jenkins, K. J. Lewis (eds.)‎

‎St Katherine of Alexandria Texts and Contexts in Western Medieval Europe‎

‎Hardback, XIV+257 p., 15 b/w ill., 160 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503512907. This volume contains an interdisciplinary collection of essays on St Katherine of Alexandria and her followers. St Katherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in Medieval Europe. This book constitutes the first interdisciplinary collection of essays to explore her cult and the range of meanings which St Katherine embodied for her devotees. The essays between them consider a wide range of evidence, from visual representations (wall paintings, manuscript illuminations, stained glass, and seals), to literary texts (lives of the saint, prayers, hymns, devotional manuscripts, and breviaries) as well as documentary evidence (wills, chronicles, ecclesiastical records and antiquarian writings) and the physical remains of churches and chapels dedicated to St Katherine. These sources are interpreted as part of wider manifestations of devotion to the saint in England, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Wales. The authors approach the cult from varying disciplinary and methodological perspectives, but all seek to uncover the various religious, social and cultural messages contained within the different versions of St Katherine which these particular texts and contexts offer. The volume as a whole therefore sheds light not only on devotion to St Katherine, but also on a much wider range of issues and ideologies governing the lives of her devotees and the societies in which they lived. Languages : English.‎

‎C. Waters (ed.)‎

‎Virgins and Scholars A Fifteenth-Century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria‎

‎Hardback, XII+494 p., 2 colour ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503514529. This collection of prose vitae of four virgins and scholars - Saints John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria - was almost certainly copied, and the texts very likely composed, at Syon Abbey or Sheen Charterhouse in the mid-fifteenth century. The lives cover a wide range of hagiographic modes, from hagiographic romance to affective, devotional appreciation to doctrinal treatise in narrative form. From the life of Jerome, composed by a monk for his aristocratic spiritual daughter, to the life of Katherine, reputedly translated for Henry V, to those of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, which set their subjects in a recognizably Birgittine context, they show the interaction of men and women, lay and monastic, in the production of devotional literature. The diversity of their approaches and sources, moreover, shows the links between English dynastic politics and continental religious literature and spiritual traditions. As examples of translation practices, of monastic politics, and of religious instruction, these lives provide a window onto the devotional culture and literary worlds of fifteenth-century Europe. Languages : English, Middle English.‎

‎B. M. Kienzle‎

‎Hildegard of Bingen and her Gospel Homilies Speaking New Mysteries‎

‎Hardback, XVI+338 pages., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503517773. This text constitutes the first in-depth study of Hildegard of Bingen's Expositiones and of her exegesis, preaching, and use of sources. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the only medieval woman known to have authored systematic works of exegesis, composed fifty-eight little-studied Expositiones euangeliorum, homilies on twenty-seven Gospel passages. Hildegard described her divine charge to restore the tottering faith of her era through the revelation of hidden mysteries in the Scriptures. She was to continue the exegetical tradition of the Fathers and to construct moral fortifications with the words of Scripture in order to defend her sisters against the forces of evil. Hildegard of Bingen and her Gospel Homilies constitutes the first in-depth study of Hildegard's Expositiones and of her exegesis, preaching, and use of sources. It explores the Expositiones in the context of Hildegard's intellectual and cultural milieu and underscores the central role of biblical interpretation in the seer's works. Furthermore, this book re-examines Hildegard's self-depiction in the context of monastic education for women, the magistra's exchange with her mentors and friends, and her rich use of divine voice to empower her own expression. This is a new, exciting, and erudite study on one of the most influential female mystics. Languages : English, Latin, German.‎

‎C. P. Collette‎

‎Performing Polity Women and Agency in the Anglo-French Tradition, 1385-1620‎

‎Hardback, VI+218 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503518008. This volume draws on political and gender theories to provide fresh readings of a variety of texts centred in the power and agency of women during the period 1385 to 1620. Reading a variety of texts centred in the power and agency of women during the period 1385 to 1620, this book examines changing ideals of gender within the context of changing ideologies of governance and polity. Together the essays that comprise this book lay out three lines of thinking about women and polity: that the ideology of late medieval gender roles articulated in Anglo-French texts of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries outlined important roles for women?s voice and agency in supporting the larger polity as well as the smaller household; that the acceptance and the value of those roles diminished as models of polity in both Church and State in England changed in the early modern period; that to see this change merely in terms of change in expectations of gender roles is to miss the vital link between the status of women and the political construction of individual relationship to authority. Woman is the site on which society delineates the degree of freedom and independence it will tolerate in the political subject. The attention directed to women?s roles in the plethora of woman-centred stories, courtesy books, prayer books, sermons and tracts in the period 1385-1620 is an index to shifting alignments of power that replaced medieval models of partnership and co-operation with models of obedience. Languages : English, French.‎

