Routledge, 2016. — 359 p. Based on a fresh reading of primary sources, Lindy Grant's comprehensive biography of Abbot Suger (1081-1151) provides a reassessment of a key figure of the twelfth century. Active in secular and religious affairs alike - Suger was Regent of France and also abbot of one of the most important abbeys in Europe during the time of the Gregorian reforms....
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 290 p. Explores how one early medieval poet survived and thrived amidst the political turbulence of sixth-century Merovingian Gaul, and how the language of friendship shaped beliefs and behaviours, leading to social cohesion even within kingdoms repeatedly wracked by civil wars.
Pearson Education, 1995. — 405 p. Of all Rome's western successors, the Frankish kingdom that emerged in France, Belgium, the Rhineland and Switzerland was the longest lasting and most powerful; yet the Merovingians, who ruled it for nearly 300 years (481-751), have been harshly treated by posterity. This is partly through the hostility of the Carolingians who usurped and...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 232 р. A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her position, received consecration as a deaconess, and took monastic vows. A religious leader, who acquired a fragment of the Cross of the Crucifixion for her convent of Holy Cross in Poitiers....
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 336 р. Superior Women examines the claims of abbesses of the abbey of Sainte-Croix in medieval Poitiers to authority from the abbey's foundation to its 1520 reform. These women claimed to hold authority over their own community, over dependent chapters of male canons, and over extensive properties in Poitou; male officials such as the king of...
Современная научная мысль. — 2021. — №1. — с. 11-17. В статье рассматриваются проблемы монетарной политики властей во Французском королевстве в первой четверти XV в. Исследуя особенности денежной политики, автор акцентирует внимание на причинах и последствиях девальвации денег, которая произошла в период с 1415 по 1422 гг. Показано, что специфику данного процесса определило...
Современная научная мысль. — 2022. — № 6. — с. 7-11. Статья посвящена исследованию обстоятельств убийства герцога Людовика Орлеанского, связанных с местом, где произошло покушение. Следствие, проведенное прево Парижа в ноябре 1407 г., показало, что существовало два этапа подготовки: в июне и в ноябре. В обоих случаях заговорщики выбрали в качестве наиболее удобного города...
Известия Иркутского государственного университета. — 2021. — Т. 37. — с. 60–68. Изучается ситуация, сложившаяся во Франции в первой трети XV в. Анализируются факторы, обусловившие распад единства королевства. Отмечается, что в ходе гражданской войны герцог Жан Бесстрашный и королева Изабелла Баварская в 1417-1418 гг. стали формировать альтернативные органы управления для...
Известия Саратовского университета. — 2023. — Т. 23, вып. 2. — с. 218–225. Данная статья посвящена изучению особенностей кризиса королевской власти во Франции начала XV в. Его спровоцировала психическая болезнь короля Карла VI, поскольку во Франции отсутствовала практика передачи власти в случае недееспособности короля его сыновьям. Ситуация осложнялась тем, что наследники еще...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 122 p. In the thirteenth century, radical reformers – churchmen, devout laywomen and laymen, and secular rulers – undertook Herculean efforts aimed at the moral reform of society. No principality was more affected by these impulses than France under its king, Louis IX or "Saint Louis." The monarch surrounded himself with gifted, energetic...
Marquette University Press, 1997. — 344 p. In the late 5th and early 6th centuries, Rome had fallen and chroniclers were few. Much of the information they passed along to us, whether in the form of story or song, history or fiction, was offered with a specific goal in mind, such as defending the authority of the Church or confirming the power of God. In this time, before France...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 280 p. Paris in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks, Knights Templar, merchants, prostitutes, and canons. Bursting outward from the encompassing wall, it was Europe's largest, most cosmopolitan city. Simone Roux chronicles the lives of Parisians over the course of a dozen generations as Paris grew from a military stronghold...
Boydell Press, 1999. — 250 p. Around 1200, sovereignty over the duchy of Brittany was disputed by the Angevin kings of England and the Capetian kings of France. With few local chronicle sources concerning Brittany in this important period, ducal charters provide crucial evidence for politics, external relations, and the conduct of government. They are also an essential source...
