Grandes figures historiques dans les lettres et les arts revue en ligne

04/06/2024

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Dans le champ historique et politique, la figure publique a tôt fait de cristalliser les ressentiments collectifs, comme le montrent les figures de « monstres » tels que Frédégonde ou Caligula, Napoléon ou Mussolini, abordés dans différents articles de cette r***e. Certaines de ces cristalli...

18/11/2023

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17/11/2023

La r***e des Grandes Figures historiques a un nouveau site institutionnel, plus visible et mieux répertorié. N'oubliez pas que vous pouvez envoyer des propositions d'articles isolés ou des propositions de numéros.

La r***e étudie la représentation ou l'auto-représentation des figures historiques sous toutes les formes artistiques et littéraires.

16/10/2023

Wendan Li, The Life of Pope Gregory IX (1227-1241): Pope and Papacy from a Curial Perspective (Fondazione CISAM, October 2023)

https://shop.cisam.org/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1238

This book provides fundamental insights into the pontificate of Gregory IX through the little-studied Life of Pope Gregory IX and considering several other sources. It examines the Life’s genesis and transmission, its relation to the medieval papal historiography, its programmatic orientation towards the governance of the Papal States, the significance of the two excommunications of Frederick II in the mirror of the Life, and its stylisation of the papal protagonist and imperial antagonists. The Life served the papacy primarily as a document of legitimation and defence in the crisis years of 1239/40, and also as a source of political, financial, legal, and liturgical responses for the posterity of the Roman Curia. Gregory IX left a longer-lasting mark on the papal sanctity, the territorial politics, and the eschatological thinking of the Roman Curia than recognized by previous scholarship.

17/09/2023

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16/09/2023

How Medieval Europe was Ruled, ed. Christian Raffensperger (Routledge, September 2023)

https://www.routledge.com/How-Medieval-Europe-was-Ruled/Raffensperger/p/book/9781032100166

The vast majority of studies on rulership in medieval Europe focus on one kingdom; one type of rule; or one type of ruler. This volume attempts to break that mold and demonstrate the breadth of medieval Europe and the various kinds of rulership within it.

How Medieval Europe was Ruled aims to demonstrate the multiplicity of types of rulers and polities that existed in medieval Europe. The contributors discuss not just kings or queens, but countesses, dukes, and town leadership. We see that rulers worked collaboratively with one another both across political boundaries and within their own borders in ways that are not evident in most current studies of kingship, inhibited by too narrow a focus. The volume also covers the breadth of medieval Europe from Scandinavia in the north to the Italian peninsula in the south, Iberia and the Anglo-Normans in the west to Rus, Byzantium and the Khazars in the east.

This book is geared towards a wide audience and thus provides a broad base of understanding via a clear explanation of concepts of rule in each of the areas that is covered. The book can be utilized in the classroom, to enhance the presentation of a medieval Europe survey or to discuss rulership more specifically for a region or all of Europe. Beyond the classroom, the book is accessible to all scholars who are interested in continuing to learn and expand their horizons.

CONTENTS:

Reimagining Medieval Rulership in the Twenty-First Century -- Christian Raffensperger

Dying by the Sword: The Many Faces of Rulership in Christian Iberia a Thousand Years Ago -- Simon R. Doubleday

The Rise of Administrative Queenship in the Anglo-Norman Realm? -- Lois L. Huneycutt

Khazaria: The Exception which Proves the Rules -- Alex Feldman

Nobility, Loyalty and Dynasty in Medieval Bosnia -- Emir O. Filipović

‘Self-government at the King’s Command:’ Towns and Their Sovereign in Medieval Hungary -- Katalin Szende

The Governance of Medieval Poland -- Paul W. Knoll

Governing the Byzantine Empire: Politics and Administration, ca. 850-1204 -- Nathan Leidholm

Governing the Latin East: Jerusalem from 1099 to 1174 -- Erin L. Jordan

How Popes Governed Christendom? -- Kirsi Salonen

The Governance of High Medieval Norway (c. 1100–1350) -- Hans Jacob Orning

Kievan Rus’: A Complicated Kingdom -- Christian Raffensperger

The Princes and the King in Medieval Germany, ca. 1125-1350 -- Jonathan R. Lyon

How Early Medieval Italy was Ruled: Land and Power -- Edward Schoolman

Rulership and Governance of Medieval Bulgaria, Seventh-Fifteenth Centuries -- Kiril Petkov

11/09/2023

E. T. Dailey, Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen (Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press), September 2023)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/radegund-9780197699201

A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her position, received consecration as a deaconess, and took monastic vows. A religious leader, who acquired a fragment of the Cross of the Crucifixion for her convent of Holy Cross in Poitiers. And, lastly, a saint, remembered for her healings, exorcisms, and extreme self-mortification. Such was Radegund, a woman who lived through an era defined by headlong change. Honored as a "mother" by subsequent Frankish kings and as a holy woman by her nuns and devotees, Radegund enjoyed a reputation for righteousness that spread throughout the whole of medieval Europe, with later queens emulating her pious achievements. For generations, she defined medieval queenship, female monastic practice, and the expectations associated with holy women. Today, she is often envisioned as a pan-European saint.

