Renaissance

A. Adamska, M. Mostert

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2004 Hardcover. VIII 546 p., 15 b/w ill. 12 colour ill., 7 b/w line art, 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503514499.

Compared with most of Continental Europe North of the Alps, the introduction of writing in East Central Europe (Bohemia, Poland and Hungary) took place with a considerable delay. Much is known about East Central European uses of writing, although only a fragment of this knowledge is known outside the region. Gathered by historians, palaeographers and codicologists, diplomatists, art historians, literary historians and others, this knowledge has hardly ever been studied in the light of recent discussions on medieval literacy and communication. Work done in the Czech, Polish and Hungarian traditions of scholarship has never been subjected to a comparative analysis. Furthermore, the question of the relation between writing and other forms of communication in the region remains largely unexplored. The volume serves a double purpose. For the first time, a collection of contributions on medieval literacy in East Central Europe is put before the forum of international scholarship. It is also hoped to further discussions of modes of communication, literate behaviour and mentalities among scholars working in the region.

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A. Barratt

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2009 Hardcover. XII 276 p., 6 b/w ill. 4 colour ill., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Latin, Middle English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503520711.

This study is focused on BL MS Harley 494, a small manuscript book which can be dated between 1532 and 1535 and which has many of the features of a preces privatae volume, or private prayer book. It contains prayers in English and Latin but also a number of brief devotional treatises in English. MS Harley 494 possesses two more features of interest: it belonged to a Hampshire widow, Anne Bulkeley (and possibly later to her daughter Anne, a nun at Amesbury Priory); and it emerged from a Birgittine textual community. Barratt edits and annotates the complete manuscript to provide an accessible and informative edition of this little known manuscript. However, Anne Bulkeley and her Book is not a conventional edition of a late Middle English text. Rather, Barratt carefully contextualizes the manuscript within its historical background just before the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and meticulously investigates the varied, and often unusual, sources of many of the individual items in the book. In addition, the discussion encompasses several related manuscripts (principally Lambeth Palace MS 3600 and the so-called Burnet Psalter (Aberdeen University Library MS 25)). This broad focus enables the volume to examine not only the evolution of the manuscript as a whole, but also to answer wider questions of its owner?s identity, her family connections, and her (and her book?s) place in literary, cultural, and religious history.

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A. Bocquet-Lienard, B. Fajal

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2011 Hardcover. IV 340 p., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: French, English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782902685646.

L?artisanat de la terre cuite aux XIVe-XVIe siecles connait une transformation de ses modes de production et un enrichissement significatif du vaisselier ceramique, accompagnant l?emergence de hameaux ou de villages specialises dans la fabrication de terres cuites et de gres. S?appuyant sur une utilisation conjointe des sources archeologiques, archeometriques et textuelles, cette table ronde evoque d?abord les questions relatives a la definition des ateliers, a leurs productions et aux contextes de leur implantation, avant de s?attarder sur la circulation ? en particulier entre le continent et les iles Britanniques ? et l?utilisation des terres cuites.

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A. Cattaneo

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2011 Hardcover. 470 p., 3 b/w ill. 16 colour ill., 210 x 270 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503523781.

