this volume brings together the work of the two study days we organised in Aix-en-Provence on 18 and 19 January 2018 and then in Grenoble on 17 and 18 January 2019, under the title ‘The art of preaching in the x-century: rhetoric and figurative effectiveness’. This collaboration between the Centre Axois d’études Romance and the University Laboratoire Histories Cultures Italy Europe is intended to be the first step in setting up a network of researchers working on a scale...