The Breviari d'Amor: Rhetoric and Preaching in Thirteenth-Century Languedoc

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-425
Author(s):  
Michelle Bolduc
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Gregory The Great ◽  
Matfre Ermengaud ◽  
Popular Language ◽  
Breviari D'amor

Abstract Altough little known in medieval history, the Breviari d'Amor of Matfre Ermengaud was deeply influenced by medieval preaching. An Occitan encyclopaedia, the Breviari includes a short guide to preaching, entitled “De predicacio et en quel manieira deu hom predicar” which derives from the Cura pastoralis of Gregory the Great. “De predicacio” is no mere translation, but a subtle adaptation: it indicates not only how the Breviari is aimed toward lay education in the popular language, but also to what point it responds to its historic and religious context. This study, therefore, considers the Breviari as a text deeply engaged in the matter of preaching in Languedoc at the end of the thirteenth century.

«"Dels ·XII· signes del cel e de la natura de cascuns". Edició crítica d’un fragment de la traducció catalana medieval del Breviari d’amor de Matfre Ermengaud»

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
Irene Capdevila Arrizabalaga
Keyword(s):  
Critical Edition ◽  
Matfre Ermengaud ◽  
Breviari D'amor

Resum: En aquest treball es presenta l’edició inèdita del fragment dedicat als dotze signes del zodíac de la traducció catalana medieval de l’obra didàctico-enciclopèdica Breviari d’amor de Matfre Ermengaud.Paraules clau: Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d’amor, traducció catalana medieval, signes del zodíac, literatura didàctico-enciclopèdica.«"Dels ·xii· signes del cel e de la natura de cascuns". Critical edition of a fragment of the Catalan medieval translation of Matfre Ermengaud’s Breviari d’Amor»Abstract: This article presents the unpublished edition of the section devoted to the twelve signs of the Zodiac in the Catalan medieval translation of the didactic and encyclopaedic work Breviari d’amor of Matfre Ermengaud.Keywords: Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d’amor, Catalan Medieval translation, Signs of the Zodiac, Didactic and Encyclopaedic Literature.

«"Dels ·XII· signes del cel e de la natura de cascuns". Edició crítica d’un fragment de la traducció catalana medieval del Breviari d’amor de Matfre Ermengaud»

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
Irene Capdevila Arrizabalaga
Keyword(s):  
Critical Edition ◽  
Matfre Ermengaud ◽  
Breviari D'amor

Resum: En aquest treball es presenta l’edició inèdita del fragment dedicat als dotze signes del zodíac de la traducció catalana medieval de l’obra didàctico-enciclopèdica Breviari d’amor de Matfre Ermengaud.Paraules clau: Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d’amor, traducció catalana medieval, signes del zodíac, literatura didàctico-enciclopèdica.«"Dels ·xii· signes del cel e de la natura de cascuns". Critical edition of a fragment of the Catalan medieval translation of Matfre Ermengaud’s Breviari d’Amor»Abstract: This article presents the unpublished edition of the section devoted to the twelve signs of the Zodiac in the Catalan medieval translation of the didactic and encyclopaedic work Breviari d’amor of Matfre Ermengaud.Keywords: Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d’amor, Catalan Medieval translation, Signs of the Zodiac, Didactic and Encyclopaedic Literature.

Imaginary Space meets Actual Space in Thirteenth-Century Cologne: Eliezer Ben Joel and the Eruv

Images ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micha J. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Boundary Line ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
Actual Space ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Town

Abstract Eliezer Ben Joel ha-Levi’s Laws of Eruv, a crucial text in the medieval history of the eruv, redefines ancient definitions of space to fit that of a medieval town. It uses talmudic terminology to describe medieval reality; it reinterprets this terminology to fit this reality; and rules in a way that enables the whole Jewish quarter to be seen as one private space. This ruling shows that in medieval Europe the eruv was redefined to encompass the entire Jewish neighborhood. Thus, predating the walled Jewish quarter and Ghettos, the Jews defined their habitats in the town as a close (although not yet an exclusive) Jewish space, and created a city within a city: a Jewish one within the Christian one. This phenomenon corresponds to the rise of the “community” as the boundary line of Jewish identity.