Fra Mauro?s mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the fifteenth century. By examining literary, visual, textual and archival evidences, some long considered lost, this book places the map within the larger context of Venetian culture in the fifteenth century. It provides a detailed analysis of both its main sources (auctores veteres such as Pliny, Solinus, Ptolemy, and novi, like Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Marco Polo and Niccolo de? Conti) as well as of the composite networks of contemporary knowledge (scholasticism, humanism, monastic culture, as well as more technical skills such as marine cartography and mercantile practices), investigating the way they combine in the epistemological unity of the imago mundi. More a work on intellectual history than cartography, the book constructs a complex set of frameworks within which to situate Fra Mauro?s monumental effort. These range from the cultural history of the reception of the world map from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries to the analysis of the material conditions under which map-makers such as Fra Mauro worked; from the history of ideas, especially of natural philosophy to the links between world representations and travel literature. It also addresses the Venetian reception of Ptolemy?s Geography, the interactions between Venetian art, theology and cosmography and the complexities of the Venetian vernacular. The books develops a multi-tiered approach, in which different elements of the rich cultural context in which this world map was created, interact with each other, each casting a new light on the encyclopaedic work being analyzed. Angelo Cattaneo, who holds a Ph.D. in History from the European University Institute in Florence, is a researcher at the Centro de Historia de Alem-Mar of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Center for Overseas History of the New University of Lisbon). Currently he is studying the global circulation of knowledge, technology and material culture from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, particularly cosmography, cartography and travel literature. He is the author of Mappa mundi 1457 (Rome, 2008). He also co-edited the volumes The Making of European Cartography (Florence, 2003) and, with Nathalie Bouloux and Patrick Gautier Dalche, Humanisme et decouvertes geographiques (Medievales 58, 2010).

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A. Chatelet, N. Goetghebeur;

Turnhout, Brepols, 2006 Hardback, 255 pages ., 215 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782870330135.

Le Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lille possede une interessante collection de Primitifs flamands. Albert Chatelet, conservateur honoraire du musee et professeur emerite a l'universite Marc-Bloch de Strasbourg, assiste de Nicole Goetghebeur restauratrice en chef honoraire a l'Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique a Bruxelles, a entrepris l'etude rigoureuse des dix-neuf tableaux constituant cet ensemble. Le Paradis terrestre et l'Enfer de Dirk Bouts font l'objet d'un dernier etat de la question. De nouvelles prises de vues ont ete realisees a cette occasion et des documents techniques inedits emaillent l'abondante illustration photographique. On releve egalement l'analyse des portraits de Louis de Quarre et Barbe de Cruysinck et du Triptyque de la Vierge et l'Enfant, deux oeuvres appartenant au groupe du Maitre au feuillage en broderie, un artiste enigmatique dont la personnalite a ete recemment mise en relief par une exposition dans ce meme musee. Le Concert dans l'oeuf d'apres Jerome Bosch, le Portrait de Philippe le Bon de l'entourage de Rogier van der Weyden et des tableaux du Maitre au brocart d'or, du Maitre de 1499, du Maitre de la Famille de sainte Anne et de divers anonymes completent cet ensemble. Languages: French.

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A. Cresson

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2009 Paperback 303 pages ., 140 x 210 mm, Languages: French, Latin, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503532240.

La tendance dominante du christianisme durant des siecles n'a pas ete l'affirmation d'une puissance travaillant a la transformation du monde et de l'histoire, mais plutot la disposition a s'en ecarter et a prendre ses distances, selon la doctrine du "mepris du monde" (contemptus mundi). C'etait en tout cas l'orientation de la pensee monastique qui a traverse tout le Moyen Age. Vers la fin de la premiere moitie du XIIe siecle, un moine benedictin de Cluny, que l'on a appele Bernard de Morlaix ou de Morlas ou Bernard le Clunisien, et qui residait au prieure Saint-Denis de Nogent-le-Rotrou, a ecrit lui aussi un De contemptu mundi. Cet immense poeme en vers metriques, est, malgre son titre, beaucoup plus que l'expression habituelle du theme monastique de la vanite du monde. Il contient une representation lumineuse du Ciel, Jerusalem celeste, Cite resplendissante ou Dieu est tout en tous, et une vision des enfers, ou les references a Virgile semblent annoncer la grande epopee dramatique et mystique de la Divine Comedie de Dante ; et c'est aussi une longue complainte et une impitoyable satire contre les desordres et les injustices de l'epoque, satire n'epargnant ni les pretres, ni les eveques, ni le pouvoir de Rome.

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A. D. Newman, L. Nijkamp (eds.)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2021 Hardcover, 242 pages, English, 280 x 220 mm, 80 colour ill., 2 b/w tables. ISBN 9781912554737.

