The Middle Ages

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  Philippe de COMMYNES

  Mémoires

  Tome I, Introduction, édition des livres I à VIIITome II, Variantes, notes, glossaire, index analytique, index des lieux et personnes

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Joël Blanchard's definitive critical edition of Philip de Commynes’ Mémoires provides a singular window onto the machinations of 15th-century Europe.

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  Annuaire-Bulletin 2005

  Société de l'Histoire de France | Annuaire-Bulletin

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  Marco POLO

  Le Devisement du monde

  Tome V, A travers la Chine du Sud

  Librairie Droz | Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde

  Marco Polo's itinerary in Volume V takes us into southern China, recently conquered by the Mongol emperor. It leads from Huaian, then situated on the banks of the Yellow River, to the great southern port of Quanzhou, where Marco Polo would embark back...

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  CHEVALET

  La Vie de sainct Christofle

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  La Vie de sainct Christofle is one of the rare original mystery plays to date back to the early sixteenth century. Its playwright, Master Chevalet, had already contributed to the Mystère des Trois Doms and here gives the full measure of his...

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  RAOUL DE HOUDENC

  La Vengeance Raguidel

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  La vengeance Raguidel is an Arthurian verse romance from the early thirteenth century belonging to the literary tradition of Chrétien de Troyes. It tells of Gauvain’s revenge of Raguidel (a knight killed by the invulnerable Guengasoain), as well as...

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  Noël FRIBOIS

  Abregé des croniques de France

  Société de l'Histoire de France | Annuaire-Bulletin

  Noël de Fribois, notaire et secrétaire de Charles VII, et son Abregé des croniques sont connus surtout pour les attaques polémiques qu'on y trouve contre l' « ancien ennemy » de la France.

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  Denis FOULECHAT

  Le "Policratique" de Jean de Salisbury (1372)

  livre V

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  Book V of John of Salisbury's Policraticus (1159) incorporates the Institutio Trajani, then believed to be by Plutarch, and which certainly shares the spirit of his political and moral writings. Translated by Denis Foulechat in 1372, some of its...

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  Madeleine JEAY

  Le Commerce des mots : L'usage des listes dans la littérature médiévale (XIIe-XVe siècles)

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  Authors as diverse as Hugo, Borges or Perec introduce lists - be they of epic heroes, of plants or animals - in their literary works, but lists were already widespread in medieval literature. The range varies, from lists of works exhibited by...

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  Index scriptorum novus Mediae Latinitatis

  Supplementum (1973-2005)

  Union académique internationale | Novum Glossarium mediae latinitatis

  The dictionary Novum Glossarium Mediæ Latinitatis covers Latin words, authors and documents from the years 800 to...

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  Francine HÉRAIL

  La Cour et l'administration du Japon à l'époque de Heian

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes Orientales - Extrême Orient n° 40/5

  Approximately a thousand Japanese civil servants and minor officials of the early eleventh century are catalogued within these pages. Nominations and promotions depended increasingly on heredity rather than merit, and it became accordingly difficult...