Matthew Mills, Behold your mother : the Virgin Mary in English monasticism, c. 1050-c. 1200, Thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2016 (Université d’Oxford)
Archives de catégorie : Religions, contacts religieux, conversion / Religion, religious contacts, conversion
Ciardi A. M., On the Formation of Cathedral Chapters and Cathedral Culture : Lund, Denmark, and Scandinavia, c. 1060–1225
Ciardi A. M., On the Formation of Cathedral Chapters and Cathedral Culture : Lund, Denmark, and Scandinavia, c. 1060–1225, Thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2016 (Lunds Universitet)
Karlsson Mattias, Konstruktionen av det heliga. Altarna i det medeltida Lunds stift
Karlsson Mattias, Konstruktionen av det heliga. Altarna i det medeltida Lunds stift, Thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2015 (Lund University)
Ellis Nilsson Sara E., Creating Holy People and Places on the Periphery. A Study of the Emergence of Cults of Native Saints in the Ecclesiastical Provinces of Lund and Uppsala from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries
Ellis Nilsson Sara E., Creating Holy People and Places on the Periphery. A Study of the Emergence of Cults of Native Saints in the Ecclesiastical Provinces of Lund and Uppsala from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries, Thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2015 (Göteborgs universitet)
Ljung Cecilia, Under runristad häll : Tidigkristna gravmonument i 1000-talets Sverige
Ljung Cecilia, Under runristad häll : Tidigkristna gravmonument i 1000-talets Sverige, Thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2016 (Stockholm University)
Laidoner Triin, Ancestors, their worship and the elite in Viking Age and early medieval Scandinavia
Laidoner Triin, Ancestors, their worship and the elite in Viking Age and early medieval Scandinavia, Thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2015 (University of Aberdeen)
Alban Gautier, Du danger des mots transparents : dire le phénomène anglo-scandinave dans quelques publications récentes en langue anglaise
Article publié dans le dossier thématique – actes de la journée d’étude du 20 novembre 2015, Les transferts culturels dans les mondes normands médiévaux I – Des mots pour le dire ?
Du danger des mots transparents : dire le phénomène anglo-scandinave dans quelques publications récentes en langue anglaise
Alban Gautier
Université du Littoral-Côte d’Opale ; HLLI – EA 4030
L’expression « phénomène anglo-scandinave » fait référence à la présence du IXe au XIe siècle en Angleterre d’individus et de populations que divers éléments, dans la documentation écrite ou dans l’analyse des données archéologiques, permettent de rattacher à la Scandinavie. Deux ouvrages récents (Kopár 2012 ; McLeod 2014), mais aussi un article de Lesley Abrams (Abrams 2012) reconsidèrent cette « question anglo-scandinave », en cherchant à comprendre comment les migrants et les sociétés qui les ont accueillis ont été concrètement amenés à voir évoluer leurs appartenances telles qu’elles existaient avant la rencontre entre ces populations d’origines différentes… ou au contraire à les conserver, voire à les durcir. Pour rendre compte de ces changements, les auteurs utilisent des termes que l’on peut dire « processuels » (en cela qu’ils cherchent à nommer des processus) : des mots en –ation, a priori transparents, comme integration, accommodation, acculturation, assimilation, hybridation ou Christianization. Or l’apparente transparence de ces termes fait en réalité courir au lecteur francophone le risque du contresens.
Kathryn Hurlock, Paul Oldfield. ed. Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World
Kathryn Hurlock, Paul Oldfield. ed. Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2015.
Résumé/abstract :
The reputation of the Normans is rooted in warfare, faith and mobility. They were simultaneously famed as warriors, noted for their religious devotion, and celebrated as fearless travellers. In the Middle Ages few activities offered a better conduit to combine warfare, religiosity, and movement than crusading and pilgrimage. However, while scholarship is abundant on many facets of the Norman world, it is a surprise that the Norman relationship with crusading and pilgrimage, so central in many ways to Norman identity, has hitherto not received extensive treatment.
The collection here seeks to fill this gap. It aims to identify what was unique or different about the Normans and their relationship with crusading and pilgrimage, as well as how and why crusade and pilgrimage were important to the Normans. Particular focus is given to Norman participation in the First Crusade, to Norman interaction in later crusading initiatives, to the significance of pilgrimage in diverse parts of the Norman world, and finally to the ways in which crusading and pilgrimage were recorded in Norman narrative. Ultimately, this volume aims to assess, in some cases to confirm, and in others to revise the established paradigm of the Normans as crusaders par excellence and as opportunists who used religion to serve other agendas.
Dr Kathryn Hurlock is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Manchester Metropolitan University; Dr Paul Oldfield is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester.
Contributors: Andrew Abram, William M. Aird, Emily Albu, Joanna Drell, Leonie Hicks, Natasha Hodgson, Kathryn Hurlock, Alan V. Murray, Paul Oldfield, David S. Spear, Lucas Villegas-Aristizábal.
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Nef Annliese, Conquérir et gouverner la Sicile islamique aux XIe et XIIe siècles
Nef Annliese, Conquérir et gouverner la Sicile islamique aux XIe et XIIe siècles (B.E.F.A.R.), Rome, 2011.
Résumé/abstract :
Conquérant la Sicile à partir du milieu du XIe siècle, les Hauteville sont les premiers à mettre en place un gouvernement qui se définit comme chrétien et, au moins en partie, de langue latine, tout en exerçant ses prérogatives sur une population majoritairement musulmane et arabophone. Pour ce faire, ils élaborent progressivement des instruments de gouvernement, mais se font aussi les mécènes d’une production culturelle qui a suscité admiration et commentaires jusqu’à aujourd’hui.