‎S. Kocher‎

‎Allegories of Love in Marguerite Porete's 'Mirror of Simple Souls'‎

‎Hardback, X+218 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503519029. This volume analyses the role of allegory in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls, the oldest known mystical work written in French, and the only surviving medieval text by a woman writer executed as a heretic. Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls, dating probably to the 1290s, is the oldest known mystical work written in French, and the only surviving medieval text by a woman writer executed as a heretic. This volume analyses its use of interconnected allegories that describe the soul's approach toward God in terms of human social relationships. These include romantic love between lovers in same-sex and mixed-sex pairs, relations among people of differing social rank such as servants and nobles, and rich and poor engaged in economic transactions such as taxation and gift-giving. Gender, rank, and exchange serve as remarkably versatile allegories for spiritual states. Porete uses comparison as an organizing principle that underlies her supple and creative use of allegory, personification, parables, metaphors, similes, proverbs, and glosses. The theologian invites her audience to cross boundaries among literal and figurative registers of meaning, in ways that are emblematic of the soul's ultimate leap toward the divine. Porete's social allegories, the author contends, can provide us with valuable evidence of a medieval thinker's conceptions of God, gender, language, and human capacity for change. Languages : English, Middle French.‎

‎A. B. Mulder-Bakker (ed.)‎

‎Living Saints of the Thirteenth Century The Lives of Yvette, Anchoress of Huy; Juliana of Cornillon, Author of the Corpus Christi Feast; and Margaret the Lame, Anchoress of Magdeburg‎

‎Hardback, IX+416 p., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503520773. This volume presents translations, with accompanying introductions, of the Lives of three thirteenth-century figures: Yvette of Huy, Margaret the Lame of Magdeburg, and the anchoress Juliana of Cornillon. This volume presents the Lives of three women of the thirteenth century, all written by contemporaries. In the late Middle Ages, almost every town in Northern Europe had its own anchoress, who would keep in touch with the citizens through a window looking onto the churchyard or through a door and window looking into the church (as shown in the cover illustration). Such women, along with the beguines, Cistercian nuns and monks, reform-minded clergy, and devout laywomen, formed what Barbara Newman has termed 'close-knit networks of spiritual friendship that easily crossed the boundaries of gender, religious status, and even language'. This volume presents the lives of two recluses, Yvette of Huy, whose life was recorded by her spiritual friend, the Premonstratensian Hugh of Floreffe, and Margaret the Lame of Magdeburg, whose lessons were recorded by her confessor, the Dominican John of Magdeburg (introduced and translated by Jo Ann McNamara, and Gertrud Jaron Lewis and Tilman Lewis respectively). The anchoress Eve of Saint-Martin was an author herself. Her memoir in French on her friend Juliana's and her own labour for the new Feast of Corpus Christi forms the basis of the Latin Life of Juliana of Cornillon (introduced and translated by Barbara Newman). Languages : English, Latin.‎

‎J. Brown‎

‎Three Women of Liege A Critical Edition of and Commentary on the Middle English Lives of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d'Oignies‎

‎Hardback, VIII+350 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503524719. Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d'Oignies were three of the famous late twelfth-/early thirteenth-century 'holy women' from the region of Brabant and Liege: their life stories (written in Latin by Philip of Clairvaux, Thomas of Cantimpre, and Jacques of Vitry) were read throughout later medieval Europe, and Margery Kempe modelled her Book, and her life, upon Marie?s. The Latin lives of these beguine saints were not well known in England, but they were translated into English in the fifteenth century, and survive together in a single manuscript: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 114. Three Women of Liege is the first critical edition of these Lives, which represent some of the only evidence of English interest in continental female mysticism. This edition includes an introduction that discusses the role of the manuscript in England and three essays that analyze the roles of these beguines in their Low Countries home of Liege along with the English reception of their lives. The edition itself is also extensively annotated and glossed, making it accessible to any scholar of English medieval literature. Languages : English, Middle English.‎

