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Revue Le Moyen Age Mir@bel
Numéro tome 118, no 3, 2012
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  • Les rois d'Angleterre dans les Chroniques de Jean Molinet, indiciaire bourguignon (1474–1506) - Alexandre Grosjean p. 523-544 accès libre avec résumé en anglais
    English Kings in the Chronicles of Jean Molinet, Burgundian historiographer (1474–1506) The views expressed in the narratives written at the Court of the Dukes of Burgundy testify to a range of opinions on the English kingdom and its rulers. Jean Molinet, a native of Burgundy and chronicler to its Court from 1475 to 1507, sketches a highly diverse picture of the monarchs who ruled across the Channel in the years covered by his Chronicles. These are influenced as much by their author's personal aspirations as by the diplomatic policy followed by the Burgundian lands and the political travails in which England was enmeshed at a time when the clashes of the Wars of the Roses were coming to an end and the Tudor dynasty was being established.
  • Image verbale et prédication écrite. Transmission de la foi et enseignement des pratiques religieuses dans les sermons eucharistiques d'Engelberg - Fabrice Flückiger, René WETZEL p. 545-579 accès libre avec résumé en anglais
    Verbal Image and Written Sermon. The Transmission of Faith and the Teaching of Religious Practices in the Engelberg Eucharistic Sermons This article analyzes the role of imagery in a corpus of sermons constituted during the second half of the 14th Century at the Engelberg monastery in central Switzerland. The Engelberg Sermons are marked by an intensive use of mental images, aimed at facilitating the acquisition by those for whom the sermons were intended – mainly Benedictine nuns – of knowledge essential to the salvation of their soul. The sermons also provide many examples, described as “good images,” illustrating the rules of monastic life and the practices of proper devoutness. Because of their highly mystical character, the sermons in this corpus repeatedly emphasize the ways of attaining the Unio Mystica, the union of the individual being with God. The mental images used mine collective iconographic knowledge and make it possible to observe in the sermons the actual, practical use of images, revealing the teaching and spiritual enlightenment methods used in monastic circles during the 14th Century.
  • Dame polyvalente, glissement registral et contrafacture chez Thibaut de Champagne - Christopher Callahan p. 581-594 accès libre avec résumé en anglais
    Multifaceted Lyric Ladies, Intergeneric Play and Contrafacture in the Songs of Thibaut de Champagne The 63 songs of the 13th century trouvère Thibaut de Champagne show a remarkably hybrid structure which resists easy classification into registers, instead engaging in a kind of intergeneric play that highlights the porous nature of such boundaries. This article explores the concept of the archidame, or archi-lady, an abstract personage who can be realized, according to context, as the subject of a love song, devotional song, or pastourelle. The rhetorical strategies linking secular and Marian songs are particularly intricate, and are explored via an analysis of the debate genre, which serves as a crucible for the ethics of courtly love. The debate song is also at the hub of the network of contrafacture, which is proving to play a significant role in the social network of courtly poetry.
  • La hanse de Mantes, témoin et acteur des réseaux d'une petite ville au XVe siècle - Pierre-Henri Guittonneau p. 595-615 accès libre avec résumé en anglais
    The Levy of Mantes : Witness and actor in the networks of a small town in the 15th century The accounts of Mantes-la-Jolie, a town on the River Seine below Paris, include a receipt for a levy on transport of goods by river, a right granted to the town's elders by King Philippe Auguste in the 13th century and allowing them to levy tolls on boatmen or merchants passing through the town by river. The 15th century registers of municipal proceedings and accounts have been preserved and make it possible to see how the levy was used, namely as a toll that made a substantial contribution to municipal revenue and as a way for the elders to create a network of relationships with the area surrounding the town, the Paris area, and Normandy. An analysis of the uses to which this levy was put demonstrates both the relative richness of sources from Mantes compared to the available documentation from other towns around Paris as well as the multiple challenges that can arise from the revenue generated by this tax for a small town in this area.
  • Molinet le sequelle. Du maître au prince et du pouvoir à l'écriture, une difficile filiation - Marie Jennequin p. 617-639 accès libre avec résumé en anglais
    Molinet's sequel : A difficult lineage from master to prince and from power to writing The work of Jean Molinet exemplifies a type of writing narrowly defined in terms of its relationship with the literary tradition and more specifically with the direct and impressive legacy of Georges Chastelain. In Chastelain's hands, the chronicle became a written space conducive to a construction of history as narrative. In the sequel to his chronicles, Molinet carries out a project of détournement and of reinvestment in the narrative procedures and motifs bequeathed to him by his master. Chapters 34 and 36 as well as both prologues, which have not previously received close critical attention, are illuminating examples of a process through which the master sees historiography as a space for comprehension and redemption of the world through the written word, while the disciple considers the possibility that it might have pragmatic power and emphasizes its use as recollection. The same is true of the treatment of the figure of Mary. The theological and poetic density of Chastelain's representation of Mary is replaced by Molinet's theological and political figure, whereby the Virgin is no longer a mirror in which his writing is reflected but a model that he presents to Marie of Burgundy, his mistress. Hence Molinet's work constitutes an attempt at distorting Chastelain's rhetorical edifice, affecting the representation not only of the prince but also of the writer as well the conceptualization of writing as redemption.
  • Bondavin revisité. Le prêteur juif de Marseille Bondavin de Draguignan (ca 1285–1361 ), suite et fin - Juliette Sibon p. 641-659 accès libre avec résumé en anglais
    Bondavin revisited : Bondavin de Draguignan, Jewish moneylender of Marseille (c. 1285–1361) – further analysis and conclusions Bondavin de Draguignan (c. 1285–1361), a Jewish citizen of Marseille, managed to climb the heights of urban society thanks to credit, maritime trade, and his real estate holdings. He exemplifies J. Shatzmiller's concept of “Shylock reconsidered” and enables further analysis of Jewish credit in Marseille. Bondavin, a scion from a family with deep roots in Marseille and heir to an accumulated and compact property inheritance, is a reliable witness. His financial partnerships demonstrate forms of cooperation that transcended community boundaries. His lending activities, which brought him prestige and high repute, were supported by a network of loans advanced to major Christian businessmen in Marseille, thus contributing indirectly to the financing of Angevin expansionism. Emphasis is placed on Bondavin's symbolic dimension, as Jewish usury was a good match for the moral economy it shared with the urban Christian upper classes.
  • Bibliographie : Essai sur l'historiographie templière et ses déclinaisons culturelles depuis le XIVe siècle - Pierre-Vincent Claverie p. 661-674 accès libre
  • Construction royale et groupes culturels dans la Méditerranée médiévale : le cas de la Sicile à l'époque des souverains normands - Annick Peters-custot p. 675-682 accès libre
  • Comptes rendus - p. 683-744 accès libre
  • Nécrologie Jean Dufournet (13 mars 1933–5 mai 2012) - p. 759-765 accès libre