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Bulletin Du Cange. Tome 65, 2007

Union académique internationale | Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevii (Bulletin du Cange) n° 65

P. Smiraglia, I. Polara, A. De Prisco, M. Di Marco, « Latinitatis italicae medii aevi lexicon. Addenda-Series altera. Fasc.5 : gabalus-hyvernus » ; V.P. McCarren, A. Kinch, S. Pollack, « A Prolegomenon to the Stonyhurst Medulla : An Edition of the Letter "A" »...

Andrea VALENTINI

Le remaniement du "Roman de la Rose" par Gui de Mori

Academie Royale des Anciens Auteurs Belges | Les Anciens auteurs belges

Gui de Mori was the first author to write a coherent Roman de la Rose in French. Although his revision has neither the grace of Guillaume de Lorris’, nor the greatness of Jean de Meun’s, it is a testimony to the culture of a widely learned man at the...

Annuaire-Bulletin 2006

Société de l'Histoire de France | Annuaire-Bulletin

CHRISTINE DE PISAN

L'Epistre Othea

Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

An astonishing hybrid text, L’Epistre Othea, is a very interesting work notably for history of literary aesthetic. The book illustrates the two tendencies of the production of the author: her interest for mythological stories and her interest in...

Jean FROISSART

Livre III, Le manuscrit Saint-Vincent de Besançon. Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 865. Tome I , Ff. 201-274rb, du Prologue annonçant le "Voyage en Béarn" jusqu'à la narration par L. Fogaça de la bataille d'Aljubarrota

Librairie Droz | Froissart, Jean: Chroniques

This is the first volume in a new three-volume, complete edition of Book III of Froissart’s Chronicles, based on the important Saint Vincent manuscript (Besançon municipal library MS 865). Froissart’s prologue expresses his desire to write history as...

Le Rêve médiéval

Librairie Droz | Recherches et Rencontres

This volume on dreams in literature from the tenth to the fifteenth century seeks less to define a non-existent norm than to express the dynamism of a literary device in which reason grapples with what had yet to be called the subconscious. Medieval...

Le Roman de Perceforest

Première partie

Librairie Droz | Le Roman de Perceforest

The anonymous novel Perceforest is one of the great literary successes of the late Middle Ages. A vast six-part work, it describes the adventures of the distant ancestors of King Arthur and of the knights of the round table. An extract from Geoffrey...

Les Mystères de la procession de Lille

Tome IV, Le Nouveau Testament

Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

Volume IV of Les Mystères de la procession de Lille presents twenty-one biblical plays drawn from the New Testament. These plays are found in a manuscript in the Herzog August Bibliothek at Wolfenbüttel, which contains seventy-two mystery plays that...

Bulletin Du Cange. Tome 64, 2006

Union académique internationale | Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevii (Bulletin du Cange) n° 64

P. SMIRAGLIA, I. POLARA, A. DE PRISCO, M. DI MARCO, «Latinitatis italicae medii aevi lexicon. Addenda-Series altera. Fasc. 4: epolonus-fyrma»; J. SCHNEIDER (†), T. ERB, «Bannus. Zur Geschichte einer mittellateinischen Wortgruppe im europäischen Bezug»...

Lectures françaises de la fin du Moyen Age : petite anthologie commentée de succès littéraires

Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

The medieval texts that are studied at university are often ones that were not widely circulated in the Middle Ages, but were rediscovered in the nineteenth century. A tally of which French texts survive in the greatest number of fourteenth and...

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.

Annuaire-Bulletin 2005

Société de l'Histoire de France | Annuaire-Bulletin

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

"Centuriæ latinæ" : cent une figures humanistes de la Renaissance aux Lumières

Volume II : A la mémoire de Marie-Madeleine de La Garanderie

Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 414

Dictionary of 101 important humanistic...

Annette BRASSEUR

"Uirgo parens" : Le Destin d'une épigramme latine des premiers siècles de notre ère

Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

The faith of early generations of Christians is palpable in the multiple versions of the Latin epigram Virgo parens, a profound meditation on the unity of God and the virginity of his mother. Annette Brasseur has brought these versions together...

Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion

Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

The Livre de Boece de Consolacion, an anonymous verse-prose translation of Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiae, dates from about 1350. It is related to Jean de Meun's prose translation, Li Livres de Confort de Philosophie, whose prologue it borrows...

Les Traductions françaises des "Otia imperialia" de Gervais de Tilbury par Jean d’Antioche et Jean de Vignay

Edition de la troisième partie

Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

Gervase of Tilbury’s Otia Imperialia, a vast Latin encyclopaedia of thirteenth-century secular knowledge, concludes with a curious collection of mirabilia drawn from many sources, including Gervase’s own experience. The number of extant manuscripts...

La suite du roman de Merlin

Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

This continuation of Robert de Boron's Merlin is a tragic tale of King Arthur's election and the first years of his reign. Having been recognized as true heir to the throne, the son of Uterpandragon, Arthur, marries queen Guenièvre and sets up the...

Bulletin Du Cange. Tome 63, 2005

Union académique internationale | Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevii (Bulletin du Cange) n° 63

The Old French Ballette

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms Douce 308

Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

L'important recueil de poésies conservé dans Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 308, copié vers 1310, est le seul chansonnier des trouvères dont les pièces soient classées par genre, de préférence à d'autres critères. Sous la rubrique “Ci en comancent...

Sylvie LEFÈVRE

Antoine de La Sale, la fabrique de l'œuvre et de l'écrivain

suivi de l'édition critique du "Traité des anciens et nouveaux tournois"

Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

In 1970 Julia Kristeva recognized Jean de Saintré by Antoine de La Sale as being the 'first French novel written in prose'. However, it wasn't 'the personal worth of the author' nor 'the aesthetic importance of the work' that interested her, quite the...

WAUCHIER DE DENAIN

La Vie seint Marcel de Lymoges

Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

The Vita sancti Martialis episcopi Lemovicensis, recently attributed to Adémar de Chabannes, was adapted into French by Wauchier de Denain at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Saint Martial, baptized in the presence of Christ, shared the powers...

Alain CORBELLARI

La Voix des Clercs : littérature et savoir universitaire autour des dits du XIIIe siècle

Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

This study seeks to identify the voice of one who, in the Middle Ages, held the key to knowledge and writing: the clerk. His ambiguous status between the lay and religious spheres often pushed him to distance himself from his employer and to enter the...

Ecritures de l'Histoire : XIVe-XVIe siècle

Actes du Colloque du Centre Montaigne, Bordeaux, 19-21 septembre 2002

Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 406

Patrick GAUTIER DALCHÉ

Du Yorkshire à l'Inde : une "géographie" urbaine et maritime de la fin du XIIe siècle

Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

At the end of the twelfth century, these texts would have given an overview of Europe and Asia to an audience with an interest in crusades and pilgrimages. The Expositio mappe mundi gives a detailed description of a large map similar to the famous...

"Scientia in Margine"

études sur les "Marginalia" dans les manuscrits scientifiques du Moyen Age à la Renaissance

Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

The margins of scientific manuscripts or early published books have been neglected for various reasons: added to the difficulty of reading, dating, and interpreting marginalia is the diversity of the information they contain. While they perpetuate...

Marco POLO

Le Devisement du monde

Tome IV, Voyages à travers la Chine

Librairie Droz | Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde

Volume IV of the Devisement du Monde follows Marco Polo through the empire of Khubilai Khan. He describes famous towns in the east and travels from Peking down to far south-west China via Xian, the old city of the first emperor, Chengdu, capital of...

Isabelle FABRE

La Doctrine du Chant du cœur de Jean Gerson :

édition critique, traduction et commentaire du "Tractatus de canticis" et du "Canticordum au pelerin"

Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

Throughout the Middle Ages, music never ceased to feed mathematical and philosophical inquiry and to inspire art and spirituality. Drawing these traditions together, Jean Gerson created a musical model for mystical ascension. The Canticordum, or ‘song...

Bulletin Du Cange. Tome 62, 2004

Union académique internationale | Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevii (Bulletin du Cange)

Un Fragment de la Genèse en vers : fin XIIIe - début XIVe siècle

Edition critique du Ms. Brit. Libr. Harley 3775

Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

The Fragment de la Genèse en vers, written in Anglo-Norman sometime between the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century, tells the story of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and finishes with the story of Joseph’s stay in Egypt. Although...