A fresh look at the phenomenon of artistic collaboration in the early modern Low Countries Artists everywhere and across all time periods have collaborated with one another. Yet in the early modern Low Countries, collaboration was particularly widespread, resulting in a number of distinctive visual forms that have become strongly associated with artistic ? and especially painterly ? practice in this region. While art historians long glossed over this phenomenon, which appeared to discomfitingly counter nineteenth-century notions of authorship and artistic genius that have long shaped the field, the past few decades have seen increased attention to this rich and complicated subject. The essays in this book together constitute a current state of the question, while at once pointing the way forward. In broadening the art historical lens on this subject, they draw upon economic and social history, current interests in immigration and mobility, print studies, and technical analysis, embracing a range of literary and archival sources along the way. Interdisciplinary in their perspectives and methodologically diverse, these essays present both theoretical reflections on artistic collaboration and in-depth studies of particular artist-partnerships and collaboratively made objects. Abigail D. Newman is a part-time professor of Art History in the History Department at the University of Antwerp and Research Adviser at the Rubenianum. Lieneke Nijkamp is Curator of Research Collections at the Rubenianum.

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A.D. von den Brincken

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1988 Hardcover. 132 p., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: German, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503360515.

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A. de Vogue

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1985 Hardcover. 62 p., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: French, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503360461.

Dans leur ensemble et en tant que genre, les regles monastiques anciennes ont ete tres peu etudiees. D'ou la necessite de suppleer a une bibliographie squelettique par une presentation initiale un peu etoffee.<br>La Typologie se doit de commencer par un "Apercu du genre" qui le circonscrive de facon un peu precise et donne une vue au moins schematique des ecrits qui le constituent.<br>On trouvera dans ce premier chapitre un graphique indiquant les principales relations de dependance qui unissent nos regles.<br>Pour faciliter l'acces aux textes, l'auteur a ajoute a cette etude une liste alphabetique des regles, avec le signalement sommaire de chacune d'elles. dans cet Appendice, place a la fin de l'ouvrage, on trouvera les premieres donnees indispensables pour consulter utilement les regles monastiques anciennes.

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A. Derolez

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1979 softcover. 72 pages., 156 x 234 mm, Languages: French, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503360317.

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A.F.W. (Lex) Bosman (ed)

, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 168 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:31 b/w, 52 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503606200.

Summary The essays in this volume address the problem of three dimensions in architecture and the ways architects in the 16th century (and before and after) solved this problem during the design process. Two-dimensional drawings were used as the most helpful element in the design process, as well as for the presentation of designs. Those involved, not only patrons but also construction workers, should be able to understand what a two-dimensional design would turn out to result in three dimensions. Both drawings in two dimensions and three-dimensional models are well-known tools to architects, but the way in which they employed them together is not always clear. Sometimes architects limited themselves to the making of models only when they believed that these would suffice to communicate the design to others. In other instances, drawings and models were used jointly. Topics of study in this volume include examples of these practices in the work of the Sangallo, Raphael, Vasari, and others. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Lex Bosman Drawings for Models Lex Bosman Baldassare Peruzzi's Projections Ann Huppert Combining the intrinsic and the extrinsic: Francesco di Giorgio's model drawings Elizabeth Merril ?Not as beautiful as those made by painters??: graphic innovations in carpenters' drawings in the early sixteenth century in the Low Countries Merlijn Hurx ?Accommodate the Stories to the Spaces and Not the Spaces to the Stories?. Plans, Models and Drawings for Giorgio Vasari's Decorations in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence Laura Overpelt The Mellon Codex and the creation of space with drawings and models Lex Bosman ?Come praticarono molti?. The use of Paper Architectural Models in Early Modern Italy Giovanni Santucci

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A. Fidora, A. Niederberger, M. Scattola

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2013 Hardcover. 348 p., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: German, Italian, English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503549897.