Cet ouvrage se présente comme une enquête sur les différentes dimensions du pouvoir des Hauteville de la conquête de la Sicile à la fin du XIIe siècle (politique linguistique, construction d’un État, mécénat, mais aussi contrôle des populations et du territoire). Il vise à dé-mythifier les représentations que l’on a souvent de ce long siècle de « tolérance », mais aussi à déconstruire l’idée que l’échec de la dynastie était écrit d’avance. Il postule néanmoins que la construction « normande » en Sicile demeure originale et novatrice et qu’elle fournit des éléments de comparaison utiles à tous ceux qui analysent les situations de conquête et de gouvernement minoritaire en contexte multiculturel.
Oldfield, Paul. Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200
Paul Oldfield’s book provides a comprehensive overview of the hagiographical sources related to southern Italy and Sicily from 1000 to 1200, as well as a detailed outline of the main features of sanctity and pilgrimage in the region. Drawing on a large body of primary and secondary sources, the author traces some of the important changes that occurred in the region with the arrival of the Normans, the development of papal and local programs of church reform, and the establishment of the crusader states in the Holy Land. One of the author’s main theses is that newly emerging political powers in the region, including Norman rulers, reform bishops and abbots, and urban communities, used cults of saints as a means to promote and legitimize their power. Continuer la lecture de Oldfield, Paul. Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200
Conquest: 1016, 1066 – Call for paper
An Interdisciplinary Anniversary Conference
Ioannou Centre and TORCH, Oxford, 21-24 July 2016
PAPER PROPOSAL DEADLINE 31 OCTOBER 2015
Sessions will run in parallel for 90 minutes each. Paper proposals in the general call should be for 20 minute papers, which will be scheduled in sessions of 3 papers each; if groups of people wish to propose a session in a different format, they are welcome to submit linked proposals. Session and paper proposers are asked to nominate one or more of the thematic strands in which their session/paper would fit:
- The Church; monasticism, clerical reform, theology, religious experience
- Literature, authors, and patronage
- Language and multilingualism, language contact
- Institutions and governance; lordship; kingship
- Warfare, battles, conduct in war, fighting men
- Art and material culture; music; court life
- Society and peoples
- Trade and commerce
- Space, movement, contact, networks; England and Europe, England and Scandinavia
- Historiography
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Reading Augustine’s Confessions in Normandy in the 11th and 12th Centuries
Lire Les Confessions de saint Augustin en Normandie aux XIe et XIIe siècles
Lauren MANCIA (Department of History, Brooklyn College, New York)
http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/craham/revue/tabularia/print.php?dossier=dossier12&file=03mancia.xml
Abstract:
Scholars such as Pierre Courcelle have observed an intensification in interest in Augustine’s Confessionsin medieval Europe after the 11th century. This intensification was manifested in Normandy in two ways: first, in the early 11th century, Abbot John of Fécamp drew extensively from Augustine’s Confessions in his own Confessio Theologica; and second, book lists and extant manuscripts from the Norman monastic world show a marked increase in the number of copies of Confessions in Normandy by end of the 12th century. This article offers, for the first time, both an analysis of how John of Fécamp used Augustine’s work in his own Confessio and an interpretation of the manuscript evidence for the diffusion ofConfessions in Normandy. This study hopes to demonstrate how an analysis of contemporary intellectual interpretations of texts in Normandy can be used alongside paleographical examination of surviving copies to uncover both the ways in which and the reasons for which books circulated among the monastic houses.
Keywords: John of Fécamp, Confessions, St. Augustine of Hippo, monastic manuscript culture, monastic contemplation, 11th-century, 12th-century, Confessio Theologica, monasticism, Paris, BnF, ms lat. 1916
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Matveeva Elizaveta, Reconsidering the tradition: the Odinic hero as saga-protagonist
Matveeva Elizaveta, Reconsidering the tradition: the Odinic hero as saga-protagonist, (dir. J. Jesch, University of Nottingham)
En cours depuis ?/In preparation since ?
Résumé/abstract :
My project centres upon the representation of late Icelandic saga characters that are connected with Odinic motifs, and are usually based upon an earlier tradition of depicting a mortal hero consecrated to Óðinn. The major examples of such characters include Sigmundr, Sinfjötli and Sigurðr of Völsunga saga that goes back to Eddic poetry, and the eponymous kings and their champions in Hrólfs saga kraka and Halfs saga ok Halfsrekka. The aim of my thesis is to look at the perception and interpretation of these traditional storylines and their pagan theme in saga narrative of the Christian era, from both literary-critical and historical points of view.
[Source : http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/csva/research/doctoral-research.aspx]
Dutton Douglas, Entering Óðinn’s Hall: ritual and remembrance
Dutton Douglas, Entering Óðinn’s Hall: ritual and remembrance, (dir. T. Wills, S. Brink, University of Aberdeen)
En cours depuis 2012/In preparation since 2012
Aucun résumé retrouvé/No abstract available
[Source : http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/research-students-533.php]
McCullough Jess, Belief and practice in early Norse Greenland
McCullough Jess, Belief and practice in early Norse Greenland, (dir. D. O’Sullivan, N. Christie, University of Leicester)
En cours depuis 2012/In preparation since 2012
Aucun résumé retrouvé/No abstract available