"De vrai humain Entendement" : études sur la littérature française de la fin du Moyen Age offertes en hommage à Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, le 24 janvier 2003

Librairie Droz | Recherches et Rencontres

This volume gathers innovative essays on the late Middle Ages: on books of poetry, the literary analysis of mythological figures, the musical aspect of lyricism, word play in farce, and feminine lyricism. It also considers the works of the authors...

Sotise a huit personnaiges : Le Nouveau Monde

Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

La Sotise a huit personaiges, written in Toulouse around 1507, is a crucial indicator of the complex relationship of power and culture in the era preceding absolutism. A synthesis of early sixteenth-century dramatic writing, the Sotise arms itself...

Jean WIRTH

La Datation de la sculpture médiévale

Librairie Droz | Titre courant

Was there ever such a thing as Carolingian statuary? Do the masterpieces of Romanesque sculpture in the Auvergne actually date from the twelfth century? Does thirteenth-century Saxon sculpture really derive from French models? When were the porch at...

L'Intercession du Moyen Age à l'époque moderne : autour d'une pratique sociale

Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

Intercession was ubiquitous in ancient societies, from the prayers for the dead to the clientist practice of recommendation. It governed interactions with heaven and created social bonds on earth. How did it work in practice? How effective was it? How...

Phacoides-Pingo

Union académique internationale | Novum Glossarium mediae latinitatis

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

Les Mystères de la procession de Lille

Tome III, De Salomon aux Maccabées

Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

Volume III of Les Mystères de la procession de Lille contains a critical edition of fifteen plays drawn from the Old Testament. These mystery plays are found in a unique manuscript in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, which contains a...

Marco POLO

Le Devisement du monde

Tome III, L'empereur Khoubilai Khan

Librairie Droz | Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde

In volume III, Marco Polo witnesses the magnificence of Khubilai Khan’s court, as well as his efficient method of government. Certain aspects (such as the yearly tribute paid by conquered peoples, the use of paper money, the organized messenger...

Bulletin Du Cange. Tome 61, 2003

Union académique internationale | Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevii (Bulletin du Cange)

Roman d'Alexandre en prose

(British Library, Royal 15. E. VI, f° 2 v°-24 v°)

Librairie Droz | Varia

Ursula BÄHLER

Gaston Paris et la philologie romane

Avec une réimpression de la "Bibliographie des travaux de Gaston Paris" publiée par Joseph Bédier et Mario Roques (1904)

Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

Gaston Paris (1839–1903), a great pioneer of Romanesque philology, helped to professionalize the discipline despite its ‘germanic’ reputation in a climate of Franco-German tension. Ursula Bähler’s comprehensive study pays particular attention to his...

Le Livre de Alixandre empereur de Constentinoble et de Cligés son filz : roman en prose du XVe siècle

Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

Preserved in a manuscript from the library of Philip the Good dated 26 March 1455, the Livre de Alixandre is a prose adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes’s Cligès. However, several added details, an extra episode and a profusion of apparently trivial...

L'Œuvre mathématique et astronomique de Bhaskaracarya : Le Siddhantasiromani I-II

Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes Orientales - Extrême Orient n° 38/4

The Siddhantasiromani is a four-part treatise on astronomy written in Sanskrit in the twelfth century by the Indian mathematician and astronomer Bhaskaracarya. It is written in verse, with short aphorisms making rules and examples easier to remember...

Roger BERGER, Annette BRASSEUR

Les Séquences de Sainte Eulalie : "Buona pulcella fut Eulalia" (Edition, traduction, commentaire, étude linguistique)

"Cantica virginis Eulaliae (traduction et commentaire) , Avec les autres poèmes du ms. 150 de Valenciennes : Rithmus Teutonicus & Dominus caelis rex & Uis fidei

Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

All medievalists know of the Séquence Buona pulcella fut Eulalia; they also know that this major work, the first in the most primitive of French, is far from having disclosed all its secrets. The authors have decided to revisit this poem, the history...

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