Klugheit, heute oftmals missverstanden als Cleverness oder Gerissenheit, gehort bis in die Fruhe Neuzeit zu den Schlusselbegriffen der praktischen Philosophie. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beitrage untersuchen den Begriff der Klugheit in historisch vergleichender Perspektive von seinen Ursprungen in der griechischen Antike uber die islamische Philosophie bis in das lateinische Mittelalter, das eine systematisch komplexe und stark differenzierte Klugheitslehre entwickelt. Ein Ausblick auf fruhneuzeitliche und moderne Entwicklungen beleuchtet das weitere Geschick der Klugheit in der europaischen Tradition und macht dabei auf Kontinuitaten und Neuaufbruche zwischen Mittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit aufmerksam. La prudenza, che oggigiorno e spesso fraintesa come scaltrezza o astuzia, costituiva fino all?eta moderna uno dei concetti fondamentali della filosofia pratica. I contributi raccolti in questo volume indagano il concetto della prudenza in una prospettiva storica e comparativa partendo dalle sue origini nell?antica Grecia, toccando la filosofia islamica e giungendo al Medio Evo latino, che sviluppo la dottrina della prudenza in un sistema complesso e la articolo in sottili differenziazioni. Uno sguardo alle evoluzioni nell?eta moderna e contemporanea illumina il successivo destino della prudenza nella tradizione europea e rende in tal modo evidenti le continuita e le discontinuita tra il Medio Evo e la prima eta moderna.

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A. France

Calmann levy 1920 304 pages in8. 1920. broché. 304 pages. Le Puits de Sainte Claire est un recueil de nouvelles d'Anatole France publié en 1895. Les récits se déroulent dans une Italie rêvée entre Moyen-Âge et Renaissance et s'inspirent des contes de Boccace des Vies de Vasari et surtout des Fioretti qui racontent la vie de saint François d'Assise

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A.-G. Martimort

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1992 Hardcover. 112 p., 156 x 234 mm, Languages: French, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503360645.

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A.-G. Martimort

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1991 Hardcover. 126 p., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: French, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503360560.

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A.G. Rigg

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2000 Hardcover. 120 p., 140 x 215 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9780888444769.

This book presents five texts that recount the history of Britain from the time of its legendary founding by Brutus in 1200 BC to the fall of Richard II in 1399 AD. All the texts are anonymous: the earliest was composed some time during the reign of Edward I (before 1307), the last early in the fifteenth century. The first text is the Harley Epitome, a prose account from Brutus to Henry III (1272); the second is the Metrical History, a versification of the Harley Epitome in end-rhymed hexameters; the third is a marginal prose commentary on the Metrical History; the fourth and fifth texts are a continuation of the Metrical History in elegiac couplets, from Edward I to Richard II (1272-1399), and a prose commentary on the continuation. Only a portion of the Metrical History has been printed before. While based on the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth and other English historians, these texts exhibit an interest in Scottish and northern English affairs that makes it certain they were composed in northern England, in the political context of the English-Scottish hostilities of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. The Latin of the prose is fairly simple, and that of the poetry is unadorned; strong arguments are put forth in the introduction to the volume that the texts could have formed part of a programme for elementary history teaching in fourteenth-century York. The introduction discusses the authorship, place of composition, and purpose of the works, as well as the manuscript tradition, the versification and the language of the texts. A select bibliography, explanatory and textual notes, and an index of sources complete the volume.

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A. GEFFROY

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A. Grabois

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1987 Hardcover. 98 p., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: French, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503360508.

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A. I. Martin Ferreira

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2010 Hardcover. 258 p., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: Spanish, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503538952.