Brepols, 2012. — 470 p. — (Burgundica 20). La fondation d'une Chambre des comptes à Lille par Philippe le Hardi en 1386 fut l'un des outils principaux d'intégration des Pays-Bas méridionaux à l'Etat bourguignon naissant. Dans le cadre d'un Etat princier bipolaire largement tourné vers le royaume l'institution s'inspira des usages flamands, artésiens et monarchiques, et s'inséra...
Brepols, 2013. — 675 p. — (Burgundica 21). De 1419 à 1467, l'Etat bourguignon connut une expansion sans précédent, en partie servie par la politique diplomatique du duc de Bourgogne. Acteur central du mémorable congrès d'Arras de 1435, Philippe le Bon se posa en arbitre de l'Europe, grâce à ses alliances successives avec l'Angleterre et la France, mais aussi aux liens tissés...
Brepols, 2015. — 400 p. — (Burgundica 23). Jean sans Peur qui succède à son père Philippe le Hardi à la tête du duché de Bourgogne en 1404, dut attendre la mort de sa mère Marguerite pour hériter du comté en 1405. L’historiographie l’a longtemps montré comme détaché de son petit territoire comtois en raison de sa forte implication dans la politique du royaume de France voisin...
Brepols, 2018. — 386 p. — (Burgundica 27). L'encadrement de l'Etat bourguignon était fortement aristocratique. Les ducs de Bourgogne de la Maison de Valois ont largement recruté leurs conseillers, leurs capitaines et l'élite de leur entourage et de leur hôtel au sein de la noblesse des pays sur lesquels ils exerçaient leur autorité ou leur influence. Ce fut en particulier le...
Brepols, 2021. — 435 p. — (Burgundica 32). En 1330, le duc de Bourgogne Eudes IV prend en main le gouvernement du comté de Bourgogne dont vient d'hériter son épouse. Comme après lui son petit-fils Philippe de Rouvres, il se retrouve alors à la tête d'une principauté incluant l'Artois et les duché et comté de Bourgogne. Quelles sont les retombées de cette situation inédite en...
Routledge, 2023. — 379 p. This volume focuses on Wendy Davies's work on early medieval Breton texts and their implications. Beginning with core analyses of the Redon and Landévennec cartularies, it continues with papers that tease out some of the key social implications of the 9th-century Redon material - on the nature of political power, on rural communities, on the settlement...
Routledge, 2020. — 284 p. Writing Normandy brings together eighteen articles by historian Felice Lifshitz, some of which are published here for the first time. The articles examine the various ways in which local and regional narratives about the past were created and revised in Normandy during the central Middle Ages. These narratives are analyzed through a combination of both...
D.S. Brewer, 2013. — 316 p. The question of what medieval "courtliness" was, both as a literary influence and as a historical "reality", is debated in this volume. The concept of courtliness forms the theme of this collection of essays. Focused on works written in the Francophone world between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, they examine courtliness as both an historical...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 520 p. Karolingische politische Ordnung ist, anders als das Reich der Ottonen, in der Forschung durchaus als hoch entwickelt erkannt worden. Dabei scheut sich die Forschung aus verschiedenen Gründen, das Karolingerreich als staatliche Ordnung zu betrachten, auch weil dem Reich die dazu notwendige Transpersonalität fehle. In der karolingischen...
Routledge, 2002. — 620 p. Never before had France had a church council so large: almost 1000 churchmen assembled at Bourges on 29 November 1225 to authorize a tax on their incomes in support of the Second Albigensian Crusade. About one third of the participants were representatives sent by corporate bodies, in accordance with a new provision of canon law that insisted, for the...
Boydell and Brewer, 2004. — 182 р. — ISBN 978-1843840169. Anne of France (1461-1522), daughter of Louis XI and sister of Charles VIII, was one of the most powerful women of the fifteenth century. She was referred to by her contemporaries as Madame la Grande, and remained an active and influential figure in France throughout her life. As the fifteenth century drew to a close,...
University of California Press, 1991. — 211 p. The "nation" of France, like the idea of nationhood itself, exists in the mind. And it is toward the products of the mind that Beaune directs her exciting new investigation of the origins of national feeling in late-medieval France. While most historians have concentrated on the same elements that formed the French state -...
