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...

This book comes into the important collection of the Guides Belles Letters of Civilisations, which now has around 30 titles for a wide audience of students, specialists and simply curious. With a view to both books for the general public and basic manuals, the volumes of this collection all correspo...

Since the end of the 19th century, historians have presented Philippe Auguste’s military intervention against the Auvergne comte in 1210-1213 as a ‘conquest’. They build their interpretation by referring mainly to the Chroniques de Guillaume le Breton. After a period of ‘independence’, Auvergne has...

Fourquin Guy. History of L’Ile-de-France and Paris, under Mr Mollat. In: Medieval civilisation books, year 16 (No 64), October — December 1973. pp. 334-336.

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Thomas Deswarte, lecturer in medieval history at the University of Poitiers, is a specialist in the Iberian Peninsula and the history of the Christian royal in the context of the fight against Muslims. He writes with a Roman Chrétié without Pope: Spain and Rome (586-1085), a detailed and in-depth st...

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Cordoliani Alfred. The Dicuil calcult. In: Medieval civilisation books, year 3 (No 11), July-September 1960, pp. 325-337.

From the iconographic programme which originally decorated (around 1078) the cathedral of Saint-Lizier, a Majestas Domini in the oven (resumed in the eighteenth century), eight apartments arranged in pairs, under each of the blind arcades of the Chamber and, lower, five scenes of the Christ Enfance:...

National audience at the time when the Cathedral of Saint-Pierre de Poitiers is undergoing restoration commissioned by the Regional Conservation of Historical Monuments (DRAC), it is at the heart of a major book led by Claude Andrault-Schmitt, professor of medieval art history at the University of P...

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The author is interested in the progressive ‘heraldisation’ of the book: handwritten coat of arms and books remain key elements of culture and elite representation for a long time and are inevitable. Heraldic appearance in the book is very early (last third of the 12th century). It is quickly found...

perfectly illustrated and thus not denying a well-known collection, this collective book deals with the whole of the Middle Ages, from antiquity to Renaissance, i.e. a millennium, all artistic disciplines combined. A challenge? It is true that the French geographical framework makes it quite easy to...

Barthélemy Dominique. I. Johsua. — The hidden side of the middle age. The first steps in capital, 1988. In: Medieval civilisation books, year 35 (No 137), Janvier-March 1992, pp. 81-82.

the author first presents some general assumptions and then a first-hand study on a well-defined field that leads to the introduction of exceptions to the postulated rules on a few points: his study focuses on a ‘pioneer front’, whose local political territorialisation is not representative of the m...

International audience Medieval monastery churches in today’s France (e.g. Vézelay, Mont-Saint-Michel, Bourges etc.) very often dominate their surroundings, their silhouettes on the horizon harmoniously complete the image of a natural landscape in which they are settled and intensely catch the eyes...

from the second half of the 14th century, most European sovereigns, soon imitated by their parents and senior court officers, add new signs to their heraldic panopy. The sources refer to these currency emblems. In fact, they are figurative signs realistically depicted with which an award, word, mono...

At the turn of the 14th and 18th century, moralising themes play an important role in Parisian music sources, particularly in conductus practice. An analysis of a selection of mono-moral ducts attributed to Philippe the Chancellor reveals the oratory and rhetoric qualities of this production in both...

Depuis la découverte, au XIXe siècle, de pots acoustiques dans les murs et les voûtes de certaines églises, la question de l'origine de cet usage s'est posée avec d'autant plus d'insistance que ni les sources contemporaines de la mise en place des dispositifs ni les traités d'architecture n'en disen...

In his carnets, Dartein pays a great attention to documenting Medieval epigraphs, confirming the method of work which considers the context as a whole unit: restituting the exact graphic morphology of the letters incised on the surveyed monuments he comments on the distinctive features and the paleo...

[online]: http://histara.sorbonne.fr/cr.php?cr=1631 mapping in Histara, the minutes: history of art, history of representations and archaeology (ISSN: 2100-0700)

National audience The Centre for Higher Studies of Medieval Civilisation in Poitiers (CESCM) uses a new stratigraphic reading technique that reveals the processes of creating pictorial works in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe.

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