Radegund presents a new interpretation of this remarkable woman, examining her vibrant life and legacy. E. T. Dailey shows how she succeeded in establishing a place for herself within this difficult and dangerous world, despite the trials she faced. He also demonstrates how Radegund achieved a position of prominence as a woman in a foreign land without resorting to the violence and intrigue that characterized the lives of other prominent women during this period. Based on a wealth of English, French, and German scholarship, this book will equip experts and lay readers with a concise, authoritative, and accessible portrait of Radegund.

18/08/2023

Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century, eds. Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt (Cambridge University Press, August 2023)

https://www.cambridge.org/pl/universitypress/subjects/literature/anglo-saxon-and-medieval-literature/women-and-medieval-literary-culture-early-middle-ages-fifteenth-century

Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic literary culture, it places British writing in wider European contexts while also considering more distant influences such as Arabic. Essays span topics including book production and authorship; reception; linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts and influences; women's education and spheres of knowledge; women as writers, scribes and translators; women as patrons, readers and book owners; and women as subjects. Reflecting recent trends in scholarship, the volume spans the early Middle Ages through to the eve of the Reformation and emphasises the multilingual, multicultural and international contexts of women's literary culture.

CONTENTS:

Introduction -- Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt

I. Patrons, Owners, Writers, and Readers in England and Europe:

'Miserere, meidens': abbesses and nuns -- Elaine Treharne

Creating her own story: queens, noblewomen, and their cultural patronage -- Mary Dockray-Miller

Woman-to-woman initiatives between female religious: vertical and horizontal learning -- Mary C. Erler

II. Circles and Communities in England:

Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group as textual communities, Medieval and modern --Michelle M. Sauer

Syon Abbey and the Birgittines -- Laura Saetveit Miles

What the Paston women read -- Diane Watt

III. Health, Conduct, and Knowledge:

Embracing the body and the soul: women in the literary culture of Medieval medicine -- Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa

Gender and class in the circulation of conduct books -- Kathleen Ashley

Women's learning and lore: magic, recipes and folk belief -- Martha W. Driver

Women and devotional compilations -- Denis Renevey

IV. Genre and Gender:

Lyrics: meditations, prayers and praises songs and carols -- David Fuller

'It satte me wel bet ay in a cave / To bidde and rede on holy seyntes lyves': women and hagiography -- Christiania Whitehead

Tears, mediation, and literary entanglement: the writings of Medieval visionary women -- Liz Herbert McAvoy

Convent and city: Medieval women and drama -- Sue Niebrzydowski

Women and romance -- Corinne Saunders

Trouble and strife in the Old French fabliaux -- Neil Cartlidge

Chaucer and Gower -- Venetia Bridges

V. Women as Authors:

Marie de France: identity and authorship in translation -- Emma Campbell

Julian of Norwich: a woman's vision, book, and readers -- Barry Windeatt

The communities of The Book of Margery Kemp -- Anthony Bale

Christine de Pizan: women's literary culture and Anglo-French politics Nancy -- Bradley Warren

Beyond borders: women poets in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales up to c. 1500 -- Cathryn A. Charnell-White

18/08/2023

Clare Monagle, Carolyn James, David Garrioch, Barbara Caine, European Women's Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries (Amsterdam University Press, August 2023)

https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463723381/european-women-s-letter-writing-from-the-11th-to-the-20th-centuries

This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period, enabling them to navigate the myriad gendered restrictions that limited women’s engagement in the world. Whether written from the medieval cloister, or the renaissance court, or the artisan’s workshop, or the drawing room, letters crossed geographical and social distance and were mobile in ways that women themselves could not always be. Women wrote to govern, to argue, to plead, and to demand. They also wrote to express love and intimacy, and in so doing, to explain and to understand themselves. This book argues that the personal letter was a crucial place for European women’s self-fashioning, and that exploring the history of their letters offers a profound insight into their subjectivity and agency over time.