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The Various Models of Lordship in Europe between the Ninth and Fifteenth Centuries
The status of lord represented one of the most original solutions to the political and social transitions of the Medieval period. Questions still remain unanswered and require further investigation, thus many scholars have collaborated to produce this collection which offers a synthesis of the most recent scholarship. This book relates the workings of seigneurial systems in different areas of Europe, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from Castile to Pontus. In this way, the perspective remains the same, institutional and material. This book emphasises both the institutional and informal forms of lordship identified and crystallised by social and political actors (for example, communities, sovereigns, nobles, bishops, and abbots). It offers a general framework for those approaching the subject for the first time and a useful in-depth tool with numerous regional cases for long-term scholars.
The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305
Charles of Anjou's conquest of the Sicilian Regno in 1266 transformed relations between France and the kingdom of Sicily. This original study of contact and exchange in the Middle Ages explores the significance of the many cultural, religious and political exchanges between the two countries, arguing that the links were more diverse and stronger than simply the rulers' family connections. Jean Dunbabin shows how influence flowed as much from south to north as vice versa, and that France was strongly influenced by the experiences of those who returned after years of fighting in the Regno. As well as considering the experiences of notable crusading families, she sheds new light on the career of Robert II d'Artois, who virtually ruled the Regno for six years before returning to France to remodel the government of Artois. This comparative history of two societies offers an important perspective on medieval Western Europe.
Symbols and Models in the Mediterranean
This collection spans a vast chronology and territory, ranging from Old Kingdom Egypt to modern-day Slovenia and moving geographically from the centres to the peripheries of the Mediterranean and back again, including Antinoë, Calabria, Belgrade, and Paris. While this volume can be situated well within the context of Mediterranean studies, each essay serves as a micro-study that demonstrates one of the many ways in which Mediterranean communities have co-opted, appropriated, and adapted symbols from one another. As a result, this interdisciplinary volume adds something unique to each discipline represented within it (including history, anthropology, art history, literature, and philosophy, among others) while contributing to the greater discourse of Mediterranean studies. Furthermore, the essays collectively illustrate how symbols were distributed widely among Mediterranean communities and, consequently, further a dialogue about what “Mediterranean” might mean. Overall, the original content and its accessibility make the volume valuable to academics, graduate and undergraduate students, and general audiences alike.
Franciscan Organisation in the Mendicant Context
Emanating from the tradition of the Italian hermit communities the Franciscans developed organisational structures already early in their history, allowing them to offer pastoral care on a wide scale. This process of transition led firstly to constitutional structures as defined in the order's early legislation but it also occurred within relationship networks at different levels, in the context of Church and papacy, within the different European regions and before the background of the emerging Canon Law. The term "organisation" has been given a wide definition in the articles published in this volume. They offer a survey of general issues related to the structuring and running of religious orders as well as a number of case studies. Comparisons with other mendicant orders offer an analysis of the issues in a wider context.
From She-Wolf to Martyr
In From She-Wolf to Martyr, Elizabeth Casteen examines Johanna I of Naples's evolving, problematic reputation and uses it as a lens through which to analyze often-contradictory late-medieval conceptions of rulership, authority, and femininity.
The new Solomon [electronic resource]
This study of kingship and the court in fourteenth-century Italy connects the style of rule of Robert of Naples to the changing issues of the fourteenth century and charts its legacy among other late-medieval rulers and Renaissance commentators.
The Tocco of the Greek Realm
This book is about the Tocco family, the most prominent kindreds in Latin Greece during the 14th and 15th centuries. Originally from the Italian South, their five generations ruled the Greek regions of the Heptanese, Epiros and Peloponnese. By exploring the elaborate structures of their power, this monograph reveals an intricate nexus of dynamic personal and political relations, as well as larger socio-historical processes that transformed this family from junior nobility of the Angevin Naples into independent elite ruling a region on the crossroads between the Byzantine East and the Latin West. In doing so, this saga of the Tocco nobility, power and migration gives a critical overview of the early-modern and modern scholarship dealing with this family, cross-examining, at the same time, a most extensive pool of primary sources: Latin and Greek narratives, family documents and genealogies until now largely unpublished or little known to the scholarship, legal sources and diplomatic correspondence, commercial books and archeological reports.
The Cronaca di Partenope
Narrating the history of Naples from its foundation in early antiquity to the year 1343, the Cronaca di Partenope was the first chronologically comprehensive history of the city and one of the earliest works of any genre composed in the Neapolitan vernacular. Drawing on earlier-medieval texts and a healthy dose of legend, it is a prime witness to Neapolitan identity and memory in the later Middle Ages and an important example of southern Italian civic historiography. This volume offers the first critical edition of the text, accompanied by an extensive introduction that establishes its author, date, historical context, source materials, and later fortunes, including its significant influence on the subsequent development of local historiography
La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo
Studiare gli archivi dei signori rurali del Mezzogiorno d’Italia tra XIV e XV secolo significa cogliere la natura del loro potere, il modo in cui esso si diceva. Il volume, che accoglie le sollecitazioni della storiografia più recente, è fondato sulla repertoriazione di importanti complessi documentari dell’Archivio di Stato di Napoli, fondo Sommaria (Relevi, con i dossier per la successione feudale; Dipendenze, I, Conti erariali dei feudi e Diversi, con registri signorili pervenuti al Fisco per confisca o morte senza eredi). Sono inoltre oggetto di studio i cartulari e le platee calabresi, tipici «libri-archivio» che inglobano repertori più antichi (famiglie Ruffo e Sanseverino), e le pergamene degli Albertini di Nola. La ricchezza informativa dei fondi archivistici e dei registri presi in considerazione consente agli autori di concentrarsi sulla sostanza dei poteri signorili, la tipologia delle scritture prodotte dai signori e per i signori, la loro gestione del patrimonio, le strategie di costruzione della memoria. Saggi di R. Berardi, P. d’Arcangelo, V. Rivera Magos, S. Pollastri, L. Petracca, L. Tufano.
Le miracle des roses
Ce présent ouvrage est un recueil de diverses études et recensions, déjà publiées ou inédites et étalées sur plusieurs années, concernant l'histoire religieuse catholique du Moyen Age à nos jours, principalement dans l'Ouest de la France mais pas seulement. Le but de l'auteur est de faire partager sa passion et son intérêt pour certains aspects symboliques souvent oubliés ou mis de côté, dans un travail de mémoire vivante, comme une invitation à la recherche de nos racines sacrées. Entretiens Entretien avec Thierry Jolif. Recension de livres 1. Les phénomènes mystiques chrétiens et le problème du discernement : trois cas modernes. 2. A propos des Rencontres autour de Je...
