Relations between death and the medieval church have been explored by European historians since the beginning of the 20th century. They are here analysed within the 22 dioceses of « Provence » during the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. Using a large and varied documentation, essentially produced by c...

After briefly introducing Aristotle's syllogistics in the last blog post, I should now actually explain how it were received and elaborated in antiquity, the Middle Ages and into modern times. In particular, the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 to 1716), in which important approaches to moder...

Despite the paucity of documentary evidence arguing in favour of the existence of much sculpting activity in and near Chambéry, the criteria needed to establish the presence of an artistic hub in the town and its vicinity at the turn of the XV and XVI centuries can be shown. The existence of a large...

13 October 2017, IRHiS Seminar Room (1.152, building. A, Forum-1), Lille-SHS University, Villeneuve d’Ascq Study Day organised as part of the Lille-Gand-Louvain project, TELEMHA Secondary ecclesiastical agglomerations in the Upper Middle Ages. History and archaeology Resp.: CH. Metros, L. Verslype =...

Preventive archaeology operations prior to the construction of a development have highlighted two alluvial terraces and unprecedented dejection cones in a portion of the average Tech valley whose post-glacial history has so far been poorly documented. After a presentation of the morphodynamic develo...

, located south of Loire-Atlantique, around 10 kilometres from Bourgneuf-en-Retz Bay, the remains of the Machecoul Castle are installed on a slight calcareous depression. In the Middle Ages, the fortress was placed on the southern confins of Brittany, close to the coastline and Falleron, a river tha...

On 30 May, 31 May and 1, the following colloquium will take place at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne and the EPHE: Belief, belief, faith: from late antiquity to the Middle Ages. Organisers: Christophe Grellard, Laurent Lavaud and Philippe Hoffmann. Thursday 30 May 2013 University Paris 1...

Samedi 11 November 2017, the heritage and cultural associations and the municipalities of Thorame-Basse and Thorame-Haute are organising, in partnership with the Departmental Council of the Alps de Haute-Provence, a conference on the topical archaeological research in the High Valleys of the Provenç...

The organizer’s invitation to participate in the 2018 edition of Archeology and History of Peasantry seminars placed me face to face with the term ‘peasants’ years after I had abandoned it, mainly as a consequence of my uneasiness with the way it had been applied to the Late Prehistory of Iberia. Th...

Laughter was often the subject of theoretical reflection. In contrast, studies on the specific historical constellations of laughter in pre-modern times are almost completely absent. This volume is dedicated to this deficit. Historical laughter can be inferred from laughter. Values and taboos emerge...

on the occasion of the seizure of medieval reason books in Jonas, we found a very useful tool, developed by GDR 2649 under the direction of J.-P. Bardet and F.-J. RUGGIU: a census of the private forum’s written records (books of reason, family books, newspapers, etc.) written between the end of the...

On Friday 27 April 2018, the 223 will take place from 17.15 in the Elise Judge room at the main building of the University of Vienna. Institute seminar organised by the Institute for Austrian History Research. Romedio Schmitz-Esser, Professor of General History of the Middle Ages and Historical auxi...

This collective book looks at the correspondence that city bodies, created in France at the end of the Middle Ages, had with the great figures of the Kingdom, i.e. the King, of course, but also its advisers, and some of the nobility of the courtyard or even other intermediaries in the sovereign cour...

Registration procedures: It is done on the e-application — From 20 April to 15 May — Results at the latest by 19 June Presentation The Middle Ages is a particularly exotic historical period, which rightly has a real fascination. But in order to really understand this period, we need to acquire deman...

During the last decade of the 19th century, a number of English writers converted to Roman Catholicism: the “Decadent” poets John Gray, Lionel Johnson and Ernest Dowson joined the Church in 1890 and 1891, while Oscar Wilde flirted with the Catholic faith during his college years at Oxford, and recei...

At once kaleidoscopic and telescopic, the book presents three periods of French literature, the Middle Ages, the Early Modern and the Modern, in both overview and close-up. A triptych by three authors, each an eminent academic, and indeed emblematic specialist in their field, it condenses a remarkab...

at the end of November 2009 will conclude the EMMA “Young Researchers/Young Researchers” programme (“For a historical anthropology of emotions in the Western Middle Ages”) funded by the National Research Agency. It is obviously not the end of EMMA, which continues to exist with the support of other...

Pierre Riché (1921-2019). Noël-Yves Tonnerre. Pierre Riché left us on 6 May 2019; he was 97 years old. He disappeared from a major specialist in the High Middle Ages, but also from an academic who was listened to and respected, one of those with the highest international audience. He was born in Par...

In this second year of a collective research project (PCR) at the Mariana site, the strategy of reviewing the previously crowded remains based on the implementation of highly targeted studies, designed to provide answers to a precise question formulated ahead of the field work, has once again proved...

Wine and meat are basic products of medieval food. In Toulouse, there is an early professionalisation of the meat trade, which is reflected in the establishment of specialised trades regulated by the municipality and the emergence of recognised experts. On the contrary, the sale of wine remains rela...

Accounting and accounting in the Middle Ages 4th International Round Table — JEUDI accounting knowledge and know-how JEUDI 6 October VENDREDI 7 October 2011 University of Lille 3 — IRHiS Seminar Room — Building A, Room A3-101 UMR 8589-LAMOP — University of Paris 1 — UMR 8529-IRHiS — University of Li...

Territory of a major vicus, preceded by continuous occupation, shown by the subaquatic sites discovered by messolithic, Nolithic, Bronze age and the age of the Fer, then Antiquity, Upper Medium Memodan and Carolingian Age, Classical Middle Ages and until contemporary times, Allichamps territory reve...

Vacancy Notice The Bavarian Central State Archive is the competent authority for the archives of the central state authorities in Bavaria and their legal and functional predecessors since the Middle Ages. From 1 April 2015 to 30 November 2016, the Bavarian State Archives are looking for part-time pr...