The Middle Ages

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  Charles MÉLA

  Variations sur l'amour et le Graal

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  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,...

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  Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France. Volume XVIII

  Bibliothèque de l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts

  Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) | Histoire et civilisation du livre

  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...

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  Lettres, musique et société en Lorraine médiévale

  Autour du Tournoi de Chauvency (ms Oxford Bodl. Douce 308)

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  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...

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  Jean FROISSART

  Melyador

  Roman en vers de la fin du XIVe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  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...

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  Elisabeth MAGNOU-NORTIER

  Aux origines de la fiscalité moderne

  Le système fiscal et sa gestion à l'épreuve des sources (Ve-XIe siècles)

  Librairie Droz | Rayon Histoire de la Librairie Droz n° 1

  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...

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  Langue de l'autre, langue de l'auteur

  Affirmation d'une identité linguistique et littéraire aux XIIe et XVIe siècles

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 497

  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 ...

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  Genres et querelles littéraires

  Groupe d'Analyse de la Dynamique des Genres et des Styles (GADGES) | Cahiers du GADGES

  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...

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  Le Roman de Perceforest. Cinquième partie

  Librairie Droz | Le Roman de Perceforest

  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 ...

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  1511-2011 Philippe de Commynes. Droit, écriture : deux piliers de la souveraineté

  Librairie Droz | Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance

  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

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  Universitas scolarium

  Mélanges offerts à Jacques Verger par ses anciens étudiants

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  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 ...