Manchester University Press, 2014. — 267 p. Historians have long taught that highly emotional Christian devotion, often called 'affective piety', originated in Europe after the twelfth century, and was primarily practiced by communities of mendicants, lay people and women. . Emotional monasticism revises our understanding of its origins, characteristics, and uses in medieval...
Routledge, 2016. — 357 p. Based on a fresh reading of primary sources, Lindy Grant's comprehensive biography of Abbot Suger (1081-1151) provides a reassessment of a key figure of the twelfth century. Active in secular and religious affairs alike - Suger was Regent of France and also abbot of one of the most important abbeys in Europe during the time of the Gregorian reforms....
Stuttgart: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1993. — 395 p. — (Beihefte der Francia 32). Die Geschichte der im Jahr 910 westlich von Mâcon gegründeten Abtei Cluny und ihrer monastischen Welt gehört zu den klassischen Themen der Mediävistik. Die bis zu Beginn des 12. Jahrhunderts unbestritten führende Rolle des Klosters als monastisches Reformzentrum, das hohe Ansehen und der politische...
Stuttgart: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1994. — 414 p. — (Beihefte der Francia 37). Am 15. Oktober 1991 jährte sich zum zwölfhundertfünfzigsten Mal der Todestag Karl Martells, des ersten Trägers des 'karolingischen' Namens; doch schon mittelalterliche Autoren vergaßen das bald und sahen in seinem Enkel, dem 'großen' Karl, den heros eponymus der Familie. Der seit 737 sogar ohne...
Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1974. — 262 p. Die vorliegende Prosopographie setzt einige Bemerkungen zu ihrem Verständnis voraus. Der Personenkreis, der in ihr aufgenommen wurde, umfaßt — die Vorfahren der Karolinger ausgenommen, über die eine umfangreiche Literatur vorliegt — Große des Merowingerreiches, die entweder durch eine Amtsbezeichnung oder durch ein Standesprädikat...
Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière de la France, 2002. — 859 p. Louis XI (1461-1483) est l'un des rois de France les plus connus du Moyen Âge, mais sa politique financière n'avait encore fait l'objet d'aucune étude globale. Or, son règne marqua une étape cruciale de la construction de l'État moderne avec la pérennisation de l'impôt, au lendemain de la guerre de...
Routledge, 2022. — 384 p. The studies collected here cover a period of about 33 years, from 1986 to 2019, and represent a sustained effort to understand the institutions of the Merovingian kingdom and its history. There has long been a predisposition to cast the Merovingian period in the dark colours of barbarism or to treat it with reference to personal relationships and...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 330 p. How does authority become power? How does power justify itself to achieve its ends? For over two hundred years, the Valois kings relied on a complex mixture of ideologies, ruling a monarchical commonwealth with a coherent theory of shared governance. Forged in the Hundred Years War, this commonwealth built on the defense of the public...
Brepols, 2012. — 410 p. Malgré l'abondante production des cinquante dernières années en histoire urbaine, il est un pouvoir qu'exerçaient certaines villes à la fin du Moyen Age qui demeure encore mal connu, celui de rendre justice. L'exercice de la justice fut une des principales prérogatives des villes de commune, si bien que rendre justice devint un outil d'affirmation de...
Routledge, 2016. — 255 p. Difference in medieval France was not solely a marker for social exclusion, provoking feelings of disgust and disaffection, but it could also create solidarity and sympathy among groups. Contributors to this volume address inclusion and exclusion from a variety of perspectives, ranging from ethnic and linguistic difference in Charlemagne's court, to...
Routledge, 2016. — 255 p. Difference in medieval France was not solely a marker for social exclusion, provoking feelings of disgust and disaffection, but it could also create solidarity and sympathy among groups. Contributors to this volume address inclusion and exclusion from a variety of perspectives, ranging from ethnic and linguistic difference in Charlemagne's court, to...
Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1985. — 377 p. Quatre fondations mérovingiennes qui s'échelonnent dans la deuxième moitié du viie siècle (Moustier-sur-Sambre, Fosses, Lobbes, Malonne), deux établissements carolingiens mineurs, aux confins de la région, dans la vallée du Viroin (Salles, Gouvin), trois abbayes du xe siècle ottonien (Hastière, Brogne, Waulsort), trois créations féodales...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. — 378 p. From 1179 to 1328 relations between French Christians and Jews were chronically unstable—exploitation, repression, and expulsion were sanctioned by a government dedicated to a purified Christian state. The French Monarchy and the Jews tells in rich and compelling detail the fate of the Jews in Capetian France. William Chester...
