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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy remains one of the most significant literary works in Western history, shaping not only the field of poetry but also theology, philosophy, and even politics. The conc……続きを見る

The journey through Dante's Divine Comedy opens with a powerful, yet deeply philosophical confrontation of two of the most profound theological concepts of the medieval era: free will and divine gra……続きを見る

Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the first part of his monumental work Divine Comedy, is more than just a journey through Hell; it is a divine architecture, a meticulously designed moral edifice, where ea……続きを見る

Dante Alighieri's life and work were profoundly shaped by the political turbulence of Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. To understand Dante's critiques and the depth of his political ……続きを見る

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is not merely a cornerstone of medieval literature; it is a profound allegory of the soul's journey toward salvation, infused with intricate theological concepts, mor……続きを見る

Dante Alighieri's Paradiso, the final cantica of his monumental work, The Divine Comedy, is one of the most profound theological and philosophical texts of the Middle Ages. It offers a vision of hea……続きを見る

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is one of the most profound works in Western literature, a literary and theological masterpiece that not only chronicles the journey of the soul but also offers a com……続きを見る

Dante, che spesso ci è stato presentato come un uomo superbo, fustigatore dei costumi contemporanei, severo giudice dei peccatori, nella sua poesia però ha anche messo a nudo la sua anima, tenera e ……続きを見る

From the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries in Spain, health-related information in the vernacular began to circulate widely in treatises, compendiums, manuals, plague tracts, summaries, enc……続きを見る

A comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian. Boccaccio (1313–75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the “Three Crowns” ……続きを見る

Employing a critical and analytical method, this volume takes an innovative approach to existing anthologies of medieval texts, proposing a comprehensive methodology for examining and understanding ……続きを見る

This book blurs the line between high and low culture throughout literary history. The common story in literary studies is that the emergence of popular and junk literature is related to the emergen……続きを見る

The Chanson de Geste is an ancient form of epic poetry that holds an undeniable place in the heart of medieval French literature. Its roots trace back to the early Middle Ages, a time when the fabri……続きを見る

The Middle Ages were an era saturated with the supernatural. To the medieval mind, the world was not divided between the natural and the miraculous as it often is today. Rather, divine intervention,……続きを見る

"A remarkably well-informed and truly innovative study of the way Boccaccio reimagined and rewrote Old French fabliaux in his Decameron."ーFrançois Rigolot, Princeton University "Theoretically savvy……続きを見る

This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays……続きを見る

"These innovative essays are outstanding because they examine well-known works and genres in new ways, and they revise and revitalize our thinking about them."-- Rupert T. Pickens, University of Ken……続きを見る

Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre that has fascinated the ……続きを見る

In the European Middle Ages, the harm a person’s gaze could cause was greatly feared. A stare was considered an act of aggression; intense gazing was believed to exert immense power over the individ……続きを見る

Paru plus de dix ans après Gargantua, le Tiers Livre de Rabelais marque l’abandon de la forme de la chronique et donne la prééminence aux discours des personnages. La référence à Lucien, dès le Prol……続きを見る

Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au ……続きを見る

Etienne de Fougères fut chapelain d'Henri II Plantagenêt en 1157, puis évêque de Rennes en 1168. On lui doit plusieurs vies de saints et le présent Livre des Manières, qui est la première en date de……続きを見る

Vers 1353, Pétrarque reçut de la part de l’ambassadeur byzantin en Italie un manuscrit grec d’Homère. Cet événement mit fin à une absence plusieurs fois séculaire des épopées homériques en Europe oc……続きを見る

Albert Henry nous propos ici la version de Berthe aux grands pieds d'après Adenet le Roi. Lorsque celui-ci, ménestrel de la cour de Gui de Dampierre, composait Berte as grans piés, plusieurs version……続きを見る

La biographie de Coligny par François Hotman est un texte de 1575 presque totalement inconnu, parce qu'écrit en latin. Emile V. Telle, qui reproduit ici la version française anonyme des environs de ……続きを見る

Présentation et analyse de la Dédicace, du Prologue et de la Seconde Sécession Plébéienne par Oscar A. Haac / Avec une préface de Maurice Levaillant. 続きを見る

Lorsque Charles Sorel publie sa Description de l'île de Portraiture et de la ville des Portraits en 1659, la « fureur » de se faire peindre a gagné le milieu mondain, tandis que de nombreux écrivain……続きを見る

Premier roman de Charles Didier, publié en 1833, «Rome souterraine» retrace la tentative de soulèvement d'une poignée de «carbonari» après la mort du pape. Il connut huit éditions successives au XIX……続きを見る

La présente publication est la première édition véritablement critique des Mémoires de Philippe de Commynes. Elle comporte l’ensemble des variantes, quelque douze mille. Réalisée à partir des recher……続きを見る

Après l’édition des procès de Saint-Pol et de Nemours, la première édition de ceux de Jean V d’Armagnac, du Cadet d’Albret et de l’action entreprise post mortem contre le Téméraire, éclaire plus viv……続きを見る