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The connections between preaching, politics, and society have been manifold yet varied in the period from late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. In this multi-lingual volume, these associations are studied within their historical context over twelve new contributions, addressing a wide range of geographical areas and opening up a series of sources which have previously been neglected. Special attention is paid to the cultural and geographical circumstances in which the complex relationship between political thought and preaching should be explored. These contributions reveal the circumstances and the procedures that inspire various preachers to reflect upon political topics, which are often of a sensitive nature. In this way, the powerful and the general public of believers have access to an array of political ideas, allowing opinion-making and political discussion

The idea of the town in the Byzantine Empire / John Haldon -- Byzantine cities in the seventh and eighth centuries: different sources, different histories? / W. Brandes -- ∫αAnjar and early Islamic urbanism / R. Hillenbrand -- Ideas of the town in Italy during the transition from antiquity to the middle ages / G.P. Brogiolo -- Visual images of the town in late antiquity and the early middle ages / Carlo Bertelli -- The ideology of urban burials / G. Cantino Wataghin -- L'id(c)♭e chr(c)♭tienne de la ville: quelques suggestions pour l'antiquit(c)♭ tardive et le haut moyen age / Alba Maria Orselli -- La topographie chr(c)♭tienne entre id(c)♭ologie et pragmatisme / N. Gauthier -- Paganism and Christianity in Athens and vicinity during the fourth to sixth centuries A.D. / P. Castr(c)♭n -- Re-using the architectural legacy of the past, entre id(c)♭ologie et pragmatisme / Bryan Ward-Perkins -- Conclusions / G.P. Brogiolo

After the turbulence caused by the Islamic occupation, the restoration of the so-called primate power of the former Visigothic metropolis of Toledo on October 15, 1088 by Pope Urban II had important legal and political consequences thus destabilising the ecclesiastical network. The restoration of ecclesiastical provinces, diocesan structures and parish boundaries, as wall as the formation of dioceses from parish districts, posed almost insurmountable problems for the churches. The reasons were multiple. It is, therefore, not surprising that efforts were made to obtain the necessary legal cover to maintain established positions, while facing a possible radical change in the Hispanic Church constitution received in the Late antiquity but lost in the time of the Visigoths. Canon law did not have many effective instruments to consolidate a status obtained by Hispanic bishoprics in the late eleventh century, without the express permission of a specific authority. To fill these gaps in the legal bases, or even to compensate for their total absence, some dioceses have resorted to the production of instruments such as the History of Compostela, the Divisio Wambae or the Divisio Theodemiri, or to the worship of saints or their relics, which would justify, in this way, often obscure claims.

Les objets de luxe sont des indicateurs de richesse et de rang. Leur possession désigne la place occupée par leurs détenteurs dans une hiérarchie, qu'elle soit sociale, politique ou économique. Ils ont également des fonctions importantes dans l'échange et la mise en circulation des richesses: réserves de valeur, ils peuvent également servir de moyen de paiement à côté ou en plus des monnaies. ; Les objets de luxe sont des indicateurs de richesse et de rang. Leur possession désigne la place occupée par leurs détenteurs dans une hiérarchie, qu'elle soit sociale, politique ou économique. Ils ont également des fonctions importantes dans l'échange et la mise en circulation des richesses: réserves de valeur, ils peuvent également servir de moyen de paiement à côté ou en plus des monnaies. ; Luxuries are indicators of wealth and social rank. Their possession determines the place occupied by their owners in a hierarchy, whether social, political or economic. They also have important roles in the exchange and circulation of wealth. Luxuries, seen as stores of value, may also serve as a means of payment together with or instead of coins.

