The Middle Ages

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  Barbara WAHLEN

  L'Écriture à rebours

  Le Roman de Meliadus du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  An ellipitic continuation of the Prose Tristan, which inscribes itself in the space separating the birth of Tristan from Meliadus' new marriage with king Hoël’s daughter, the Meliadus’ romance (1235-1240) is essentially an open text...

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  Jean GOLEIN

  Le Racional des divins offices de Guillaume Durand. Livre IV. La messe. Les Prologues et le Traité du sacre. Liturgie, spiritualité et royauté. Une exégèse allégorique

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  Jean Golein's fourteenth-century French vernacular translation of a thirteenth-century liturgical manual illustrates a shift in medieval intellectual history...

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  Yasmina FOEHR-JANSSENS

  La Jeune fille et l'Amour

  Pour une poétique de l'évasion courtoise

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  This study examines the virginal female characters common in twelfth-century literature, defined by their desire for escape and love, as well as their relative freedom to act within the constraints of their innocence.

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  La réception de modèles cinquecenteschi dans la théorie et les arts français du XVIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  At a time when cultural exchange is a central phenomenon, studying the movements of artists, models, and languages allows for better comprehension of assimilation, emulation, or refusal of customs and traditions from other countries...

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  Jean FLORI

  Chroniqueurs et propagandistes. Introduction critique aux sources de la Première croisade

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  The chroniclers of the First Crusade were not neutral observers, but involved spectators with their own ideologies and concerns. Jean Flori's twenty-five-year statistical research reveals them as works of propaganda that interpret facts according ...

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  Mabrian. Roman de chevalerie en prose

  Edition de Paris, Jacques Nyverd, 1530 (BnF, Rés. Y2.75). Tome 1

  Université de Gand | Romanica Gandensia

  This work examines the different editions of Mabrian, the chivalric novel continuation of Renaut de Montauban, emphasizing changes imposed by early modern printers on the original fifteenth-century manuscript.

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  Marco POLO

  Le Devisement du monde

  Tome VI et dernier Livre d'Ynde. Retour vers l'Occident

  Librairie Droz | Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde

  The sixth volume of the Devisement du Monde traces Marco Polo’s return to the West, with the principal stages in this long journey. The traveler reveals curiosities from Indonesia to Sumatra, Ceylon, and India’s eastern and western coasts. While...

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  Francine HÉRAIL

  Recueil de décrets de trois ères méthodiquement classés

  livres 8 à 20. Traduction commentée du Ruijû sandai kyaku

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes Orientales - Extrême Orient n° 46

  Considerable quantities of decrees were issued in Japan after the implementation of the administrative and penal codes in 702. Parts of these decrees were officially compiled in 820, 869 and 907, and these three compilations were recast in the...

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  Moralité à six personnages

  (BNF ms. fr. 25467)

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Medieval theater was street theater and a place for protest, in which the polysemy of the expression « public space » is well-situated. The La Vallière collection remarkably illustrates this, alternating four plays : two farces, each followed by a...

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  Pingualis-Plaka

  Union académique internationale | Novum Glossarium mediae latinitatis

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