The lumbar advance in southern Italy interrupted the administrative unit of the Apulia and Calabria region during the seventh century. For two centuries this long homogeneous cultural and economic area will be shared between Byzantin power and the Lombards. The image of this border and the character...

The proceedings of the colloquia will be published in the medieval collection of D. Buschinger (presses of the Centre d’Etudes medievales of the University of Picardie). As soon as the Chevalier prologged to the sword, the author announced his willingness to devote himself to the Gauvain character....

Call for applications of the 2021 Theathesis Prize: Extension of the call for applications The GIS Middle East Muslim World of the CNRS and the Institute for the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies (IISMM-UMS2000) are organising four targeted thesis prizes for the Middle East and Muslim worlds in 20...

On 7, 8 and 9 December 2020, I organised an online training course entitled “Study and publish Arab texts with digital” as part of my activities for the GIS Middle East and Muslim worlds. The first day, 7 December, offered an introduction to digital opportunities for philology. After a morning led b...

Billet of the research book ‘The world of djinns’ (djinns.hypotheses.org), programme of the workshop ‘The words, the sorts: the lexicon of magic in Muslim worlds’. Saturday, 8 July 2017 takes place a one-day workshop under the title ‘The words, sorts: the lexicon of magic in Muslim worlds’, organise...

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N. Guglielmi and A. RucWhat

Place: Besançon

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What were the function and practical use of the bara, this document being both legal (attested by less), a book issued by a third party as a receipt, and an official (uncertified) book issued by the tax authorities to that title? Which of the practical, structural, diplomatic or administrative reaso...

The idea of the power or effectiveness of words emerges from the reading of very different sources in the Middle Ages, be it doctrinal texts or practical works. This book is intended to be the broadest possible confrontation on this topic from an intellectual and anthropological perspective. Indeed,...

National hearing Edition, translation and commentary of Henri’s Charter confirming the donations made to the Abbey of Fontevraud (AN L 1018 No 3). The commentary focuses on the judicial rights of abbesse and their delimitation in the face of concurrent justice of Montsoreau’s sire.

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International audience This work reviews the notions of “proof” and “test” in Juan Manuel’s Conde Lucanor. First of all, it focuses on the relationship between proof / test and the search for truth. This is reflected in the demonstrative approach of the “rational proofs” which are found mainly in Pa...

report in Food History, 17/2 (2020), pp. 262-265.

The PCR fortifying the Alps in the Middle Ages, involving around ten researchers (doctoral candidates, archaeologists, academics) has just completed its probationary year at the end of 2019. It was born out of the observation of the scarcity of castellology research in the south-east quarter and its...

Carnea food plays a special role in the food practices of medieval populations, for a variety of reasons (economic, social, material, medical, religious, symbolic). If meat appears to be a valuable food in the discourse, the factors that favoured or restricted its production and consumption should b...

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The proximity of Brunehamel Castle prompted the prescription of a diagnosis on the B316P plot of Brunehamel. This made it possible to observe the foundation of a barn mentioned in the Napoleonic cadastre. The substrate was observed at a very low depth (less than 40 cm on average below the current su...