М.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1953. — 505 с. Основной задачей данной работы является рассмотрение на примере истории Франции одного из важных вопросов в развитии западноевропейского феодального общества — вопроса о ранней городской культуре. Наиболее ярким представителем ранней городской культуры Франции XII в. был антагонист Бернара Клераосского - Петр Абеляр....
Blackwell Publishers, 1988. — 277 p. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Who Were the Franks? The Sources. The Franks before Clovis. The Conquests. Conversion to Christianity. Frankish Kings and Their Subjects. Economy and Society. Afterword: From Dagobert to De Gaulle.
Il Saggiatore, 2013. — 156 p. Temi di questo libro sono il matrimonio, la famiglia, la parentela e la sessualità nel Medioevo. Duby apre nuovi percorsi di ricerca per chi è interessato a conoscere in modo particolare il ruolo della donna, la morale e il costume dell'epoca, approfondendo, attraverso l'analisi di numerosi documenti storici, la vera vita di alcuni gruppi d'élite....
Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1976. — 410 p. A la fin du Moyen Age, l'Europe voit s'abattre sur elle des désastres économiques et démographiques d'une ampleur considérable. Quelles en sont les causes? Quelle en est la signification? On fait généralement porter la responsabilité de cette situation aux guerres, aux épidémies, la conjoncture des prix,...
Points, 2014. — 448 p. Pour comprendre les mécanismes sociaux et idéologiques qui ont porté puis maintenu les Carolingiens au pouvoir, leur histoire est racontée depuis le principat de Charles Martel (années 710) jusqu'au moment où le dernier héritier est écarté du trône (991). L'empire carolingien est le cadre spatial de cette histoire, même si elle est écrite du point de vue...
Brepols, 2010. — 262 p. — (Medieval Church Studies 17). In reconstructing Hugh of Die's legatine and conciliar activity, this book offers intriguing new arguments about the many relevant and often confused issues surrounding eleventh-century legates, councils, and the law - three inextricable components of church reform and administration. Hugh's efforts in promulgating and...
Brepols, 2006. — 242 p. Early medieval hagiographical texts abound with vivid descriptions of acts of communication. Such descriptions in the hagiography written in the diocese of Auxerre during the Merovingian period are studied here in an attempt to establish the status of the written word 'vis-a-vis' other means of communication, such as the spoken word or rituals. For this...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 304 p. In the thirteenth century, Paris was the largest city in Western Europe, the royal capital of France, and the seat of one of Europe's most important universities. In this vibrant and cosmopolitan city, the beguines, women who wished to devote their lives to Christian ideals without taking formal vows, enjoyed a level of patronage...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 224 p. The institution of marriage is commonly thought to have fallen into crisis in late medieval northern France. While prior scholarship has identified the pervasiveness of clandestine marriage as the cause, Sara McDougall contends that the pressure came overwhelmingly from the prevalence of remarriage in violation of the Christian...
Hachette, 2008. — 192 p. Introduction à la question. Vivre en conflit dans une France sans État. Typologie des mécanismes de règlement de conflits (1050-1200). La mutation féodale a-t-elle eu lieu? Penuria scriptorum : le mythe de l’anarchie documentaire dans la France du Nord (Xe-première moitié du XIe siècle). Les cours de Mâcon au Xe siècle et les dangers du structuralisme...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. — 275 p. Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France' applies recent approaches to literacy, legal studies, memory, ritual, and the manorial economy to reexamine the transformation of medieval power. Highlighting the relationship of archives and power, it draws on the rich documentary sources of five of the largest...
Flammarion, 2011. — 287 p. Au travers de la vie des Françaises de toutes conditions pendant la guerre de Cent Ans, c'est un tableau des moeurs de la société française au cours de plus d'un siècle de notre histoire, que dresse Jean Verdon, historien reconnu du Moyen Âge. Servantes ou maîtresses ? Apparemment, les contemporains de la guerre de Cent Ans regardent les femmes avec...