El Grupo de investigacion de la Universidad de Valladolid Speculum medicinae, compuesto por una docena de filologos clasicos, en el que colaboran tambien un historiador de la medicina y una arabista, lleva trabajando muchos anos en la elaboracion del que se ha llamado Diccionario latino de andrologia y ginecologia (DILAG). En este momento se encuentra ya en fase de revision. El DILAG es un diccionario tecnico especializado que recoge, en las fuentes medicas mas significativas de la Antiguedad, la Edad Media y el Renacimiento, terminos medicos latinos encuadrados en las especialidades de la andrologia, la ginecologia y la embriologia. En la redaccion del DILAG sus colaboradores han encontrado diferentes aspectos de la medicina medieval dignos de estudio, que abarcan los campos de la anatomia, la fisiologia, la patologia y la terapeutica o problemas relacionados con ellos, como la sexualidad o la deformacion de terminos tecnicos mal interpretados. Con sus trabajos pretenden mostrar las multiples aplicaciones, tanto medicas como filologicas o historicas, que los estudiosos pueden llevar a cabo con el material de dicho diccionario y apreciar las posibilidades investigadoras que brinda. Algunas de estas aportaciones de caracter parcial se presentaron en el IVe Congres europeen d?etudes medievales, organizado por la FIDEM en Palermo el ano 2009, y otras han sido elaboradas expresamente para este libro. Ahora, gracias a la amable invitacion de la direccion de la FIDEM, se reunen en esta monografia, a modo de capitulos autonomos, los trabajos mencionados, con el fin de contribuir al conocimiento e investigacion de un tipo de lexico que cada vez atrae mas la atencion de los estudiosos.

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A. J. Fletcher;

Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, X+304 p., 156 x 234 mm. * NEW ISBN 9782503536804.

Negotiations between history, author, and text in a selection of Middle English literary landmarks. The modern period has read its own contingent values into Middle English literature, and a modern canon of vernacular medieval literary texts has evolved as a result. While this book works with a selection of texts that have achieved such canonical status, it brings to light some of the ways in which they nevertheless resist the flattening domestications and expectations of modern taste. It illustrates how they formerly existed as constituents of a past world richer, stranger, and less familiar than much modern opinion has supposed. Thus the book aims to recuperate lost senses in which the age in which these texts were conceived and written was present within them, as well as ways in which they may have been present to their age. This twin idea of ?presence? is the thread that binds a series of chapters on English verse and prose written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries together. While they may be read as discrete studies of individual literary landmarks, the chapters also entail an implicit and ramifying demonstration of the shortcomings of some modern views of what makes certain currently prized Middle English texts worth reading, and of how the vernacular literature of medieval England is retrospectively to be defined and periodized. Languages : English, Italian, Latin.

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A. Janssens de Bisthoven;

Turnhout, Brepols, 1983 Hardback, 244 p., + 248 pl., 230 x 290 mm. ISBN 13010011100.

Languages: French.

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A. Janssens de Bisthoven;

Turnhout, Brepols, 1981 Hardback, 244 p., + 248 pl., 230 x 290 mm. ISBN 13010010100.

Languages: Dutch.

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A. Luchs

, Brepols, 2010 Hardback, VIII 273 p., 234 b/w ill. 44 colour ill., 220 x 275 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9781905375455.

The arts of Renaissance Venice teem with sea monsters. Chief among these are mermaids and mermen--graceful hybrid beings human from the waist up, but with the lower body and tail of a fish, dolphin or sea serpent. Other sea hybrids--horses, bulls, panthers, even an elephant--also swim through Venetian art in finned and fish-tailed forms. Such creatures emerge from stone in the shadowy churches and the sunlit courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale, crown the wooden frame of a Giovanni Bellini altarpiece, and encircle the bronze flagpole bases in Piazza San Marco. Their gilded sugar apparitions graced banquet tables for illustrious visitors, and their descendents still glide through the canals in the form of brass seahorses set above the sides of gondolas This book focuses on the conceptions of artists who made marine hybrids as some of the most engaging inventions of the Renaissance in Venice and its subject city Padua. The chapters deal with five functional contexts: book decoration of the 1470s and 80s; tomb monuments of the 1480s and 90s; church decoration of the same years, particularly at Santa Maria dei Miracoli; centers of political activity, including civic settings in Venice and the palaces of powerful mainland employers of Venetian artists; and finally, private homes, where owners could hold small bronze sea hybrids in their hands, often as objects for use. A prologue introduces the ?heritage of monsters? from the ancient and medieval worlds, the better to show how Venetian artists adapted these to new purposes. Exploring the ways in which artists could interpret and contemporary viewers might experience these wide-ranging sea-creatures, the book brings their best images together as a source of delight. Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History(HMSAH 58)

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A.-M. Flambard

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2006 softcover. 256 p., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: French, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782902685325.

