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Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author's name and characteristic keywords in their title. Volume LXXXIV (2015) mentions works published with the date 2015, in thirty-five languages (in order of appearance: Italian, French, Latin, Hebrew, Romanian, English, German, Castilian, Spanish, Dutch, Persian, Hungarian, Swedish, Latvian, Arab, Portuguese, Serbian, Finnish, Danish, Slovak, Polish, Croatian, Russian, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Catalan, Czech, Lithuanian, Chinese, Korean, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kurdish). The large Editorial Board of IBHS is interdisciplinary and multinational, reflecting the composition of the research community the journal will serve. This breadth of languages ​​and countries represented is an important sign of continuity in a publication characterized since from its origins by a broad sight and a collective work.

When Keith Busby published his field-shaping Codex and Context in 2002, the work was referred to as ‘groundbreaking'and ‘monumental'. It prompted scholars of medieval literature to return to manuscripts in their droves. However, Busby's Codex and Context would also enact another, more gradual movement. His formulation of the term ‘medieval Francophonia'to describe the presence, power and effect of French outside France would filter steadily into academic enquiry. The term and concept are now widely recognised and applied in global scholarship, including in multiple major projects dedicated to the topic. This volume brings together a series of cutting-edge studies of medieval Francophonia, covering in one place and for the first time the fullest scope of the concept's remit, with contributions on history, historiography, language, literature, culture, society and authority. At the same time as offering a timely contribution to the field, this volume pays tribute to Busby's life work not only to pioneer medieval Francophonia, but also, and moreover, to encourage the study of the medieval through material philology. Each of the studies here, written by Busby's friends and colleagues, thus roots its approach in a material context.

Aus Anlass des 1100. Jubiläums des Bonner Vertrags vom 7. November 921, im Rahmen dessen sich der westfränkische König Karl III. und der ostfränkische König Heinrich I. auf dem Rhein bei Bonn trafen, veranstalteten die Abteilungen für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit und Rheinische Landesgeschichte sowie für Mittelalterliche Geschichte des Instituts für Geschichtswissenschaft der Universität Bonn eine Tagung, deren Ergebnisse der vorliegende Band zusammenfasst. Die Beitragenden gehen von diesem speziellen Herrschertreffen aus, kontextualisieren es als eine Etappe des Zerfalls des fränkischen Großreichs und nehmen weitere vormoderne Gipfeltreffen interdisziplinär vergleichend in den Blick. Die Fallbeispiele erstrecken sich vom dritten vorchristlichen bis ins 17. nachchristliche Jahrhundert. This volume brings together the results of the conference held on the occasion of the 1100th anniversary of the Bonn Treaty of 7 November 921, during which the West Frankish King Charles III and the East Frankish King Henry I met on the Rhine near Bonn. The contributors take this particular meeting of rulers as their starting point, contextualise it as a stage in the disintegration of the Frankish empire and take an interdisciplinary, comparative look at other pre-modern summit meetings. The case studies range from the third pre-Christian to the 17th post-Christian century.

This book explores the connection between saints and animals, and how the power over animals has been a characteristic of saints from their beginnings in the Early Church.The connection between saints and humans is examined, with the saint as a human rising beyond humanity, touching the divine, and the non-human animal as a creature, which is connected to and yet removed from humanity and which may have a connection to the sacred itself. This volume transcends traditional religious boundaries by including Christian saints as well as similar figures in Islam and Norse religions. It operates on the cusp of two exciting and innovative fields: hagiographic and animal studies. It shows the complexities of human-animal interaction and the sacred: authorities clashing with experiential knowledge, metaphorical animals as opposed to real, animals ranging from helpers or opponents of saints, disguises of demons, or identity markers of a human community.Companion Species will be of value to scholars and students interested in medieval history, Europe, and religion, as well as social and cultural history.

Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne by Theodore Evergates traces the remarkable life of Geoffroy of Villehardouin (c. 1148–c. 1217) from his earliest years in Champagne through his last years in Greece after the crusade. The fourth son of a knight, Geoffroy became marshal of Champagne, principal negotiator in organizing the Fourth Crusade, chief of staff of the expedition to and conquest of Constantinople, garrison commander of Constantinople and, in his late fifties, field commander defending the Latin settlement in the Byzantine empire against invading Bulgarian armies and revolting Greek cities. Known for his diplomatic skills and rectitude, he served as the chief military advisor to Count Thibaut III of Champagne and later to Emperor Henry of Constantinople.Geoffroy is remarkable as well for dictating the earliest war memoir in medieval Europe, which is also the earliest prose narrative in Old French. Addressed to a home audience in Champagne, he described what he did, what he saw, and what he heard during his eight years on crusade and especially during the fraught period after the conquest of Constantinople. His memoir, The Book of the Conquest of Constantinople, furnishes a commander's retrospective account of the main events and inner workings of the crusade—the innumerable meetings and speeches, the conduct (not always commendable) of the barons, and the persistent discontent within the army—as well as a celebration of his own deeds as a diplomat and a military commander.

This book considers documented connections and raises comparisons among Eurasian societies around the year 1000; using a global frame, it aims to sketch their distinctive characteristics. Scholars of Japan, China, the steppe regions, India, and the Islamic world, Byzantium, and Western Europe concur that a remarkable diversification of different cultures accompanied demographic and economic growth worldwide. Their sketches of various Eurasian'worlds'suggest a meaningful approach to both world and global History. Some factors, like climate change, fostered interaction; others, like the invasions of nomadic peoples, checked interaction less than previously believed. The authors also demonstrate how trade, exchange transactions, and universalist religions contributed to greater interaction.

'Eine meisterhafte Synthese aller bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt veröffentlichten Studien über Juden in Frankreich'Lire Die Geschichte der Juden Frankreichs ist von der jüdischen Geschichte als solcher nicht zu trennen. Die jüdische Geschichte Frankreichs war und ist eine Erscheinungsform der vielgestaltigen Existenz eines Volkes, das ohne Territorium Jahrhunderte in der Diaspora1 überdauerte. Sie nahm einen entscheidenden Einfluß auf die allgemeine jüdische Geschichte...

Particularly in the humanities and social sciences, festschriften are a popular forum for discussion. The IJBF provides quick and easy general access to these important resources for scholars and students. The festschriften are located in state and regional libraries and their bibliographic details are recorded. Since 1983 regularly published, 1,000 Festschriften from 20 countries with 20,000 articles are added annually. 12,000 articles are analyzed for subject content. You will have instant access to a multiplicity of topics irrespective of the original language of an indexed article.

Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale presents a new study of the heraldry, genealogy and history of the Canterbury Cathedral cloister. It is the first comprehensive and complete study of this monument ever undertaken, and it provides a detailed chronology as well as many new insights into the families who were donors. The monument is revealed to have been the personal project of Archbishop Thomas Arundel (d.1414), an individual closely connected with the overthrow of King Richard II. The work as a whole provides considerable insights into the revolution of 1399 and the troubled reign of Henry IV as seen through the lens of individual families. The cloister, as originally conceived, contained 856 heraldic shields, badges and devices of which 576 were unique. Some 365 families, principalities, religious foundations and other individuals both real and imagined were represented, some with more than one shield or device. More precisely, there were 252 families, 51 peerage families, 3 English royal families (Lancaster, York and Beaufort), 20 principalities, 12 religious foundations, 9 bishops, 7 saints, 3 heroes, 4 cities or towns, 2 priests, 1 monk and 1 for God himself (in the form of the Holy Trinity). The origins and evolution of each shield represented are considered in detail.

La grande enquête archivistique entreprise à partir de 1765 jusqu'à la Révolution dans les archives du royaume a donné naissance à une abondante correspondance entre le cabinet des chartes à Paris et les différents chargés de mission sur place. Elle offre un panorama totalement inédit sur la situation des archives publiques, conventuelles ou seigneuriales à la veille de la Révolution. Ce volume concerne les deux provinces voisines de la Champagne et de la Franche-Comté, ainsi que la Lorraine dont le rattachement à la France était récent. Outre les dépôts conventuels, c'est surtout dans les archives de l'ancienne Chambre des comptes de Dôle, transférée partie à Besançon, partie à Dijon, que se développèrent les recherches.

