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...

By an exploratory approach embedded in a topical research, the study proposes to emphasise the senses and their activation in and by the hagiographic image, with the object of two enlighters representing the prayer of Saint Maur de Glanfeuil in a Roman contemporaneous manuscript. The liturgy of the...

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The Pères de l’Église, although they did not explicitly speak of the organicity of the content of faith, lived the reality, that is to say, the synergy of areas which were not then separated from liturgy, sacrements, theology, prayer and ethics. While we have little echoes of this reality itself, th...

From the 14th century to the conciliance of Trento, local churches and regular orders set their own liturgical uses more and more precisely. Ordinary and bréviary, where they summarise the divin service requirements, serve them to promulgate, record and disseminate these ever-changing cultural custo...

As the Tridentin catechism of 1566, catechism in 1992 comprises a first part on faith and Credo, a second part on liturgia and sacrements, a third on Christian action and God commands, a fourth on prayer and ‘Notre Père’. The first three parts have already been the subject of an in-depth study (BETL...

Durel Henri. The Hampton Court Conference (January 1604) or Jacques I’s authority over the Anglican Church. In: Anglophonia/Caliban, No 17, 2005. Protestantism (s) and authority/Protestantism and authority. pp. 187-196.

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Among the history of medieval enluminure, the illustration of liturgical books has always attracted real interest. We owe German knowledge the best published studies in this field. In France, the old catalogues of V. Leroquais are a wealth of information for art historians, and their introductions r...

Based on the example of several mystic saints, it is shown how a narrative (martyre of a saint or passion of Christ) takes substance in the person’s experience and becomes active in the sense that he or she gives his or her life. This way of predicting the past leads to questioning the relationship...

liturgy, preaching and defence of Orthodox faith in the Byzantine Church between 1274 and 1453

How to boost parish liturgies? How can young adults and others who are absent from the usual sleeves be there? In the end, what is the taste of liturgies? The main idea of the Vatican II concile was to meet Christ: ‘In order to achieve such a great work, Christ is still there with its Church, especi...

recention in the medieval Civilisation Cahiers, 45, No 180 At the origin of this beautiful volume published in 1999, there was the jubilé of the foundation of the famous Echternach abbey (now in Luxembourg), founded in 698 by Saint Willibrord. However, an important cropping centre in the Middle Ages...

In the Greek liturgy, the same terminology is used to refer to loose bread or eucharistic bread, to which the celebrator and a part of the communal faithful during the liturgy, and love bread, which is distributed by the celebrator to all assistants at the end of the liturgy. The former has a strong...

The Liber de ordinatione et officio totius anni in ecclesia Metensi, usually designed under the name Cérémonial, is a lost medieval liturgy manuscript which was last kept at Metz municipal library (ms. 82). Nowadays, the full text is fortunately known thanks to the scientific edition led by Bishop P...

This thesis is dedicated to western representations of the Ascension of Jesus Christ between the IX and XIII Centuries and offers an analysis of this episode according to its iconography. This analysis consists of several sequences. As it is a religious subject, we have first the canonical sources,...

An impulse of artistic creation combined with an impulse of religious life in search of radiation, and the need for awareness of close links between music and theology are at the root of this approach. Practical theology, in its interdisciplinary approach, has been the framework for this research an...

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Italian, French, German and English written sources report from the 7th to the 12nd century that at least twenty crucifixes made of silver or gold, carrying an almost lively plastic corpus, met the requirements of the monumental sculpture. This study is based first on the three pieces obtained in th...

By the year 1555, the catholic kingdom of France affronted the settlement of Churches "being reformed according to the Gospel". Being on conflict with many subjects, Catholic and Reformed nevertheless mutually recognize baptism received in the opposite confession. Focusing on the Western synodal pro...

In the village of Olympos, located in the north of the Greek island of Karpathos in Aegean Sea, the sung poetic improvisation, known as mantinades, takes on a particular character. It is developed during ritual festivals called glentia, either during informal meetings of men in the coffee-house, or...