‎E. Poirot‎

‎prophetes Elie et Elisee dans la litterature chretienne ancienne‎

‎Paperback, 644 p., 15,6 x 23,4 cm. ISBN 9782503506449. La place qu'occupe le prophete Elie dans le judaisme, la chretiente et l'islam d'aujourd'hui invite a se pencher sur la pensee des auteurs des premiers siecles du christianisme a son sujet. Cet ouvrage fouille porte sur la litterature chretienne ancienne, dans ses differentes langues, grecque, orientales et latine. Bien que son objet soit la patristique proprement dite, on y trouve aussi des indications dans les domaines liturgique, canonique, apocryphe. Cette investigation permet de reperer la continuite-discontinuite de divers univers spirituels, les filiations d'interpretations typologiques ou symboliques. Aux nombreuses allusions a Elie sont jointes celles qui concernent son disciple, Elisee. L'analyse diachronique des plus importantes d'entre elles montre l'apparition et le developpement de telle ou telle idee, suivant les regions et les auteurs. Languages : French.‎

‎J. Gippert (ed.)‎

‎Caucasian Albanian Palimpsests of Mount Sinai Volume III: The Armenian Layer‎

‎Hardback, 229 p., 30,5 x 44. ISBN 9782503538969. The term 'bibliology' is used to refer to the sum of disciplines that deal with books, whether manuscript or printed: the history of books, the history of ancient libraries, bibliophily, bibliopoly, the French concept 'bibliotheconomie', and bibliography. Languages : English.‎

‎M. Beit-Arie, C. Sirat, M. Glatzer (eds.)‎

‎Codices hebraicis litteris exarati quo tempore scripti fuerint exhibentes. Tome II, de 1021 a 1079‎

‎Hardback, 128 p., 62 pl., 30,5 x 44. ISBN 9782503508955. Le volume I des Codices hebraicis litteris exarati quo tempore scripti fuerint exhibentes des Monumenta palaeographica medii aevi, Series hebraica decrit et publie les reproductions des 18 codices les plus anciens et parmi eux 14 bibles. Nombre d'entre elles ne sont que des fragments ou meme des folios mutiles, mais plusieurs sont des volumes presque complets dont l'interet n'est pas seulement paleographique, elles sont les textes de base de la critique textuelle de l'Ecriture sainte et de l'etude moderne de la massore. Les introductions, celle de Colette Sirat en francais et en anglais, celle de Malachi Beit-Arie en hebreu et ses remarques codicologiques en anglais, replacent les manuscrits dans leur contexte, pour les non-hebraisants comme pour les hebraisants. Un index general en francais et un autre en hebreu completent le volume. Languages : French.‎

‎M. Beit-Arie, C. Sirat, M. Glatzer (eds.)‎

‎Codices hebraicis litteris exarati quo tempore scripti fuerint exhibentes. Tome IV, de 1144 a 1200‎

‎Hardback, 147 p., 99 b/w ill., 30,5 x 44. ISBN 9782503522609. Le volume IV presente trente-deux manuscrits en caracteres hebraiques portant des indications de date de 1144 a 1200 (mss 70 a 101). Il a ete redige selon les memes regles que les trois volumes precedents des Codices. Les bibliotheques ou sont conserves la plupart des manuscrits de ce tome restent encore celles ou se trouvent les nombreux fragments provenant des guenizot du Moyen-Orient, et tout particulierement celles du Caire : a Saint-Petersbourg, la Bibliotheque nationale de Russie : douze manuscrits ; C et partie de D) ; a Oxford, Bodleian Library : sept manuscrits (mss 73, 75, 76, 78, 89, 94 et le manuscrit ci-dessus mentionne note 3) ; a Cambridge, University Library, deux manuscrits (mss 74 et 90) ; a Paris, la Bibliotheque de l?Alliance israelite universelle : deux manuscrits (ms. 83 et partie de 96) ; a Paris toujours, la Collection Mosseri egalement deux manuscrits (partie de 96 et B), a Londres, la British Library (ms. 72 et partie de D). Les manuscrits provenant d?Europe chretienne sont conserves dans des bibliotheques anciennement constituees (ou ont recemment change de main) : Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana (ms. 71 ), Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (ms. 79) ; Hambourg, Staats-und Universitatbibliothek (ms. 81) ; Londres, British Library (ms. 84), Londres, Valmadona Trust Library (ms. 85) ; Bologne, Biblioteca Universitaria (ms. 91) Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France (ms. 95), et aussi la Bibliotheque universitaire de Toronto (ms. E). La part prise par les codices europeens conserves en leur entier ou presque avait commence dans le tome II ; ici, elle augmente et, apres 1250, ces manuscrits seront les plus nombreux. Bien qu?ils ne soient pas representatifs de leur epoque, nos manuscrits dates donnent des indices forts des changements qui se produisirent dans l?histoire des textes et des mentalites durant la seconde partie du XIIe siecle. Les nouvelles tendances se voient aussi dans l?aspect exterieur, codicologique, des manuscrits. L?arrivee des manuscrits europeens change ?« la face ?» des livres en caracteres hebreux ; c?est ce que montreront plus loin les remarques codicologiques . Languages : French, Hebrew.‎

