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Revue Le Moyen Age Mir@bel
Numéro tome 122, no 2, 2016
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    • Le testament de Géraud dit d'Aurillac. Édition et commentaire - Sébastien Fray p. 261-274 accès libre avec résumé en anglais
      The Testament of Gerald of Aurillac. Edition and Commentary
      Although the Vita Geraldi is well known by medievalists, historians have too often neglected the small contemporary documentary record on Gerald, the founding saint of the Abbey of Aurillac (Cantal) at the end of the 9th century. It is true that these acts have had a difficult history and are known today only through modern copies. However, they are essential for a historical approach to the person Gerald was when alive and before Odo of Cluny redrew his character as a saint. Therefore, this paper provides a critical edition of Saint Gerald's last wishes. The commentary allows us to establish the nature of the document, which is indeed a real testament and not, as has too often been argued, a codicil. It also establishes the date of Gerald's death, which must be October 909, and not 918 as wrongly claimed by the medieval tradition of the Abbey of Aurillac.
    • La lecture des débats en moyen français : approches d'un jeu courtois - Hélène Haug p. 275-302 accès libre avec résumé en anglais
      Reading Debate Literature in Middle French: Approaches to a Courtly Play
      This paper concerns medieval debate literature, a literary genre common to a variety of European literatures. These literary dialogues were often written in verse and pitted against each other the opinions of two or more characters on a similar topic. Recent studies demonstrate the importance of looking at the genre in its social context. To complement these studies, which concern the effects of debate on poetic creation, this paper examines the actual situations in which these texts were read. Several clues from the corpus, which consists of all the debates in Middle French published to date, suggest that they should be viewed as public readings. Our research also highlights immediate post-readings of the text, or that the text acted as a trigger for playful and poetic activity in a group of readers as the group reading was taking place.
    • Quête et collecte des aumônes chez les frères mendiants de Hongrie à la fin du Moyen Âge - Beatrix F. Romhányi p. 303-325 accès libre avec résumé en anglais
      The Quest for and Collection of Alms among the Mendicant Orders of Hungary at the End of the Middle AgesMainly due to documentary lacuna, little research has been carried out on the economic background of the mendicant orders and their economy. In Central Europe, there were only a few hundred documents on the subject in the Kingdom of Hungary; yet these have never been examined from an economic perspective in any comprehensive way. This paper examines the collecting of alms, one of the most typical activities of the mendicant economy. The picture drawn from sources confirms that, in their physical operations, the Franciscans were the closest to the ideal of the Ordines Mendicantes. However, the importance of the quest for alms is also apparent in other orders. Nevertheless, the example of the Dominicans of Bistrița, who took the decision to exchange almost all their rights for land property in the first half of the 15th century, puts doubt on the reality of their practice of the quest. Further research is required to determine what social, economic and demographic factors accounted for these choices, which distanced them from the mendicants and brought them closer to traditional monks.
    • Inscription et Performance dans le Testament Rhetoricael d'Eduard de Dene (Bruges, 1562) - Samuel Mareel p. 327-339 accès libre avec résumé en anglais
      Inscription et Performance dans le Testament Rhetoricael d'Eduard de Dene (Bruges, 1562)The study of literary performance is generally limited to the oral presentation of texts by one or more performers in front of an audience. This article argues that this approach is too limited if we want to understand the performative possibilities of late medieval Dutch literature. On the basis of the work of Richard Schechner I offer a performative analysis of a type of text that is generally not considered as a form of literary performance, namely verse inscriptions, poems that circulated in written form outside of books. My corpus consists of a group of verse inscriptions written by the Bruges poet Eduard de Dene and included in his so-called Testament rhetoricael (1562). I show that analyzing these texts as a kind of performance, by looking more particularly at their interaction with a specific geographical location, audience and moment in time, can yield new insights into the functioning of late medieval poetry.
    • À l'aube de la Nation : l'Histoire en Castille aux xive–xve siècles - Béatrice Leroy p. 341-384 accès libre avec résumé en anglais
      The Dawning of the Nation. The History of Castile in the 14th–15th Centuries
      In their work, historiographers of the Kingdom of Castile speak of the natural link between the people and the nourishing earth, the king's honor, his officers; of a king who must be defended, especially because he is king of Castile. They emphasize that the kingdom is everything it should be when it is served by its Castilians. Expressed in countless synonyms, ideas about nation can already be detected in these histories written in the service of their country.
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