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Like Perceval in the Castle of the Grail, reading means beginning a path of transformation that opens the heart's eyes. Puzzling out a text means also acquiring another point of view. Understanding oneself through a text, as old as it may be,...
The series of Regional Catalogues of Incunabula of the Libraries of France was begun in 1979, providing a thorough bibliography of the different works printed between 1450-1500 and present in the different libraries of France...
MS Oxford Bodl. Douce 308, copied and illustrated in Metz around 1314, enables us to « read » the society in which it was produced and transmitted...
Jean Froissart's Melyador is the last known French medieval Arthurian romance in verse. The manuscript Paris, BnF, fr. 12557 contains the only almost complete version, probably redrafted in the 1380s with the collaboration of its patron...
Surveying, estimation, declaration and distribution are terms that belong to the vocabulary of the fiscal system of both the past and the present. The tax system sustained the glory of the Roman Empire and the glory of the Frankish Empire...
These collected studies seek to shed light on the processes of literary and linguistic affirmation during two formative periods: the twelfth-century renaissance and the French sixteenth-century Renaissance. Both periods present strong movements ...
These collected essays examine literary quarrels during the Early Modern period as a literary genre in and of themselves. The studies approach these rows through the genres that feed them and that they shape: how did the editorial context...
The fifteenth-century prose composition the Roman de Perceforest is one of the most successful literary works of the later Middle Ages. In a grandiose six-part fresco, the work evokes the adventures of the distant ancestors of Arthur ...
Literary scholars, historians, and jurists celebrated Philippe de Commynes's 500th birthday with conference and collection of studies that address four principal and original axes : writing between filiation and creation ; political pragmatism and its com
These articles in honor of Jacques Verger explore the themes dear to the Sorbonne professor : the medieval university and places and people of culture, from colleges, convents, and libraries to the careers of men of letters, as well as noble courts ...
Literary criticism generally favors the visual side of the world created by writers. Not only were medieval texts meant to be performed, but they also stage a vast array of sounds, drifting from shouts to rattling, including speech and music, ...
In 1220, when the majority of Western physicians had come to rely on the examination of their patients' urine to make a diagnosis and give a prognosis, a practitioner named Guillaume, an Englishman settled in Marseille...
La Fontaine's shadow obscures the genre of fable before his advent, something which this collection of articles seeks to correct. The different studies present the growth of fable collections before the seventeenth century, preparing La Fontaine’s ...
The city's defense is a constant concern, and works begun over the summer of 1539 continue, especially after the events of June...
Au-delà du « parcours exemplaire » du chartrier de Thouars, interrogé ici sous divers angles, le panorama a donc été étendu du Nord au Midi, de la France à l'Italie, à l’Espagne, à l’Angleterre et à l’Empire, et du Moyen Age jusqu’à l’époque contemporaine
« All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. » The « theatre of the world » is a trite metaphor that pervades even abstract vocabulary; « person » derives from the Latin persona signifying « mask », then « role »...
Perceforest tells the prehistory of the Grail through the exploits of Alexander and Arthur in a universe where paganism and Christianity are connected by enchantment...