Anne-Marie FLAMBARD HERICHER, Introduction; Eric VAN TORHOUDT, Les sieges du pouvoir des Neel, vicomtes dans le Cotentin; Marie CASSET, Les strategies d'implantation des chateaux et manoirs des eveques normands au Moyen Age (XIe-; XVe siecle); Mathieu ARNOUX et Isabelle THEILLER, Les marches comme lieux et enjeux de pouvoir en Normandie (XIe-XVe siecle); Sophie CASSAGNES-BROUQUET, Le pont de Londres, une oeuvre d'art et un lieu de pouvoir; Veronique GAZEAU, Les abbayes benedictines de la Normandie ducale : lieux de pouvoir ou relais du pouvoir ? Astrid LEMOINE DESCOURTIEUX, Les pouvoirs sur la frontiere de l'Avre (XIe-XIIIe siecle), Eure : du pouvoir seigneurial au pouvoir ducal, puis a l'autonomie urbaine; Philippe RACINET, Un lieu de pouvoir exceptionnel aux portes d'Amiens : Boves (Xe-XIIe siecle); Isabelle CHAVE, Les chateaux neufs de l'apanage d'Alencon (1350-1415) : materialisation du pouvoir d'une famille princiere; Emmanuel JOHANS, Les residences aristocratiques du Rouergue et des Cevennes a la fin du Moyen Age; Jacques LE MAHO, Le palais archiepiscopal de Rouen a l'epoque carolingienne (fin du VIIIe-debut du IXe siecle) : les donnees de l'archeologie; Joelle QUAGHEBEUR, Lieux de pouvoirs, symbolique et memoire institutionnelle en Cornouaille (IXe-XIIe siecle); Mathieu ARNOUX, Conclusions.

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A. M. Valente Bacci

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2008 Hardcover. XVI 223 p., 80 b/w ill., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: Italian, French, English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503528465.

Nella letteratura tedesca medievale la figura di Pietro assume un ruolo primario per tutto il medioevo fin dalle origini. Gli stretti rapporti che univano la Chiesa tedesca a Roma ed ai suoi pontefici, il riconoscimento del primato petrino e papale avevano portato a considerare il patrocinio di san Pietro superiore a quello di qualsiasi altro santo, all?affermazione ed espansione del culto dell?apostolo, alla sua celebrazione in una molteplicita di testi di vario genere. Questa monografia si propone di ricostruire l?immagine di Pietro attraverso l?analisi di testimonianze letterarie in volgare ?tedesco?, composte nell?arco di tempo compreso tra i secoli IX-XIV. Nei testi della fase piu antica, il tentativo di conciliare i due sistemi di valori, cristiano e germanico, indusse a connotare le prerogative con elementi che descrivono il rapporto fra Gesu e i discepoli secondo i termini della Gefolgschaft germanica. Nei testi del periodo medio si mettono in rilievo la funzione ecclesiale e la trasmissione del potere di legare e sciogliere da Pietro al papa, ai vescovi ed ai sacerdoti tutti. Permane la tendenza a giustificare i rinnegamenti di Pietro, ?necessari? per mostrare il legame inscindibile tra perdono e pentimento, per dare speranza all?uomo circa l?incommensurabilita della misericordia divina. Si affianca, inoltre, la figura del discepolo con quelle dell?apostolo, del taumaturgo e del martire. Il libro fornisce un contributo essenziale alla ricostruzione delle modalita con cui la complessa figura di san Pietro venne recepita in area tedesca, mettendo cosi in luce aspetti della sua personalita finora trascurati.

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