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‎Documentos de epoca visigoda escritos en pizarra (siglos VI-VIII) Tomo I: Presentacion, Edicion de los textos.Tomo II. Introduccion, Laminas, Bibliografia, Indices‎

‎Hardback, 2 vol., 380 p., 30,5 x 44. ISBN 9782503509723. Languages : French.‎

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‎comptes sur tablettes de cire de Jean Sarrazin, chambellan de saint Louis‎

‎Hardback, 2 vol., 380 p.,. ISBN 9782503509723. Documentos de epoca visigoda escritos en pizarra (siglos VI-VIII) Tomo I: Presentacion, Edicion de los textos.Tomo II: Introduccion, Laminas, Bibliografia, Indices. Languages : French.‎

‎J. Gippert (ed.)‎

‎Old Georgian Palimpsest Codex Vindobonensis georgicus 2‎

‎Hardback, XXXVI+323 p., 7 colour ill., 30,5 x 44. ISBN 9782503517131. The present work, starting volume of the new Series Ibero-Caucasica, contains a complete edition of the Old Georgian texts in Asomtavruli script that are preserved in the lower layer of the famous palimpsest Codex Vindobonensis georgicus no. 2 of the Austrian National Library, Vienna. Based on a thorough analysis with the spectral imaging method provided by the MuSiS imaging system, more than 95% of the original content has been deciphered and restored. Of the 13 original manuscripts written in Asomtavruli script, six pertain to the so-called "Khanmeti" period of the Old Georgian tradition extending from the beginning of Georgian literacy in the 5th roughly to the 8th century A.D. The Khanmeti texts range from fragments of early translations of the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke), parts of the Old Testament (Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Esdras), and the Protevangelium of James to legends of Saints (Cyprianus and Justina, Christina). The post-Khanmeti texts (dating roughly from the 9th-10th centuries) comprise fragments of a Lectionary (lectures from Exodus, Isaiah, the Gospel and the 3rd letter of John, and Acts of Apostles), Old Testament texts (I and II Chronicles), and several homiletic texts (Epiphanius of Cyprus on Measures and Weights, Gregor of Nyssa on the Build of Man a.o.). In the edition, all texts are represented both in a diplomatic transliteration (in Asomtavruli script) and a plain transcription (in modern Mkhedruli script), together with digitally enhanced images of the pages concerned. Additionally, the text passages are contrasted line by line with the most relevant parallels (Old Georgian, Greek, Armenian, Syriac, Latin). The contents of the texts are summarized in several consolidated indexes. Languages : English.‎

