Parutions
Bruno Dumézil : L’Empire mérovingien, Ve-VIIIe siècle
Des temps mérovingiens ne surnagent aujourd’hui que quelques images d’Épinal : le vase de Soissons, la culotte du bon roi Dagobert… Si rien ne prédisposait les rois des Francs à diriger un vaste territoire en Europe, il y eut pourtant une dynastie qui occupa le trône trois siècles durant, plus que toutes autres à l’exception des Capétiens. Comment les Mérovingiens parvinrent-ils à un tel succès ? Pour (...)
Charles West : The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom : Lotharingia 855–869
he Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom investigates how the first royal divorce scandal led to the collapse of a kingdom, changing the fate of medieval Europe. Through a set of annotated translations of key contemporary sources, the book presents the downfall of the Frankish kingdom of Lotharingia as a case study in early medieval politics, equipping readers to develop their own independent interpretations. The (...)
Bram van Leuveren : Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture in a European Context, 1572-1615
This book is the first to explore the rich festival culture of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France as a tool for diplomacy. Bram van Leuveren examines how the late Valois and early Bourbon rulers of the kingdom made conscious use of festivals to advance their diplomatic interests in a war-torn Europe and how diplomatic stakeholders from across the continent participated in and responded to the (...)
Clare Monagle, Carolyn James, David Garrioch, Barbara Caine : European Women’s. Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries
This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period, enabling them to navigate the myriad gendered restrictions that limited women’s engagement in the world. Whether written from the medieval (...)
Julie Campbell : Women, Entertainment, and Precursors of the French Salon, 1532-1615
This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there. It asserts that entertainment activities of women-led circles illustrate the richly complex precursors of the seventeenth-century salons. Notions from the philosophy of play, such as those developed by Johan Huizinga, Eugen Fink, and Roger Caillois, (...)
Joanna Story : Charlemagne and Rome. Alcuin and the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I
Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne. It focuses on a remarkable inscription commemorating Pope Hadrian I who died in Rome at Christmas 795. Commissioned by Charlemagne, composed by Alcuin of York, and cut from black stone quarried close to the king’s new capital at Aachen in the heart of the Frankish kingdom, it was carried to Rome and set over the (...)
Matthijs Lok : Europe against Revolution. Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past
Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass migration. This study seeks to uncover the roots of historically informed ideas of Europe, while at the same time underlining the fundamental (...)
Fabian Persson, Munro Price, Cinzia Recca (éd.) : Resilience and Recovery at Royal Courts, 1200–1840
Explores the concept of ’resilience’ as understood in various fields. Considers how royal courts and monarchies weathered change and crisis. Gathers examples from medieval, early modern and modern Europe. Table of contents : Front Matter Pages i-xii Resilience : An Introduction Munro Price Pages 1-6 Two Sisters, Two Towns, Two Kings : Facing War and Still Ruling Inês Olaia Pages 7-20 Hungaria (...)
Justine Audebrand : Frères et sœurs dans l’Europe du haut Moyen Âge (vers 650 – vers 1000)
Les relations entre frères et sœurs constituent encore un champ mal exploré de l’étude de la famille pour la période allant de 650 à 1000. Pourtant, ce lien est un élément essentiel des sociétés du haut Moyen Âge, tant dans les mondes franc et germanique qu’en Angleterre. Dans les discours de l’Église, il est même un idéal. En outre, dans le contexte démographique médiéval, la relation adelphique - c’est-à-dire (...)
Charles-Éloi Vial : 15 août 1811. L’apogée de l’Empire ?
15 août 1811 : la Saint-Napoléon, fête nationale de l’Empire, bat son plein. À Paris, à Milan ou à Amsterdam, des feux d’artifice ou des concerts célèbrent l’anniversaire du maître de l’Europe qui fête ses 42 ans et vient d’être père du roi de Rome, conférant au Premier Empire une légitimité dynastique dont il était dépourvu. Pourtant, les festivités sonnent étrangement faux. Les Français ont faim, souffrent de (...)