"The twenty essays brought together in this volume explore a wide range of perspectives relating to the materiality and textuality of medieval scripts and documents. The textuality and materiality of documents are an essential part of their communicative role. Medieval writing, as part of the interpersonal communication process, had to follow rules to ensure the legibility and understanding of a text and its connotations. This volume provides new insights into how different kinds of rules were designed, established, and followed in the shaping of medieval documents, as a means of enabling complex and subtle communicational phenomena. Because they provide a perspective for approaching the material they are supposed to organize, these rules (or the postulation of their use) provide powerful analytical tools for structural studies into given corpora of documents. Originating in talks given at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds between 2010 and 2012, the twenty papers in this collection offer a precise, in-depth analysis of a variety of medieval scripts, including books, charters, accounts, and epigraphic documents. In doing so, they integrate current developments in palaeography, diplomatics, and codicology in their traditional methodological set, as well as aspects of the digital humanities, and they bridge the gap between the so-called 'auxiliary sciences of history' and the field of communication studies. They illustrate different possibilities for exploring how the formal aspects of scripts took their place in the construction of effective communication structures."--

Introduction: toward a new conception of women's literary history / Anke Gilleir and Alicia C. Montoya -- 'To promote God's praise and her neighbour's salvation'. Strategies of authorship and readership among mystic women in the later Middle Ages / Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay -- Gendering place: the role of place in Anne Krabbe's Ballad works / Anne-Marie Mai -- 'To make frequent assemblies, associations, and combinations amongst our sex.' Nascent ideas of female bonding in seventeenth-century England / Ina Schabert -- Women and literary sociability in eighteenth-century Lisbon / Vanda Anástacio -- Female writing and the use of literary byways. Pastoral drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-1595) / Philiep Bossier -- Prescriptions for women: alchemy, medicine and the renaissance Querelle des femmes / Meredith K. Ray -- The appropriation of the genre of nuptial poetry by Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711) / Nina Geerdink -- Madame De Maintenon Au Miroir de sa correspondance: réhabilitation du personnage et redécouverte d'une écriture féminine / Christine Mongenot and Hans Bots -- French women writers and heroic genres / Perry Gethner -- The tartar girl, the Persian princess, and early modern English women's authorship from Elizabeth II to to Mary Wroth / Bernadette Andrea -- A cloistered nun abroad: Arcangela Tarabotti's international literary career / Lara Lynn Westwater -- Traveller, pedagogue and cultural mediator: Marie-Elisabeth De La Fite and her female context / Ineke Janse -- Translation and intellectual reflection in the works of enlightened Spanish women: Inés Joyes (1731-1808) / Mónica Bolufer -- 'Nous voudrions que les femmes s'occupent de la littérature': traductions des romanciéres françaises en russie autour de 1800 / Elena Gretchanaia

Although the relationship between the Universities and the Dominican Order in the Middle Ages has attracted historians' attention for a long time, the impact of the University degree system upon the Friars Preachers has not yet given rise to systematic studies. Focusing on the fifteenth century, where a rapid proliferation of faculties of theology in Europe has given Dominicans more opportunities to access university degrees, this dissertation aims to measure an influence that the magisterium had on the norms, practices and ideas of French Dominican friars, whose ideology was closely linked to university activities.In the French provinces, where the network of Dominican Studia was highly developed, the intellectual elite earned the respect of brothers and enjoyed many advantages within the Order. Aspiration to the privileged status of scholarly Dominicans is accentuated as the degree system of faculty of theology, first established within University of Paris, is implanted in many universities of Europe. As a result, the superiors of the Order wanted to control more rigorously friars' obtaining of the magisterium. Finally, the Order established a system of supervision for Dominican degree candidates, which was codified in the Order's new constitution enacted in the beginning of the fifteenth century and refined through many ordinances of the General Chapter.In spite of Dominicans' efforts to condition the obtaining of university degrees, the relationship between norms and practices was fairly complex, as shown by a prosopographical analysis of the friars authorized to pursue the magisterium. Sometimes, restrictive norms adapt to practices. Such an elasticity of Dominican legislation increased the importance of ad hoc judgments by the superiors, who were responsible to examine and guarantee intellectual and moral qualities of the friars admitted to the degree. Hence, authorizing process of Dominican degree candidates became quite complicated, as the friars who were eager for the degree committed themselves ...