‎J. Dufour‎

‎rouleaux des morts, monumenta palaeographica medii arvi.‎

‎Hardback, 296 p., 103 b/w ill. + 6 colour ill., 30,5 x 44cm ISBN 9782503513645. Du milieu du VIIIe s. a 1536, date de la dissolution des monasteres anglais par Henry VIII, diverses eglises d?Europe occidentale (principalement de Benedictins et de chanoines) eurent coutume de solliciter des prieres pour un/des membre(s) defunt(s) de leur communaute au moyen de brefs ou de rouleaux mortuaires, transmis par des brevigeruli (ou porte-rouleaux). Les brefs mortuaires, reduits souvent a des languettes de parchemin, ecrits en nombre, etaient laisses aux eglises visitees. Quant aux rouleaux mortuaires, ils etaient constitues d?un nombre variable de feuilles de parchemin (le tout pouvant atteindre 30 m de long) ; chacun d?entre eux debutait par un faire-part de deces (ou encyclique) ; a tour de role, les eglises visitees par le porte-rouleau apposaient un accuse de reception (ou titre) ; frequemment, ils etaient opisthographes, c?est a dire ecrits sur les deux faces. L?encyclique peut etre precedee, a partir du XIIIe s., d?une peinture ou de dessins (souvent d?excellente qualite) et suivie, a compter du XIVe s., d?une liste des confraternites conclues par l?eglise expeditrice (sorte de liste-programme pour le porte-rouleau). Si la plupart des brefs mortuaires ont disparu en raison de leur petite taille, les rouleaux des morts ont eux-memes beaucoup souffert au cours des ages, nombre d?entre eux ayant meme ete depeces pour servir de feuilles de garde a des mss. Au total, on ne conserve (en original, par des copies ou des editions anciennes) qu?environ 450 pieces, alors que certainement des milliers ont circule. Les plus anciens originaux connus sont des fragments de la seconde moitie du Xe s. Plusieurs criteres ont prevalu pour le choix des quelque 110 planches presentees. Tout d?abord, bien sur, un critere paleographique, car l?ensemble des ecritures est date et localise avec precision, ou du moins datable avec une fourchette chronologique etroite. On trouvera dans ce volume des ecritures livresques, des mentions avec lettres enclavees (a rapprocher de celles des pages-titres des mss. ou des inscriptions lapidaires) comme des ecritures cursives ou personnelles ; les pieces retenues ont les origines les plus diverses, francaises, anglaises, belges, hollandaises, allemandes, etc. Ensuite, un critere historique : une copie du debut du XIXe s. temoigne de la mise en circulation de rouleaux mortuaires par l?abbaye de Ripoll, malheureusement incendiee peu apres ; ou encore un titre de Noyon montre l?aprete des luttes intercommunautaires a propos des reliques. Egalement, un interet documentaire, comme la charte scellee, tenant lieu de ?« rotulus ?», de l?abbesse de Pielenhofen (Baviere ; 1435). Ou encore, un interet artistique avec la reproduction des magnifiques dessins ornant le debut du rouleau de Lucy de Vere, prieure de Castle Hedingham (Essex ; vers 1230) ou prepares pour le rouleau de John Islip, abbe de Westminster (vers 1532). Dans bien des cas, les itineraires peuvent etre etablis avec une grande precision : une carte retrace celui d?un rouleau mortuaire expedie en 1406 par Saint-Bavon de Gand qui, en 20 mois, recueillit plus de 800 titres d?Amsterdam au nord a Barcelone au sud. Enfin, sont reproduits divers brefs mortuaires, documents a peu pres ignores jusqu?alors. Languages : French, Latin.‎

‎M. Gutierrez Alvarez (ed.)‎

‎Zamora. Coleccion epigrafica‎

‎Hardback, 206 p., 77 pl., 30,5 x 44. ISBN 9788477195887. The Series Hispanica has been launched with the publication of the first volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Hispaniae Medievalium containing inscriptions from the province of Zamora. The paleographic, epigraphic and historiographic importance of these written monuments - the inscriptions- is obvious. In paleographic terms, the Zamora Corpus provides for the first time an uninterupted view of the development of capital script up to the 15th century, based on a series of photographs arranged according to types of script, an aspect of the history of writing which was neglected until now. Languages : Spanish.‎

‎H. Atsma, S. Barret, J. Vezin (eds.)‎

‎plus anciens documents originaux de l'abbaye de Cluny Tome III. Documents n?° 61 a 90, Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Collection de Bourgogne, vol. 77, n?° 62 a 89‎

‎Hardback, 140 p., incl. ill., 30,5 x 44. ISBN 9782503511887. Edition en fac-simile a grandeur d'original, sous les auspices de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, avec le concours de l'Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, IVe section (Sorbonne) et de l'Institut historique allemand de Paris. Languages : French.‎

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‎Moyen Francais-3 (1978) Articles sur Berinus, Perspectives medievales sur la mort, Francois Villon, Octovien de Saint-Gelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Villoniana: bibliographie 1959-1978 par G.DiStefano, Notices bibliographiques‎

‎Paperback, 179 p., 15,5 x 21,5. ISBN 13110471. Languages : French.‎

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‎Moyen Francais- 5 (1979) Melanges in Memoriam Gustav Reese, Musique naturelle et musique artificielle‎

‎Paperback, 311 p., 15,5 x 21,5. ISBN 13110487. Languages : French.‎

‎R.M. Bidler, G. Di Stefano (eds.)‎

‎Moyen Francais- 37 (1995) Le rire, le sourire... Les larmes, Actes du Colloque Intl, Universite McGill, Montreal, 3-4 octobre 1994‎

‎Paperback, 172 p., 15,5 x 21,5. ISBN 13110478. Languages : French.‎