Das Königreich Jerusalem, das 1099 nach der Eroberung der Heiligen Stadt entstanden war, prägte für fast 200 Jahre die Geschichte des Nahen Ostens. Seine politische Entwicklung wurde maßgeblich durch den Herrschaftsstil des gerade amtierenden Königs bestimmt und war damit stets den Faktoren Kontinuität und Wandel unterworfen. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht dieses Phänomen anhand der Außenbeziehungen unter Amalrich und seinem Sohn Balduin IV. (1163–1185). Ausgiebige Behandlung erfahren nicht nur die Beziehungen zu den islamisch geprägten Herrschaftskomplexen des Nahen Ostens und Kleinasiens, sondern ebenso jene zu Byzanz, zu den nördlichen Kreuzfahrerherrschaften sowie zu weiteren christlich geprägten Herrschaftskomplexen der Region. Auch die Beziehungen zu den verschiedenen Ansprechpartnern in Europa werden mit in den Blick genommen. Durch die ausführliche Analyse des weitgespannten Beziehungsnetzwerkes, das die Jerusalemer Könige und ihre Berater in der Zeit zwischen dem Zweiten und Dritten Kreuzzug unterhielten und aktiv weiterentwickelten, soll die bedeutende Rolle des Königreiches im Spannungsfeld zwischen dem lateineuropäischen, griechischen und islamisch geprägten Kulturraum deutlicher als bisher herausgestellt werden.

Bereits den Zeitgenossen galt Karl der Große als ›Vater Europas‹. In der Tat schuf er ein Reich, das zur Wiege der europäischen Staatenwelt wurde. Seinen Kern bildete das ›Frankenreich‹, das er seit 771 allein beherrschte. Spannend schildert der Autor den Aufstieg Karls des Großen und die politische Ordnung seines Imperiums. Nach dem Tode Karls schuf die Teilung des Karolingerreiches die Grundlagen für die spätere Trennung der beiden Nationen, die sich unter Ottonen und Kapetingern erstmals abzeichnete. Auch wenn es kaum möglich ist, den Beginn einer eigenständigen ›deutschen‹ oder ›französischen‹ Geschichte auf ein exaktes Datum festzulegen, begründete die Wahl des Staufers Friedrich II. zum Kaiser zugleich die hegemoniale Stellung des kapetingischen Königs in Europa – von nun an steht »Frankreich« selbstbewusst neben dem »Heiligen Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation«.

In The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, alongside an emerging culture of Christian charity, led to the establishment of hundreds of hospitals and leper houses. Focusing on the county of Champagne, he looks at the ways in which charitable organizations and individuals—townspeople, merchants, aristocrats, and ecclesiastics—saw in these new institutions a means of infusing charitable giving and service with new social significance and heightened expectations of spiritual rewards.In tracing the rise of the medieval hospital during a period of intense urbanization and the transition from a gift economy to a commercial one, Davis makes clear how embedded this charitable institution was in the wider social, cultural, religious, and economic fabric of medieval life.Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities

Ce livre constitue d'abord un hommage à Claude Gaignebet disparu en février 2012, qui fut l'un des ethno-mythologues les plus inspirés et visionnaires de son temps, par ses recherches sur la culture populaire et ses sources antiques. Mais le contenu de cet ouvrage s'attache également à indiquer les prolongements possibles de son oeuvre. Les auteurs font un retour sur les thèmes abordés, les situant dans le cadre de leurs propres recherches.

A Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages is a cross-disciplinary collection of fourteen essays on medieval sigillography. It is organized thematically, and it emphasizes important, often cutting-edge, methodologies for the study of medieval seals and sealing cultures. As the chronological, temporal and geographic scope of the essays in the volume suggests, the study of the medieval seal—its manufacture, materiality, usage, iconography, inscription, and preservation—is a rich endeavour that demands collaboration across disciplines as well as between scholars working on material from different regions and periods. It is hoped that this collection will make the study of medieval seals more accessible and will stimulate students and scholars to employ and further develop these material and methodological approaches to seals.Contributors are Adrian Ailes, Elka Cwiertnia, Paul Dryburgh, Emir O. Filipovi, Oliver Harris, Philippa Hoskin, Ashley Jones, Andreas Lehnertz, John McEwan, Elizabeth A. New, Jonathan Shea, Caroline Simonet, Angelina A. Volkoff, and Marek L. Wójcik.