The Registers of Common Letters of Pope Urban V (1362–1370) and Pope Gregory XI (1370–1378)

2000 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-508
Author(s):  
P. N. R. ZUTSHI
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Medieval History

The importance to scholars of the papal registers and other records in the Vatican Archives as a source for later medieval history scarcely needs to be emphasised. From the thirteenth century onwards, the different series of records proliferated. They begin with registers of outgoing correspondence, known as the Vatican Registers, in the pontificate of Innocent III (1198–1216) and financial accounts of the apostolic chamber under Nicholas III (1277–80). For the fourteenth century, there are new series of registers of outgoing letters (the Avignon Registers and the Lateran Registers) and a vast increase in the quantity of surviving records of the apostolic chamber. However, with the increasing abundance of such records, the proportion to have been published diminishes. It is in the fourteenth century that the sheer wealth of the surviving sources (there are, for instance, sixty registers of papal letters from the pontificate of Gregory XI, which lasted seven years and three months) first becomes a serious problem for those pursuing the publication of papal records.

scholarly journals D’àngels i dimonis. Anàlisi d’una seqüència del programa iconogràfic de la moralització enciclopèdica de la fin’amors en el Breviari d’Amor de Matfré Ermangaud

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Vicent Martines
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Text And Image ◽  
Medieval Text ◽  
Historia Natural ◽  
Matfre Ermengaud ◽  
Breviari D'amor ◽  
Sacred History

Resum: En el present treball parem esment a 3 il·luminacions del Breviari d’Amor de Matfré Ermengaut, a més de ser eloqüents –valga la sinestèsia: imatges que són eloqüents— justament d’aqueixa vocació d’Ermengaud en pro de la cristianització de la fin’amors. Estableixen una mena de seqüència en el concert de diàleg entre història natural, història sagrada i atenció a l’amor, als amadors a fi i efecte que estableix qui és el receptor concret de l’obra, qui el model a seguir (els àngels) i qui a defugir (el dimoni), i quin és l’àmbit d’actuació del «maligne»: la societat cortés, ecosistema de la fin’amor.   Paraules clau: Breviari d’amor, enciclopedisme medieval, text i imatge, fin’amor, càtars, moralitazió   Abstract: This paper analyzes three illuminations of Matfré Ermengaud´s Breviari d'Amor which represent the author´s attempt to Christianize the concept of fin'amors. In particular, they establish a connection among natural history, sacred history and love and lovers and allow us to study who is the recipient of Ermengaud's work. In addition, they serve us to study the author´s injunctions on the model to be followed (angels), the model to reject (demons), and the sphere of action of «the evil»: courtly society and the ecosystem of fin´amors. Keywords: Breviari d´Amor, Medieval encyclopedic knowledge, text and image, fin´amor, Cathars, moralization

Rob Meens, Dorine van Espelo, Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Janneke Raaijmakers, Irene van Renswode, and Carine van Rhijn, eds. Religious Franks: Religion and Power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in Honour of Mayke de Jong. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016, pp. 559.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 385-386
Author(s):  
Scott G. Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
English Language ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Close Proximity

We have entered the golden age of the English-language Carolingian Festshrift. As the formidable generation of Carolingian historians who came of age in the 1970s and 1980s begins to retire, their many students are honoring them with collections of essays that chart the landscape of the academic field that their teachers labored so diligently to shape. In recent years, Janet Nelson (2008), John Contreni (2013), Thomas F. X. Noble (2014), and Rosamund McKitterick (2018) have each been the recipients of such volumes. In the book under review, the honoree is Mayke de Jong, chair of medieval history at Utrecht University. Her colleagues and students have assembled twenty-five articles about religion and power in the Carolingian world as a testament to the vision and enduring influence of de Jong’s pioneering work in this field. As Rosamund McKitterick explains in her introductory essay, de Jong has always been “an adventurous explorer, ever pushing at the boundaries both of political discourse in relation to political action in a fundamentally religious context” (p. 5) If we take for granted today the close proximity of religion and politics in the early medieval world, it is largely due to the formative scholarship of de Jong.

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